From Self-Sabotage To Self-Trust: Rebuild Your Relationship With Your Body - by Dana Retzlaff

COURSE

From Self-Sabotage To Self-Trust: Rebuild Your Relationship With Your Body

With Dana Retzlaff

What if your body was never the enemy — but your greatest guide? In this powerful 5-day journey, you will stop fighting your body and start truly listening. You will learn to decode the language of sensations, heal the emotional wounds created by self-criticism, and build a new relationship based on trust, love, and true collaboration with your body. Through a unique blend of emotional wisdom, scientific understanding, personal reflection, and transformative daily practices, you will reconnect to your body’s natural intelligence. You will shift from control to co-creation, from judgment to compassion, from stress to vitality. This course is not about fixing yourself. It is about remembering that you were never broken. Your body already knows how to heal — it’s time to become its greatest ally. If you are ready to step into a new way of living — filled with energy, softness, trust, and deep self-respect — this journey is for you. Your healing begins the moment you choose to listen.

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Meet your Teacher

Dana Retzlaff
Karlsruhe, Germany

Dana is a certified pain therapist, biohacking coach, and breathwork practitioner who works with CEOs, athletes, and high performers worldwide. With a strong foundation in holistic health, somatic awareness, and emotional healing, she combines science and spirituality to guide individuals back into a powerful partnership with their body. Drawing from years of experience and her own personal journey, Dana teaches how the mind and body together shape our reality, and how deep transformation begins by reconnecting to the body’s innate intelligence. Her approach empowers individuals to move beyond stress, control, and self-judgment, and to live with vitality, trust, and authentic freedom.

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5 Days

322 students

4.9 stars

11 min / day

Body Image

English

Lesson 1

Laying Down The Battle: Meeting Your Body With New Eyes

For years, many of us have unconsciously been at war with our own body — seeing symptoms, pain, and changes as enemies to fight. But your body has never been against you. It has always been trying to communicate, to protect, to love you. In today's session, we begin the sacred process of ending the battle and opening a new relationship based on understanding, compassion, and partnership. Through personal insights and reflective practice, you will start to see your body not as something to fix, but as a wise ally guiding you home. A powerful first step back into trust, love, and connection.

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Lesson 2

Beyond The Noise: Learning To Hear Your Body’s True Voice

Today we go deeper. Beneath the mental chatter, the fear, and the control lies a subtle but powerful language: the language of your body. Your body speaks in sensations, impulses, and emotions, always guiding you toward truth and balance. In this session, you will learn how to slow down enough to truly hear what your body has been trying to tell you. Blending emotional wisdom and science, you’ll start practicing a new way of listening — one that builds trust, softens resistance, and opens the door to real healing. The answers you seek have been inside you all along. It’s time to hear them.

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Lesson 3

From Criticism To Compassion: Healing The Way You See Your Body

Today, we shine a light on one of the deepest wounds many of us carry: the habit of criticizing, shaming, and rejecting our own body. Through personal story, science, and emotional truth, you’ll see how self-judgment creates stress and disconnection — and how love, safety, and compassion biologically open the door to real transformation. You’ll explore the powerful metaphor of the two flowers — one nourished by love, the other withering under neglect — and reflect on how your energy impacts your body’s ability to heal. Get ready to rewrite the story you tell yourself and step into a field of pure, life-giving compassion.

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Lesson 4

Trusting The Timing: Surrendering To Your Body’s Natural Intelligence

Healing isn’t linear — and your body isn't operating on the mind’s timeline. Today, we explore what it means to trust your body’s deeper wisdom and move out of the cycle of forcing, rushing, and self-sabotage. Through science and soul, you’ll understand how the body heals in natural waves and why surrendering to its timing is essential for real transformation. You’ll reconnect with the rhythms of nature, soften control, and begin to truly partner with the intelligence that has always lived within you. Freedom, vitality, and ease begin the moment you stop fighting the process — and start trusting it.

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Lesson 5

The New Way Forward: Co-Creating A Life Of Trust, Healing, And Power

Today, you step into a new identity — one where your body is no longer a project to fix, but a sacred partner to honor. Through powerful insights, emotional activation, and a simple daily ritual, you will anchor everything you’ve learned into a way of living that creates lasting transformation. You’ll discover how real healing happens when you shift from control to co-creation, and how your energy, your health, and your entire life can change when you live in partnership with your body. This is not the end of the journey — it’s the beginning of your most powerful, radiant, and embodied life.

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4.9 (30)

Recent Reviews

Sarah

January 5, 2026

Love the wisdom!

•Danee︎•

•Danee︎•

November 21, 2025

Thank you, Dana. My body and I really appreciated this love course. 🥰

Aimee

Aimee

September 2, 2025

This course was fantastic! At the end of it, I truly did feel like I had gained a closer relationship with my body. I will continue to keep doing the practices. I look forward to doing more of Dana's courses. She's an amazing and beautiful teacher here on insight timer

Sharon

Sharon

August 7, 2025

Excellent course and message about acceptance for ourselves and our bodies. Thank you for your wisdom. Will listen to it again.

Kenyon

Kenyon

June 13, 2025

I've made most of my comments about the course in my reflection on each day's track. What I will continue to advise however is the citation of references for broad statements like "science proves ______." As a scientist myself, I am immediately suspicious of references to science that don't.... reference the science. I don't think it's necessary or even advisable to do these citations "in-text" as it were, meaning within each track. Rather, I believe a good practice would be to post a note to the chatroom containing the Day number of the track, the claim made, and a reference for at least one article in the scientific literature that supports the claim. In this I would caution against citing the same paper or author (J Dispenza, for example) too much, as this detracts from the foundation of reproducibility upon which statements "backed by science" can be confidently made. Do most people care about literature citations in a platform like Insight Timer? No. Do some of us? Yes. Would doing so lend significant credibility for the bridging of these important facts and concepts into the mainstream? Absolutely.

Michella

Michella

May 26, 2025

What a beautiful gift. Thank you.

Candice

Candice

May 23, 2025

I’ve developed a deeper appreciation for my body and all it does to support me. I now make a daily commitment to gratitude, both morning and night, and I feel more open than ever to nurturing my mind-body connection. Thank you for guiding me through such meaningful growth. 🙏🏼

D

May 14, 2025

This was wonderful and so needed. I really felt more connection to my body as I went through this meditation. Thank you!

Lynn

Lynn

May 4, 2025

Thank you Dana. These words spoke to me today. Just what I needed. You are my earth Angel 😇 💓 🙏

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