The Tending Foundations
What if the answer isn't fixing your body—but finally learning to listen to it?
TENDing Foundations is a 6-week journey back home to your body. For those of us living with chronic health conditions who are done fighting and ready to start tending.
Begins March 31, 2026
• Limited to 12 participants
• Founding Member Pricing
Is this you?You've tried everything. And you're exhausted.
You've read the books. Followed the protocols. Tried to positive-think your way through flares. Maybe you've even blamed yourself when nothing worked.
Here's what nobody tells you: Your body isn't broken. It's just speaking a language you haven't learned yet.
Six Weeks. Real Tools. Lasting Change.
TENDing Foundations is a complete 6-week live, virtual group coaching program where you'll learn the foundational skills for living well with chronic health conditions.
What Makes This Different:
✨ Not another protocol. No 47-step morning routines. No expensive supplements. Just gentle, body-based practices that actually fit into real life.
✨ Science-informed, trauma-aware. Grounded in nervous system regulation, polyvagal theory, and the latest research on chronic conditions—delivered with compassion, not complexity.
✨ Community that gets it. You'll be surrounded by others who understand what it's like to live in a body that needs extra tending. No explanations necessary.
✨ Complete and expandable. TENDing Foundations is a full program on its own. Want to go deeper? An optional 4-week Advanced TENDing expansion is available after completion.
Is this for you?
This Is For You If...
You're living with a chronic health condition and you're tired of:
Protocols that promise miracles but leave you more depleted
Feeling like you're failing when your body doesn't cooperate
The shame spiral when you can't "just think positive"
Pushing through when your body is begging you to slow down
You're ready to:
Learn what your nervous system is trying to tell you
Develop compassionate daily practices that actually help
Stop fighting your body and start listening to it
Be part of a community that truly understands
What’s Included
Live Teaching & Support:
✅ 6 weekly teaching sessions (90 minutes each, Tuesday evenings)
✅ Your Capacity Assessment workbook
✅ 2 office hours sessions (30 minutes each, Friday midday)
✅ All sessions recorded for lifetime access—watch when your body has capacity
Course Materials:
✅ Weekly video modules broken into digestible 10-15 minute segments
✅ 18+ guided audio practices (meditations, nervous system regulation, movement)
✅ Complete Tending Foundations Toolkit (worksheets, trackers, comprehensive guides)
✅ Bonus guest expert interview on nervous system regulation
Founding Member Bonuses
As a founding member of the very first Tending Foundations cohort, you'll receive:
☑️ $2200 discount on the full 10-week Tending Method (launching Spring 2026)
☑️ Priority access to register for the full program before general public
☑️ Extended community access (9 months instead of 6)
☑️ Your voice matters - help shape the full program with your feedback
☑️ Founding member pricing lock - this rate will never be offered again
Community & Accountability:
✅ Private community platform (6 months access minimum)
✅ Weekly accountability partnership matched to your needs
✅ Direct access to The Body Luminary in community 3-4x per week
Lifetime Access:
✅ All course materials, recordings, and resources yours to keep forever
✅ Future updates to course materials included
Discussion Topics
Week 1: Welcome Home
Creating Your Foundation of Safety
Learn to sense safety in your body, establish your baseline, and begin your Tending Journal. This is where you come home to yourself, perhaps for the first time.
You'll walk away with: Your personal safety anchors and baseline assessment
Week 2: The Roots
Nervous System Regulation & The Gut-Brain Connection
Understand why your body stays in threat mode and learn practical tools to regulate your nervous system. Discover the gut-brain axis and why your belly matters so much.
You'll walk away with: Your nervous system regulation toolkit and personal state map
Week 3: The Soil
Nutrition, Hydration & Gut Health
Learn to nourish your microbiome garden. Discover your unique food-symptom connections and create an anti-inflammatory nutrition approach that works for YOUR body.
You'll walk away with: Your personalized nourishment plan (draft)
Week 4: Gentle Cultivation
Movement, Pacing & Rest
Master the art of pacing to avoid post-exertional malaise. Learn gentle movement practices that restore rather than deplete, and discover rest as an active healing practice.
You'll walk away with: Your sustainable movement and pacing protocol
Week 5: Removing the Weeds
Reducing Inflammation & Toxic Load
Understand what's burdening your system and learn to lighten the load. Support your body's drainage pathways and identify what needs to be removed from your environment and life.
You'll walk away with: Your toxic load reduction plan
Week 6: Integration
Your Personal Tending Practice
Bring all the pieces together into a sustainable daily practice. Learn how to flex with your capacity, plan for flares, and continue your healing journey long after the program ends.
You'll walk away with: Your integrated personal tending plan and 30-day commitment
The Details
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Beta Cohort: $797
an incredible price, because this very
program will be $2997 next year!
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Begins February 3, 2026
Tuesdays at 4:30-6:00 PM CST
February 3 - March 10, 2026
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6 weeks of specialized support
Live access to The Body Luminary and her team
Intimate community of people who get it
18+ guided practices
Personalized nutrition approach
Total: $797
Plus, you get lifetime access to all materials and practices you'll use for years to come.
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The alternative? Spend thousands and thousands of dollars to visit countless providers who don’t really get it, don’t know what you’re going through, and don’t give you a meaningful explanation or tools you can use. (We know. We’ve been there.)
Why This Approach Works
It's Somatic, Not Just Cognitive
Most Long COVID programs focus on brain retraining or cognitive approaches. Tending Foundations is body-based—teaching you to listen to and work with your body's innate wisdom.
Drawing on principles from:
Polyvagal theory and nervous system regulation
Somatic experiencing and body-based trauma healing
Traditional Chinese Medicine and acupuncture
Functional nutrition and microbiome science
Chiropractic and gentle bodywork traditions
It's Individualized, Not One-Size-Fits-All
You won't get a generic protocol. You'll learn to become attuned to YOUR unique body—what it needs, what depletes it, and how to respond with wisdom.
It's Sustainable, Not Another Push
This program honors your capacity and teaches you to pace yourself. Because the last thing you need is another thing that leaves you crashed.
It's Individualized, Not One-Size-Fits-All
You won't get a generic protocol. You'll learn to become attuned to YOUR unique body—what it needs, what depletes it, and how to respond with wisdom.
It's Sustainable, Not Another Push
This program honors your capacity and teaches you to pace yourself. Because the last thing you need is another thing that leaves you crashed.
It's Led by Someone Who Lives It—and Who's Taught It
I'm not just teaching from personal experience. For seven years, I directed integrative care education at a leading health sciences university. I've written book chapters, defined integrative care through white papers, and spoken at national conferences.
But Long COVID taught me what the textbooks couldn't.
I'm bringing you both: the scientific rigor and thought leadership of my academic work, AND the hard-won wisdom of someone who's lived with this condition for five years.
This isn't theory. This is what actually works.