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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.

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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 tag someone who’d know exactly what I mean.
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Somewhere along the way, gentle movement became a Somewhere along the way, gentle movement became a genre instead of a description. A category of things, restorative yoga, gentle stretching, slow walks, that you’re supposed to do when you’re not up for a “real” workout. This means most days you either skip movement completely because nothing on that approved list sounds appealing or you push straight past it into something your body wasn’t actually ready for because gentle felt like admitting defeat.

Here’s the part nobody explains. Gentle was never supposed to be a fixed list of activities. It’s a match between whatever movement you’re choosing and where your nervous system actually is that day. On a Green Light day, a hike can be gentle. On a Red Light day, five minutes of walking around your kitchen can be more than enough. Calling it gentle isn’t you being soft, it’s you reading the room your body is actually in.

That’s the piece the standard advice skips. You can’t match movement to capacity if nobody’s taught you how to read your own capacity in the first place. That’s what the Traffic Light System is for. Not a chart to memorize, but a way to actually check where you are before you decide what “gentle” looks like today.

So the next time someone tells you to “just do something gentle,” ask yourself what your system needs today, not what the label says gentle should look like. Some days that’s a walk. Some days that’s getting down onto the floor and back up. Both count.

Comment “red” or “green,” whichever one today actually is. There’s no wrong answer.
It’s been sitting there for months. Maybe it was a It’s been sitting there for months. Maybe it was a gift or maybe you bought it yourself in a burst of “this year I’m going to actually rest.” Then, work picked up or one of the kids got sick, and the book stayed closed...same bookmark, same page, for weeks.

Every productivity hack tells you to schedule yourself in like an appointment. To block the time and treat it as non-negotiable. That misses the real problem. You can put an hour on the calendar and still not open the book because the block was never the missing piece. What’s missing is a nervous system that has to believe stopping is actually safe before any schedule works.

You’ve told yourself it’s because you’re busy. And if you’re honest, it’s quieter than that. Every time you chose between something for yourself and one more thing for someone else, someone else won. Not because you’re weak, but because somewhere along the way, your body learned that stopping wasn’t safe, so it stopped asking to be prioritized at all.

That’s not poor time management. That’s the sign. The women who are just busy find the five minutes. The ones who take care of everyone else first, don’t. Their own needs stopped registering as needs a long time ago and “later” became the answer to everything that was actually about them. And right now, with school starting back up in a few weeks and every calendar about to fill in again, this is exactly the season it gets worse, not better.

You are not broken. You are dysregulated. The order matters and the fix isn’t a better system. It’s teaching your nervous system that it’s allowed to stop before it’s forced to.

Open the book tonight, even for two minutes. Not to finish it, just to prove to your body that stopping doesn’t cost you anything. Then, save this for the next time you need the reminder.
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