Groundwork
Twelve weeks, and you are not doing it alone.
The five foundations in the order I actually work them, with a group small enough that I can see everyone in it. Ten places, twelve weeks, and one session that belongs only to you.
If you have been reading and not starting.
You know roughly what you ought to be doing. You have known for a while. What you do not have is the order, or somebody to tell you what to do first when three things are wrong at once, or anyone who notices when you stop.
That is not a discipline problem. Foundational work is genuinely hard to sequence alone, and it is harder still when you are tired enough that deciding anything feels like a task.
What the twelve weeks look like.
Live sessions every other week, with short recorded pieces in the weeks between, so the live time is for the teaching and discussion rather than just for me lecturing at you.
One individual session each, where we work out your own emphasis and pace using my assessment rather than handing you a template. That session is the part that makes a group course personal instead of generic.
And a cohort, which is the part I cannot manufacture. People in the same week you are in, who will notice if you disappear.
Ten places. The number is set by how many individual sessions I can do properly in the first few weeks rather than by how many faces fit on a call.
It teaches the foundations from the ground up, so nothing is assumed. If you have been following the work for a while you will recognize the shape and go further into it than you have on your own.
Why this is different from knowing the information.
Worked for your body rather than in general. How fast to move. Where to put the weight when three foundations are shaky at once. How to read your own response and adjust. Nothing written can do that, because writing does not know you.
Carrying you through the doing. Anything you read gives you a concept and a small action. Twelve weeks gets you through what it feels like when it is working, what to do when a foundation will not hold, and how to keep going when life interrupts, which it will. It also teaches how the foundations stack and interact, which is a different subject from any one of them.
People around you. Doing this alone is the version most women try first and it is the version that stalls. This is the least replaceable thing in the program.
Nutrition first, and protein first inside it.
The five run in clinical order, and the first real teaching week enters Nutrition through protein, because protein is usually the first thing worth changing.
Protein is taught as a range rather than a target. Some people work best by meals and by feel, some by arithmetic, and the course is built for both.
This is not a diet and there is no plan to follow. If numbers are somewhere your mind goes and gets stuck, say so at the start and we will work in a way that does not hand you any.
Why there is an hour that is only yours.
I taught live classrooms on the mission field, a week or two at a stretch inside schools that ran six months. I was fine in front of a room. What mattered most to me every time was the time I got with each student on their own, and I have never since fully trusted a group that does not have that in it.
Groundwork is built the same way. The teaching is shared, and one session belongs only to you. The course runs the foundations in one order. What changes person to person is where the weight goes and how long you stay.
What it costs.
Founding cohort — $1,200.
After that — $1,500.
Who it is for.
A woman who is ready to do foundational work with support rather than on her own. You do not need to be very unwell, and you do not need to be barely unwell either.
Some women want the room. Others would rather not be seen, and would work alone with me if money were no object. Neither is the braver choice. The question worth asking is which one you will actually turn up to.
Brenna’s program is one of the most well put-together plans I have ever seen. Her knowledge is firsthand, and she’s a brilliant educator.
— M.O.
Nobody gets left behind by the pace.
The whole thing is paced so that the woman with the least reserve is not falling behind the woman with the most. That is a design decision rather than a courtesy, and it is the reason a group can hold people who start in very different places.
It also means nobody gets pushed. Readiness comes before intensity here in exactly the way it does in my one-to-one work.
What it is not.
It is not a cure and it is not a promised outcome. It is a structured way of being carried through foundational work, which is a real thing and a different thing.
It does not replace your doctor, and a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner does not diagnose or treat.
And it is not a place where you get a long list of everything harming you. Give a woman enough of that and she will either give up or start optimizing, and the optimizing becomes the illness.
The list.
September is the target. You will get the date when it is a real date rather than a marketing one.
It runs when there are enough women in it, which is the honest answer.