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.
Blending Lifestyle Medicine, Integrative Health, Holistic & Functional Medicines, and Physical Therapy with Philosophy, Mindset Psychology, and Positive Psychology research because “the happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts” as well as your biological health.
—Roman Emperor & Philosopher, Marcus Aurelius, 2nd Century
Become a
Firm Water Health Counselor™
Attend our Soul School Fellowship™ for Frontline Workers
1. Many of us hold destructive beliefs like pride, greed, entitlement, and envy, which can damage our relationships, careers, and well-being, leading to stress, anxiety, depression, and health problems.
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 ones like understianding, wisdom, and fortitude, supporting improvements in your 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.
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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 it on to your patients, students, and fellow military members.
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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
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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