FIRM WA ER ROAD
WELCOME TO
OUR WORLD OF
PERSONAL
GROWTH
& SOCIAL
EVOLUTION
Novice or skilled, we meet you where you are.
We do it differently
Firm Water Road weaves together the DIFFICULT TO FIND Masters for you…
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Master Holistic Teachers
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Philosophers
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Scientists, Mystics
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Psychiatrists
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Psychologists
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Movement Arts
Navigate away from fragmenting and toward wholeness, health, and resilience.
CONCRETE BENEFITS
With FWR you…
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Re-map, re-wire, and re-code sabotaging and self-limiting beliefs into self-supportive thoughts, feelings, and actions.
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Glean jewels for living from the world's wisdom teachings, movement activities, and scientific findings.
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Navigate toward physical, mental, and social WHOLENESS as you learn how and practice thriving.
Shift into Technicolor Living
Our childhood ego tries to safeguard us by building a socially acceptable yet fake False-Self constructed of pride, greed, self-entitlement/blame, anger, revenge, addiction, gluttony, envy, and complacency.
These root deeply into our unreachable unconscious mind and grow unchecked. This makes us feel fragmented: pulled, in pieces, apart, incomplete, detached, isolated, broken, stressed, or anxious.
Shed the ego’s coping strategies and survival mechanisms by developing the Soul, your True-Self. The soul’s attributes are reverence, piety, understanding, fortitude, courage, vulnerability, resilience, perseverance, health, directional counsel, knowingness, and wisdom.
This is the building process of self esteem, resilience and self-realization.
SOLUTION
Live your REAL Life!
Her Eastern Skills
Yoga, Tai Chi, Pilates, Meditation, Acupuncture, Hypnosis, Philosophy, Prayer
Her Western Education
Harvard Univ. Psychology & Business Mngmt.
Boston Univ. Physical Therapy (Dr.)
Univ. of Oklahoma Health Science (B.S.) & Physical Therapy (M.)
About Dr. Kim Byrd-Rider
HOW?
Firm Water Road’s one-stop shop for East/West holistic health opens your resilience umbrella to empower all your health systems.
What is Lifestyle Medicine?
Harvard Medical School’s Six Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine
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Physical Activity
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Health Centered Nutrition
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Restorative Sleep
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Social Connections
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Avoidance of Risky Substances
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Stress Management
WHY… Firm Water Road?
A note from Kim Byrd-Rider
I am part of a medical community of scientists who watched our comrades and coworkers mentally and physically malfunction and break down as they tried to emotionally tread turbulent water from 2020 to 2022.
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I knew I had to act. I have researched what really works since 1997. I created the content on this site as a lifeboat to resilience against all types of future crashing waves.
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Now, it is time to share these global discoveries and speedy hacks into positive psychology, mystics, physics, and lifestyle medicine.
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Individually, these 4 are change agents. United, they are a never-seen-before powerhouse that brings hope and health to…
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Everyone, but especially for ... ​
Healthcare workers
School Teachers
Military Members
College Students
I have worked in hospitals, outpatient clinics, and home health since 2009. I am you. I get you, and I made these courses for you! Courses meet healthcare continuing education requirements.
I work for the Virgin Islands public school system in the physical therapy special needs dept. Both of her parents are teachers. I watch you up-close. I get you, and I made these courses for you! Courses meet teacher continuing education requirements.
I worked for Army West Point Military Academy in Sports Medicine, The Pentagon’s Dept. of Defense DOD; Defense Health Agency DHA, Naval Air Station Key West, and Tinker Air Force Base. I watch you up-close. I get you, and I made these courses for you! Courses meet Army Spiritual Readiness and Mental domain training parameters.
I earned 5 degrees and certificates. I am a lifetime student and understand students’ needs and stressors. I am you. I get you, and I made these courses for you!
…from Kim Byrd-Rider
VOICES
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“Brilliant presenter! Forward thinking, extremely educated, and original perspective; the best understanding of the human body. A highly effective and exciting, stimulating method to improve strength, flexibility, mobility, and state of mind.”
—Cynthia Fry, Physical Therapist
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“I've been attending continuing education classes for the last 35 years of my healthcare career. I felt like I finally found a program that teaches me some things I haven't heard or done.”
—Donna Ramos, Physical Therapist
