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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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On a good day, it’s tempting to do everything you’ On a good day, it’s tempting to do everything you’ve been saving up, and that’s usually when the crash comes.

A good day can be a test, just a small one. Add a little more than your usual (a few extra minutes, one more set), then notice how you feel that night and the next morning. If you’re steady, you have information about what your body can take. If you’re not, you have that information too, and it points to a smaller step next time.

Everything on this list comes from the same idea: strength gets built at the speed your body can absorb.

Save this for your next good day, or send it to the friend who goes all out when she finally feels good, then pays for it later.

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When you’ve been hurting long enough, your body ge When you’ve been hurting long enough, your body gets very good at saying stop, and it doesn’t always say it because something is being damaged. Sometimes it’s the pain and sometimes it’s the fear the pain left behind (both are real, and they can feel identical from the inside).

For years you may have moved around one movement, avoiding the exact position that causes pain, and sometimes you’re still doing it after the movement has stopped hurting (I still catch myself doing it too).

That makes sense because your body learned the pattern while the pain was real. It can keep bracing before you’ve even started moving. Sometimes you recheck and the pain isn’t there.

What I see clinically is that stop signals get treated as pain by default, when some of them can be learned protection that’s outlasted the pain. The two can feel identical from the inside. Both deserve respect.

Sometimes the useful move is a small, careful test: try the movement once, slow and small, see what’s there. If the pain isn’t there, keep going. Stop if the pain is there and sharp or progressively getting worse.

Telling them apart is a skill (and a slow one for most people).

Save this for the next time you catch yourself moving around something that used to hurt.

#chronicpainlife #nervoussystemsupport #painscience
I’ve taken three weeks off working out between tra I’ve taken three weeks off working out between travel and getting sick, and then life just picked back up again before I felt ready for it.

The whole time, my body has been stressed in a way sleep hasn’t fixed, wired and on edge, snapping at small things that shouldn’t be a big deal.

I kept telling myself I’d feel better if I just sat down and worked instead. Sitting still felt like the safer choice.

It wasn’t. It was just a different kind of stress with nowhere to go.

Exercise is technically a stressor too, but the right amount of it can help a nervous system come back down instead of staying stuck in high alert. Too much too fast just adds another demand on a system that’s already maxed out.

This is something I watch play out constantly. Someone’s system is already maxed out and the instinct is to either push through anyway or stop moving completely. Neither one actually gives the nervous system what it needs.

So today I did something easy instead: an arm workout, kept light, with nothing that leaves me flattened afterward.

It’s still real strength work. I’m still showing up. It just doesn’t have to be all or nothing to count.

Starting is usually the hardest part and you’re allowed to start in the messy middle instead of going all in or not at all.

If you’ve ever put off the small version of a workout because part of you decided it didn’t count unless it was the hard one, tell me. I want to know I’m not the only one.

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