Getting started

How the program is shaped

The Restoration Program is ten weeks in three phases. Phase one is honest assessment of where you are. Phase two is the active body restoration. Phase three is integration. Each phase has its own rhythm, and the materials are paced to match.

There are four 1:1 sessions with me across the ten weeks, four live group calls anchoring each phase, written materials each week, and a small cohort of mothers in similar stages walking alongside you. None of this requires more than a few hours of attention each week. The program is built for postpartum bandwidth.

What is asked of you each week

Each week has a focus, a short reading, a small practice, and a quiet invitation to notice something specific in your daily life. The reading is short by design. The practice is built to fit into a fed, held, partly-sleeping postpartum life. The noticing is the most important part. It is how the work becomes yours rather than a list of instructions.

What helps the program land

A few things make the program work better, and none of them are heroic.

• A consistent quiet moment in the day, however short, where you read the week's material.
• A way to write or speak the things you notice. A small notebook, a voice note, anything that lets the noticing leave your head.
• Showing up to live calls when possible, even if your baby is on you and the camera is off. The cohort matters.
• Telling whoever shares your home that you are doing this work, so the few hours of attention can be honored.

How to settle in

Read the welcome letter first. Then book your first 1:1 session in week one. Then read the foundations module without trying to act on it yet. The first week is about settling, not performing. The work is steady and long. There is no hurry.

A real program meets a real postpartum life. It does not ask you to leave that life to begin.

The next manual module covers the testing we may suggest, and what is actually useful versus what is noise.