Before I suggest changing anything, I ask what an ordinary week actually looks like.
Not the week you plan on a Sunday night. The real one. The coffee before you've eaten. The lunch at your desk, one hand still on the keyboard. The evening you meant to cook and didn't.
It's easy to be handed advice before anyone has looked at that week. And then, when something helps or doesn't, it's hard to tell why.
So that's where I start: with the ordinary days, not the dramatic ones.
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I've made a short reflection tool for the evening when you close the laptop and wonder, again, where you'd even start.
It takes about five minutes. Five questions about how your weeks usually go, across five everyday areas: meal timing, stress load, food variety, recovery and routine consistency. At the end, you'll see which of those areas your answers point to as a place to start noticing, and one small thing to notice this week.
It isn't a medical assessment, and it won't tell you why you feel the way you do. If your symptoms are persistent, recurring, new, changing or worrying you, your GP comes first. This is simply a starting point, built on the same look-first approach I use with clients.
The link to the Pattern Map is in my bio.
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A question I hear, and it's a fair one:
"I've already tried elimination diets, food diaries, even seen a nutritionist. Why would a five-minute tool be any different?"
Because it asks something different. A food diary records everything you ate. A plan tells you what to remove or add. The Pattern Map does neither. It asks five questions about how your weeks tend to go, and suggests one place to start looking.
It doesn't tell you what to cut. It tells you where to look first. That is a different, and I think more useful, place to start.
If you haven't tried the Gut Pattern Map yet, it's still available. The link is in my bio.
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September has a way of arriving with a full diary and good intentions. This one is about rhythm, not reinvention.
The waitlist for the September cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset is now open. Three things worth knowing if you're considering it.
Joining means the enrolment link reaches you by email at 8am on Monday 10 August, a few hours before I announce it here. It doesn't reserve a place or commit you to anything.
There are 30 places. I have capped the cohort at 30 to keep live group teaching and questions manageable.
The price is £497, or 3 × £179 (£537 in total). The next cohort is planned at £697.
The programme starts on Monday 7 September. Enrolment closes on Friday 4 September at 11.59pm UK time, or earlier if the places are taken.
If September might be the right time, the waitlist link is in my bio.
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Something I come back to in my work: the difference between a solution and a structure.
A solution promises the problem goes away. I can't promise that, and I don't.
A structure is something else. It's knowing what you'll eat on a day of back-to-back meetings. It's knowing what you'll do after a dinner that didn't sit well. It's the difference between hoping an evening goes well and knowing what you'll return to if it doesn't.
That isn't the same as being fixed. In my experience, it's what lasts: not the absence of difficult days, but knowing what to do with them.
It's the premise everything I do is built on, and I think it's worth saying plainly.
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She arrived with lists. A weekly food plan rewritten every Sunday. A supplement routine. A symptom tracker. What she wanted wasn't another one.
This is what she said about the programme:
"I expected another plan. What I actually got was a way to stop panicking every time my body felt unpredictable." L., 46, Bristol · first-cohort participant
I share it because it says, better than I usually manage, what this work is about. You may want a way to make ordinary decisions without rewriting your whole plan each time a day feels difficult.
If that resonates, the September waitlist link is in my bio.
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Enrolment for the September cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset is now open.
The waitlist had the link by email this morning. The programme page is publicly accessible, with the same price, capacity and deadline for everyone.
It's a Monday, which feels right. This was built for ordinary Mondays, not fresh starts.
30 places. Starts Monday 7 September. £497, or 3 × £179 (£537 in total). The next cohort is planned at £697. Enrolment closes on Friday 4 September at 11.59pm UK time, or earlier if the places are taken.
Everything you need to decide, including who it isn't for, is on the programme page. The link is in my bio.
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Take a Thursday that went badly.
The sandwich at lunch is easy to remember. The week around it is easier to lose: coffee before breakfast, a meeting that ran through lunch, a late dinner, the short night before.
Put those details next to a few other days and you have something more useful than a verdict on one sandwich. You have notes you can return to, including the days that did not go the way you expected.
A suspected trigger is one thing you have a question about. A pattern is a recurring feature in your notes. Keeping them separate helps you ask clearer questions; a food diary cannot establish what caused a symptom.
That is what Observe makes room for: two weeks of structured noticing, alongside your existing care. The full programme details are at the link in my bio.
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You know the Monday restart. The fresh list, the new rules, the good intentions. And then the Wednesday when the week wins.
"I've tried things before and they didn't stick." I hear this often, and I understand it.
When a change arrives before you've had the chance to see your own week, it has nothing to fit into. You may have tried removing a food, adding a supplement or following a plan. What each asked of you, and how it fitted around the rest of your week, is worth looking at too.
The first phase of The 90-Day Gut Reset is two weeks of structured observation. Not tracking for its own sake. Learning what your week actually looks like before anything is asked of you. What comes after has somewhere to fit.
Whether that makes the difference for you, I can't promise. But it starts somewhere different.
Enrolment is open until Friday 4 September at 11.59pm UK time, or earlier if the places are taken. The link is in my bio.
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A brief note.
Enrolment for the September cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset closes on Friday 4 September at 11.59pm UK time, or earlier if all 30 places are taken.
The programme begins on Monday 7 September, and the materials open in the programme portal on the Saturday before. £497, or 3 × £179 (£537 in total). The next cohort is planned at £697.
If you've been carrying this decision around like a browser tab you keep meaning to close, Friday is the day to close it, one way or the other.
The link is in my bio.
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Today is the last day to enrol in the September cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset. Enrolment closes tonight at 11.59pm UK time, or earlier if the cohort reaches its capacity of 30.
If September has been somewhere in your thinking, you have everything you need to decide, and deciding to wait is a perfectly good decision too.
The link is in my bio.
Whatever you choose, I hope the rest of your Friday is kind to you.
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Enrolment for the September cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset is now closed.
To everyone joining: I'm looking forward to Monday. Your schedule and Observe materials are in the programme portal from today, so you can find your way around before day 1.
I'll spend part of this weekend the way I like to before a group begins: a pot of tea, and one more read through the first week's materials.
For everyone who followed along and is still thinking about this work: no dates have been set for a future cohort. If you'd like to hear when they are, there's a short form at the link in my bio. Leaving your address doesn't reserve a place or commit you to anything.
That's all for now. Back to my usual posts from here.
Your Pattern Map is here
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Five questions. One place to start noticing. About five minutes.
Hello,
Here is the Pattern Map you asked for. Open it whenever you have five quiet minutes.
You'll answer five short questions about how your weeks usually go, one for each of five everyday areas: meal timing, stress load, food variety, recovery and routine consistency. When you finish, you'll see which of those areas your answers point to as a place to start noticing, and one small thing to pay attention to this week.
That's all it is: a starting point for your own observation. It isn't a medical assessment, so it won't tell you why you feel the way you do. If your symptoms are persistent, recurrent, new, changing or worrying you, your GP is the right first conversation.
Requesting the Pattern Map doesn't enrol you in anything, and there's nothing else to do except take the five minutes when they suit you. If the link doesn't open, reply to this email and we can help.
When you're ready, it's here:
Sarah
Sarah Okafor PhD in Nutritional Sciences · Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (mBANT, CNHC) Nourish & Settle
You're receiving this because the Pattern Map was requested with this email address. If that wasn't you, you can ignore this message or reply to let us know. Email preferences lets you manage any marketing permission held for this address.
It's not about what to change. It's about what to see first.
Hello,
When a woman comes to me having managed gut symptoms for two, three or five years, the first question I ask is not about what she has tried.
It is: what have you noticed?
Sometimes there is a pause, and then a list of everything she has cut out. Not because she hasn't been paying attention. Because the focus has always been on changing something: which foods to cut, which supplements to add, which approach to follow next.
That isn't wrong, exactly. But it can come too early.
What can be missing is a stretch of simple observation. What does your digestion actually do across a week? Across different kinds of days, different kinds of stress, different points in the month? Before any change can be useful, it helps to have a clear picture of what is already happening.
It sounds obvious when you say it. It is much harder to do on your own, in a busy week, without a simple way to write it down.
If you'd like to try a small version this week, here is one. On two ordinary workdays, note three things: when you first ate, when you had your first coffee, and how the late afternoon felt. Nothing else. Don't change anything, and don't judge any of it. Just see what the two days look like side by side.
When the question shifts from "what should I fix?" to "what am I actually seeing?", a certain amount of noise settles. Sometimes something useful appears in the quiet. Sometimes the useful thing is simply seeing what you want to keep noticing.
If this resonates, and if September might be the time to take it further, the waitlist for the September cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset is now open. Joining means the enrolment link reaches you first, by email, at 8am on Monday 10 August. It doesn't reserve a place or commit you to anything.
If September isn't the right time, that is a useful thing to know too.
Sarah
Sarah Okafor PhD in Nutritional Sciences · Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (mBANT, CNHC) Nourish & Settle
P.S. The waitlist closes at 8am on Monday 10 August, when enrolment opens. The programme page is publicly accessible from 8am, on the same terms for everyone. If you'd like the link first, the waitlist is here.
You're receiving this because you joined the waitlist for the September 2026 cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset, or chose to receive occasional emails from Sarah about nutrition and her programmes. If you joined the waitlist only, these emails stop when you enrol or when enrolment closes on Friday 4 September.
The 90-Day Gut Reset is educational nutritional support, not medical treatment. If your symptoms are persistent, recurring, new, changing or worrying you, keep your GP involved.
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Enrolment opens on 10 August: a note before it does
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For anyone thinking about the September cohort.
Hello,
Enrolment for the September cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset opens on Monday 10 August.
If September usually arrives with good intentions and a full diary, this is a short note so that you can decide calmly rather than in a rush. Rhythm, not reinvention.
You're already on the waitlist, so there's nothing you need to do. Your enrolment link will arrive at 8am on Monday, with the full programme details.
A few things worth knowing before then:
Thirty places. The cohort is capped at thirty to keep live group teaching and questions manageable. When the places are taken, enrolment closes.
The price. £497, or three payments of £179 (£537 in total). The next cohort is planned at £697.
The dates. Enrolment opens on Monday 10 August and closes on Friday 4 September at 11.59pm UK time, or earlier if all thirty places are taken. The programme begins on Monday 7 September.
If you have been thinking about this, Monday is when you'll have everything you need to decide.
Watch for my email at 8am on Monday.
Sarah
Sarah Okafor PhD in Nutritional Sciences · Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (mBANT, CNHC) Nourish & Settle
P.S. Joining the waitlist doesn't commit you to anything or reserve a place. It simply means the link reaches you first.
You're receiving this because you joined the waitlist for the September 2026 cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset, or chose to receive occasional emails from Sarah about nutrition and her programmes. If you joined the waitlist only, these emails stop when you enrol or when enrolment closes on Friday 4 September.
The 90-Day Gut Reset is educational nutritional support, not medical treatment. If your symptoms are persistent, recurring, new, changing or worrying you, keep your GP involved.
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Enrolment for The 90-Day Gut Reset opens today
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For waitlist members. Details and the link are below.
Hello,
You're receiving this before the public announcement because you joined the waitlist.
Enrolment for the September cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset is now open. It will be announced publicly later today. The terms are the same for everyone from opening.
Thirty places. Begins Monday 7 September. £497, or 3 × £179 (£537 in total). Enrolment closes on Friday 4 September at 11.59pm UK time, or earlier if all places are taken.
If you have been thinking about this since you first came across it, I want to say one thing before you click through.
The 90-Day Gut Reset is not another set of rules. It doesn't ask you to become more disciplined or to follow a more demanding plan. It starts with two weeks of structured observation: not tracking for its own sake, but learning what is worth noticing in your own week before anything changes.
If you have already tried a great deal, you'll know that effort was never the missing piece. What the programme adds is an order to that effort, and people to think it through with: a weekly live session, two clinics a month for specific questions, and a quiet community in between, in weeks that look like yours.
If you want to know whether it's the right fit, everything you need is on the programme page, including who it isn't for. I've tried to make it as clear as I can.
"I expected another plan. What I actually got was a way to stop panicking every time my body felt unpredictable."
L., 46, Bristol · first-cohort participant
The next cohort is planned at £697.
Sarah
Sarah Okafor PhD in Nutritional Sciences · Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (mBANT, CNHC) Nourish & Settle
P.S. If you have a question the programme page doesn't answer, reply to this email. I aim to reply within one working day.
You're receiving this because you joined the waitlist for the September 2026 cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset, or chose to receive occasional emails from Sarah about nutrition and her programmes. If you joined the waitlist only, these emails stop when you enrol or when enrolment closes on Friday 4 September.
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Welcome: your access and what happens next
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Your access, the timeline, and how to reach me.
Hello Hannah,
You enrolled in The 90-Day Gut Reset yesterday. This isn't another receipt. It's the practical follow-up: how to get into the programme portal, what happens between now and your start date, and how to reach me.
There is nothing further you need to decide today. Your place is confirmed.
Your programme portal
Open your programme portal here.
Please check that you can open the portal now. Your schedule, including the dates and times of the live sessions, and the Observe materials become available there on Saturday 5 September.
Your plan is three payments of £179 (£537 in total). You have paid the first £179; the next two payments will be taken on Wednesday 9 September and Friday 9 October, as shown when you enrolled.
Between now and Monday 7 September
Whether that's four weeks away or a couple of days, there is nothing you need to prepare. The materials are available from Saturday 5 September. From then on, have a look around when you have a spare half hour. If you don't, day 1 is fine too.
I'll keep emails before the start to a minimum. The portal is where everything lives.
And if anything about your health changes in the meantime, or your symptoms are persistent or keep coming back, keep your GP involved. Nothing in this programme asks you to wait.
If you need anything
Email me at support email address. I aim to reply within one working day. That includes questions about the schedule, the programme, or the 14-day fit guarantee; the full terms are here.
One more thing. If you find yourself wondering whether this was the right decision, that is an ordinary thing to feel after committing to something, and you're welcome to talk it through with me. If your circumstances change before the start, the terms set out what happens, and you can always reply to this email.
You don't need to do anything else today. When you're ready, the portal is here.
Sarah
Sarah Okafor PhD in Nutritional Sciences · Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (mBANT, CNHC) Nourish & Settle
P.S. The 14-day fit guarantee runs from 7 to 20 September, once the programme has started; the conditions are on the terms page.
Nothing for you to do: just a short update before your start date.
Hello Hannah,
Two weeks today, The 90-Day Gut Reset begins.
You enrolled within the last couple of weeks, and I wanted to check in before final preparations for the cohort take over my diary.
The space between deciding and starting can feel a little strange. The decision is made, nothing has begun yet, and ordinary life carries on around it. If you have questions in the meantime, or anything has changed for you, just reply.
On Monday 7 September, we begin with Observe: two weeks of structured observation before programme-led routine changes. There is nothing you need to prepare before then.
Your schedule, with the dates and times of the live sessions, and the Observe materials open in the programme portal on Saturday 5 September, two days before we start.
If anything comes up before then, you know where to find me. I aim to reply within one working day.
I'm looking forward to starting with you on the 7th.
Sarah
Sarah Okafor PhD in Nutritional Sciences · Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (mBANT, CNHC) Nourish & Settle
P.S. Your preparation details will be in the portal from Saturday 5 September. That is the place to check before Monday.
There is a question I ask towards the end of my work with someone, around week ten or eleven.
Not "what did you change?" Not "what do you avoid now?" But this:
What do you return to?
By then we have spent weeks looking at what her week actually looks like, across different kinds of days, different kinds of stress, different points in the month, and building a structure that makes it easier to find her way back when things go off track. Not a plan that prevents difficulty. Something more like a reference point.
That shift, from "staying well" to "returning reliably", changes the goal. It can make the work feel lighter, too, because the expectation is no longer that every week will look the same. No week does.
Here is something you can try this week, whatever you decide about anything else. Write down three things you could return to after a difficult day. Not rules. Anchors. A breakfast you can make half-awake. A lunch that works at your desk on a day of back-to-back meetings. A time in the evening when the laptop closes and dinner is just dinner. Keep the list somewhere you'll see it on a bad Tuesday.
I'm sharing this because it comes up whenever someone is deciding whether something like this is worth trying. The honest answer to "will it work?" depends on what working means. If it means symptoms never appearing, that isn't something I can promise anyone. If it means a clearer picture of your own week, a shorter distance between a hard day and finding your way back, and less time spent not knowing what to try next, that is what the programme is built to work on.
In case this is the first you've heard of it: enrolment for the September cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset opened on Monday 10 August. It closes on Friday 4 September at 11.59pm UK time, or earlier if all thirty places are taken. The programme begins on Monday 7 September, and the full details are on the programme page.
Sarah
Sarah Okafor PhD in Nutritional Sciences · Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (mBANT, CNHC) Nourish & Settle
P.S. The price is £497, or 3 × £179 (£537 in total), and there are thirty places. The details, including who the programme isn't for, are here.
You're receiving this because you joined the waitlist for the September 2026 cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset, or chose to receive occasional emails from Sarah about nutrition and her programmes. If you joined the waitlist only, these emails stop when you enrol or when enrolment closes on Friday 4 September.
The 90-Day Gut Reset is educational nutritional support, not medical treatment. If your symptoms are persistent, recurring, new, changing or worrying you, keep your GP involved.
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Four questions I hear most often at this point
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I want to try to answer them honestly.
Hello,
If you have been reading these emails and haven't enrolled, you may be carrying one of a few questions. Here are the four I hear most often, with the most honest answers I can give.
"£497 is a lot."
Yes. That is a fair thing to say, and I don't want to sidestep it.
£497 covers ninety days of the phased programme, weekly live group teaching, two Q&A clinics a month, the community and the practical resources. You can also pay in three instalments of £179, thirty days apart (£537 in total). The question is whether you have the budget and space to use that support, rather than whether you have already spent money trying other things.
There is also a 14-day fit guarantee. If you work through the first two weeks of Observe, attend or watch the first two live sessions and use the tracking templates, and decide the programme isn't right for you, email your claim by Sunday 20 September at 11.59pm UK time for a full refund. On the plan, collected instalments are refunded and the remaining payments cancelled. The full terms are on the programme page.
That said: if the timing is genuinely wrong financially, this is not the programme to force. Waiting for a better moment is a perfectly good decision.
"I don't have time."
This one I take seriously, because I have seen what happens when the timing is off.
The programme is built for women with full working weeks. The observation phase fits into the days you already have rather than adding new ones. The live sessions are scheduled in advance and recorded, so you can watch later. The materials are designed to be used a little at a time across a week, not in one long sitting.
But the honest version of the answer is this: if September genuinely has no room in it, it may not be your month. I would rather you joined when you have the capacity to use it well than have it become one more thing that feels hard to keep up with.
"It didn't stick before."
This is the one I understand best.
A lot of what you have tried may have started with a change before anyone had a clear picture of what was actually happening in your week. A food to remove. A supplement to add. A plan to follow. When a change has nothing to fit into, it's hard to keep.
The first phase of The 90-Day Gut Reset is observation. Not tracking for its own sake: learning what your week actually looks like before anything is asked of you. What comes after has somewhere to fit.
Whether that makes the difference for you, I can't promise. But it starts somewhere different from where you have started before.
"For the first time, I don't feel like I'm guessing. I know what tends to set me off, and I know how to come back to basics without punishing myself."
E., 39, London · first-cohort participant
"My situation is complicated."
I want to take this seriously rather than reassure you past it.
Symptoms that are new, changing or getting worse and haven't been looked at by your GP need that conversation first. If you are waiting for medical answers, this programme cannot supply them and must not delay that care. If your symptoms are persistent or keep coming back, your GP stays involved alongside anything you do with me.
If your complexity is more about circumstance, such as a demanding job, a long history with these symptoms, and a lot already tried with not much of it holding, that is exactly the situation the programme was built for. It doesn't assume ideal conditions, because hardly anyone has them.
If one of these has been the question you've been sitting with, I hope this helps.
Sarah
Sarah Okafor PhD in Nutritional Sciences · Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (mBANT, CNHC) Nourish & Settle
P.S. Enrolment closes on Friday 4 September at 11.59pm UK time, or earlier if all thirty places are taken. If you have a specific question that isn't covered here or on the programme page, reply to this email. I aim to reply within one working day.
You're receiving this because you joined the waitlist for the September 2026 cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset, or chose to receive occasional emails from Sarah about nutrition and her programmes. If you joined the waitlist only, these emails stop when you enrol or when enrolment closes on Friday 4 September.
The 90-Day Gut Reset is educational nutritional support, not medical treatment. If your symptoms are persistent, recurring, new, changing or worrying you, keep your GP involved.
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Enrolment for the September cohort closes on Friday
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The dates, in one short note.
Hello,
A short note. Enrolment for the September cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset closes on Friday 4 September at 11.59pm UK time, or earlier if all thirty places are taken.
Three facts worth knowing before Friday:
Thirty places. The cohort is capped at thirty to keep live group teaching and questions manageable. When they are taken, enrolment closes, even if it is before Friday.
The price. £497, or 3 × £179 (£537 in total). The next cohort is planned at £697.
The start. The programme begins on Monday 7 September. Your schedule and Observe materials open in the programme portal on Saturday 5 September.
If you are considering the September cohort, Friday is the decision point. And if it isn't the right time, that's a perfectly good answer too.
Sarah
Sarah Okafor PhD in Nutritional Sciences · Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (mBANT, CNHC) Nourish & Settle
P.S. If you have a question before deciding, the programme page answers the ones I'm asked most, or you can reply to this email.
You're receiving this because you joined the waitlist for the September 2026 cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset, or chose to receive occasional emails from Sarah about nutrition and her programmes. If you joined the waitlist only, these emails stop when you enrol or when enrolment closes on Friday 4 September.
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Enrolment closes tonight
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Sarah Okafor | Nourish & Settle
The last email I'll send about September.
Hello,
Today is the last day to enrol in the September cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset. Enrolment closes tonight at 11.59pm UK time, or earlier if the cohort reaches its capacity of thirty.
You might be reading this at your desk between meetings, or tonight, once the day is finally done. Either way, I'll keep it short.
If September has been somewhere in your thinking, I don't want to add to whatever you're already weighing up. The decision is yours.
What I can offer is this. If something on the programme page felt right when you read it, today is the day to act on that. And if it didn't, or the timing or the money isn't right, letting this one pass is a good decision, not a failure.
After tonight, enrolment for the September cohort closes.
Sarah
Sarah Okafor PhD in Nutritional Sciences · Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (mBANT, CNHC) Nourish & Settle
P.S. This cohort is £497, or 3 × £179 (£537 in total). The next cohort is planned at £697. The programme begins on Monday 7 September, and enrolment is open until 11.59pm tonight, or earlier if the cohort fills.
You're receiving this because you joined the waitlist for the September 2026 cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset, or chose to receive occasional emails from Sarah about nutrition and her programmes. If you joined the waitlist only, these emails stop when you enrol or when enrolment closes on Friday 4 September.
The 90-Day Gut Reset is educational nutritional support, not medical treatment. If your symptoms are persistent, recurring, new, changing or worrying you, keep your GP involved.
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Enrolment opens on 10 August: a note before it does
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Sarah Okafor | Nourish & Settle
For anyone thinking about the September cohort.
Hello,
Enrolment for the September cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset opens on Monday 10 August.
If September usually arrives with good intentions and a full diary, this is a short note so that you can decide calmly rather than in a rush. Rhythm, not reinvention.
If you'd like the enrolment link to reach you first, the waitlist is open until 8am on Monday. The programme page is publicly accessible from 8am, on the same terms for everyone.
A few things worth knowing before then:
Thirty places. The cohort is capped at thirty to keep live group teaching and questions manageable. When the places are taken, enrolment closes.
The price. £497, or three payments of £179 (£537 in total). The next cohort is planned at £697.
The dates. Enrolment opens on Monday 10 August and closes on Friday 4 September at 11.59pm UK time, or earlier if all thirty places are taken. The programme begins on Monday 7 September.
If you have been thinking about this, Monday is when you'll have everything you need to decide.
Sarah
Sarah Okafor PhD in Nutritional Sciences · Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (mBANT, CNHC) Nourish & Settle
P.S. Joining the waitlist doesn't commit you to anything or reserve a place. It simply means the link reaches you first.
You're receiving this because you joined the waitlist for the September 2026 cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset, or chose to receive occasional emails from Sarah about nutrition and her programmes. If you joined the waitlist only, these emails stop when you enrol or when enrolment closes on Friday 4 September.
The 90-Day Gut Reset is educational nutritional support, not medical treatment. If your symptoms are persistent, recurring, new, changing or worrying you, keep your GP involved.
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The 5-Minute Gut Pattern Map · a free reflection tool from Nourish & Settle
Five minutes. One part of your week to look at more closely.
A short reflection tool for women who have already tried the obvious things and still find their body hard to read.
See which of five everyday areas your answers point to first: meal timing, stress load, food variety, recovery or routine consistency.
Leave with one specific thing to notice this week, rather than another general list of things to try.
Look at your week as a whole, with food, timing, stress, rest and routine side by side, instead of one more list of foods to avoid.
Record what an ordinary or difficult day looks like, alongside the care and advice you already receive.
About five minutes, start to finish. No tests, nothing to cut out, nothing to buy.
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Created by Dr Sarah Okafor, PhD in Nutritional Sciences, Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (mBANT, CNHC), drawing on the observation-first approach she uses with her clients.
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About Sarah Okafor
Sarah Okafor holds a PhD in Nutritional Sciences and is a Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (mBANT, CNHC). She works with professional women who have spent years managing their digestion, energy and skin around demanding weeks, and who want an approach that fits the life they actually have.
She is not a medical doctor. Her work sits alongside the care you receive from your GP, never in place of it.
The Pattern Map draws on the way she begins with every client: before anything changes, look carefully at the week you are actually living.
One participant in Sarah's 90-day programme, on this way of working:
"I expected another plan. What I actually got was a way to stop panicking every time my body felt unpredictable."
L., 46, Bristol · first-cohort participant
If you have lived for a while with bloating, flat afternoons or a body that feels hard to predict, you have probably tried a great deal already. Cutting things out. Probiotics. Trying to sleep more and worry less. Some of it may have helped for a time. Not much of it stayed.
That isn't a failure of effort. When advice arrives before anyone has looked at the week it has to fit into, it is hard to tell what helped, and harder still to keep going once the week gets busy.
The Pattern Map starts one step earlier. It asks five short questions about how your weeks usually go, across five everyday areas: meal timing, stress load, food variety, recovery and routine consistency. From your answers, it suggests one of those areas as a sensible place to start noticing, with one small thing to pay attention to this week.
It is a starting point for your own observation. It can't tell you why you feel the way you do, and it doesn't try to: digestion, energy and skin can be affected by many things, some of which need a GP's attention. What it can give you is a specific place to look first, which may be exactly what has been missing.
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"I've already tried everything." Then you don't need another thing to try, and the Pattern Map won't hand you one. It starts a step earlier, with what your week is actually like, before anything changes.
"I don't have time for another resource." Five minutes is the whole commitment, and you see your starting point as soon as you finish.
"My situation feels too complicated for something this simple." It may well be complicated. If your symptoms are persistent, recurrent, new, changing or worrying you, your GP is the right first step. The Pattern Map isn't trying to untangle everything. It gives you one place to start looking, which can be the hardest thing to find when everything feels tangled.
"I'm not sure it will tell me anything I don't already know." It may not. But if it gives you one specific thing to notice this week, rather than another general recommendation, it has done its job.
Five minutes. Five questions. One place to start noticing.
The 5-Minute Gut Pattern Map is a reflection tool, not a medical assessment.
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The 90-Day Gut Reset · September 2026
Hear first when September enrolment opens.
Join the waitlist and the enrolment link will reach your inbox at 8am on Monday 10 August, before enrolment is announced publicly later that day.
The 90-Day Gut Reset is an online group programme of educational nutritional support for professional women who have spent years working around bloating, unpredictable digestion, tiredness or skin that flares before a big week, and who want a structure that holds up in a real working week.
It runs for 90 days, in three phases. Observe (days 1 to 14) is two weeks of recording your week before programme-led routine changes; existing medical advice continues. Settle (days 15 to 42) reduces the obvious pressure points and builds a few anchors you can rely on. Rebuild (days 43 to 90) makes it your own, with a plan for the weeks that usually knock you off course.
The "reset" here is a structured period of observation, routine-building and learning. It isn't a physical reset of your body, and it doesn't replace care from your GP: this is educational support. Persistent, recurrent, new, changing or worrying symptoms need a conversation with your GP.
30 places · Starts Monday 7 September 2026 · Runs to Saturday 5 December · Online, live and in a small group
Led by Dr Sarah Okafor, PhD in Nutritional Sciences · Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (mBANT, CNHC) · Nourish & Settle
"I expected another plan. What I actually got was a way to stop panicking every time my body felt unpredictable."
L., 46, Bristol · first-cohort participant
Three things worth knowing about the September cohort.
You hear first. The enrolment link arrives by email at 8am on Monday 10 August. Enrolment is announced publicly later the same day. The programme page is publicly accessible from 8am; the price, deadline and capacity are the same for everyone.
There are 30 places. The cohort is capped at 30 to keep live group teaching and questions manageable. Joining the waitlist doesn't reserve a place: places are confirmed in the order enrolments are completed.
The price is set. £497, or three payments of £179 made 30 days apart (£537 in total). The next cohort is planned at £697.
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Monday 10 August, 8am. The enrolment link arrives by email, with the full programme details.
Later on 10 August. Enrolment is announced publicly. The price, the places and the deadline are the same for everyone.
Friday 4 September, 11.59pm (UK time). Enrolment closes, or earlier if all 30 places are taken.
The waitlist closed when enrolment opened. Everything you need to decide is on the programme details page: what happens in each phase, what's included, the price and terms, and who the programme is and isn't designed for.
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30 places · £497, or 3 × £179 (£537 in total) · Enrolment closes Friday 4 September at 11.59pm UK time, or earlier if all places are taken · The programme begins Monday 7 September
Enrolment for the September 2026 cohort has closed.
The 90-Day Gut Reset runs as a small live group, so each cohort has a fixed number of places and a fixed start date. No dates have been set for a future cohort yet.
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For professional women who have spent years trying to get this right, and are starting to wonder if this is just how it is now.
You are not failing because you need more discipline.
The 90-Day Gut Reset is a 90-day online group programme for professional women who are tired of collecting good advice they cannot make work in an ordinary week. We start with observation, not restriction, so that whatever you change next has something to fit into.
Dr Sarah Okafor · PhD in Nutritional Sciences · Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (mBANT, CNHC)
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There is a moment the women I work with describe in different ways, and I have learned to recognise it.
You are getting ready for something that should not feel complicated. A work dinner. A friend's birthday. A client presentation where you want to feel clear and composed.
You try on three outfits.
The first one feels tight. The second technically fits, but you are already aware of your stomach. The third one, the loose, dark, professional one, goes on.
And you stand there, probably already running late, and you think:
"I cannot keep planning my life around whether my stomach behaves today."
Not a crisis. Not a dramatic realisation. Just a small, private calculation you have made so many times it has become completely ordinary.
That is the one that stays with me. Not the bloating itself, or the tiredness, or the fog, or the skin that flares before an important week. The fact that you have built your life around managing these things quietly, and that at some point, you are not sure exactly when, that became your baseline.
What this is actually costing you
You are high-functioning. Nobody looking at your diary, your work or the way you sound calm in a meeting would see it.
But you know.
You know what it costs to sit in a 4pm meeting trying to contribute something intelligent when your concentration has simply stopped. You know the calculation that happens before you say yes to dinner: whether you will be comfortable, whether you will look tired, whether you will spend the evening thinking about your stomach instead of the people across the table. You know the quiet arithmetic of a work trip, a wedding, a long train journey: what is safe to eat beforehand, what you will order, what you will say if you leave half of it.
You know what it is to come home depleted, want to cook something nourishing, and find that even deciding what to eat feels like one more demand on a system that has already given everything it has.
And you know the tiredness of explaining it. To people who tell you that you look fine. To yourself, at midnight, with another search open.
Your GP told you everything looks normal. Which was reassuring, and also left you with no clearer idea of what to do on Monday morning.
"I'm just tired," you tell the people around you. "I'm fine."
And underneath that: "What if this is just who I am now?"
I cannot tell you from a web page what is behind that feeling or how your symptoms will change. What I can offer is a way to record your week, make sense of the practical decisions in it, and build routines you can return to alongside appropriate care. You deserve a clear account of that work before deciding whether it belongs in your life.
This is not a discipline problem
The effort you have already made is not the issue.
You have tried cutting things out: gluten, dairy, sugar, coffee, sometimes all of them at once. Perhaps you felt better for a week. Then you could not tell what had actually helped, real life came back, and the plan did not survive it.
You have tried supplements. Probiotics, digestive enzymes, carefully chosen stacks. Not naively: carefully. But without a structure around them, they became more things to manage in a routine that was already full.
You have tried a seven-day detox, a gut protocol downloaded at midnight, something intense from a practitioner who seemed credible online. Perhaps it helped for a while. But it was not designed for your actual week. And when your actual week arrived, with the delayed train, the board meeting, the empty fridge and the child with a fever, it fell apart.
None of that was a failure on your part. It is what can happen when good advice arrives before anyone has looked at the week it has to live in.
And so you end up with more information and less clarity. More supplements and less understanding. More restriction and less ease.
There is a different place to start.
A different starting point
The 90-Day Gut Reset was built for the version of your life that actually exists, not the version that would make a protocol easier to follow.
It does not begin with cutting things out. It begins with looking at what is already happening, carefully and without panic: your food, your meal times, your stress, your sleep, your cycle if that is relevant, your ordinary week. Then it helps you build a small structure around what you find, one you can come back to when a week goes wrong.
Not stricter. Clearer.
The reset is a defined period of observation, routine-building and learning, organised around your ordinary week.
Three phases. Ninety days. Something you can keep using when they are over.
A simple illustration of the three phases: Observe, Settle, Rebuild. Clean and minimal. Not clinical.
30 places · Begins Monday 7 September 2026
The 90-Day Gut Reset is educational nutritional support, not medical treatment, and it does not replace your GP. If your symptoms are persistent, keep coming back, are new or changing, or worry you, keep your GP involved. Nothing in this programme asks you to wait.
Why your efforts haven't held, even though you keep trying
Most of what you have been offered tells you what to do. Very little of it explains why, for you, in your life, the thing you were told to do keeps falling apart by week three.
So let me explain it plainly. And let me be careful, because this is where it would be easy to promise too much.
I cannot tell you what is causing your symptoms. Digestion, energy and skin can be affected by many things, some of them medical, which is why your GP stays part of the picture. What I can talk about is a different question: why the things you have tried may not have held. That question has a clearer answer, and it is kinder than the one you have probably been giving yourself.
You changed things before you could see your week. A plan that starts by removing, adding or intensifying, before you have seen a fortnight of your own week written down, leaves you unable to tell what helped. It might have been the food. It might have been the quieter week. It might have been the extra sleep. You cannot know, so you cannot keep it.
You changed several things at once. When five things change in the same week, an improvement or a setback has no clear source. You end up keeping everything, just in case, and the plan gets heavier rather than clearer.
The plan was built for a calm week. It worked while the week was quiet. Then came the offsite, the deadline, the night of bad sleep, and it broke. And when a plan breaks, you start again on Monday, and every restart costs you a little more trust in yourself.
That last part matters most to me. You are not short of willpower. What wears thin is trust: in your body, and in your own judgement about it.
Three approaches you may recognise
You may have met three approaches to gut health, each with something real to offer. Each, pursued without a structure around it, can leave you in a different version of the same place.
Cutting things out. Remove the likely culprits, such as gluten, dairy, sugar, coffee or fermentable carbohydrates, and see what improves. Some restrictions follow medical advice and belong with the clinician who recommended them. Done alone, it can produce a smaller and smaller diet, more anxiety around food, and no clear sense of what actually helped. When real life returns, the progress unravels, and you are left wondering whether the problem was the food, the structure, or you.
Adding things in. Probiotics, enzymes, stacks chosen from test results. These can have a place, particularly when a clinician has recommended them. Added to a week nobody has looked at yet, though, they become one more change among many. If something improves, it is hard to say why. If it stops, there is no clear reason.
The short, intense protocol. Seven days. Twenty-one days. A strict plan from someone who is, by all accounts, knowledgeable. These ask for a calm week to work in, and for a person who can reorganise her life around the protocol for a while. If you have a job, a commute and other people relying on you, you probably can't.
The difficulty I want to address is practical: removal, addition or intensity can become another demand when the week around it has never been considered.
When you skip that step, you are guessing. You may guess well. But when real life changes the variables, it is hard to adjust, because you never had a clear picture to adjust from.
"The right advice at the wrong time becomes more noise."
Where this programme begins instead
The 90-Day Gut Reset begins with looking. Before anything is removed. Before anything is added. Before any list of foods.
It begins with two weeks of structured observation, because without a baseline everything that follows is a guess, and guesses are expensive when your energy, your wardrobe and your confidence are the currency.
From there, the programme moves through three phases. Each has one job, and each hands the next something to work with.
Three-phase diagram: Observe, Settle, Rebuild, with their dates. Clean and horizontal. Calm, not clinical.
Phase 1 · Observe Days 1 to 14 · Monday 7 to Sunday 20 September 2026
This phase asks one question: what is actually happening?
For two weeks you track your food, your meal times, your energy, your sleep, your stress, your digestion, your skin, and your cycle if that is relevant. Not obsessively. In a structured way, using templates built to show you your week rather than to make you anxious about it.
The distinction matters. This is not calorie counting. It is not food policing. Observe introduces no new elimination rules. You record an ordinary week before making programme-led routine changes; any medical advice or investigation continues alongside it.
Part of what you learn in Observe is what is worth writing down at all, and what is only noise. By day 14 you will know which notes are useful to bring to a session, and which you can stop keeping.
For some women, two weeks of notes show something they had not seen: that their hardest days share a few ordinary things, like coffee before food, a long gap between meals, a high-pressure afternoon, a later and larger dinner, a poor night's sleep. For others the picture is less tidy, and that is useful to know too. It tells us not to guess.
The shift I am hoping for in these two weeks is not in your symptoms. It is in the relationship: from "my body is random and I cannot trust it" to "there may be a pattern here, and I may be able to learn from it."
Observe is not a waiting period. If something in your notes worries you, or a symptom is new or getting worse, that goes to your GP straight away, not to day 15.
Phase 2 · Settle Days 15 to 42 · Monday 21 September to Sunday 18 October 2026
This phase has one job: to ease the obvious pressure points in your week, without turning your life into a restriction plan.
You will not be given a list of forbidden foods.
You will build a breakfast rhythm that works on a workday. An office lunch structure that needs no heroics. A realistic approach to busy evenings. And a plan for the week that goes sideways, because it will, and the structure needs to survive it.
Settle also looks at how you eat, not only what. Eating at your desk, between meetings, standing up or while answering emails is part of the picture, and we work with it rather than pretending it away.
Existing medical advice continues. Any change to it belongs with your clinician; Settle works around that care.
By the end of Settle, the goal is not perfection. The goal is less chaotic.
You will have a handful of meals you can repeat without thinking. You will know what to do on a difficult day. You will have started to connect how you feel to the shape of your week, not only to what was on your plate.
The measure of success is not whether every week goes to plan. It is whether, when a week goes wrong, you know what to return to.
Phase 3 · Rebuild Days 43 to 90 · Monday 19 October to Saturday 5 December 2026 · just under seven weeks, the last of them a short one
This is where the work becomes yours.
By now you have six weeks of your own notes and the start of a structure that holds. Rebuild is where you use them: adjusting your anchors, building flexibility back in, and planning for the situations that usually knock you off course. Social meals. Work travel. High-pressure weeks. The days that go badly anyway.
If you have cut foods out on your own over the years, Rebuild gives you a structured, unhurried way to look at whether those rules still serve you, if you want to. Nothing is reintroduced or removed because the programme says so. And if a food was removed on medical advice, that advice stands.
We also build your reset rhythm: what you go back to after a difficult day, so that a bad day stays a bad day rather than becoming a reason to start again from scratch on Monday. You will know what is worth noting, what to return to, and how to come back to steadiness without making it a moral event.
You leave with your rebuild plan: your own notes on what tends to affect you, your anchor meals, your reset rhythm, and a written plan for the weeks that have always disrupted you. It belongs to you, not to a protocol someone else designed. And you will have the understanding to keep adjusting it without needing to ask someone every time something shifts.
Why the order is the point
It would be possible to present these three phases as three separate ideas and call it a programme. What makes the 90-Day Gut Reset different is not the phases. It is the commitment to their order.
If we skip observation, we are guessing at what to change. If we skip settling, we are experimenting on top of a week that is already overloaded. If we skip rebuilding, whatever helped stays borrowed: it lasts while someone is watching and fades when they stop. And you end up where you started, with less trust in yourself and one more approach that did not quite work.
The sequence is the mechanism.
Who I am, and why I built this
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I'm Sarah Okafor. I hold a PhD in Nutritional Sciences, and I am a Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner: a member of BANT, the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine, and registered with the CNHC, the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council. My work focuses on where digestion, stress and energy meet, for women with demanding professional lives.
The "Dr" in my name comes from that doctorate. I am not a medical doctor, and this programme is not medical treatment. I say that plainly because you deserve to know exactly who you are learning from, and what I can and cannot do for you.
What I can do is something I once needed myself.
The night it became clear
There is a night I still come back to.
It was about eleven. I was sitting on the bathroom floor of my old flat in Hackney, laptop open on the bath mat, six tabs running. Hormones. Gut health. Skin. Stress. Food sensitivities. Sleep.
I had years of training in nutritional science behind me. I understood the physiology I was reading about. And I was as confused as I have ever been: cycling through fragments of information, adding supplements, trying stricter weeks, hoping that something would finally become clear.
I looked up at myself in the mirror and thought:
"I know too much to be this confused."
That thought stayed with me, not because it was dramatic but because it was precise. I was not short of information. I was short of a way to decide what the information meant, in my body, inside my life.
The shift, when it came, was not a protocol. It was a question. Instead of adding another intervention, what if I stopped and looked at what was already happening? Instead of treating my symptoms as six separate problems, what if I read food, stress, sleep, cycle, digestion, skin and energy as one picture?
I stopped trying to fix everything at once. I started looking for the order underneath the noise.
That is what The 90-Day Gut Reset is built from. Not a reaction to what sells in the wellness market, but what I learned that night, and what I have seen since in women whose intelligence, discipline and real effort had brought them to the same exhausted, over-informed, under-supported place.
The sentence I keep coming back to is this:
"She doesn't need to be convinced to care about her health. She needs a way to care for it that doesn't collapse under the weight of her actual life."
It is the only idea this programme is built around, and it shapes how the group works. You will not be told off for a hard week, or handed a stricter plan because something went wrong. You bring what happened, we look at it together, and you leave with something useful. Being heard without being pushed is part of the method, not a courtesy.
What participants describe
What follows are the accounts of three women from the first cohort of the 90-Day Gut Reset. Each describes her own experience of the approach. What each one noticed, and how quickly, was different for all three, and none of it is a forecast of what will happen for you.
E., 39, senior marketing professional, London
The thing that finally made her look for something different was not a health crisis. It was a work trip.
She had a two-day leadership offsite. Preparing for it, she went through her wardrobe the way she always did before anything that mattered, working out which options felt safe. Not which ones she wanted to wear. Which ones she could trust. She packed three outfits for two days.
She chose around her stomach. She planned for what might happen. She packed the practical version of herself, not the one she would have chosen if she had simply felt well.
She had tried a low-FODMAP diet on her own before joining, and found that removing foods made her anxious rather than informed, because nobody had helped her understand what came next. She had tried probiotics, cut dairy twice, and tried intermittent fasting because a colleague swore by it. None of it had given her a clear picture of what was going on.
In her Observe notes, that picture began to form. Her hardest days were not simply "bad food" days. They had a few things in common: coffee on an empty stomach, long gaps between meals, a high-pressure afternoon of meetings, then a larger meal in the evening. Once she could see that, she had something to work with. Not more to remove. A different order to her day.
By the end of the programme she had a workday breakfast she could repeat without effort, two lunches that worked on office days, and a clear structure for work travel. She no longer had to calculate before packing.
What she describes, more than anything, is clarity. Not a symptom-free life. Enough understanding to stop guessing.
"For the first time, I don't feel like I'm guessing. I know what tends to set me off, and I know how to come back to basics without punishing myself."
E., 39, London · first-cohort participant
L., 46, law partner, Bristol
She arrived at the programme already structured. That was the problem.
She had lists. A weekly food plan she rewrote every Sunday. A supplement routine. A symptom tracker. By most measures she was exactly the kind of person a gut health programme is designed for: organised, motivated, conscientious.
But there was no ease in any of it. Every symptom felt like evidence that she had missed something. Every deviation from the plan felt like a failure that needed correcting at once. Food had stopped being nourishment and had become, quietly and completely, another professional task she was managing.
She remembers the evening she decided to look for something different. It was a Sunday, and she was at the kitchen table with her laptop open and three tabs running: a list of foods to avoid, a gut health guide, an article about hormones and digestion. Her daughter came in and asked what was for dinner.
She snapped at her.
Not because of the question. Because the whole weight of it, the research, the planning, the optimising, the never quite getting it right, came out in that moment.
In Observe, something specific changed for her. Her notes showed that her hardest weeks were not the ones where she had eaten "wrong". They were the weeks of poor sleep, rushed meals and high stress, when she had answered all of it with stricter food rules. For her, the rigidity was not the solution. It had become part of the pattern.
Settle asked her to simplify rather than add. Three anchor meals. A lighter tracking habit, focused only on what was actually useful. A decision to stop changing her whole approach every time one thing felt off.
She kept the same basic structure for six consecutive weeks. Not six perfect weeks. Six weeks in which she did not throw everything away and start again.
By the end, she could eat dinner with her family without mentally auditing every ingredient. She could have a difficult day without turning it into an investigation.
"I expected another plan. What I actually got was a way to stop panicking every time my body felt unpredictable."
L., 46, Bristol · first-cohort participant
N., 41, project director, Manchester
She joined knowing a great deal. That was, in its own way, the obstacle.
She had done a private food intolerance test and come away with a long list of foods to avoid. She had cut gluten, then dairy, then both. She had followed a gut health book for three weeks, until cooking everything from scratch every single day became impossible to sustain. She had researched more, tracked more and tried more than almost anyone she knew.
And she was still living the same week on repeat. Strict from Monday to Thursday. A takeaway on Friday because she was exhausted. A social meal on Saturday, and the bloating that followed. Sunday spent reading and planning the next attempt. Then Monday again.
What made her act was ordinary enough to be embarrassing, she said. A birthday lunch. She ordered what she thought was the safest thing on the menu, and still felt uncomfortable on the train home. Sitting there, she had a thought clearer than anything her research had given her:
"I'm bored of my own body being the main conversation in my head."
Her Observe notes surprised her. Her hardest days lined up less with any single food than with rhythm: long gaps between meals, a large evening meal after a light day, eating quickly after a stressful stretch, too much coffee too early. For her, it reframed everything. She had been interrogating the wrong variable.
Settle gave her what she later called a boring structure, in the best sense of the word: a consistent weekday breakfast, two reliable office lunches, a coffee boundary, a fallback dinner. Nothing she would photograph. Everything she could actually sustain.
Rebuild brought flexibility back, not as a reward for perfect behaviour but as part of the plan. When a difficult day came, she no longer read it as proof of failure. She had a reset rhythm, and she knew what to return to. During the programme she went four weeks without starting again from scratch.
"This was the first time I didn't feel like I had to become stricter to make progress. I learned what to return to."
N., 41, Manchester · first-cohort participant
"I stopped treating every bad day like proof that I had failed."
N., 41, Manchester · first-cohort participant
What is included, and why each part is there
Every part of the 90-Day Gut Reset is there because something was missing without it. Here is what you receive, what each part is for, and the question it answers.
A simple overview of the nine parts of the programme. Minimal; not a marketing infographic.
1. The 90-day phased protocol: Observe, Settle, Rebuild This is the backbone. Observation before change. Easing pressure before adding anything. Structure before flexibility. Without a phased protocol, each week stands on its own: you change five things at once, cannot tell what helped, and have nothing solid to return to when a hard week arrives. The question it answers: where do I even start?
2. Weekly live group sessions with Sarah One session a week, live, for the whole programme: part teaching, part questions. This is where general principles meet the week you actually had. I teach the group, take questions, and show you how to read your own notes. I don't review every person's notes each week; the aim is that you learn to read yours, with help when you get stuck. If you can't make a session live, the recording is in the portal. Without the live sessions this would be a self-directed course, and a self-directed course is something you have very likely tried already. The question it answers: I understand the idea, but how do I apply it to my actual week?
3. A private community space A contained, quiet place for questions and observations between sessions. Not a social media group, and not a stage for perfect meals. When something unexpected happens on a Wednesday, a hard lunch or a week that slid sideways, you have somewhere to put the question while it is fresh, and a session or clinic to bring it to. The question it answers: what do I do when I get stuck in between?
4. Tracking templates Templates covering digestion, energy, meal timing, sleep, stress, skin, cycle and routine. They are built to take minutes, not an evening, and to show you your week rather than add a new layer of worry. They also teach you what is worth recording at all, and what you can stop noting. After years of this, you may be working from memory and assumption. The templates give you something more useful: notes about your actual week, in a form you can work with. The question it answers: why does my body feel so random?
5. Meal structure guides Not a rigid meal plan. Not a recipe book. Frameworks: breakfast anchors, office lunch options, busy-day dinners, travel fallbacks, and something for the long afternoon. They are built for the working week, not the ideal one, and they work around any foods you avoid on medical advice. The question behind them is not "what is the perfect thing to eat?" It is "what can I repeat without thinking too hard, on a Tuesday of back-to-back meetings until 3pm?" The question it answers: I don't have time to cook perfectly, so won't I fail?
6. The Settle the Week planning worksheet A five-minute weekly tool for choosing, in advance, the two or three things that matter most that week, and releasing yourself from the expectation of doing everything. The principle is minimum viable structure: the few anchors that, if held, will carry the week. It turns a daily negotiation into one decision. The question it answers: if I can't do everything properly, what's the point?
7. Two group Q&A clinics a month More responsive than the weekly sessions, and kept for specific questions. Travel. Eating out. A difficult week. Something in your notes that doesn't match what you expected. What to do after a social meal that didn't go well. Your circumstances are not the same as anyone else's in the group, and general guidance sometimes needs adjusting. The clinics are for education and support. I don't diagnose, prescribe or change anyone's medical treatment, in the clinics or anywhere else in the programme, and anything your GP or specialist has advised stays in charge. The question it answers: what if the general guidance doesn't fit my situation?
8. Educational modules Short lessons on how digestion works, how stress and digestion interact, meal timing, fibre, approaching foods you have cut out on your own, and reading your own notes over time. Not a library. Not hours of video you will never finish. Lessons sized for a commute, because you want to understand the logic rather than simply follow instructions. The question it answers: I don't want to just follow instructions. I want to know why.
9. Your rebuild plan At the end of Rebuild you leave with a document that belongs to you: your notes on what tends to affect you, your anchor meals, your reset rhythm, and a written plan for the situations that have usually disrupted you, such as travel, pressured weeks, social eating and difficult days. The programme is designed so that you don't need me every time something shifts. Your rebuild plan is the reason why. The question it answers: what happens when the programme ends?
What this compares to
Think about what you may already have spent in the last couple of years. Supplements and private test panels. A private consultation or two. A programme that lasted three weeks before it became unsustainable. Books, apps, plans, intolerance tests. And, not least, the cost in energy and decision-making of managing all of this without a clear framework.
None of that was wasted. It is part of how you arrived at an understanding sophisticated enough to recognise that what you need now is not more information. It is an order to things, and someone qualified to help you read what you find.
The 90-Day Gut Reset is £497. That is the whole programme: all nine parts above, across ninety days, with live support throughout.
The price
A clean pricing display with both options side by side.
Pay in full: £497. Taken when you enrol.
Payment plan: 3 × £179 (£537 in total). The first payment is taken when you enrol, the second 30 days later and the third 30 days after that. Paying in full costs £40 less.
Both options give you exactly the same programme and the same access.
The September 2026 cohort is priced at £497 because it is an early group: the programme is complete, and the way it is delivered will develop with each cohort. The next cohort is planned at £697.
The fit guarantee: two weeks to decide whether this suits you
If I were sitting across from you and you were hesitating, this is what I would say:
"I can't promise your body will respond in a specific way by a specific date. What I can give you is two weeks inside the work to decide whether this approach feels grounded, practical and supportive enough for the way you live. If it doesn't, I don't want you stuck in a programme that isn't right for you."
Here is how it works.
Join the programme. Work through the first two weeks of Observe. Attend or watch the first two live group sessions. Use the tracking templates. If, by Sunday 20 September 2026 at 11.59pm UK time, you feel the programme is not the right fit for you, because the approach, the pace or the support doesn't suit your life, email me at support address and you will receive a full refund. If you are on the payment plan, I refund every instalment you have paid and cancel any still to come.
You can tell me plainly that the approach is not the right fit.
The conditions give you a chance to try the approach, the sessions and the tracking tools before making that judgement. It sits alongside any cancellation rights you have by law and does not reduce them. The full terms, including what happens if your plans change before the programme starts, are on the terms page.
Is this programme right for you?
Before you enrol, I'd like you to consider this honestly.
This programme is likely to suit you if you:
live with gut-related symptoms that have gone on for a while, such as bloating, tiredness, unpredictable digestion, brain fog or skin that flares, have talked to your GP about them, and want a structured way to understand your own week alongside that care;
are a professional woman with a demanding schedule, looking for a structure that works inside that schedule rather than around it;
are ready to observe, keep simple notes and take part in the sessions, live or by recording;
understand that this is educational and structured support, not medical treatment, and that what you notice, and when, will be your own.
It is not the right fit if you:
have persistent, recurrent, new, changing or worsening symptoms that you haven't discussed with your GP: please start with that conversation before considering enrolment;
need support for an eating disorder or recovery: this group programme does not provide that care. Please discuss any food-tracking activity with your treating professional before considering enrolment;
are looking for symptoms to be resolved by a set date;
want a one-size-fits-all elimination diet or a prescriptive meal plan.
If you follow a diet or treatment on medical advice, you are welcome here, and that advice stays in charge. If you are unsure whether this is right for you, email me before enrolling at support address. I aim to reply within one working day.
30 places · Begins Monday 7 September 2026 · Enrolment closes Friday 4 September at 11.59pm UK time, or earlier if all places are taken · £497, or 3 × £179 (£537 in total)
If something is still holding you back
If you have read this far, something here has probably landed, and something is probably still making you pause. That pause usually has a name.
Here are the four questions I hear most often, answered as directly as I would answer them across a table.
"£497 is a lot to spend on something I'm not sure will work."
It is a fair thought. It would be strange not to have it.
If you have already spent money on supplements, private tests, consultations, programmes, books and apps, some of which helped for a while and none of which gave you a lasting picture of your own week, then you know how it goes: the money is spent and the confusion stays.
So the question is not only whether £497 is a lot. It is what you are paying for. You're not paying for another list of things to try. You are paying for ninety days of structured observation, live group teaching and practical support with the routines in your week.
There is the 14-day fit guarantee too, on the terms set out above.
And if the money is genuinely not there this autumn, please don't stretch for it. This is not the programme to force. Waiting for a better moment is a perfectly good decision.
"I genuinely don't have time to add something else to my week."
This deserves a direct answer, because it may well be true, and because I built the programme around exactly that constraint.
The live sessions can be attended or watched later. The tracking templates take minutes, not hours. The Settle the Week worksheet exists to reduce your decisions, not add to them. The community is there when you need it and quiet when you don't.
Nothing in this programme asks you to reorganise your life. It asks you to look at the life you already have, and to build a structure that fits inside it.
"If this only works in a calm, empty week, it won't work for the women I built it for."
The programme is designed to survive a difficult Tuesday. But if September genuinely has no room in it, it may not be your month, and I would rather you joined when you can use it well.
"I've tried similar things before and they didn't last. I'm worried I'll start well and then fall away again."
This is the one that carries the most weight, because it isn't really about the programme. It's about trust.
You have started many times. You know what motivation feels like in week one. You also know what it feels like when real life returns and the plan that made sense in January no longer survives February.
The 90-Day Gut Reset is not built on motivation. It is built on observation, a few anchors, and the ability to return: not the ability never to fall away.
The measure of success here is not a perfect run. It is whether, when a hard week comes, you have something to come back to. Whether you can have a bad day without treating it as proof that you are the problem, and starting again from scratch.
"The point is not to build a routine you never fall out of. The point is to know what to return to when you do."
That is not a consolation. It is how the programme works.
"I'm not sure my situation isn't too complicated for a group programme."
This is the fear that you are the exception: that your history, your body and your particular mix of symptoms, demands and attempts is too specific for anything designed for a group.
The programme begins with observation precisely because no two weeks look the same. Observe doesn't assume you share anyone else's triggers, stress rhythms or routines. It looks at what is happening for you before suggesting anything.
The group gives you live teaching, a community, and two clinics a month for specific questions. The method is shared; the way you apply it is yours.
"Complicated is exactly why we don't start with a one-size-fits-all plan."
And if complicated means medical questions that haven't been answered yet, those belong with your GP first. That isn't a brush-off. It's the right order.
The question underneath all of them
Every question above has a version of the same thought inside it:
"What if this is just who I am now?"
That is the real question. Not whether the programme is good. Whether you are still someone it could help.
I can't answer that for you from here. What I can say is this. You haven't stopped caring. You have cared, consistently, for years. You have tried, and learned, and tried again. You are tired not of the effort but of having so little to show for it.
The effort has been real. What may have been missing is an order to it, and that part can be planned.
Why September, and why now
Thirty places. I have capped the cohort at thirty to keep live group teaching, clinics and questions manageable. When the places are taken, enrolment closes.
Friday 4 September is a fixed close. The programme begins on Monday 7 September. Your schedule and Observe materials open in the portal on Saturday 5 September, so that you can find your way around before day 1 rather than on it. Enrolment closes at 11.59pm UK time on Friday 4 September, or earlier if all thirty places are taken, and the date does not move.
£497 is this cohort's price. The next cohort is planned at £697. Not because the method changes, but because the way it is delivered will develop with each cohort.
The decision in front of you
You may recognise yourself in these pages and still decide the timing, cost or group format is wrong for you. Continuing with your existing care, finding another kind of support, or waiting until you have space for the work are all decisions you can make without defending them here.
If this approach fits, the invitation is to spend ninety days looking carefully at your own week, building a few useful anchors and practising how to return when things go off course, with live group teaching and questions along the way.
You leave with a rebuild plan that belongs to you: your notes, your anchor meals, your reset rhythm and practical plans for travel, pressured weeks and social eating. The aim is to make ordinary decisions easier to approach, with a reference you can keep using.
You are allowed to want relief without wanting a smaller life.
If the work described here is the kind of support you want, the September cohort is open.
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The button takes you to checkout, where you choose how to pay. Once your payment goes through, you'll see your confirmation on screen and receive a receipt by email. Your onboarding email, with access to the programme portal, follows about 24 hours after payment, and your schedule and Observe materials open in the portal on Saturday 5 September. Questions before you enrol? Email me at support address. I aim to reply within one working day.
P.S. If you have scrolled straight here: the 90-Day Gut Reset is a 90-day online group programme of educational nutritional support for professional women who have spent years working around bloating, tiredness, foggy afternoons and unpredictable digestion, and who want an approach that survives a real week. It starts with two weeks of observation, not restriction. It costs £497, or 3 × £179 (£537 in total). There are thirty places. It begins on Monday 7 September 2026, and enrolment closes on Friday 4 September at 11.59pm UK time, or sooner if the places are taken. There is a 14-day fit guarantee, with the full terms on the terms page.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
The programme. The 90-Day Gut Reset is an educational nutritional support programme. It is not medical treatment and does not replace advice from your GP, specialist or other healthcare professional. Nothing in it is a diagnosis, a treatment plan, or a recommendation to change, reduce or stop any medication or medically advised diet.
The practitioner. Dr Sarah Okafor holds a PhD in Nutritional Sciences and is a Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (mBANT, CNHC). She is not a medical doctor and is not registered with the GMC.
Terms and privacy. The fit guarantee, the payment terms and what happens if your plans change before the start are set out in the terms. How your details are handled: privacy policy.
The September 2026 cohort is full. If you'd like to hear when dates for a future cohort are announced, you can leave your email address here.
Enrolment for the September 2026 cohort has closed. If you'd like to hear when dates for a future cohort are announced, you can leave your email address here.
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September 2026 cohort · Online group programme of educational nutritional support · Begins Monday 7 September 2026 · Led by Sarah Okafor, PhD (Nutritional Sciences), Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (mBANT, CNHC)
Designed for: you live with gut-related symptoms that have gone on for a while, have talked to your GP about them, and want structured help with observing your week and building practical routines alongside that care.
Not designed for: diagnosing or treating a medical condition, replacing care from your GP or specialist, or symptoms that are new, changing or getting worse and haven't yet been looked at. If your symptoms are persistent or keep coming back, keep your GP involved; anything you follow on medical advice stays in charge. The programme does not provide eating-disorder or recovery care; if that is relevant, discuss food tracking with your treating professional before considering enrolment.
By Sunday 20 September, the end of the first two weeks, you will have kept two weeks of notes on your own week and attended or watched the first two live group sessions.
Ninety days in three phases: Observe (days 1 to 14), Settle (days 15 to 42) and Rebuild (days 43 to 90), ending on Saturday 5 December 2026.
A live group session every week, recorded if you can't join live; two group Q&A clinics a month; and a private community between sessions.
Tracking templates, meal structure guides, the Settle the Week worksheet, short educational modules, and your personal rebuild plan to keep.
Choose how to pay below. Your place is confirmed as soon as your payment, or your first instalment, goes through.
You'll see your confirmation on screen straight away and receive a payment receipt by email. Your welcome email from Sarah, with access to the programme portal, follows about 24 hours later.
Your schedule and Observe materials open in the portal on Saturday 5 September. The programme begins on Monday 7 September.
Questions before you enrol? Email support address. We aim to reply within one working day.
Choose how to pay
Paying in full costs £40 less than the payment plan. Both options give you exactly the same programme and the same access. If you choose the payment plan, the second and third payments are taken automatically, using the payment details you enter today, on the dates shown.
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The 90-Day Gut Reset, September 2026 cohort
Programme dates
Monday 7 September to Saturday 5 December 2026
Materials available
Saturday 5 September 2026, in the programme portal
£179 on Wednesday 9 September and £179 on Friday 9 October
Enrolment closes
Friday 4 September 2026, 11.59pm UK time, or earlier if all 30 places are taken
The 14-day fit guarantee
Work through the first two weeks of Observe, attend or watch the first two live group sessions, and use the tracking templates. If, by Sunday 20 September 2026 at 11.59pm UK time, you decide the programme isn't right for you, email support address and you'll receive a full refund. On the payment plan, every instalment you have paid is refunded and any remaining instalments are cancelled.
This guarantee is in addition to any cancellation rights you have by law and doesn't reduce them. The full terms, including what happens if your plans change before 7 September, are here.
£537 in total: £179 today and two further payments of £179 on the dates above.
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Tuesday 11 August: your onboarding email from Sarah arrives about 24 hours after payment, with your sign-in to the programme portal.
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Questions? Email support address. We aim to reply within one working day. The full terms, including the fit guarantee, are here.
Before I suggest changing anything, I ask what an ordinary week actually looks like.
Not the week you plan on a Sunday night. The real one. The coffee before you've eaten. The lunch at your desk, one hand still on the keyboard. The evening you meant to cook and didn't.
It's easy to be handed advice before anyone has looked at that week. And then, when something helps or doesn't, it's hard to tell why.
So that's where I start: with the ordinary days, not the dramatic ones.
#guthealth #nutritionaltherapy
I've made a short reflection tool for the evening when you close the laptop and wonder, again, where you'd even start.
It takes about five minutes. Five questions about how your weeks usually go, across five everyday areas: meal timing, stress load, food variety, recovery and routine consistency. At the end, you'll see which of those areas your answers point to as a place to start noticing, and one small thing to notice this week.
It isn't a medical assessment, and it won't tell you why you feel the way you do. If your symptoms are persistent, recurring, new, changing or worrying you, your GP comes first. This is simply a starting point, built on the same look-first approach I use with clients.
The link to the Pattern Map is in my bio.
#guthealthuk #nutritionaltherapy #nutritionuk
A question I hear, and it's a fair one:
"I've already tried elimination diets, food diaries, even seen a nutritionist. Why would a five-minute tool be any different?"
Because it asks something different. A food diary records everything you ate. A plan tells you what to remove or add. The Pattern Map does neither. It asks five questions about how your weeks tend to go, and suggests one place to start looking.
It doesn't tell you what to cut. It tells you where to look first. That is a different, and I think more useful, place to start.
If you haven't tried the Gut Pattern Map yet, it's still available. The link is in my bio.
#guthealth #guthealthuk
September has a way of arriving with a full diary and good intentions. This one is about rhythm, not reinvention.
The waitlist for the September cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset is now open. Three things worth knowing if you're considering it.
Joining means the enrolment link reaches you by email at 8am on Monday 10 August, a few hours before I announce it here. It doesn't reserve a place or commit you to anything.
There are 30 places. I have capped the cohort at 30 to keep live group teaching and questions manageable.
The price is £497, or 3 × £179 (£537 in total). The next cohort is planned at £697.
The programme starts on Monday 7 September. Enrolment closes on Friday 4 September at 11.59pm UK time, or earlier if the places are taken.
If September might be the right time, the waitlist link is in my bio.
#guthealthuk #nutritionaltherapistuk
Something I come back to in my work: the difference between a solution and a structure.
A solution promises the problem goes away. I can't promise that, and I don't.
A structure is something else. It's knowing what you'll eat on a day of back-to-back meetings. It's knowing what you'll do after a dinner that didn't sit well. It's the difference between hoping an evening goes well and knowing what you'll return to if it doesn't.
That isn't the same as being fixed. In my experience, it's what lasts: not the absence of difficult days, but knowing what to do with them.
It's the premise everything I do is built on, and I think it's worth saying plainly.
She arrived with lists. A weekly food plan rewritten every Sunday. A supplement routine. A symptom tracker. What she wanted wasn't another one.
This is what she said about the programme:
"I expected another plan. What I actually got was a way to stop panicking every time my body felt unpredictable."
L., 46, Bristol · first-cohort participant
I share it because it says, better than I usually manage, what this work is about. You may want a way to make ordinary decisions without rewriting your whole plan each time a day feels difficult.
If that resonates, the September waitlist link is in my bio.
#guthealthuk #nutritionaltherapy
Enrolment for the September cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset is now open.
The waitlist had the link by email this morning. The programme page is publicly accessible, with the same price, capacity and deadline for everyone.
It's a Monday, which feels right. This was built for ordinary Mondays, not fresh starts.
30 places. Starts Monday 7 September. £497, or 3 × £179 (£537 in total). The next cohort is planned at £697. Enrolment closes on Friday 4 September at 11.59pm UK time, or earlier if the places are taken.
Everything you need to decide, including who it isn't for, is on the programme page. The link is in my bio.
#guthealthuk #nutritionaltherapistuk
Take a Thursday that went badly.
The sandwich at lunch is easy to remember. The week around it is easier to lose: coffee before breakfast, a meeting that ran through lunch, a late dinner, the short night before.
Put those details next to a few other days and you have something more useful than a verdict on one sandwich. You have notes you can return to, including the days that did not go the way you expected.
A suspected trigger is one thing you have a question about. A pattern is a recurring feature in your notes. Keeping them separate helps you ask clearer questions; a food diary cannot establish what caused a symptom.
That is what Observe makes room for: two weeks of structured noticing, alongside your existing care. The full programme details are at the link in my bio.
#guthealth #nutritionaltherapy #guthealthtips
You know the Monday restart. The fresh list, the new rules, the good intentions. And then the Wednesday when the week wins.
"I've tried things before and they didn't stick." I hear this often, and I understand it.
When a change arrives before you've had the chance to see your own week, it has nothing to fit into. You may have tried removing a food, adding a supplement or following a plan. What each asked of you, and how it fitted around the rest of your week, is worth looking at too.
The first phase of The 90-Day Gut Reset is two weeks of structured observation. Not tracking for its own sake. Learning what your week actually looks like before anything is asked of you. What comes after has somewhere to fit.
Whether that makes the difference for you, I can't promise. But it starts somewhere different.
Enrolment is open until Friday 4 September at 11.59pm UK time, or earlier if the places are taken. The link is in my bio.
#guthealth #guthealthuk #nutritionaltherapy
A brief note.
Enrolment for the September cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset closes on Friday 4 September at 11.59pm UK time, or earlier if all 30 places are taken.
The programme begins on Monday 7 September, and the materials open in the programme portal on the Saturday before. £497, or 3 × £179 (£537 in total). The next cohort is planned at £697.
If you've been carrying this decision around like a browser tab you keep meaning to close, Friday is the day to close it, one way or the other.
The link is in my bio.
Today is the last day to enrol in the September cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset. Enrolment closes tonight at 11.59pm UK time, or earlier if the cohort reaches its capacity of 30.
If September has been somewhere in your thinking, you have everything you need to decide, and deciding to wait is a perfectly good decision too.
The link is in my bio.
Whatever you choose, I hope the rest of your Friday is kind to you.
Enrolment for the September cohort of The 90-Day Gut Reset is now closed.
To everyone joining: I'm looking forward to Monday. Your schedule and Observe materials are in the programme portal from today, so you can find your way around before day 1.
I'll spend part of this weekend the way I like to before a group begins: a pot of tea, and one more read through the first week's materials.
For everyone who followed along and is still thinking about this work: no dates have been set for a future cohort. If you'd like to hear when they are, there's a short form at the link in my bio. Leaving your address doesn't reserve a place or commit you to anything.
That's all for now. Back to my usual posts from here.