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.
ONE SMALL STEP AT A TIME
You Know What Helps. So Why Does It Disappear the Minute Work Gets Busy?
You know you should take breaks. Eat lunch away from your computer. Move your body. Step outside.
You may even be really good at taking care of yourself when life gives you enough room to do it. But then work gets busy.
Lunch becomes something you eat while answering emails. The walk you planned gets replaced by one more task. You tell yourself you’ll take a break after you finish this one thing. And suddenly it’s 4:30. Again.
The problem probably isn’t that you need someone to teach you that breaks, movement, mindfulness, and boundaries are good for you. You already know.
The harder part is learning how to keep choosing what supports you when your calendar is full, your brain is loud, other people need things, and powering through feels easier than stopping. That’s the work of Lunch Break Reset™.
Not adding an elaborate wellness routine to an already-full life. But learning how to notice when you’ve disappeared from your own priority list and practice coming back.
Because taking care of yourself shouldn’t require waiting until everything else is taken care of first.
WANT TO KEEP IT EVEN SIMPLER?
You Can Just Come Walk With Me.
Want the live practice without the full experience?
Catch the Session That Works for You
You don’t have to purchase Lunch Break Reset™ to benefit from a live Walk & Talk™.
Sometimes what you need isn’t another program to work through. You need 30 minutes already set aside to step away from work, get outside, move your body, and let someone else guide the practice.
Lunch Break Reset Walk & Talks™ are live, therapist-guided walking sessions designed to help you:
Step out of work mode for a few minutes
Slow down and notice what’s happening
Practice an ACT-based skill in real time
Reflect while you move
Reconnect with what matters before heading back into your day
No homework. No catching up. No requirement to complete the full Lunch Break Reset™ experience.
Just show up, put in your headphones, and walk. Emily will guide you from there.
Walk & Talks™ are educational wellness experiences and are not psychotherapy or a substitute for individualized mental health treatment.
Lunch Break Reset™ Live Walk & Talks happen every Wednesday, with 30-minute sessions available from 11:00 AM through 1:30 PM MST.
There’s no single weekly time you have to commit to. Choose the available session that works best with your schedule that week.
FAQs
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Lunch Break Reset™ is designed to give you structure without turning self-care into another thing you have to keep up with perfectly.
The guided experience is self-paced. You can start when you’re ready, move through it at a pace that works for you, pause when life gets busy, and come back.
Your enrollment also includes 12 live therapist-guided Walk & Talks™, which you can use at available sessions within one year of purchase. You’re not required to attend every week, and if you can’t make a session, you can choose another available date.
There’s no cohort to keep up with and no getting “behind.”
Your commitment isn’t to perfect participation. It’s to keep practicing how to notice what you need, adjust when life gets in the way, and come back.
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Absolutely. If you’re curious about Lunch Break Reset™ but aren’t sure whether it’s the right fit, you’re welcome to schedule a free consultation with Emily before enrolling.
It’s a chance to meet, ask questions about the experience or live Walk & Talks™, and decide whether Lunch Break Reset feels like the right next step for you.
No pressure. No need to have your questions perfectly organized. Just come curious.
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No. Lunch Break Reset™ does not operate as a cohort. You can begin whenever you enroll and move through the guided experience at your own pace.
The Tuesday → Wednesday → Thursday Discover, Grow, Integrate rhythm is recommended because it creates a consistent structure for learning, practice, and reflection—but you don't have to follow it perfectly to benefit.
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That may actually be part of the reason Lunch Break Reset™ exists.
The experience isn't built on the assumption that you'll stay perfectly motivated for 12 straight weeks. It's designed around structure, repetition, live opportunities, reflection, feedback, and returning after disruption.
You don't have to prove that you can perfectly complete another program.
You practice coming back.
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No. The experience is designed around a 12-session learning structure, but you can move through the guided material at your own pace, pause when needed, and return when you're ready.
Your 12 included live Walk & Talks must be used within one year of enrollment.
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No. Lunch Break Reset™ is a therapist-designed educational and experiential wellness offering, not psychotherapy, and participating does not establish an individual therapist-client relationship with Emily.
The experience includes psychoeducation, ACT-informed practices, guided reflection, and opportunities for live practice and support, but it is not intended to assess, diagnose, or treat individual mental health conditions or replace psychotherapy when clinical treatment is needed.
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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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Yes. Lunch Break Reset™ is eligible for Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for Colorado educators. Specific participation and documentation requirements for earning CEUs should be reviewed before beginning the experience.
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Lunch Break Reset™ is currently available at an introductory launch price of $210. The regular price will be $295.
Your enrollment includes the complete guided hybrid experience and 12 live therapist-guided Walk & Talks to use within one year.
Payment plans are available, allowing you to spread the $210 investment across multiple payments.
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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 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.
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No. The live Walk & Talks enhance the experience but are not required to participate.
Your guided materials allow you to complete the Discover, Grow, and Integrate practices independently. Your 12 included live Walk & Talks give you the option of adding therapist-guided practice and connection when it works for your schedule.
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Nothing. Because Lunch Break Reset™ doesn't reserve one of seven consecutive group seats for you, missing a live session does not use one of your 12 included Walk & Talks.
Simply register for another available session. You have one year from enrollment to use your 12 sessions.
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Walking outdoors is encouraged when it is accessible, appropriate, and safe, but the goal is not to complete a particular distance or intensity of exercise.
Adapt the movement and environment to your needs, physical abilities, weather, workplace, and circumstances.
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Yes. Lunch Break Reset Walk & Talks™ can also be attended separately.
The live sessions provide a structured 30-minute opportunity to step away, move, regulate, reflect, and practice in real time even if you aren't completing the full guided experience.
Lunch Break Reset™
12 weeks. Three lunch breaks at a time. One practical framework for taking care of yourself before the workday has taken everything out of you.
Thirty minutes. In the middle of an ordinary workday.
