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Are you overwhelmed, trying to keep up with your own life? 

 

The Building Resilience course teaches you how to feel capable and effortless, even in the midst of a busy and stressful life

– in just four months!

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Life… it’s a lot. 

 

It often feels as though there’s more to keep track of, keep up with, juggle, and handle than there are hours in the day.  

If only you had an extra set of hands. 35% more energy. More hours in the day. Slightly less on your plate. Increased bandwidth. Then you’d be able to feel as though you had it under control. 

Right now, though, it’s easy to feel like you’re playing catch-up, but never actually catching up. 

Remember that last vacation you took? Or even a truly restful weekend? Then the feeling you had as you got back into your life afterwards, of the walls closing in again. 

What if it didn’t have to be like that?

 What if you could feel like your vacation self, not just a week out of the year, but every day of your actual life? 

 

Building Resilience is here to show you how to move beyond overwhelm and infuse your life with a feeling of lightness, freedom, fluidity, and ease.

 

Resilience can mean a lot of different things, so first things first, let’s address…

3 Common Myths of Resilience

MYTH #1: You just need to take more adaptogen herbs!

 

We love herbs! 

If you’re reading this, then you probably love herbs, too! 

But herbs aren’t the ONLY answer to stress and overwhelm. 

And, it’s increasingly obvious that buying expensive packets of herbs as the latest health fad is DEFINITELY not the answer. 

Herbalists have long known that it’s not simply the herbs you take, but your relationship to the plants themselves that really matters. If you’re simply swallowing herbal pills instead of pharmaceutical pills, then your health transformation will be limited! 

Instead of throwing money at supplements (that literally go down the drain), we want you to feel empowered to choose simple, whole herbs that really support you. Herbs that you develop a deep relationship with. 

Not because they are the latest “cool exotic” herb but because they are your love match. Your herbal bestie that you trust deeply and can turn to again and again for support. 

 MYTH #2: You just need to find the right hack (and you also need to toughen up while you’re at it)

 

It makes sense that, as the modern world speeds up faster and faster, we need tips, tricks and hacks in order to squeeze everything into our increasingly complicated lives. 

Whether it’s your morning beauty routine, how to handle your overflowing inbox, or simply how to get decent meals on the table, there are literally thousands of hacks out there to supposedly “bring hours back into your day”. 

But they don’t. 

In the end, you’re still stuffing more and more into your life and falling into the never ending spiral of overwhelm. 

Instead there are two very important approaches to dealing with an overflowing life. 

  1. Get rid of excess (especially, if possible, things that aren’t causing you joy)
  2. Change your relationship to overwhelm (see Myth #3). 

There’s no single hack (or ten hacks) that will magically transform your levels of overwhelm or sense of resilience. (Spoiler alert: the Building Resilience course can, though.)

Your current levels of stress and overwhelm aren’t indications that you need to toughen up, be less sensitive, or get over yourself. 

Resilience isn’t about being tough, or about ignoring life’s realities. 

Instead, it’s more about learning to be like the willow that easily bends in the breeze, or the dandelion that firmly roots itself into any place it lands. The plants we love are so adaptable, and learn to thrive, not despite but BECAUSE of their own unique qualities. 

 MYTH #3: If you could escape your life, you’d feel better. 

 

Have you ever heard the phrase ‘wherever you go, there you are?’. 

It’s annoyingly true. 

You can take a step out for a few weeks here and there, but at some point, your patterns will creep back in, even if you’re living on a tiny island in the Bahamas with no responsibility. 

Sad, but true! 

That’s because feeling overwhelmed is about the relationship you have with what’s going on in your life, not the actual contents of your life. 

Just as herbalists like to say you have to get to the root cause of eczema or digestive complaints, the same is true for stress and overwhelm. You can’t sidestep stress with hacks, or adaptogens, or run to a vacation forever. 

Wherever you go, there you are. 

So let’s make sure you are in flow with who you really are. 

 

To recap: 

 

-Building Resilience is not about finding the energy to try harder. 

-It’s not about productivity hacks.  

-It’s not about being harder on yourself.

-Nor is it about handfuls of adaptogens, so that you can supposedly carry on down the same road.  

-It’s not about walking away into the sunset and leaving your dishes undone while you sit on a beach somewhere (although we do recommend this from time to time). 

 

So what is resilience?

 

Resilience is the ability to quickly and effortlessly adapt to any challenges you face in life.  

(In fact, we’d go so far as to say that when you’re resilient, you no longer see challenges as challenging. Life is simply easier.)

The Building Resilience Course shows you how to find resilience within yourself.

INTRODUCING BUILDING RESILIENCE

 

Building Resilience is a 4 month online course that helps you to uncover your own resilience roadmap, so that you can be centered, grounded, and connected, even (or especially) during stressful times.

 

We’ve created Building Resilience for busy, stress-full people who want to finally ditch their constant feelings of overwhelm. 

 

With Building Resilience you’ll develop:

  • a deep and long-lasting connection to your inner self to give strength and perspective and ensure that you’re acting from a place of integrity and flow

  • practical exercises to deeply center yourself so that you can feel calm during stressful times

  • a deeper understanding of your own unique skills and outlook in the world (based on ancient herbal constitutions – so fascinating and insightful)

  • your own connection with herbal allies, to support your nervous system and address the negative effects of stress

  • a roadmap for yourself, to remain in a state of resilience (and to get back there whenever you need to – because you know, life happens)

  • skills for building more joy, fulfillment, and resilience into your life

  • a sense of trust – that your own pace and your own resilience roadmap are perfect and right for you.

 

Building Resilience is not just about learning these things intellectually. Nor is it about adding more things to your to-do list to make you a ‘better performer’.

Instead, it’s a journey into deeper embodiment of your OWN resilience.


Building Resilience guides you through important skills in a gentle, ease-filled way, so that these deep changes actually feel fun (yes, it is possible!). 

-You will know yourself more deeply through meditations and journaling exercises. 

-You will experience resilience tools to lean into (from breath work to meditation to herbal recipes) 

-You will peer through a new worldview that allows for the uniqueness of your own personality and elemental make-up, to find ways to work WITH your unique gifts instead of against them. 

All of this creates a state – one in which you feel capable, and filled with ease about all that life has to offer.

What’s in the course?

 

Building Resilience is built on journal prompts and meditations which are created to help you develop skills for resilience and embody deep, lasting changes.

There are 4 modules in the course, and each module has its own playbook.

The lessons in the Playbook are a compilation of information that we have researched and studied over the years that we have been practicing as herbalists. We’ve drawn from a variety of disciplines, like neuroscience, ecology, herbalism, and our studies of the Humoural Temperaments.

 Building Resilience is paced generously, with bite-size lessons spaced out week by week. It’s structured so that you have the space to read, practice, and assimilate the lesson for the week without feeling rushed or adding to your overwhelm.  

Each Phase contains…

  • Prompts to help you develop the skills to transform your sense of overwhelm into ease. 
  • An extensive and beautiful PDF playbook that will guide you through the course materials.
  • 1-3 downloadable meditations.

 

Phase I 

  • Phase I guides you to connect to your core self – the essence of your being. This Core self, who you develop a relationship with, will guide you through the rest of the course.  
  • This will be instrumental in helping you develop a more resilient life, and is a tool you will continue to use long after the course is finished. 

 

 

Phase II

  • Phase II is about unlearning common cultural beliefs that we’re all supposed to be a certain way. Instead, you will learn to see the true value in the many ways of being. You will do this through learning about the four personality elements and your own unique combination of these elements. 
  • In this Phase, you’ll learn how important and valuable your own makeup is, and how you can live more easily in flow once you tap into your unique strengths and qualities. 

 

Phase III 

  • Phase III is about finding joy in nourishment, sleep and movement. You will experiment with, and develop tools (both herbal and non-herbal) for nourishing yourself, resting, and moving in a way that is specific to your body and constitution.

 Phase IV  

  • Phase IV is about developing your resilience through friendship, community, and boundaries. This phase is about how the world outside yourself is such a huge part of your resilience roadmap. It includes guidance, journal prompts and exercises to help you develop this area of your life further.

 And then there are the bonuses!

You'll get short focused monographs for each of the herbal allies so you can choose which plant allies you want to develop a relationship with (3-4 per phase).

You'll have access to specific simple herbal recipes to help you address stress and adapt to change.

 

You'll receive weekly emails guiding you through the pace of the course (so it never feels overwhelming).

 

 

There are 4 live Q&As with Rosalee and Rebecca, to answer any questions and give more insight into the lessons. (These will be recorded for future viewing.)

You'll get access to a private Building Resilience community group for you to discuss the lessons, herbs and recipes. 

 

 

Join Building Resilience!

 

The investment for this 4 month, life changing experience that transforms your relationship to stress is 6 payments of $97. 

Or you can make one payment and save over $80. 

 

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We’re confident you’ll love Building Resilience.  

But if you feel this is not the course for you, you can request a full refund anytime during your first 14 days of membership—no questions asked. We’ll even thank you for giving it a try.

Don’t let uncertainty stand between you and success. We personally guarantee Building Resilience 100%!

Meet your guides…

Rosalee de la Forêt, RH, is passionate about inspiring you to enjoy plants every single day, whether it’s marveling at their beauty or using their gifts as food and medicine. She is the best-selling author of the books Alchemy of Herbs and Wild Remedies and a registered herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild. In addition to writing books, Rosalee has taught thousands of students about herbs through her podcast, YouTube channel, and online courses. Rosalee lives in a log cabin in the Northeastern Cascades of Washington state with her husband.

 

  

 

Rebecca Altman loves connecting people: to the earth, to plants, to each other, and to themselves. The underlying purpose behind all of her work is to help people remember the feeling of living in alignment with who they truly are, and the larger flow of the universe. She has an online school, called Wonder Botanica, where she teaches people how to connect to the earth, the heart path, and the universe; and works with clients individually to connect them to their own inner guidance. Rebecca lives in the mountains of Southern California, with her dog, and about a million oak trees. Despite so many reasons not to be, she remains steadfastly hopeful about human beings and this incredible planet.

We know that Building Resilience powerfully transforms your relationship to your busy life. 

 

But you don’t have to take our words for it. Here’s what students are saying...

 

I highly recommend the Building Resilience course from Rosalee and Rebecca! The most important thing about it is the way it frames "resilience": as a mindset, not a destination. This course is not about learning all the "tips & tricks to a better you," but instead provides a framework from which to better understand your own unique skills and temperament so that you can be more prepared to handle the ups and downs of your own journey. Through specific journal prompts and meditations, I developed greater insight into my own individuality that, combined with the course's concrete resilience strategies, help me develop an overall plan for self-care that works for me. On top of all that, the course includes detailed info on specific "herbal allies" with monographs and recipes that helped me incorporate the use of herbs into my "resilience roadmap." While not all the ideas in the course were new to me, this well-balanced, even-paced course helped me develop a better understanding of myself and techniques for practicing greater resilience.

- J.D.

 

I am grateful to have had the gift of this course.  I am grateful to have knowledge that I would have taken a long time to discover on my own.  I am grateful for the intelligence, compassion, humor, and willingness of Rebecca and Rosalee to guide me into making practical changes in my life which support my resilience.  I am grateful to have this wealth of knowledge waiting for me to dive more deeply into in my future.

- Monnica G.

 

Prior to taking the course I felt very reactive to situations. Now that I understand who I am at my core I am able to pause and respond. The course has increased my curiosity to explore more of who I am.

- Jennifer L.

 

I am grateful to have had the gift of this course.  I am grateful to have knowledge that I would have taken a long time to discover on my own.  I am grateful for the intelligence, compassion, humor, and willingness of Rebecca and Rosalee to guide me into making practical changes in my life which support my resilience.  I am grateful to have this wealth of knowledge waiting for me to dive more deeply into in my future.

- Monnica G.

Join Building Resilience!

If you have ever wondered if this is all there is, if life is supposed to just be a series of repeated busy days and tasks, barely keeping up, interspersed with the occasional vacation or moment of joy… no, that’s not what it’s supposed to be like at all. 

Join Building Resilience, and learn how to change your relationship to your life. Not just for yourself, but for the people around you, too. 

 

But don’t wait!

 

This 4-month live and interactive course begins mid April, so we have to close the doors to new members on April 10th at 5pm Pacific time.

And if you want to try it out, remember, we have a risk-free, 14-day Guarantee, so nothing is holding you back!

We are both so proud of the amazing transformations that happen for our students and beginning a new year with a new purpose is an incredible gift you can give yourself.

 

Where do you want to be in 4 months? 

 

Do you want to be in the exact same place you are now? We’re serious – take a look around. Do you want to feel the exact same way you feel about your life now, in 4 months? 

Or do you want to feel as though you are on the way to feeling light, effortless, playful and capable, because you have the tools and are using them? 

There’s no magic transformation button: we can’t change who you are in 4 months. But we can give you the perspective and tools, and the glimpses of how your life is going to feel long-term when you keep practicing what we teach you. 

Within 4 months, you will be well on your way to a life that feels completely different: light, effortless, playful, fun. You will know that capability is within your reach. 

The investment for this 4 month, life changing experience that transforms your relationship to stress is 6 payments of $97. 

Or you can make one payment and save over $80.  

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Do You Have Questions? We’ve answered our most frequently asked questions below:

Is Building Resilience the right course for me? 


We created this course for people who are struggling with feeling capable and on top of their lives due to stress, overwhelm and burnout. Through the four phases of the course, we are sharing the skills and herbs that we have turned to countless times to get us through difficult times.

 

This course is right for you if… 

  • You are tired of stress and overwhelm and you want to feel more ease and joy in your daily life. 
  • You feel better on vacation and then come back to daily life and go ‘oh no, this again’ and within a day you’re right back in the cycle. 
  • You feel a sense of dread, or as if the idea of life being this stressful forever is intolerable.
  • You are able to clear some space in your life to do the course. (We estimate 1 hour per week, more or less is also possible.)
  • You love herbs but are also aware that building resilience is about more than taking adaptogens. 
  • You enjoy (or are at least open) to self-reflective free-writing and journaling. 
  • You know the value of interacting and doing exercises (not just passively taking information in). 
  • You have a busy life and often wonder if this is all there is because it doesn’t feel great a lot of the time, even though you have so much that you want. You recognise that a change in perspective and some new skills could really shift things, and you’re willing to do what it takes. 
  • You want to feel more ease, fluidity, joy, lightness in your life. You recognise that you are hard on yourself and want to learn how to be different. You see what you want, and know how you want to feel; you just don’t know how to get there. 
  • You crave solutions-oriented methods (rather than stagnation). 
  • You’re okay with attending a beta course (and are accepting of small errors like typos or hiccups)*.

 

This course is not right for you if…

  • You are satisfied with your life and aren’t looking for any deeper insights or changes. 
  • You want to stay the exact same but have everything change. 
  • You think that the teachers of a course can change you, rather than YOU changing you. 
  • You want to be taught a magic bullet that will change everything, without having to do any exercises or make any changes in yourself. 
  • You aren’t able to prioritize at least 1 hour per week to spend on the course. 
  • You’re mostly interested in taking herbs, not journaling, meditation or developing additional skills. 
  • You are only seeking help with a specific health problem (we recommend seeing a health practitioner for one-on-one help).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*What is a beta course? 

This will be the third time we’ve enrolled students in the Building Resilience course. That means hundreds of students have taken this course and given us valuable feedback – we love to continually improve our courses! While we are completely confident in the course materials, we do want to state upfront that this will be the first year we are releasing the course on the Kajabi platform. Because this platform is new to us (and possibly you), there may be minor mishaps that happen along the way. We aren’t anticipating any major issues. If you are someone who wants everything to be 100% perfect, 100% of the time, then this may not be the year for you. If you are understanding of small human errors (knowing that we are working diligently to bring you the best course possible), then we welcome you! 

 

When does Building Resilience start?

Building Resilience starts as soon as you enroll and runs for four months. 

 

What if I sign up, but then decide it’s not for me? 

We have a 14 day, no questions asked refund policy. 

 

What are your qualifications? 

We’re both herbalists and teachers who have spent a lot of time diving into the challenges of modern society (e.g. stress, overwhelm, burnout). We are not psychologists, doctors, counselors or therapists. We are simply humans, sharing our human experience. This course is not designed or intended to treat illness, help people through trauma, or to provide personalized health consultations of any kind. All requests for personal health challenges will be referred out. 


Do I have to be an herbalist to sign up? 

Definitely not! But an interest in herbs is helpful, as there are short herbal articles and simple recipes for you to do in each Phase.

 

How much time do I need to do this course? 

You’ll need about one hour a week to devote to course materials. This includes reading the materials, doing the exercises, listening to meditations, making herbal recipes, attending the live Q&As and participating in the community group. 

You may find that some weeks require less time and others more. We designed individual lessons and exercises to be short (but powerful!)

Like anything in life, ultimately, you will get out of this what you put into it. 

 

Do I only have a limited time to access course materials? What if I fall behind? 

You have lifetime access to the course. 

We will be doing 4 live Q&As and we highly recommend that you either watch these live or watch the recording shortly after. 

We will closely monitor the community group for 5 months. After that, the group will stay open but we won’t be popping in as often. 

 

What if the course is too expensive for me? 

We’ve intentionally priced this course tuition at a very low price and we’ve also offered a payment plan. We know that the value of transforming your life from one filled with overwhelm and chronic stress to ease and joy is priceless! However, if the price is still too high for your budget then please don’t join. We don’t want anyone to take on financial hardship in order to pay for a course. 

 

Will there be concrete ways given to use herbs rather than simply saying, “chamomile can help”?  

Yes! Each phase comes with succinct herbal monographs to help you get to know the plants better. After the monographs (or getting to know you phase), we give you simple, easy and often delicious recipes for you to try. Recipes range from teas, to herbal sprays, to massage oils and more.

Last Call to Join Building Resilience…

 

Still unsure?

We get it.  

Can you do us a little favor?  

Imagine if you don’t take this course, and nothing changes. 

Picture it. 

One year from now. 

Two years from now. 

Five years from now. 

Is that how you want things to feel forever? 

Now, imagine if you were to dive into Building Resilience and succeed in changing your relationship to your life. 

Imagine how your life would look with more joy. 

Imagine how your life would FEEL with more ease and spaciousness. 

Imagine how you’d feel every day, moving through your life as if it were effortless and fun and filled with ease. 

How would the other people in your life benefit from your change in attitude and emotional state? How would YOU benefit from this change?

Still undecided?

 

Committing to something can be scary – what if you try and it doesn’t work!? What if you can’t actually do it?! 

This is where we step in with some reassurances about our side of things: 

We’ve designed this course to be doable in bite-size pieces. In other words, it fits into your busy life! 

We are confident in the course that we have created – not just because it’s brilliant, but because we have seen the results in our students, too. While it will not turn you into a different person in 4 months, it will give you the tools you need to change your own life long term, and enough evidence that it’s working in 4 months that you’ll feel confident to carry on using the tools you’ve been given.

Now it’s up to you: 

This is a commitment that will repay you, time and time again, for the rest of your life. You will learn tools that you’ll use forever, and learn a perspective on life that will change who you are and how you feel on a daily basis. 

To feel effortless and easy in your life is no small thing. It’s something that both of us never take for granted now that we have it. The same goes for all our past students – we still get emails thanking us for this course, years later! We want you to experience that feeling of effortlessness, too.  

It might sound impossible, but it’s not. It’s a series of tiny changes, made over time, using the tools we give you. 

Your only job is to step in, commit to the time and reading, and do the small steps we lay out for you. 

One day, a year from now, you’ll be moving through your day with ease as more things come up and land on your plate, and you’ll realize something: “I’m a different person! A year ago, I wished to be here and didn’t know how it was possible, and now I’m here.” 

We can’t wait to meet you and guide you through this utterly life-changing transformation. 

 

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Disclaimer

WE ARE NOT PSYCHOLOGISTS, DOCTORS, COUNSELORS OR THERAPISTS. WE ARE SIMPLY HUMANS, SHARING OUR HUMAN EXPERIENCE. THIS COURSE IS NOT DESIGNED OR INTENDED TO TREAT ILLNESS, HELP PEOPLE THROUGH TRAUMA, OR TO PROVIDE PERSONALIZED HEALTH CONSULTATIONS OF ANY KIND. ALL REQUESTS FOR PERSONAL HEALTH CHALLENGES WILL BE REFERRED OUT.
EVERY EFFORT HAS BEEN MADE TO ACCURATELY REPRESENT OUR PRODUCTS AND THEIR POTENTIAL. HERBS ARE POWERFUL HEALERS WITH THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF USE AND MODERN-DAY EVIDENCE TO BACK THEM UP. HOWEVER, THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL GET RESULTS. EXAMPLES IN THESE MATERIALS ARE NOT TO BE INTERPRETED AS A PROMISE OR GUARANTEE OF RESULTS. HEALING POTENTIAL IS ENTIRELY DEPENDENT ON THE PERSON USING OUR PRODUCTS, IDEAS, AND TECHNIQUES. WE DON’T PURPORT ANY OF OUR PRODUCTS TO BE A SLEAZY OR UNETHICAL MIRACLE “CURE”.
YOUR LEVEL OF SUCCESS IN ATTAINING THE RESULTS CLAIMED IN OUR MATERIALS DEPENDS ON THE TIME YOU DEVOTE TO OUR PROGRAMS, IDEAS, AND TECHNIQUES MENTIONED. WE CANNOT GUARANTEE YOUR HEALTH OUTCOME NOR ARE WE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY OF YOUR ACTIONS.
WE RECOMMEND THAT YOU RESOURCE YOURSELF WITH A HEALTH TEAM. OUR MATERIALS NEVER SUGGEST YOU SHOULD IGNORE OR STOP RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY YOUR DOCTOR.
THERE ARE MANY FACTORS IN DETERMINING YOUR ACTUAL RESULTS AND NO GUARANTEES ARE MADE THAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE RESULTS SIMILAR TO OURS OR THE TESTIMONIALS OF OUR CUSTOMERS. IN FACT, NO GUARANTEES ARE MADE THAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE ANY RESULTS FROM THE IDEAS AND TECHNIQUES IN OUR MATERIAL.