The Biology of Stress,
Rest & Resilience
6 Weeks Guided Journey
Complete the stress cycle your body has never been taught to finish.
Starts Monday, July 6th
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What Participants Say About
The Biology of Stress, Rest & Resilience Module
"I'm aware now of the startles and stresses all throughout my day. Finally my body feels what leaning into it means — and it's such a relief."
"Anger used to take over instantly — now I see it as a tool that motivates me through difficult times. For the first time, I actually love my body."
“Finding a me and then taking the tools and being still, pausing, not engaging with this dark person...evaluating how I can keep myself safe, setting boundaries and letting go. And it's so liberating”
– Linda McNamara
“What was huge is to be able to notice how anything stress is manifesting in my body physically, and being able to shift that.”
– Neha
“My energy precious, that my stress response is precious. So I can I decide. I have the choice to decide how much I can invest or I want to invest on"
– Eva Trevino
“I'm doing all these things, and it feels empowering, probably moving out of that whole learned helplessness to go. Well, I can do this. I can support my own self. So, thank you. It's been awesome.”
– Tamika Rose
“It's okay to be mad. Sometimes. It doesn't mean you're a bad person. You're just passing through, like the angry phase"
– Nancy Uston-John
“I finally get it. And it's like it's such a relief, because the feelings and the emotions were so overwhelming and unmanageable, and then all I have to do is just lean into this and and hold it with sacredness.”
– Shawn
“Landing in on my life purpose, and where to really invest myself and my energy, and it's challenging because there's still things that are triggering, but just determined to be intentional about pursuing what is real and true for me”
– Kathleen
"Thank you for all of the tools that led me up to being able to have that space, to be able to respond versus react, and not like go back to an old response and a reaction that is just so knee jerk."
– Tiffany
This an integrative & holistic journey
A blending of several fields and modalities for an effective approach
The 6 Steps
My commitment: I will guide you through 6 essential steps to complete your stress cycle — so your nervous system can finally rest, recover, and rebuild.
Here Is The Step-By-Step Curriculum
This course maps how the stress response becomes stored biology — and the three-level approach to finally complete it.
WEEK 1: Stress Response and Trauma Response
WEEK 4: When Early Life Was Stressful: Stress, Cortisol and Learned Helplessness
WEEK 2: HPA Axis, Cortisol and Adrenal Glands Through The Lens of Stress and Trauma
WEEK 5: Stress: The Sacredness and The Cost
WEEK 3: The Neurobiology of Stress and Anxiety
WEEK 6: Building Mental and Emotional Resilience For Weathering Life’s Storms
What's All Included in this Journey
Below is the weekly schedule of live sessions.
Please note that time are listed as Pacific Standard Time zone.
Guided Somatic & Parts Work Sessions
Mondays at 10:00 am PST
Guided somatic and parts work moving through each layer of the stress response in sequence — helping stored stress complete and your nervous system find safety, rest, and readiness.
Integration Sessions
Thursdays at 2:00 pm PST
Dr. Aimie and/or Biology of Trauma® faculty bring the week's somatic, parts, and biological work together — connecting the dots across all levels and helping you apply what you're learning to your own healing.
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A 35-minute conversation with Emma McAdam, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and creator of the Therapy in a Nutshell YouTube channel, on how to regulate stress, build resilience, and reclaim emotional balance — without the overwhelm.
A 60-minute interview with Dr. Lindsay Adrian, naturopathic doctor and oncology fellow, on how chronic stress drives inflammation, oxidative stress, and anxiety in the brain & what restoring the body's natural rhythms actually does at the biological level.
A 60-minute interview with Dr. Leslie Korn, Harvard-trained traumatologist and mental health nutrition expert, on the connection between trauma, brain health & chronic illness and the integrative approaches that restore biological rhythms & support recovery.
Who Is This Journey NOT For?
This journey is not a good fit for those that:
- Cannot be respectful in a group environment
- Do not enjoy online learning
- Do not have 1 hour weekly to invest in personal growth
- Want only one-one support or are looking for therapy or a diagnosis
Aimie Apigian, MD, MS, MPH
Physician. Researcher. Patient. Guide.
Aimie Apigian is a double board-certified physician in Preventive Medicine and Addiction Medicine with master's degrees in biochemistry and public health. She is the founder of Trauma Healing Accelerated® and author of the USA Today bestselling book, The Biology of Trauma—with a foreword by Dr. Gabor Maté.
Her framework didn't come from textbooks. It came from necessity.
As a surgical resident and functional medicine physician, she saw patients whose stress had made them sick. As a foster-adoptive mother to her son Miguel, she experienced firsthand how trauma creates deep patterns. As someone who lived her own health collapse—chronic fatigue, autoimmunity, anxiety, and unexplained symptoms—she discovered what was missing from every approach she tried.
That missing piece became the Biology of Trauma® framework and an integration of psychology, somatics, and biology in the sequence the body needs to heal.
She is a certified Somatic Experiencing practitioner trained under Dr. Peter Levine, with additional certifications in NeuroAffective Touch, Internal Family Systems, and the Instinctual Trauma Response Model. She has presented at Oxford University's Masters Series on Trauma, the Institute for Functional Medicine, and the Integrative Medicine for Mental Health Conference.
Her podcast features conversations with leading trauma experts including Dr. Gabor Maté, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Dr. Peter Levine, and Dr. Stephen Porges.
She has guided hundreds of thousands through this work.
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Disclaimer: This is not a course that gives you a license as a provider nor is it a health or trauma recovery coach credentialing program. At the completion of each module, you will receive a Certificate of Completion indicating you have achieved competency on that specific topic of Biology of Trauma®. At the completion of all 6 modules of the Certificate Course, you will receive a Certificate of Completion from Trauma Healing Accelerated®. This is a certificate that you will be adding to your professional work capacities.
You are still held to the restrictions, responsibilities, and privileges of your primary license and board.
Medical Disclosure: The information and programs presented on or through this website are made available to equip you with knowledge and tools. All the materials in this course are intended for educational purposes. This information or any programs that are offered are not (nor are they a substitute for) medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. For any physical or mental health issues, I recommend you work with a qualified health provider who will also support your desire to address the effects of trauma.
