REGULATION BEFORE FAMILY CREATION
Regulation Over Love: The Baby-Making Experiment
Learn how stress may shape your body, your relationships, and the family life you are preparing to build.
Regulation Over Love: The Baby-Making Experiment is a six-week live virtual regulation experience for people preparing for partnership, considering pregnancy, preparing for parenthood, or wanting to enter family life with greater awareness of how they respond to stress.
You can participate individually or with a partner.
You do not need to be married, pregnant, or actively trying to conceive.
You only need a willingness to learn how stress may show up in your body, recognize your patterns earlier, and practice regulation before pressure becomes the way you automatically move through relationships and family responsibility.
New to Regulation? Start Here.
Regulation is the practice of noticing what is happening in your body during stress, pressure, connection, and recovery and learning supportive ways to respond with greater awareness.
Stress does not only exist in your thoughts.
It may also show up through your breathing, posture, muscle tension, digestion, sleep, energy, patience, communication, intimacy, and ability to recover after difficult moments.
Regulation education helps you become more aware of those patterns and gives you practical tools for responding to them in everyday life.
This is not about becoming calm all the time.
It is about becoming more familiar with your body, your signals, and the practices that may help you move through pressure with greater intention.
WHY THIS EXPERIENCE EXISTS
Making a Family Requires More Than Making a Baby
Before pregnancy.
Before parenting.
Before building a household.
Before becoming responsible for someone else’s well-being.
There is you your body, your stress patterns, your communication, your capacity to recover, and the ways you have learned to respond when life becomes demanding.
Many people move toward deeper partnership, pregnancy, parenting, and family responsibility without ever being taught how to recognize the pressure their bodies may already be carrying.
Regulation Over Love: The Baby-Making Experiment creates space to learn that language before the responsibilities get bigger.
Across six live sessions, you will explore stress, body awareness, communication, recovery, and practical regulation in a structured and supportive learning environment.
This experience provides education, guided reflection, practical tools, and supportive conversation.
It is not fertility treatment, pregnancy care, therapy, medical advice, diagnosis, or a promise of any relationship, pregnancy, or health outcome.
WHO THIS EXPERIENCE IS FOR
You Do Not Have to Be “Making a Baby” Right Now
This experience may be a strong starting point if you are:
preparing for a deeper partnership
considering pregnancy in the future
actively preparing for parenthood
already parenting and wanting to understand your stress patterns differently
building a household or family with another person
wanting stronger awareness around communication and connection
interested in learning practical regulation tools before taking on greater responsibility
curious about how stress may affect the way you show up with the people you love
You may attend on your own or with a partner.
The goal is not to tell you when, whether, or how to create a family.
The goal is to help you understand yourself more clearly before, during, and throughout the responsibilities that come with love, partnership, and family life.
HOW THE WORKSHOP WORKS
Six Mondays. Live on Zoom. Built for Real Life.
The virtual workshop runs for six Mondays in a row.
Each Monday begins at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
Every Live Session Includes
30 minutes of guided regulation education
live question-and-answer time
up to 100 minutes total depending on Q&A
replay access if you miss the live session
pre-recorded supporting material
lifetime access to workshop recordings
You can participate from home and revisit the material in a way that supports your schedule.
You are not expected to arrive already knowing nervous-system language.
We start by helping you recognize what may already be happening in your everyday life.
THE SIX EPISODES
Episode 1:
Why Most People Are Running On Stress Without Knowing It
Learn how stress may begin showing up in the body before you fully recognize what is happening. We begin by building awareness not judgment around the patterns you may already carry.
Episode 2:
How Stress Shows Up In Your Body
Explore how breathing, posture, muscle tension, digestion, fatigue, emotional load, and other body signals may reflect stress. The goal is to become more familiar with your own signals before they become impossible to ignore.
Episode 3:
Why Pushing Through Makes It Worse
Many people have learned to keep going regardless of what their body is communicating. Explore how repeatedly overriding body signals may contribute to the pressure you are already carrying—and what it can look like to respond differently.
Episode 4:
How To Regulate Yourself In Real Time
Practice breath, reset, release, and body-awareness tools that can be used during everyday pressure. The goal is not perfection. The goal is to build practices you can return to.
Episode 5:
How Your State Affects Everything Around You
Explore how your own regulation may influence communication, intimacy, partnership, leadership, parenting, and family life. This session helps connect your internal state with the relationships you are preparing to build or strengthen.
Episode 6:
The Reset Starts With You
Bring the six weeks together by creating a personal regulation reset you can continue practicing beyond the workshop. You leave with language, awareness, and practices you can continue developing in your everyday life.
CHOOSE HOW YOU WANT TO BEGIN
Start With the Level of Support That Fits Your Season
You do not have to begin with the deepest level of support.
You can choose the option that matches how you want to experience the work.
One-Day Pass– $25
Begin with one live virtual workshop session. This option is for someone who wants to experience the education before deciding whether to continue through the full series.
Full Six-Session Pass– $75
Move through all six episodes of Regulation Over Love: The Baby-Making Experiment.
This option gives you the complete virtual learning experience from recognizing stress patterns through building your personal regulation reset.
VIP One-Day Experience– $2,500
For participants who want deeper, in-person support, the VIP pathway brings the regulation education into a full-day small-group experience.
VIP experiences are offered in: Pennsylvania → New Jersey → New York City
AFTER THE SIX WEEKS
The Next Level of Support: VIP Full-Day Intensive
Ten days after the final Monday session, the VIP full-day experience begins.
The VIP experience brings the six workshop episodes together in one in-person day with deeper support, guided education, body awareness, breathwork, movement, reflection, community, and integration.
VIP experiences will be offered in this order:
Pennsylvania → New Jersey → New York City
Each state will host four VIP days in a row:
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Each VIP day is limited to 12 participants.
That creates a smaller learning environment where participants can receive more focused support while continuing the regulation work introduced virtually.
MEET THE FOUNDER
Erick Gordon, a.k.a. Chief Soma
Erick Gordon is the founder of Head-to-Toe Healing and the creator of its regulation education work.
His professional journey began with volunteer EMS work in Hoboken before moving into professional emergency medical services. He spent nearly six years in EMS before transitioning into dialysis care.
While working in dialysis, Eric entered nursing school. His path later changed when he left both nursing school and dialysis to pursue massage therapy.
He became a licensed massage therapist and built Head-to-Toe Healing first as a traveling massage therapy business, with additional education and experience that included prenatal massage.
After years of working closely with people and seeing how stress, pressure, body awareness, and recovery can affect daily life, his work expanded beyond hands-on services.
He began building an educational system centered on regulation—helping people better understand the signals their bodies may be giving them and giving them structured opportunities to learn, reflect, and practice.
Erick brings more than 10 years of experience working across medical and body-based care environments, along with CPR training and his massage therapy background, into the educational foundation of Head-to-Toe Healing.
His long-term vision is to expand this work into regulation-centered retreat environments where people can step away from daily pressure and experience deeper learning, restoration, and support.
Head-to-Toe Healing’s educational experiences do not replace medical care, mental-health treatment, diagnosis, or services from appropriately licensed healthcare professionals.
IS REGULATION OVER LOVE RIGHT FOR YOU?
This Experience May Be a Good Starting Point If You Want To:
Understand how stress may show up in your body
Recognize your patterns earlier
Become more aware of how pressure affects communication
Practice regulation tools you can use in everyday life
Prepare for deeper partnership with greater intention
Prepare for pregnancy or parenthood with stronger body awareness
Better understand the state you bring into family life
Begin with education before choosing deeper in-person support
Explore regulation without needing a clinical or treatment-based experience
You do not need to be pregnant.
You do not need to be married.
You do not need to be actively trying to conceive.
And you do not need to attend with a partner.
You can begin exactly where you are.
EDUCATIONAL SAFETY NOTE
This Is Education Not Medical Treatment
Regulation Over Love: The Baby-Making Experiment is an educational experience.
It is not medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, therapy, fertility treatment, fertility counseling, pregnancy care, prenatal medical care, or a replacement for healthcare.
The information and practices are designed to support education, reflection, body awareness, and regulation practice.
For pregnancy concerns, postpartum complications, severe or unexplained symptoms, chest pain, shortness of breath, dizziness, numbness, tingling, swelling, trauma, unexplained pain, or high-risk medical conditions, seek support from an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
CHOOSE THE LEVEL OF SUPPORT THAT FITS YOUR SEASON SAFETY NOTE
You Do Not Have to Do Everything at Once
Start with one workshop.
Move through the full six-week experience.
Or choose a pathway that includes deeper in-person VIP support.
The next page will show you the available workshop passes so you can compare what is included and choose the option that makes sense for you.
VIP PARTICIPANT BONUS
Retreat Upgrade Bonus
Eligible VIP participants may receive a complimentary VIP-level upgrade toward a future Regulation Over Content Retreat registration.
The retreat upgrade is currently valued at $3,000.
To receive the upgrade, the participant must complete the VIP experience and separately register for an eligible retreat.
The upgrade may be used within one year after the participant’s VIP workshop date.
Retreat registration, transportation, lodging terms, available dates, and any remaining costs are separate.
The upgrade has no cash value and remains subject to availability and final retreat terms.
CONTINUE LEARNING
Want to Understand More About Regulation?
If you would like to explore the ideas behind this work before choosing a workshop pass, continue into Head-to-Toe Healing’s educational resources on nervous-system regulation, stress, body awareness, and recovery.
You can also learn more about:
our regulation philosophy and methods
retreat experiences
the mission behind Head-to-Toe Healing
organizational and community regulation experiences
Research and educational resources may be provided for visitors who want to explore nervous-system education more deeply.
You do not need to understand all of the science before participating.
The first step is learning to recognize what is happening in your own everyday life.
Regulation Before Responsibility
Before the relationship gets deeper.
Before the household gets busier.
Before pregnancy.
Before parenting.
Before everyone else needs something from you.
There is value in learning how to recognize what is happening inside you.
Regulation Over Love: The Baby-Making Experiment gives you a place to begin.
Additional Learning + Research
If you’d like to go deeper into this work, you can explore more of our approach to nervous system regulation and how it’s applied in real-life settings.
Learn more about our core philosophy and methods here: System
Explore how this work is experienced in a retreat setting: Retreat
Understand the mission behind why this matters: Mission
See how these practices support teams and organizations through corporate wellness experiences: Wellness
This practice is informed by research on how the nervous system responds to stress, safety, and body-based awareness. You do not need to study the science to benefit from this work, but these resources can give you deeper insight into how the body regulates, why stress may show up physically, and how gentle awareness may support regulation and recovery.
If you would like to explore further, you can review Cleveland Clinic’s overview of the nervous system, Harvard Health’s education on stress and the body, and introductory material on Polyvagal Theory by Dr. Stephen Porges: Cleveland Clinic’s overview of the nervous system, Harvard Health on stress and the body , and introductory material on Polyvagal Theory by Dr. Stephen Porges .