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FIRM WA ER ROAD
Unleash your full health potentials with our high-powered blends of psychology, physiology, and physics.
Become a
Lifestyle & Mindset Medicine Counselor
Certification for healthcare, teacher, and military professionals.
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Become a social change agent.
Complete…
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Soul School Fellowship at Firm Water Road
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Pass the NBHWC board exam
…to become a nationally board certified
Lifestyle & Mindset Medicine Counselor (LMMC)
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1. Our actions stem from our beliefs, but in today’s world, many of us have adopted destructive beliefs—like pride, greed, self-entitlement, and envy—that damage relationships, careers, and happiness, leading to stress, anxiety, depression, and pain in addition to mental and physical disease states.
2. Pain and healthcare solutions are fragmented across multiple specialized wellness professions, making functional health neither time-efficient nor affordable.
1. We help you rewire your brain from self-sabotaging beliefs to empowering beliefs like reverence, wisdom, and fortitude, enabling you to address and improve your functional mental and physical health.
2. We train a single practitioner to unify the functional, holistic, and wellness healthcare sectors. We simplify preventative and integrative medicine to one practitioner.
Imagine stable relationships, satisfying careers, and joy from thriving. Imagine a life guided by these new principles, leading to greater mental and physical health that you can also pass on to your patients, students, and military members.
The Fellowship also has a fun social club and live events to attend (not required).
100% online and immersive, with live mentorship by Lifestyle & Functional Medicine specialist Dr. Kim Byrd-Rider, PT and her team.
Earn the title of Lifestyle & Mindset Medicine graduate, plus opportunities for continuing education credits.
Application with the National Board of Health & Wellness Coaches is pending approval at this time. Soul School Fellows will be able to sit for the NBHWC licensure exams when finalized.
LEARN. CONNECT. REDIRECT. RECHARGE. GO!
Cost effective: $39/month, 50% off for groups
Time efficient: go at your own pace
Cancel your Fellowship membership at any time
WELCOME TO
OUR WORLD OF
PERSONAL
GROWTH
& SOCIAL
EVOLUTION
Novice or skilled, we meet you where you are.
We are clearly different: We…
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Ground ancient holistic teachings in academia.
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Travel the fast-track through holistic wisdom and scientific research.
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Offer all the tools you need here in one safe place.
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Connect you with our specialty affiliates for deeper dives.
Join our fun study groups for personal and social transformation with sought-after masters of science and ancient wisdom. Discover the power of application activities for positive change at Firm Water Road.
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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
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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
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HOW?
ONE-STOP-SHOP
Firm Water Road’s does it all! From philosophy and psychology learning study groups, to ancient art activities, to social groups, broad-spectrum science and holistic integrative health opens your resilience umbrella to empower all your health systems.
For a low monthly fee, private fellowship members have unlimited access to an exclusive education and unique activities portal.
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
U. S. Army's H2F
Holistic Health and Fitness Agenda
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Physical Readiness
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Nutritional Readiness
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Sleep Readiness
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Mental Readiness
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Spiritual Readiness
We follow these tracks.
What is Mindset?
Your mindset is a set of beliefs that shape how you make sense of the world and yourself. It influences how you think, feel, and behave in any given situation. It means that what you believe about yourself impacts your success or failure.
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, mystical wisdom, physics, and lifestyle medicine.
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Individually, these 4 are change agents. United, they are a never-seen-before powerhouse that bring hope and health to…
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Everyone, but especially for ... ​
Healthcare workers
School Teachers
Military Members
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, Tinker Air Force Base, and the Federal Aviation Administration FAA. 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.
…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
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WE ARE SOCIAL
CHANGE AGENTS
