Community Disaster Response: First Aid & Long-Term Care
Get way beyond basic first aid to respond in any situation.
In an emergency, skills make the difference.
When you know how to care for yourself and your community,
You're not a victim, you're a HERO.
If you’ve ever been in an emergency situation, you know that it’s easy to feel overwhelmingly helpless. But when you're prepared, you're confident.
In this course, you'll learn to:
- Manage acute wounds and trauma, as well as long-term wound and trauma care
- Work with chronic illnesses through an emergency situation
- Plan for and manage situations where conventional medical care is not available, from children to elders, and including supporting those with complicated conditions
- Plan effectively for the nutritional needs of your community
- Manage infectious disease in austere conditions
- Emergency birth care
- Making a plan for pets and livestock
Don't guess you're ready.
KNOW you are.
This course includes over 51 hours of video presentations.
Tuition is $440 - that's just $8.50 per hour of instruction!
There's more: we want your experience to be as close to “being there in person” as possible, and we want to accommodate as many different styles of learning as possible.
That’s why we also provide:
- Lifetime access - so you can review the content as many times as you like, forever!
- Printable PDF materials - if you like to follow along on paper
- Downloadable MP3 files - so you can review the content while you commute, workout, garden, ... anytime!
- Direct access to Katja and Ryn - we're always just a click away: you can ask any questions in the integrated discussion forum, and we're committed to personally answering your questions within 24 hours
- Weekly live Q&A sessions - to ask your questions directly, live and in person!
Get the skills you need to help others confidently!
An Asset
Everything I'm learning would have been good to know BEFORE Hurricane Harvey. I didn't really know what to do, and I needed people to help me. For the next one, I want to have it together to be an asset for people, to pay it back. I have to say I couldn't have asked for a better person to learn from on all this, you are amazing thank you!
Course curriculum
From burns and broken bones to a long-term post-disaster community care scenario, this course prepares you to work effectively in an austere environment.
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Welcome! (11:43)
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Welcome to CDR: First Aid and Long-Term Care!
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How many hours is this course?
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How to use this platform
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How to use the Discussions feature
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How to use the Notification Beamer
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Chatting in the Community Groups
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Meet our Friends!
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Every Body is Different
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Introduction
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Changes at FEMA
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Bandaging (159:44)
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Bandaging [video]
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Bandaging [audio]
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Bandaging [slides]
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Assessing & Managing A Sprained Ankle; Basket Weave & Heel Lock Taping Techniques
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Sprained Ankle [audio]
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Cravat illustrations
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How to get really good at bandaging
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Splinting (109:30)
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Splinting [video]
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Splinting [audio]
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Splinting [slides]
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Traction Splint Discussion
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More on Traction Splints
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Wounds 1 (120:54)
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Wounds 1 [video]
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Wounds 1 [audio]
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Wounds 1 [slides]
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Wounds 2 (131:27)
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Wounds 2 [video]
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Wounds 2 [audio]
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Wounds 2 [slides]
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Dressing A Burn [video]
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Dressing A Burn [audio]
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First Aid Kits (99:26)
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First Aid Kits
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First Aid Kit Contents - Sam Coffman
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First Aid Kits - CommonWealth Herbs
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Creating and Using your own Herbal First Aid Kit
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Chronic Illness: Ideal Conditions 1 (128:54)
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Chronic Illness: Ideal Conditions 1 [video]
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Chronic Illness: Ideal Conditions 1 [audio]
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Chronic Illness: Ideal Conditions 1 [slides]
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Addressing Chronic Illness
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Chronic Illness: Ideal Conditions 2 (95:14)
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Chronic Illness: Ideal Conditions 2 [video]
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Chronic Illness: Ideal Conditions 2 [audio]
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Chronic Illness: Ideal Conditions 2 [slides]
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Resource links
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Chronic Illness: Real-World Conditions (145:40)
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Chronic Illness: Real-World Conditions [video]
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Chronic Illness: Real-World Conditions [audio]
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Chronic Illness: Real-World Conditions [slides]
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Pharmaceutical research sites
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Pain Management (134:27)
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Pain Management [video]
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Pain Management [audio]
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Pain Management [slides]
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Pain references
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Trauma, Emotional Support, & Emergency Psychiatric Care 1 (115:55)
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Trauma, Emotional Support, & Emergency Psychiatric Care 1 [video]
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Trauma, Emotional Support, & Emergency Psychiatric Care 1 [audio]
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Trauma, Emotional Support, & Emergency Psychiatric Care 1 [slides]
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Trauma, Emotional Support, & Emergency Psychiatric Care 2 (111:29)
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Trauma, Emotional Support, & Emergency Psychiatric Care 2 [video]
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Trauma, Emotional Support, & Emergency Psychiatric Care 2 [audio]
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Trauma, Emotional Support, & Emergency Psychiatric Care 2 [slides]
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Trauma Informed Care resources (00:00)
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What is Trauma-Informed Care?
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Engaging women in trauma-informed peer support: A Guide
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Engaging women in trauma-informed peer support: A Guide [printable]
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The Peer Respite Handbook
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The Peer Respite Handbook [printable]
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Intentional Peer Support
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Infectious Disease (142:22)
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Infectious Disease [video]
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Infectious Disease [audio]
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Infectious Disease [slides]
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History of Medicine in the US, and more
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Covid-19 Resources (198:45)
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Always Adapting
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Holistic Herbalism's Approach to Illness
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Herbs for Corona Virus Preparedness
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Understanding "Cytokine Storm"
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Bergner on the concept of "Cytokine Storm"
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Elderberries do not cause "cytokine storm"
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More on Elderberries
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NSAIDs, Aspirin, etc and viral shedding
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Herbal Home Nursing Basics for Covid-19 and beyond
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Covid Self-Care at Home
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Covid-19 lessons learned: most successful strategies for acute self-care and recovery
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Long Haul Covid and the Slow Covid Recovery
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More on Pandemics and Disease Management
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Tropical & Subtropical Diseases (95:48)
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Introducing Sam Coffman
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Tropical & Subtropical Diseases [video]
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Tropical & Subtropical Diseases [audio]
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Post-Disaster Nutrition: Ideals (102:28)
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Post-Disaster Nutrition: Ideals [video]
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Post-Disaster Nutrition: Ideals [audio]
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Post-Disaster Nutrition: Ideals [slides]
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Nutrition Resources
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Post-Disaster Nutrition: Implementation (122:52)
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Post-Disaster Nutrition: Implementation [video]
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Post-Disaster Nutrition: Implementation [audio]
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Post-Disaster Nutrition: Implementation [slides]
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Emergency Birth 1 (113:11)
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Introducing Katia LeMone
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Emergency Birth 1 [video]
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Emergency Birth 1 [audio]
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Emergency Birth 2 (108:55)
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Emergency Birth 2 [video]
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Emergency Birth 2 [audio]
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Post-Disaster Children's Health 1 (100:07)
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Post-Disaster Children's Health 1 [video]
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Post-Disaster Children's Health 1 [audio]
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Post-Disaster Children's Health 1 [slides]
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Children's Health resources
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Post-Disaster Children's Health 2 (81:40)
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Post-Disaster Children's Health 2 [video]
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Post-Disaster Children's Health 2 [audio]
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Post-Disaster Children's Health 2 [slides]
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Children's Health resources, part 2
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Post-Disaster Elder's Health 1 (79:35)
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Post-Disaster Elder's Health 1 [video]
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Post-Disaster Elder's Health 1 [audio]
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Post-Disaster Elder's Health 1 [slides]
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Post-Disaster Elder's Health 2 (113:03)
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Post-Disaster Elder's Health 2 [video]
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Post-Disaster Elder's Health 2 [audio]
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Post-Disaster Elder's Health 2 [slides]
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Elders' Health resources
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Pets & Livestock (67:27)
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Pets & Livestock [video]
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Pets & Livestock [audio]
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Pets & Livestock [slides]
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Environmental Issues In Cold Climates (118:27)
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Environmental Issues In Cold Climates [video]
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Environmental Issues in Cold Climates [audio]
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Environmental Issues In Cold Climates [slides]
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Respiratory Considerations with Fires and Floods [audio]
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Respiratory Considerations with Fires and Floods [audio]
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Environmental Issues In Hot Climates (88:09)
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Introducing Sam Coffman
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Environmental Issues In Hot Climates [video]
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Environmental Issues in Hot Climates [audio]
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Environmental Issues In Hot Climates [slides]
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Slow Sand Water Filtration
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First Aid Kits
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Infections, Bugs, & Parasites (92:20)
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Introducing Sam Coffman
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Infections, Bugs, & Parasites [video]
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Infections, Bugs, & Parasites [audio]
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Infections, Bugs, & Parasites [slides]
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More information on Lyme
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Putting It All Together (65:17)
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Putting It All Together [video]
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Putting It All Together [audio]
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Putting It All Together [slides]
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Be ready to help.
I'm ready to:
- Prepare myself for whatever emergencies arise
- Feel confident in my skills to help others
- Serve my community in a greater way
- Expand my abilities as a care provider
Well-equipped
One of the things that inspired me to take this course was the Dollar Ridge Fire that swept through our community, and realizing that I just wasn't prepared. This course makes me feel so much better equipped to handle every aspect of a disaster like this.
Katja's teaching style rocks! She's loaded with tons of valuable information and I totally appreciate the way she presents it. I love her graceful wit as she shows you how to save the world, and keep yourself and everyone around you together as you do.
Katja's teaching style rocks! She's loaded with tons of valuable information and I totally appreciate the way she presents it. I love her graceful wit as she shows you how to save the world, and keep yourself and everyone around you together as you do.
Zero-Risk Return Policy
Teaching isn't just about conveying information - there's also an aspect of being someone's "cup of tea".
So we want you to take the first 14 days to really decide if you love it or not. If for any reason you feel like this program isn’t right for you - if we're just not your cup of tea - we’ll give you a full refund. You don't even need a reason - just please let us know within 14 days of purchase.