COMING SOON
The Motherhood Reset
Step into a more grounded motherhood.
An integrative, self-paced course from Live Aligned Integrative Therapy & Consulting for mothers in every season, with practical tools rooted in clinical nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to support your nervous system, mood, and sense of self.
Enrollment is not open yet. Join the waitlist and we will let you know the moment it is.
For every season
Expecting, the fourth trimester, and the years after.
JOIN THE WAITLIST
Be the first to know when enrollment opens.
We will send one message when The Motherhood Reset is ready.
Self-paced, on your own schedule, from anywhere
Created by a licensed therapist who is also a mother
Evidence-based, rooted in ACT and lifestyle medicine
No date yet. Waitlist members hear first.
Built on three foundations: ACT, clinical nutrition, lifestyle medicine.
Available anywhere. Not limited to California.
You are not failing. You are transforming, and transformation, while beautiful, is rarely easy.
Cortney Harden, LCSW, CMNCS, in Becoming a Mother: Understanding the Mental Health Landscape of Motherhood
WHY IT ASKS SO MUCH OF YOU
Becoming a mother reshapes your brain, your body, and your sense of self.
This transition has a name, matrescence, and it deserves the same recognition and support we give to adolescence. Nothing about needing support means something is wrong with you.
Your brain is reorganizing
Pregnancy brings measurable changes in brain structure that can last for years, in areas tied to social cognition and attachment. Heightened sensitivity and new questions about who you are becoming are part of that process, not a flaw in it.
Hoekzema and colleagues, Nature Neuroscience, 2017
The fourth trimester lasts longer than six weeks
The maternal brain keeps adapting for up to two years after birth. During that time you are not only recovering from birth. You are integrating a completely new identity, usually on very little sleep.
Pawluski and colleagues, Hormones and Behavior, 2017
It takes energy on every level
Physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energy are all being spent at once. Asking for support is not admitting defeat. It is recognizing that transformation is hard work, and hard work is easier with support.
BY THE NUMBERS
What the research says about the first years of motherhood.
The shift is common, it lasts longer than most people expect, and the everyday levers the course is built on have evidence behind them.
Who feels the shift
Share of new mothers, as reported in Becoming a Mother
Baby blues
up to 80%
Postpartum depression
10 to 20%
0%
50%
100%
The baby blues usually ease within two to three weeks. Postpartum depression lasts longer than two weeks and deserves support, not silence.
Source: Becoming a Mother, Cortney Harden, LCSW, CMNCS
How long the transition lasts
Weeks after birth
The traditional six-week mark
6 weeks
The maternal brain keeps adapting
up to 2 years
0
52 weeks
104 weeks
The fourth trimester is measured in years, not weeks. You are integrating a new identity, not just recovering from birth.
Source: Pawluski and colleagues, Hormones and Behavior, 2017
26 %
lower depression symptoms linked to physical activity, even ten minutes of daily walking.
Rosenbaum and colleagues, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 2014
30 %
lower postpartum depression risk linked to a Mediterranean-style way of eating.
Sánchez-Villegas and colleagues, Nutrients, 2018
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pillars of lifestyle medicine woven into the course
Nutrition
Stress
Movement
Relationships
Sleep
Habits
American College of Lifestyle Medicine
None of this means you have to do it all. It means small, practical changes carry real weight, and the course is built around them.
THE INTEGRATIVE APPROACH
Therapy, clinical nutrition, and lifestyle medicine, together.
Most support for mothers stops at talk. The Motherhood Reset brings three evidence-based foundations into one practical course, so what you learn works in your actual life, not just in a session.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Skills to hold difficult feelings without being run by them, notice a thought like "I am a terrible mother" as a thought rather than a fact, reconnect with what matters to you, and take small, meaningful steps even on the days you do not feel ready.
Clinical nutrition
Practical, realistic ways to nourish a body that is growing, feeding, or recovering. Food is one of the most direct levers for mood and energy, and it does not require rigid rules to work in your favor.
Lifestyle medicine
Small shifts in movement, sleep, stress, and connection that fit a life with a baby in it. The goal is not a perfect routine. It is a nervous system that has a little more room to breathe.
Everything in the course is designed to support your nervous system, your mood, and your sense of self, in ways that translate into daily life.
WHO IT IS FOR
For mothers in every season.
Whether your baby is on the way, in your arms, or already in school, the transition into motherhood keeps unfolding. The reset meets you where you are.
Expecting
You are preparing for a new life and quietly becoming a new version of yourself. The questions start long before the baby arrives.
The fourth trimester
The early months, when your brain, body, and identity are all adapting at the same time and rest is hard to come by.
The years after
Motherhood keeps changing you long past the newborn stage. The reset is just as useful years in as it is in the first weeks.
QUESTIONS
Before you join the waitlist
When does enrollment open?
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We have not announced a date yet. Join the waitlist and we will email you the moment enrollment opens.
The short answers. If yours is not here, we are one email away.
Who is The Motherhood Reset for?
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Mothers in every season: expecting, in the fourth trimester, or years into motherhood. It is self-paced, so you move through it on your own schedule.
Is this therapy?
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No. It is a self-paced educational course built on the same integrative approach we use in therapy: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, clinical nutrition, and lifestyle medicine. It does not replace individual therapy, medical care, or crisis support.
Do I need to live in California?
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No. Our self-paced courses are available anywhere. Our Immersive Therapy Sessions are a separate service for California residents only.
What other courses do you offer?
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The Nervous System Reset and the Perimeno-PAUSE Reset are open now. The Motherhood Reset is built on the same integrative approach.
CREATED BY
Cortney Harden, LCSW, CMNCS
Therapist, clinical nutrition specialist, and mother.
Cortney is the founder of Live Aligned Integrative Therapy & Consulting and the author of The Healing Journal. Her work brings therapy, clinical nutrition, and lifestyle medicine together, because mental health and physical health cannot be separated, and insight from a session once a week is rarely enough on its own.
She is also a mother who has walked this path. She knows the 3 AM doubts, the overwhelming love mixed with bone-deep exhaustion, and the way you can feel grateful and grieving at the same time. The Motherhood Reset is built from that experience and from the clinical tools she uses every day.
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, California
Certified Mental Health and Nutrition Clinical Specialist
Member, American College of Lifestyle Medicine
Author, The Healing Journal
The Motherhood Reset is a self-paced educational course. It does not replace individual therapy, medical care, or crisis support. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 in the US.