FAQs
🚀 When can I start?
You can begin the Be Your Own Medicine Self-Paced Course anytime you like! Rebecca created this for people who don't want to wait for a live cohort. You can jumpstart your recovery and reclaim your life now! If you're interested in a live cohort, the best way to find out about Rebecca's next one is by signing up for the mailing list here. You'll also receive a free somatic meditation—which helped Rebecca and many other people recover!—and her latest mind-body blogs and videos.
👩🏻🏫 Self-paced course or the live cohort?
Both the self-paced course and the live cohort have the same 10 modules, which are chocked full of knowledge and practices for your recovery! While the content is the same, the delivery is different. In the self-paced program, teaching sessions and Q&As are pre-recorded from a previous cohort. Thus, self-paced learners don't attend live classes or submit questions for Rebecca and her team through our portal. But, self-paced learners can watch many Q&A sessions with Rebecca and guest speakers, which will likely answer your questions! Also, we've added a new FAQ Library with top questions and answers from past participants. Tuition for the self-paced course is $595 while the full price for the live cohort is $995. So there's a significant savings with the self-paced program!
🤷🏽♂️ What course is best for me?
If you want to begin Be Your Own Medicine now, take the self-paced course! It's the same content—recently updated with the latest and greatest—for a lower price point. If you're on a budget, the self-paced version is approximately $400 less than the full price for the live cohort. Our 2025 live cohort began on March 18, 2025, and we don't have any other cohorts scheduled this year. So the self-paced course is the way to go!
⚖️ How does the course compare to coaching?
Be Your Own Medicine is the place to start! Rebecca offers the core knowledge and practices to recover from mind-body symptoms at a fraction of the cost of 1:1 work. There's a greater breadth in the course with more than 20 hours of live classes, 25 audio meditaitons, 30 handouts and extra videos. If you want therapy or coaching during or after the course, it's far more effective with the Be Your Own Medicine program. Rebecca opens a handful of coaching slots solely for Be Your Own Medicine participants, which is the only way to work with her privately! She also offer coaching recommendations for mind-body coaches from her team. You could take the self-paced course and set up coaching sessions as needed.
👩🏻🤝👩🏾 What if I want to work with Rebecca 1:1?
There's an opportunity to meet with Rebecca privately if you enroll in the self-paced course! Rebecca opens a limited number of 1:1 coaching sessions only for participants of the Be Your Own Medicine course. These sessions are on a first-come, first-served basis for an additional fee. Otherwise, Rebecca is not taking new clients. She's focused on teaching Be Your Own Medicine since people recover more fully and swifty through the program!
👩🏽💻 How long can I access the course?
You'll have extended access to the Be Your Own Medicine program website! This means you can log into the course portal for the lifetime of the program, meaning as long as we offer Be Your Own Medicine on our current teaching platform Thinkific. This will be a minimum of one year from your registration date and most likely longer, as Rebecca is passionate about offering this program! You can also download all videos, audio meditations and handouts to keep on your personal device.
📚 What's the curriculum?
Glad you asked! You can see a detailed list of the course lessons here. Besides the class recordings, there's videos, audio meditations and writing exercises to support your recovery.
🤕 What symptoms will this help?
Assuming there's no major structural or pathological issue, this mind-body approach has helped people recover from chronic fatigue, headaches, brain fog, fibromyalgia, insomnia, anxiety, POTS, ME/CFS, long Covid, PEM, irritable bowel syndrome, digestive issues, interstitial cystitis, pelvic pain, chronic back, neck and shoulder pain, migraines and headaches, TMJ, repetitive stress injuries and other mind-body symptoms. Dr. Howard Schubiner calls this Mind-Body Syndrome (MBS) and Dr. John Sarno called it Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS).
❤️🩹 Can this help long Covid and ME/CFS?
While we can't guarantee results, Rebecca has helped many people recover from long Covid, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), Epstein-Barr and other post-viral symptoms. Rebecca consulted on a mind-body pilot study on Long Covid patients through a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical Center, with promising results. As long as you've ruled out tissue damage with your physician, mind-body healing helps many people recover and live a full life. See some of our amazing Success Stories here!
🙋🏽♀️ How do I know if I'm ready?
- Your physician has ruled out pathological and structural causes, such as bone disease, infection, fractures and cancer. We are not doctors and cannot diagnose you. It's important to see a licensed doctor to evaluate your symptoms prior to this course.
- Your symptoms haven’t improved by treatments suggested by medical professionals.
- You want to work with thoughts and behaviors to retrain your brain.
- You crave self-empowering tools to regulate your nervous system and heal on physical, emotional and mental levels.
- You’re curious about exploring somatic meditations as a pathway to recovery.
- You're drawn to Rebecca's approach and this branch of mind-body healing.
- You’re ready to reclaim your life!
😫 Could my brain cause pain or fatigue?
Chronic pain, fatigue, brain fog, POTS and other mind-body symptoms are 100% real and you feel them in your body. But emerging science shows the cause can be in the brain. When our nervous system gets activated, there's a cascade of physiological changes in nerve firing patterns, blood flow, hormone production etc. Nervous system activation can cause pain, fatigue, anxiety, weakness, tingling, burning, spasms, anxiety, insomnia, difficulty concentrating and more. John Sarno used to say that TMS symptoms can be stronger than those with a structural cause. Fortunately, there's a remedy!
💸 Do you offer a payment plan?
We sure do! You can pay in one, two or three installments. For the self-paced course, the full tuition is $595 USD. Alternatively, you can make two payments of $299 or three payments of $199.
💰 What's your refund policy?
Healing happens by moving through obstacles with consistent practice. But if you’ve don’t feel our self-paced course is the right fit within 7 days of your purchase, we offer a money-back guarantee (minus a $75 processing fee). We must receive your email within 7 days of the date you enrolled. There are no refunds after this date. If you're on a payment plan, you're responsible for all future installments after the refund window. To request a refund, email course@rebeccatolin.com and explain your reasons for cancelling to help us improve. You can read more in our Terms of Use.
🫶🏼 Do you offer financial aid?
We created the self-paced course at a lower price than our live cohort to make it more accessible! But if you still can't afford Be Your Own Medicine and think it's your program, you're welcome to apply for a discount. We can offer partial scholarships for a limited number of sincere seekers.