Let's work together!

Are you ready to reclaim your energy from the chronic cycle, so you can put it towards your passion? I'd love to help!

Whether you're feeling lost and confused or just need a boost of confidence to keep going, one-on-one coaching can offer you the support you need to move into the next stage of your unique healing path.

Dear passionate creative,

What if you could free your energy from the grips of chronic symptoms and use it to express your gifts?

You can!

DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOU?

You're a passionate, creative person who struggles with symptoms like headaches, backaches, stiff muscles, IBS, insomnia, nerve pain, pelvic pain, TMJ, tinnitus, anxiety, autoimmune conditions, food/chemical sensitivities — or other manifestations of a stressed-out nervous system.
You long to dive fully into your passion project and share your creativity with the world, but symptoms keep getting in the way and zapping your energy.
You feel pressure to heal from chronic symptoms so you can get back to work, be present for loved ones and fulfill your creative potential — but as the pressure mounts, so do the symptoms.

You have a foundational understanding of mind-body healing or you're willing to learn, either through my courses or through resources offered by Curable, Dr. Howard Schubiner, Dr. John Stracks, Nicole Sachs, Alan Gordon or others with a similar orientation.
You're a self-starter who's growth-oriented and tends to "do the work" between sessions.
You enjoy working with a coach who brings warmth, humor and personal experience into our sessions!

If this is you, I'd love to offer my support!

WHAT IS THE MENTORSHIP?

This is an opportunity to receive my personalized 1:1 support with your chronic symptom recovery while you are pursuing a passion project.

Creatives often think that they need to stop pursuing their passion in order to rest and recover from chronic symptoms.

The thing is, passion doesn’t trigger symptoms, fear does. However, chasing our passion can bring on a host of fears, like fear of failing, fear of being seen, fear of criticism... alll those fears.

The problem is, if we abandon our passion — the thing that lights us up in life — we actually get plunged into more stress. Because joy and passion are crucial to reducing stress.

So, instead of stifling our passion, we need to unpack the fears that are coming up around our passion. And at the same time, we need to stay engaged with the things that feel fun and joyful and replenishing. Including our passion projects!

It's not that rest shouldn't be part of our healing plan — we do need rest for our nervous system to heal. But we need to balance it with the things that light us up!

MY STORY

I'm Anna Holtzman and I'm a licensed therapist and chronic pain recovery coach. I'm also a writer and former film/TV editor!

I got into my current career through my own recovery process from over ten years of chronic migraines. And my healing journey started when I learned this:

Pain is an alarm signal that's created by your nervous system when it senses danger or threat.

The danger can be physical, like a broken arm. But when pain is chronic, it's more often something like...

fear that we'll get in trouble for expressing our truth.
"imposter syndrome" yelling at us to doubt our creativity and worth.
perfectionism threatening us with stories of failure and rejection.

The bottom line: I'm not broken, and neither are you. Our bodies are just responding to the culture we were brought up in. A culture that has taught us to doubt our creative intuition and berate ourselves with criticism, creating an environment of chronic nervous system stress. Eventually, our bodies decided to protest with symptoms like tension and pain.

THE PATH TO HEALING

These are the four pillars that are woven through the mentorship program in a way that's personally tailored to you...

Pain Re-Education

Here's what the most up-to-date pain science tells us: Symptoms are distress signals. Just like a baby cries to communicate that it needs something, our nervous system triggers symptoms to communicate unmet needs. When we understand pain’s message, it becomes easier to figure out how to soothe our nervous system’s distress.
Emotional Hygiene

To regulate a stressed nervous system, we need to establish a daily soothe-and-release practice to discharge pent-up emotional stress from the body. Just like healthy gut digestion, healthy emotional digestion requires regular, daily release! When feelings are allowed to surface, we can heal distress by meeting our fear and other emotions with acknowledgment, empathy and love.

Reprogram Self-Talk

Trying to get well by treating yourself as a problem to be fixed does not work. Just like trying to reach creative fulfillment by telling yourself what an untalented failure you are doesn’t work. Self-talk that's guided by imposter syndrome and self-criticism keeps us in a constant state of nervous system stress, so we need to reprogram these habits.
Lifestyle Updates

When we neglect our body’s needs for rest, boundaries, pleasure and fun, our body will stage a protest in the form of symptoms. When we become our body’s ally and advocate instead of its drill sergeant, we start to establish a relationship of trust and open communication with our body, and it no longer needs to pull the symptom alarm to get us to validate its needs.

Client Success Story

After working with Anna, my symptoms improved dramatically. In fact, for the first time in a long time, I couldn’t even remember the last time I had a migraine. Perhaps even more powerful for me was that I finally felt like I was “unstuck” and free from my pain.

The biggest change for me is that I am no longer scared of my pain. While I don’t have nearly as many migraines — and when they do happen, they are not as bad — I still have flare-ups. What’s different is that I have the tools to help me get curious about what’s going on and to immediately meet the sensation with self-compassion.

Courtney LaCaria

Farmer and Fiber Artist, Form and Function Creative

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE MENTORSHIP?

6 Coaching Sessions

You'll have 6 one-on-one coaching sessions with me that are personally tailored to you. Sessions are 50-minutes each and take place on Zoom. You may schedule them monthly, weekly, biweekly or as needed — as long as they fall within the 6-month mentorship period.
Email Support

In between our sessions, you can email me for extra support any time during our 6 months. I am always there to cheer you on!

Rx for Flare-Ups Mini-Course

Symptom flare-ups can feel really scary and confusing. What if you had a reliable toolkit to help you reduce the overwhelm and guide you through the storm? This short self-paced course is that go-to toolkit.
My Signature Journaling Course

Writing to Release Chronic Pain is a 6-module, self-paced course that will show you step-by-step how to release tension and pain from your body through expressive writing. This course combines all the tools I used to heal from chronic migraine!

Lifetime Access

You'll have lifetime access to the online courses, so you can go through them as many times as you like!
Private Facebook Community

Questions and challenges are sure to come up as you move along this journey. This private forum is a place to share them and get support directly from me, as well as connect with like-minded peers who "get it."

Client success story

Ashley Haseotes

Founder of One Mission, healer at Veda Healing and author of The Unspoken: A Soul's Reflection on Healing from Abuse, Neglect and Chronic Pain

WHAT YOU'LL COME AWAY WITH

After going through the mentorship, you will...

Have a set of tools and knowledge that will help you reduce or even eliminate chronic symptoms.
Have the confidence of knowing how to navigate flare-ups when they arise without shutting down your life or creative pursuits.
Feel more connected to yourself, your body and your creative energy!
Have an increased capacity for self-compassion and self-kindness!

Anna has such a good feel for the connection between mind and body as it relates to physical symptoms. I'm thrilled to have her as a colleague, and my patients who have met with her have been helped immensely. I highly recommend working with her both individually and in her group.

John Stracks, MD

Mind-Body Medicine

cormendihealth.com
johnstracksmd.com

What's the investment?

A one-time payment of $1,500 or 6 monthly payments of $250.

Because of limited spots, I'm not offering sliding scale mentorships at this time. To learn about other affordable programs, please email me at anna@annaholtzman.com

How do I apply for the mentorship?

Please read through all of the information above. If you think the mentorship might be a good fit for you, I'd love to chat!

You can schedule a free 15-minute feeler call using the button below. This is an opportunity for us to chat, ask questions and see if working together feels like a good fit. (And if it doesn't seem like the mentorship is the right fit at this time, I can help you find other resources that better suit your needs.)

I so look forward to getting to know you! You can also email me with questions at anna@annaholtzman.com

SCHEDULE A CHAT

I'm interested in applying for the mentorship!

What's the investment?

One-Time Payment

$1,500

(or 6 payments of $250/mo)

6 months of 1:1 mentorship and support

6 one-on-one coaching sessions with me

email support between sessions

"Rx for Flare-Ups" mini-course

my signature journaling course

private FB community of peers who "get it"

lifetime access to all teaching materials!

SIGN UP NOW!

I can't wait to begin this adventure with you!

The teachings and tools I'll be guiding you through have transformed my wellbeing and creative life profoundly, and I can't wait to see where this journey will take you...

With warmth, encouragement and enormous faith in you,

Anna 💖

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