Who We Help Our Story Services Resources Book a Session

Six-Week Self-Paced Course

You made it home.
Now find your way forward.

A six-week course for early returned missionaries — built by Jon Larsen, LMFT and peer mentor Brooklyn Larsen, who has been exactly where you are.

$49
Course only  ·  Self-paced  ·  Online access
Bundle with coaching from $109
Enroll Now See What's Inside

Returning Stronger is a self-paced six-week online course for early returned LDS missionaries. It covers identity, emotional processing, finding direction, rebuilding relationships, and post-traumatic growth. Includes clinical insights from Jon Larsen, LMFT and peer perspective from Brooklyn Larsen, an early returned missionary herself. The course-only option is $49; a bundle with two coaching sessions is $109.

Who This Is For

Built for early returned missionaries, who are looking to build back better.

This course was designed for one specific situation: coming home early from a mission and not knowing what to do next. If that is you, or someone you love, this is for you.

For the early returned missionary

You came home before you planned to. The room feels strange. The questions feel impossible. You are not sure who you are or where you are going. This course meets you exactly where you are and walks with you for six full weeks.

For parents and families

You love them and you want to help but you are not sure what to say or do. This course gives your missionary a structured, safe, and expert-guided path forward, which gives you the peace of mind knowing they have one.

For the missionary still processing

Maybe you came home months or even years ago and you have never fully worked through it. The course is not time-sensitive. If it is still unresolved, the work here is still relevant.

For ward leaders and bishops

You want to support the ERMs in your congregation but counseling is not your role. This course is a resource you can recommend with confidence, built by a licensed clinician who understands the faith context.

The Six Weeks

A clear path through six weeks of focused, structured work.

Each week builds on the last. You do not have to have the answers before you start. You just have to show up.

Week 1
You Made It Home

Land. Not fix, not perform, just arrive. This week gives you permission to be exactly where you are, names what just happened to you, and sets the foundation for everything that follows.

Week 2
Who Are You Now

Your identity shifted when you came home. This week separates your core self from your situational identity, traces what the mission built in you, and starts building a picture of who you are becoming.

Week 3
The Hard Stuff We Rarely Talk About

Shame. Grief. Anger. Relief. This week goes where most people don't, naming the emotions that are running in the background and taking away their power by bringing them into the light.

Week 4
Finding Your Direction

This week you stop waiting for direction to find you and start building it. Values, assets, a two-year vision, and one concrete step. Direction is built one step at a time. This is where yours begins.

Week 5
Relationships and Re-Entry

Family. Friends. Ward. The relational landscape after an early return is complicated. This week gives you the tools to rebuild connection without taking on responsibility for feelings that were never yours to carry.

Week 6
Moving Forward Strong

The close. You revisit the direction-building work from Week 4, measure how far you have traveled, and leave yourself something to look back on in a year. Not just moving forward okay, but actually strong.

What's Inside Each Week

Ten components per week. Every one of them earned its place.

This is not a workbook or a video series. It is a complete weekly experience designed to move you, not just inform you.

🎥

Video Teaching

Jon on camera, 4–6 minutes, opening the week with honesty and clinical clarity. This is the emotional entry point for everything that follows.

📖

Core Teaching Content

A deeper written expansion of what the video introduced. Clinical concepts made accessible, always moving toward what's next.

💬

Brooklyn's Corner

Brooklyn Larsen, peer mentor and ERM herself, speaks directly to you in her own voice. Peer to peer, as someone who has been there.

✏️

Reflection Questions

Three introspective questions per week. No right answers. Designed to pull out what is actually there rather than what you think should be.

🗺️

Weekly Activity

A structured exercise that applies the week's content to your actual life. Each one is different, each one builds on what came before, and each one asks something real of you.

📖

Faith Anchor

Four curated scriptures each week with individual reflection prompts and a guided invitation for genuine reflection, meditation and prayer.

📅

Daily Touchpoints

Five short daily prompts, Monday through Friday. Five to ten minutes each. Observe, acknowledge, reframe, gratitude, look forward.

🎤

TED Talk + Reflection

A curated TED Talk each week brings an outside research voice into the conversation — Brené Brown, Angela Duckworth, Susan Pinker, and more.

🧠

Psychology Principle

Jon explains one clinical concept per week in plain language — Window of Tolerance, Neuroplasticity, Locus of Control, Post-Traumatic Growth.

🤝

Brooklyn's Service Challenge

Brooklyn's invitation to look outward each week through a specific act of service tied to the week's theme. One of the most powerful components in the course.

Jon Larsen and Brooklyn Larsen
Who Built This

A father-daughter team, clinical expertise and lived experience.

This course exists because both of us know what this transition feels like, Jon from 25 years of working with youth in hard transitions, and Brooklyn from living through one herself.

Jon Larsen, MS, LMFT — Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 25+ years of clinical experience. Founder of Returning Stronger Coaching LLC and Executive Director of a boarding school for adolescents. He watched his daughter come home early from her mission and walked alongside her through it. That experience, combined with his clinical background, is the foundation this course is built on.

Brooklyn Larsen — Peer Mentor and early returned missionary. BYU student. She came home before her mission was finished, worked through the exact transition this course addresses, and is now living a rewarding and authentic life. She brings what Jon cannot: she has been exactly where you are.

Enrollment

Choose the option that fits where you are.

Both options include full access to all six weeks of course content. The bundle adds direct coaching support for those who want a guide alongside the course.

Course Only
$49

Full six-week course, self-paced, online access. Everything you need to do the work.

  • All six weeks of content
  • 10 components per week
  • Video teachings from Jon
  • Brooklyn's Corner and Service Challenges
  • TED Talks, Psychology principles, faith anchors
  • Lifetime access
Join the Waitlist
Most Support
Course + Coaching Bundle
$109

The full course plus two 30-minute coaching sessions with Jon, one at the start, one at the close.

  • Everything in Online Course
  • 30-minute onboarding session with Jon
  • 30-minute close-out session with Jon
  • Personalized guidance around your specific situation
  • Direct access to 25+ years of clinical expertise
Join the Waitlist
Why This Works

Built for the specific situation you are in.

This is not a generic self-help course with an LDS skin on it. Every component was built for early returned missionaries, by people who understand the clinical and cultural context from the inside.

🎯

Genuinely specialized

Jon has worked with young adults for over two decades. This course distills that clinical experience into six weeks of structured, accessible content.

🤝

Peer voice included

Brooklyn's presence in every week means the student never feels talked at by a professional from a distance. She has been there. That matters.

⚖️

Coaching, not therapy

This course is forward-focused and goal-oriented. It does not diagnose or treat clinical conditions. It is built to help you move forward, not to replace clinical care.

Be First to Know

The course is coming.
Be the first in.

The Returning Stronger course is in final development. Leave your email below and you will be the first to know when enrollment opens and the first to receive any launch pricing.

Or reach us directly at info@returningstronger.com