Still Exhausted, Still in Pain, Still Can't Sleep?
Your Nervous System Needs Support, Not More Willpower.
I Tried Everything Too.
Here's What It Actually Took to Feel Like Myself Again.
For months I was exhausted, anxious, and running on a nervous system that never got the memo the emergency was over.
After my stroke, hyper-vigilance took over, always scanning, always waiting for the next thing to go wrong. My blood pressure wouldn't budge. I couldn't quiet my mind. And the mainstream answers all led to the same place: medication I wasn't willing to take because of the side effects.
So I did what most of us do. I figured it out on my own.
Supplements, breathwork, meditation, all helpful, but inconsistent. My blood pressure would be fine one day and spike the next. So I decided to try something more extreme. I went on a strict keto diet that was very low fiber intake. And within days my blood pressure dropped. It stabilized. For the first time in months my readings were normal.
I was so excited....
Until other things started showing up.
Weeks of constipation. More stress. Then worry. I had an online keto health coach and a doctor both telling me to keep going, that I was doing everything right, despite my issues. I trusted them. And then the abdominal pain became excruciating. I ended up in the hospital with an abscess that was dangerously close to turning into sepsis.
After seeing five different doctors in four days, they all said that keto stressed out my body and caused an imbalance in my system which led to the abscess. Extreme keto works beautifully for some people, but for me it was not a good fit.
The hardest part was that I had no way of knowing that until it was almost too late. I was trying things alone, and I didn't have anyone helping me read what my body was actually telling me.
"When I finally shared everything with my naturopathic doctor she said something so simple it stopped me: 'Give your body permission to just try things for a few days. Dip your toe in before you jump all the way.'"
Such a simple message. But it was an epiphany for me. That meant I didn't need to push through and keep going when things didn't feel right so that I give "the thing" a fair chance.
What I realized in that moment was that I didn't just need better information or better tools. I needed someone walking beside me for a few days while I tried something new, someone helping me see how my body was actually responding before I went all in. I wasn't failing. I was just doing it alone. No one helping me see the full picture.
"That's what we built the 5-Day Challenge to be."
Today my blood pressure is stable. The anxiety has settled. The hyper-vigilance that used to run my days is quiet. I finally stopped pushing through when my body was telling me something wasn't working, and started listening instead.
What if 5 days could change how you feel?
We created this challenge for the person who's been pushing through, the one who's open to a different way, who's willing to try something simple, and who just needs someone to say: "I'll walk beside you while you do this."And in those 5 days, you'll feel something shift that you haven't felt in years.
Everything You Need
What's Included
Every piece of this was chosen to help you get the best results.
3 Sessions
Three one-hour sessions with Abbie or Amber. Schedule any 3 days within your 5-day window, one per day, we work around your life.
Daily Guidance
A short video every morning, right to your phone. Under two minutes.
One simple focus for the day. No inbox to dig through.
Ongoing Support
We text you every day to see how you're doing. Real check-ins from two people (not a bot) who genuinely want to know how your body is responding.
5-Day Challenge App
A beautifully designed app that guides you through the challenge and even keeps track of your progress.
Meditation Library
A full curated playlist of meditations.
Yours to continue to use long after the challenge ends.
Electrolyte Sea Salt
We include our electrolyte salts so you can begin replenishing your system right away.
Five Days. One Simple Thing at a Time.
The 5 Days
Here's what happens in the 5-Day Challenge.
Over the 5 days, you'll layer in simple, specific inputs chosen because each one talks directly to your nervous system. We won't dump 47 things on you. You'll add one a day. Your body does the rest.
Before Day 1: Cellular Nutrients
We send your welcome video and first simple instruction the day you sign up. Your body begins preparing before Day 1 even arrives.
Day 1: Lay the foundation
Most people don't realize how much their daily choices affects how secure their nervous system feels.
Day 2: Reset
We focus on waking up your circulation, supporting your lymph, and helping your body actually release instead of holding everything in.
Day 3: Repair
If sleep hasn't shifted yet, tonight is the night. Sleep is when the body repairs itself: cells, brain, nervous system regulation.
Day 4: Calm
We focus on activities that drops cortisol, settles the mind, and reduces pain and stress.
Day 5: Lock it in
Everything you've built this week converges with your final session.
Each day builds on the last. This is why the results last,
because it's consistent.
How It Works
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3 sessions, you choose the dates (between July 6-23).
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Complete these 3 sessions within a 5-day window.
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We'll send you short videos by text every day of the challenge.
We know you're busy. That's why we offer early morning and evening sessions, so you can fit your 3 sessions into your real life without rearranging everything.
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☀️ Early mornings: before work, before the kids, before the day takes over
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🌙 Evenings: after the day is done, when you can finally exhale
We'll do our best to work around your schedule.
The Results
What Life Feels Like When Your
Nervous System Finally Gets What It Needs
A Full Reset
Value $500
→ Daily Guidance & Check-ins
BONUS
BONUS
Value: $11
→ Personalized Sessions
→ Hawaiian Electrolyte Sea Salt
→ 5-Day Challenge App
→ Library of Meditations
Value: $99
Value: $390
Sessions in Meridian, ID
From Abbie — Our Lead Practitioner
Why This Works When
Everything Else Hasn't
After working with clients for over a year,
two things became impossible to ignore.
When I first started doing sessions, I was trained the way most practitioners are trained, go straight to the pain. Address what the client came in for. So that's what I did.
And I got results. Good ones.
But something in me said I could get them even better results.
I started doing two-hour sessions, which meant I had time to try something different. I started wondering what would happen if I calmed the nervous system first, before addressing the pain or the tension or the sleep issues. What if the body needed to feel calm before it was ready to let anything go?
So I tried it.
And everything changed.
When the nervous system was calm first, the body stopped bracing. The pain, the tension, the stress, they started to release on their own, like the body had been waiting for permission. I started seeing results I hadn't seen before, with clients dealing with anxiety, brain fog, chronic pain, sleep issues, all kinds of things. The same device. A different order. A completely different outcome.
I was doing Amber's sessions through her entire stroke recovery. I watched the Equiscope help her walk again, recover her speech, her fine motor skills, her mobility. Those results, all of them, came from the sessions. I saw firsthand what this technology is capable of when the nervous system is the priority.
But even with great results in the sessions, I noticed that when Amber only came in once a week, the anxiety would creep back in between visits, and that would affect her blood pressure all over again. Life would step back in before her nervous system had time to fully regulate.
I started noticing the same pattern with other clients too.
When clients were able to come in closer together, something different happened. Each session built on the last. The body held onto the work instead of losing it to everyday life. The shifts came faster and they lasted longer.
So when Amber brought up the idea of the 5-Day Challenge, I was all in, because I already knew what three sessions close together could do. And pairing that with simple daily support in between? That was the piece that had been missing all along.
The sessions are the work. What happens around them is where it lands.
The simple things we ask you to do at home in between sessions aren't extras. They're what keeps your nervous system in the work instead of drifting back out of it. That's what Amber was missing. And it's what we built the 5-Day Challenge to give you.
FAQ
We're Abbie Payne and Amber Dobkins
Co-Founders of A & A Bioenergetics
Our work is deeply personal to us. We both know what it's like to feel stuck, out of options, and isolated.
That's exactly why we've dedicated our lives to mastering bioenergetics. Because we also know what it feels like on the other side: the relief, the hope, the joy of getting your life back. We're here to help you break free and reclaim the life you deserve.
With over a decade of experience, advanced certifications, and authors of several published books, we both bring expertise and deep compassion to every session.
