THE RED DOOR SIGNATURE HYBRID EXPERIENCE
You Already Know What Helps.
Lunch Break Reset™ helps you actually practice it.™
Lunch Break Reset™ is a flexible, therapist-designed hybrid experience that turns 30 minutes of your workday into structured practice for your mental health, combining guided audio, mindful eating, walking, ACT-based skills, reflection, feedback, and optional live therapist-guided Walk & Talks.
No 90-minute Zoom classes. No homework waiting for you after work. No wellness routine that requires you to magically find more time. Just a realistic structure for practicing what helps while your real life is actually happening.
Start anytime | Move at your own pace | 12 Live Walk & Talks Included | Colorado Educator CEUs Available | Online
Regular Price: $295
Launch Price: $210
YOU'VE SPENT LONG ENOUGH POWERING THROUGH
The Hardest Time to Practice What Helps Is Usually When You Need It Most.
When work is manageable, taking a walk sounds reasonable.
When you're overwhelmed?
You eat while answering email.
Skip lunch because there's too much to finish.
Scroll because your brain is fried.
Spend the entire break thinking about what you need to do when it's over.
Promise yourself you'll exercise later.
Tell yourself you'll slow down after this week.
Except there is always another week.
Another deadline. Another meeting. Another person who needs something. Another reason today isn't a particularly convenient day to take care of yourself. And eventually, powering through becomes the routine.
You may know a surprising amount about burnout, boundaries, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, self-care, and mental health. Knowing isn't necessarily the problem.
Translating what you know into something you actually do on a stressful Wednesday afternoon is. That's the gap Lunch Break Reset™ was designed to help you close.
LUNCH BREAK RESET™ WAS BUILT FOR THAT
What If Taking Care of Yourself Didn't Have to Wait Until You Had More Time?
Lunch Break Reset™ is a flexible hybrid educational experience designed for high-achieving, busy-brained people who spend a lot of their lives taking care of responsibilities, and have gotten very good at putting themselves off until later.
Instead of asking you to create another evening routine, find another hour, or add another self-improvement project to your list, we use a window that's already built into the workday: your lunch break.
The experience is designed around a simple 30-minute rhythm:
10 minutes to eat.
Guided mindful eating helps you pause, notice your body, and transition out of automatic pilot rather than inhaling lunch while doing three other things.
20 minutes to walk.
Put in your headphones, step outside when possible, and let the guided experience take it from there. Depending on the day, you might be learning something, practicing a skill, noticing what's happening internally, experimenting with a different response, or reflecting on what happened when you tried.
Your lunch break becomes more than a break. It becomes a protected place to repeatedly practice coming back to yourself.
THE WEEKLY RHYTHM
Productivity may simply be where you've learned to look for something much more human: worth, safety, approval, belonging, love, or enoughness.
Lunch Break Reset™ is built around The Red Door's Discover → Grow → Integrate™ (DGI) framework, a continuous learning and behavior-change process designed to bridge the gap between understanding something and actually being able to use it.
The recommended rhythm is three 30-minute lunch periods each week.
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Learn + Notice
Begin with 10 minutes of guided mindful eating, then head out for your walk. As you walk, a short guided audio introduces an ACT-based concept and helps you connect it to what's happening in your life right now.
You'll be guided to notice:
What matters to me right now?
What's happening that's pulling me away from it?
Where am I getting hooked, avoiding discomfort, losing touch with my values, or setting goals that aren't realistic for my actual life?By the end of your walk, you're not just leaving with another mental health concept you understand intellectually.
You're leaving with something specific you've discovered about yourself—and something worth practicing next.
Then Wednesday becomes the natural continuation:
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Practice + Experiment
Now you take what you discovered and do something with it.
Your guided practice helps you choose one realistic, values-connected action and practice the psychological flexibility skills that can help you take that step—even when uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, urges, or old patterns show up.
You can complete the Grow practice independently with the guided audio, or use one of your 12 included live therapist-guided Walk & Talks™ to practice with Emily in real time.
The goal isn't to execute the plan perfectly.
It's to try something intentionally enough that you have something real to learn from.
And then Thursday:
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Reflect + Get Feedback + Adjust
Thursday is where you turn your experience into learning.
After 10 minutes of guided mindful eating, you'll head out for your walk and reflect on the experiment:
What did I intend to do?
What actually happened?
What helped?
What got in the way?
What did I learn?
What might I adjust the next time I try?The reflection is guided by audio, and you can dictate your responses into your phone as you walk—no sitting down with another workbook required.
Your reflection and feedback help create the next Discover.
Discover → Grow → Integrate → Reflect → Assess → Adjust → Repeat.
Why 12 Sessions?
Because Understanding a Skill and Being Able to Use It Under Stress Are Two Very Different Things.
Lunch Break Reset™ isn't designed around racing through 12 lessons or completing a perfect 12-week streak.
The experience gives you repeated opportunities to work with the six core processes of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) a practical framework for becoming more flexible in how you respond to difficult thoughts, feelings, stress, and circumstances while staying connected to what matters to you.
The point isn't to memorize ACT. It's to practice it.
You might notice yourself getting hooked by a thought.
Avoiding something uncomfortable. Operating on autopilot.
Ignoring what your body needs.
Moving further away from what matters because the loudest demand keeps winning.
Or realizing that you know exactly what would help and you're still not doing it.
Each becomes another opportunity to Discover, Grow, Integrate, receive feedback, adjust, and try again.
The framework stays consistent. Your real life keeps giving you new material to practice with. And unlike our Signature Psychoeducational Groups, you don't have to complete Lunch Break Reset™ on someone else's timeline.
There is no cohort to keep up with.
Start when you purchase it.
Use the recommended Tuesday → Wednesday → Thursday rhythm when it works.
Pause when life requires it.
Come back.
Repeat something when you need to.
Take longer than 12 weeks if that's what your life requires.
Structure matters. Perfection doesn't. Because turning Lunch Break Reset into another thing you're failing to do correctly would rather spectacularly miss the point.
THE HYBRID DIFFERENCE
Guided Practice When You Need Flexibility. A Real Person When You Want Support
Flexible Practice + Live Support
Lunch Break Reset™ is designed to work on your schedule without leaving you entirely on your own.
Your guided experience is self-paced, so you can move through Discover → Grow → Integrate™ when it works for you.
Your enrollment also includes 12 live therapist-guided Walk & Talks™ to use within one year.
Join Emily from wherever you are for 30 minutes of guided walking, ACT-based practice, reflection, and real-time support.
Haven't kept up with the guided experience that week? Come anyway.
Can't make a live session? You don't lose it. Use it at another available Walk & Talk within your one-year access period.
The guided experience is valuable on its own. The live Walk & Talks are valuable on their own.
Together, they give you structure without rigidity and support without another weekly obligation.
Most wellness programs are pretty good at giving you information. You learn about burnout. Mindfulness. Boundaries. Stress. Values. Nervous system regulation. Self-care.
And then comes the hard part: Actually using what you learned when work gets busy.
That's where Lunch Break Reset™ is different. Instead of separating learning from doing, the experience brings them together.
You'll learn while you walk.
You'll practice while you walk.
You'll reflect on what happened while you walk.
And then you'll use what you learned from that experience to decide what you want to try next.
You learn something. You try something. You notice what happens. You reflect, receive feedback, adjust, and try again.
That's the Discover → Grow → Integrate™ process—and it's built directly into Lunch Break Reset™.
Built for Real life
You Don't Have to Do It Perfectly for It to Be Useful.
Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday.
That's the recommended rhythm. It isn't a rule. Miss Tuesday?You're not behind. Have a ridiculous week and only make it to the live Walk & Talk? Come walk. Need to stop for a while? Stop. Need to repeat something? Repeat it. Want to take longer than 12 weeks? Take longer.
The structure exists because consistency supports learning, not because we're interested in turning self-care into another performance metric.
Even one intentional lunch break is different from another lunch spent powering through.
What’s Included?
Your enrollment includes:
The complete Lunch Break Reset™ guided hybrid experience
A recommended Discover → Grow → Integrate™ three-lunch weekly rhythm
Guided audio designed to be used during your lunch break
Guided mindful-eating practices
ACT-based psychoeducation and experiential practice
Walking-based reflection prompts designed to be dictated into your phone
The Red Door's DGI reflection framework
Opportunities for reflection and feedback as you practice
12 live therapist-guided Lunch Break Reset Walk & Talks™
Up to one year to use your 12 included live Walk & Talks
Flexibility to complete the guided experience at your own pace
Periodic accountability/check-ins to support continued engagement
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for eligible Colorado educators
Regular Price: $295
Launch Price: $210
DESIGNED BY A THERAPIST + EDUCATOR
Because Behavior Change Is Also a Learning Problem.
Lunch Break Reset™ was created by Emily MacNiven, LPC, a therapist who spent more than 20 years working in education as a teacher, school counselor, and principal before becoming a therapist.
That combination matters.
Because Emily understands mental health and behavior change. And she understands how people learn. Information alone rarely creates lasting learning.
We need opportunities to encounter an idea, connect it to what we already know, practice it, get feedback, reflect on what happened, make adjustments, and use it again in a new context. That's the thinking behind DGI. And it's why Lunch Break Reset™ doesn't simply hand you 12 weeks of mental health information and wish you luck.
You learn something. You try something. You notice what happens. You reflect. You get feedback. You adjust. Then you try again.
That's learning.
And it's also how new patterns begin becoming more accessible in real life.
Learn more about Emily and The Red Door Therapy & Wellness Solutions!
For Colorado Educators
Professional Development That Supports the Professional, Too.
You spend an enormous amount of your workday thinking about what other people need. Lunch Break Reset™ creates a structure for putting your own capacity, mental health, and sustainable practice back into the professional-development conversation. The complete experience is eligible for Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for Colorado educators.
So instead of choosing between professional development and finding time to care for yourself, this experience allows the two to support each other. And while Lunch Break Reset™ was designed with a deep understanding of the realities of education and other high-burnout professions, you do not need to be an educator to participate.
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Colorado Educators: Earn Professional Development Hours
If you're a Colorado educator, your participation may also support your professional license renewal.
Upon completion of this program, The Red Door Therapy & Wellness Solutions will provide a certificate documenting your completed professional development contact hours. Your certificate will include the program name, dates of participation, number of contact hours completed, and verification of completion.
The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) allows educators to use qualifying ongoing professional development and training toward the 90 clock hours required for license renewal. CDE does not pre-approve individual professional development providers or programs. Educators are responsible for determining how a professional development experience applies to their license, endorsement area, professional practice, and applicable educator standards.
This program offers up to [XX] professional development contact hours for Colorado educators who complete the full program.
Professional development hours are based on documented participation. Acceptance toward Colorado educator license renewal is determined by CDE based on the individual educator's license and the applicability of the professional development completed.
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Education is a profession where taking care of yourself can easily become something you plan to do after everyone else has what they need.
There is always another email to answer, student to support, lesson to prepare, meeting to attend, problem to solve, or task you could squeeze into your lunch break.
And when you're used to being responsible for so much, powering through can start to feel like part of being good at your job.
Lunch Break Reset™ offers another way to practice.
Rather than asking you to add more to your already-full schedule, it helps you use part of the workday to notice your own needs, reconnect with what matters, practice responding differently to stress and discomfort, and build habits that support greater flexibility and sustainability at work.
Because professional growth isn't only about becoming better at what you do.
It's also about learning how to keep doing work that matters to you without continually disappearing from your own priority list.
Lunch Break Reset™ is eligible for Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for Colorado educators, allowing your participation to support your professional learning while you practice taking better care of the person doing the work.
ACCOUNTABILITY WITHOUT THE GUILT TRIP
Because it's hard to discover who you are when you're surrounded by a culture that keeps rewarding you for how much you can do.
High-achieving women often receive enormous amounts of reinforcement for the very patterns that are exhausting them.
You're dependable. So people depend on you. You're capable. So you get more responsibility. You're helpful. So people ask for more help. You perform well under pressure. So you're given more pressure. And somewhere inside all that praise, competence, usefulness, and accomplishment, it can become difficult to notice:
I'm disappearing.
Beyond Productivity™ gives you a structured place to explore this alongside other women who understand the strange experience of being simultaneously very successful and deeply tired.
There can be tremendous relief in hearing someone else say: I don't know what I actually want anymore. I feel guilty when I'm not useful. I accomplished what I thought I wanted and I still feel empty. I don't know who I am when I'm not working toward something. And realizing:
Oh. Maybe I'm not the only one.
You don't have to arrive with profound insights. You don't have to make beautiful art. You don't have to share everything.And you definitely don't have to be good at Beyond Productivity.
Come curious. Practice imperfectly. Notice what happens.
FAQs
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No. Permission to Be Uncertain™, Voice Without Apology™, and Beyond Productivity™ are focused psychoeducational groups. They provide structured learning, reflection, experiential practice, and opportunities for feedback and connection. They are not a substitute for individual psychotherapy or crisis care. Lunch Break Reset™ is a hybrid guided learning and live Walk & Talk experience rather than group therapy.
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Yes, when a seat is available. The groups use the Discover → Grow → Integrate™ framework as a continuous learning cycle rather than a linear curriculum that requires everyone to begin together. You'll start with the content being explored and the experiences happening in your own life at the time you join.
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For Permission to Be Uncertain™, Voice Without Apology™, and Beyond Productivity™, you're committing to 12 consecutive scheduled group sessions at $45 per session, or $540 total. Your enrollment reserves one of seven spots in the group for those 12 sessions. Payment plans are available.
For Lunch Break Reset™, the commitment works differently. This is a flexible hybrid experience that includes the self-paced guided course plus 12 live therapist-guided Walk & Talk sessions. You can move through the course at your own pace—starting, pausing, and returning as needed—and use your 12 live Walk & Talks anytime within one year of purchase. You do not have to attend the live sessions to benefit from the course, but they're included to give you additional opportunities for guided practice, feedback, and connection as you work through the DGI process.
The structure is there to help you practice consistently—not give you another thing to do perfectly.
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For Permission to Be Uncertain™, Voice Without Apology™, and Beyond Productivity™, your enrollment reserves one of seven seats for 12 consecutive scheduled sessions, so participant absences count toward your 12-session commitment. Planned Red Door closures and sessions canceled by Emily do not count toward your 12 sessions.
Lunch Break Reset™ works differently. Your 12 live Walk & Talk sessions are flexible and can be used anytime within one year of purchase. If you can't attend a particular Walk & Talk, you simply don't use one of your sessions—you can join another available session when it works for you. The guided course is also self-paced, so missing a live Walk & Talk won't put you “behind” or prevent you from continuing with the experience.
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For Permission to Be Uncertain™, Voice Without Apology™, and Beyond Productivity™, yes. If continued practice and participation feel useful, you may have the option to enroll for another 12-session commitment, depending on fit and availability.
Lunch Break Reset™ works differently. Your purchase includes 12 live Walk & Talk sessions to use within one year, alongside ongoing access to the self-paced guided experience. Once you've used your 12 included Walk & Talks, you can choose to purchase additional live sessions if you'd like to continue using the Walk & Talks as part of your ongoing practice.
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No. Participation and reflection are encouraged, but you won't be required to disclose personal information simply because you're in a group.
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Yes. All four Signature Group experiences are CEU-eligible for Colorado educators. The individual offering pages should explain the participation and documentation requirements for each experience.
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Absolutely. If you'd feel more comfortable meeting Emily before your first group, you're invited to attend a free optional Group Onboarding session.
Onboarding is a relaxed opportunity to meet Emily, learn how Red Door Signature Groups work, get familiar with the Discover → Grow → Integrate™ framework, ask questions, and understand what to expect when you join.
Because our psychoeducational groups use continuous enrollment, onboarding can also make joining an already-running group feel a little less like walking into the cafeteria halfway through lunch wondering where you're supposed to sit.
You may also meet other people who are preparing to join a Red Door group.
Group Onboarding is currently offered Sundays from 3:30–4:30 PM MST and is completely optional. You don't have to attend onboarding before participating. If you're ready to enroll and jump in, you can do that too.
If you're still deciding whether a particular group is right for you, you can also schedule a free consultation with Emily before enrolling.
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Because this isn't designed as twelve independent classes you consume. It's a practice environment. The value comes from returning to the framework repeatedly, applying it to different situations in your life, noticing what happens, adjusting, and trying again.
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For Permission to Be Uncertain™, Voice Without Apology™, and Beyond Productivity™, the 12 consecutive-session structure is intentional. These groups are designed around consistent practice, reflection, feedback, and adjustment—not simply completing 12 individual classes.
Meeting consistently gives you repeated opportunities to try something in real life, bring what happened back to the group, learn from your own reflection and the perspectives of others, adjust, and try again. It also helps create continuity within a small group where participants are learning alongside one another.
Because groups are capped at seven participants, your enrollment also reserves one of those seven seats specifically for you for 12 consecutive scheduled sessions. Allowing individual sessions to be spread across an extended period would mean holding a limited seat even during weeks when it isn't being used, making continuous enrollment difficult for everyone.
Lunch Break Reset™ is intentionally the flexible alternative. If your schedule makes 12 consecutive weekly meetings unrealistic, Lunch Break Reset includes 12 live Walk & Talks that can be used anytime within one year, alongside the self-paced guided experience.
The two structures are designed for different needs: Signature Groups prioritize continuity and consistent small-group practice; Lunch Break Reset prioritizes flexibility and workday integration.
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Yes. Red Door Signature Groups run throughout the year, but there are planned breaks when groups do not meet, including holidays and scheduled Red Door closures.
These breaks do not count toward your 12-session commitment. Your 12 sessions are based on 12 scheduled group meetings, not necessarily 12 calendar weeks.
For example, if a holiday or planned break falls during your enrollment, your group simply pauses and your 12-session commitment resumes when meetings begin again. Likewise, if Emily needs to cancel a scheduled session, that meeting will not count toward your 12 sessions.
If you are unable to attend a regularly scheduled group meeting, however, that session does count because one of the group's seven seats has been reserved for you.
Lunch Break Reset™ works differently. Because the live Walk & Talks are flexible, you can use your 12 included sessions anytime within one year rather than following 12 consecutive scheduled meetings.
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While all three can support learning and personal growth, they serve different purposes.
Group therapy is psychotherapy provided in a group setting. It is designed to assess and treat mental health concerns, and the therapeutic process itself—including participants’ emotions, experiences, relationships, and interactions within the group—may become part of the clinical work.
Psychoeducational groups combine structured mental health education with opportunities for reflection, discussion, skill-building, and experiential practice. Rather than functioning as group psychotherapy, the primary purpose is to help participants understand a specific topic or pattern and develop skills they can apply in their everyday lives.
That’s where Permission to Be Uncertain™, Voice Without Apology™, and Beyond Productivity™ fit. These are therapist-facilitated psychoeducational groups grounded in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and The Red Door’s Discover → Grow → Integrate™ framework. Participants learn, practice, reflect, receive feedback, and learn from one another while applying the material to their own lives.
Classes and courses are primarily educational. They typically focus on teaching information or skills and may be self-paced, prerecorded, or instructor-led. They generally do not include the same ongoing small-group practice and facilitated feedback built into our psychoeducational groups.
Lunch Break Reset™ is a little different. It is a hybrid educational experience that combines self-paced guided learning and reflection with optional live therapist-guided Walk & Talks. It gives you opportunities to practice and receive support while maintaining considerably more flexibility than our 12-consecutive-session psychoeducational groups.
An easy way to think about it: group therapy focuses on therapy in a group; psychoeducational groups focus on learning, practicing, and integrating skills with a group; and courses focus primarily on learning information and skills.
Red Door Signature Groups are clearly identified by format so you know what kind of experience you’re enrolling in—and none of our psychoeducational groups or educational offerings are intended to replace individual psychotherapy when clinical treatment is needed.
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For Permission to Be Uncertain™, Voice Without Apology™, and Beyond Productivity™, the investment is $45 per session for a 12-session commitment, or $540 total.
Your enrollment reserves one of seven spots in the group for 12 consecutive scheduled sessions. Payment plans are available, allowing you to spread the $540 investment across multiple payments while maintaining your full 12-session commitment.
Because your seat is reserved for you, missed participant sessions are not refunded or deducted from the total investment. Planned Red Door closures and sessions canceled by Emily do not count toward your 12 sessions.
Lunch Break Reset™ has its own pricing structure because it is a flexible hybrid experience rather than a 12-consecutive-session psychoeducational group. Your purchase includes the complete guided experience plus 12 live therapist-guided Walk & Talks to use within one year. Current pricing and available payment options are listed on the Lunch Break Reset™ page.
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Because Red Door Signature Groups and Lunch Break Reset™ involve access to educational materials, facilitated experiences, and limited live participation, we do not offer a money-back guarantee or refunds based on participation, completion, or individual outcomes.
For Permission to Be Uncertain™, Voice Without Apology™, and Beyond Productivity™, your enrollment reserves one of only seven available seats for your full 12-session commitment. Missed sessions are not refundable or transferable.
For Lunch Break Reset™, your purchase provides access to the guided program materials as well as 12 live Walk & Talk sessions that can be used within one year. Because access to the program is provided upon enrollment, purchases are non-refundable.
We encourage you to review the program details carefully before enrolling. If you're unsure which Red Door experience is the best fit, you're welcome to schedule a consultation before making your purchase.
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No. Red Door Signature Groups and Lunch Break Reset™ are virtual psychoeducational and educational experiences and are open to participants throughout the United States.
You do not need to be a Colorado educator—or an educator at all—to participate. Colorado educators may also be eligible to earn CEUs for participation.
Individual psychotherapy is different and is only available to clients located in states where Emily is authorized to provide psychotherapy.
Voice Without Apology™
12 sessions. Seven women. One practical, experiential framework for exploring what has been driving the chronic striving and reconnecting with a life built around more than what you can accomplish, carry, or prove.
You've Spent Long Enough Becoming Who You Thought You Needed to Be.
