Maybe he is just committing to a month, to see how it goes and will be open to continuing if you have the need, interest, and money to continue working in that way. I would be careful though, since all that living you are remembering was not done in a moment -- it is my experience that it takes about as long to work things through as the period of time that has elapsed between then and now. You cannot literally "go back" and get things one at a time, fix X and have Y which was leaning on X two years later be fixed too. Y will collapse and cause problems of its own that will need attention.