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Reclaim Your Strength

nervous system regulation for women in chronic pain

Finally. A Program Built for Women Who Have Tried Everything and Still Aren’t Getting Better.

reclaim your strength

A 10-week group coaching program for women navigating chronic pain, fatigue, and burnout.

BUILT ON THE REGULATE AND REBUILD METHOD

Most programs hand you a workout plan and send you home. Reclaim Your Strength was designed for what comes after that. When you’ve done all the right things and still end up back in the same cycle.

This program follows the exact sequence your body needs: regulating the nervous system first, rebuilding strength progressively, and layering in sustainable habits that carry over into real life. Not a quick fix. A complete framework from a licensed DPT who is walking the same path alongside you.

Woman doing home workout on yoga mat for chronic pain recovery

You wake up already calculating how to get through today without making it worse.

You’ve tried pushing through. You’ve tried resting. You’ve seen doctors who told you everything looks normal. You’ve attempted to build strength on your own only to end up right back where you started, hurting and defeated.

And underneath all of it is the exhaustion. Not just physical, but the mental load of managing a body that feels unpredictable while life keeps moving around you.

You’re not lazy. You’re not weak. You’ve been running on empty without the right roadmap. And that ends here.

hi, i’m tera

I’m a Doctor of Physical Therapy who has lived with chronic pain for over ten years and I built this program because I was missing the same piece you are.

I know what it feels like to do everything right and still end up in a flare. To feel dismissed by a system that tells you you’re fine when you know in your bones that something is still not right.

Reclaim Your Strength exists to bridge the gap between formal care and real, lasting recovery. It brings the clinical knowledge of a licensed DPT into a coaching and wellness space where there’s finally room to address not just the muscles and joints, but the nervous system driving the cycle underneath.

This isn’t just what I teach. It’s what I practice every single day.

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you deserve to feel good in your body again

This is the program that was missing.

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What’s Included

WHEN YOU JOIN THE WAITLIST, YOU’LL BE FIRST TO RECEIVE:

  • Priority enrollment before doors open to the public
  • Founding member pricing – the lowest this program will ever be offered
  • First access to program details, dates, and what to expect
  • A spot in a small, intentional cohort capped at 10 women
  • Support from a licensed DPT who understands chronic pain from the inside out

“You haven’t failed every program you’ve tried. Every program has failed to address the one thing driving the cycle — your nervous system.”

– Tera Sandona, PT, DPT

Questions? I have answers!

Who is this program for?

Reclaim Your Strength is for women navigating chronic pain, fatigue, and burnout who have tried other approaches and keep ending up back in the same cycle. If you’ve done physical therapy, tried workout programs, or seen multiple providers and still feel stuck, this program was built with you in mind.

Do I need any equipment or prior fitness experience?

The program is designed to meet you where your body actually is right now, not where you think it should be. Daily protocols are 12 to 15 minutes and can be done from home with minimal to no equipment.

How is this different from traditional physical therapy?

Traditional PT clinics operate within a healthcare system that simply doesn’t allow the time or space for deep nervous system work. This program brings the clinical knowledge of a licensed DPT into a coaching and wellness space where there’s finally room to address the root of what’s driving the cycle, not just the symptoms.

What if I’m in a pain flare when the program starts?

If you’re in a pain flare when the program starts, then you’re definitely in the right place. This program is designed around flares. The Regulate and Rebuild Method teaches you how to read your body’s signals and modify accordingly. A flare is not a reason to stop — it’s data, and we work with it.

How much time do I need each week?

Daily protocols are 12 to 15 minutes and there is one weekly live group coaching call with Tera. If you can’t make the live session, it will be recorded and available for you at your convenience. The program was built specifically for women with limited energy and busy lives. It has to fit into real life or it doesn’t work.

When does the program start?

The program is currently in development. Join the waitlist to be the first to know when enrollment opens, get priority access, and secure founding member pricing.

You’ve waited long enough to feel like yourself again.

your next step starts here

You don’t have to figure this out alone. Join the waitlist and be the first to know when Reclaim Your Strength opens enrollment.
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I stood in front of my fridge for an hour. Couldn’ I stood in front of my fridge for an hour. Couldn’t decide, not even sure I was hungry. Just stuck. And one decision felt like the hardest thing I’d been asked to do all day, even though I’d made decisions all day long without a second thought.

I kept wondering what was wrong with me. Turns out, nothing was.

Fight, flight, and freeze are all protective responses your nervous system reaches for under threat. Fight and flight speed you up. They give you the energy to push back or get away. Freeze does the opposite. It shuts things down because there’s nothing left to fight with or run from.

That fridge moment wasn’t a discipline problem. It was my nervous system running out before dinner could be decided and made.

Freeze doesn’t get talked about as much as fight or flight, but it’s just as real and it shows up in the most ordinary places…a kitchen, a closed laptop, a decision that shouldn’t be hard and somehow is.

If you’ve had a night like this, you already know exactly what I’m talking about.

If this sounds familiar, tell me in the comments, or text someone who’d know exactly what I mean.
I reached for the weights I used to lift before my I reached for the weights I used to lift before my brain caught up.

It took half a second in my garage. The half second was the moment I realized I couldn’t even lift the dumbbell. I registered the gap between the body I used to train and the body I have now.

I dialed back down. Instead of the 30s, I picked up the 10s, and I did the work that fits what my system can absorb right now.

Nobody warns you that the rebuilding work has these moments built into it. The half-seconds when your old identity reaches for a load your current capacity can’t carry, and you mistake the disappointment for evidence that you are failing.

Your current body is not a smaller version of the one you used to have. It is a different body, doing real work, on a different scale.

You can train this one.

Tag the woman who’s still reaching for the weight she used to lift. Remind her she’s not alone.
I currently do not squat, lunge, or deadlift. I g I currently do not squat, lunge, or deadlift.

I get why everyone defaults to these movements. They’re efficient, they build strength, and if your body can tolerate them, there’s nothing wrong with having them in a program.

For a long time, I assumed that if I pushed through it, my body would eventually catch up. That’s not how it works when you’re dealing with chronic pain. Pushing through leads to a setback fast.

Your back is tied directly into what your hips and legs are doing. Careful form can only take it so far out of the equation, especially when weakness is involved.

A few months ago, I was doing bodyweight versions of these same exercises at home. Every time, it aggravated my back. So I stepped back to isolated machines instead.

Here’s what made it click. I couldn’t even tolerate a leg extension machine at 30lbs. I weigh about 120. There was no version of me safely squatting my own bodyweight and that’s still true right now.

Isolated machines do exactly what they’re built for. They isolate one muscle group and take my back out of the equation so I can still train and progressively add weight at a pace that’s safe for my body.

If a compound lift keeps interfering with your back, this is where I’d start looking instead.

If this is the kind of order-of-operations thinking that’s useful to you, hit follow. That’s exactly what I break down here.
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