The Reclaim™ · Founding Cohort · Waitlist Open

You didn't lose yourself all at once.

You traded yourself in slowly, for results, for reliability, for the version of you that kept everything running. The Reclaim is how you come back.

A six-week small group embodiment program for high-performing women who have held it all together, at work, at home, or both, and somewhere along the way stopped being able to feel any of it.

$2,500. Price increases to $3,500 after this cohort. Up to 10 women. Waitlist members are invited first.

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You are successful by every external measure. Senior title. Respected. Capable. The woman people come to when things need to get done.

And you are depleted to the bone.

Not burned out in the way you let yourself admit. Running on something that stopped being sustainable a long time ago. You power through. You deliver. You make the impossible happen. Then you go home empty.

You've tried the planners. The systems. The weekend retreats. They help for a bit. They don't hold, because none of them addressed what was actually happening: you have been making every decision, leading every team, carrying every responsibility from a place in your body that has been in overdrive so long, it no longer knows how to stop.

You know something has to change. You don't yet believe it can.

Why nothing has held

Your body is always informing your brain. Your instinct, your intuition, your early-warning system, your capacity to feel: much of it arrives through the body first. When you are disconnected from it, you are leading, deciding, and living on a fraction of the signal.

This is why the new planner doesn't hold. Why the boundary you set doesn't stick. Why you keep ending up in the same patterns in every role, every organization, every version of the life you are trying to build. The operating system hasn't changed. Only the surroundings have.

Gentle ripples stretch across open water beneath a cloudy sky, with pale light along the horizon.

Over-functioning is not high performance. It is high performance's most convincing impersonator.

Two layers. One experience.

Every session of The Reclaim runs on two layers simultaneously.

The Reclaim is an embodiment program. The somatic layer teaches you to feel what is true. The operating layer builds the structure to live it.

THE SOMATIC LAYER

The body work, regulation, presence, feeling. This is what makes the change embodied: you don't just understand the shift, you know it in your body and act from it. You learn to feel again. To recognize what your body is telling you. To make decisions from a grounded place instead of a reactive one.

THE OPERATING LAYER

The structural work, mapping, deciding, eliminating, rebuilding. This is what makes the change durable. You identify what you are carrying, decide what stops, build your Sovereignty Filter™, and rebuild the operating infrastructure of your life: your decision filter, your boundaries, your energy rhythm, your support structure.

One without the other is incomplete. Together, they change both what you carry and how you carry it.

What The Reclaim is, and what it is not

NOT self-care.

The wellness industry has long sold personal solutions to structural problems. The Reclaim does not help you tolerate an unsustainable life. It changes what you carry.

NOT coaching.

Most coaching works from the mind downward, goals, plans, accountability. The Reclaim works from the body upward. The signals, the patterns, and the infrastructure that makes change actually hold, built from within, not applied from above.

NOT therapy.

We do not process past trauma in group. If deeper material surfaces, we hold it with care and support you in finding the right resource.

NOT a passive experience.

You will not leave with insights to consider later. You will leave with decisions made, structures built, and a protocol that is yours.

This IS a structured arc.

Six weeks with a clear beginning, progression, and threshold. Not ongoing. Not open-ended.

This IS body-first.

We begin with what you're feeling, because you cannot change what you cannot feel. Every structural shift downstream depends on this.

This IS operationally rigorous.

You walk away with a real decision framework, real boundaries, and a personal operating system you built yourself.

This IS held by the group.

Up to 10 women, a shared Covenant of confidentiality and presence, a witness partner for the full six weeks.

The six-week arc

  1. Week 1See + Feel
  2. Week 2Remember
  3. Week 3Curate
  4. Week 4Receive
  5. Week 5Rebuild
  6. Week 6Reclaim

Week 1 · See + Feel

"What is my body telling me?"

Your body comes online, gently. You learn to locate yourself in three states, Steady, Activated, and Shut down, and begin to see how your state has been driving your decisions.

Week 2 · Remember

"What have I been missing?"

Remember who you were before you became the one who holds everything. Name what you have been missing in your life. Thank the woman who has been carrying everything.

Week 3 · Curate

"What stays, what changes, what goes?"

Sort everything you carry into what stays, what changes, and what goes, using the Sovereignty Filter. Make at least three decisions out loud before the session ends.

Week 4 · Receive

"What do I actually want?"

Desire comes back online. You name what you want now, learn what it feels like to receive without deflecting or earning it, and take one small action.

Week 5 · Rebuild

"Who am I becoming?"

Your personal operating infrastructure, built in session: decision filter, boundaries, daily regulation practices, energy rhythm, support and receiving. Your new narrative written and spoken aloud.

Week 6 · Reclaim

"Who are you now?"

The threshold session. You name what you are leaving behind, who you are stepping into, and what you have already begun to receive, witnessed by the group. Your complete personal protocol assembled.

You enter in Week 1. You cross a threshold in Week 6.

The six weeks follow the shape of a rite of passage: stepping back from the old life, the in-between, and returning changed.

What you take with you

The transformation is not a mindset shift. It is not a list of insights. It is a new way of being in your body and operating in your life, built by you, in session, over six weeks.

What you know in your bones

  • You know yourself again, including pieces of yourself you never knew before.
  • You can feel your body again. All of it. Joy that brings tears to your eyes. Peace. Calm.
  • You know what you want, and you let yourself receive it.
  • You say no with bold, feminine power, and it lands without a fight.
  • You have stopped missing your life.
  • Your completed Reclaim Journal, your maps, decisions, and operating infrastructure, built in real time across all six sessions

  • Guided daily audio recordings in April's voice, one per week, a body awareness practice you continue long after the program ends

  • Three state-specific regulation practices, one for each state: Steady, Activated, Shut down

  • The Sovereignty Filter, your personal decision-making framework, applied to your real life before the session ends

  • Your desire inventory and first acts of receiving, what you want, named, and one step already taken

  • Your five-component Operating Infrastructure, decision filter, boundaries, daily regulation practices, energy rhythm, support structure

  • Your new narrative, written in present tense, spoken aloud, witnessed

  • Your complete personal protocol, everything integrated, documented, and yours

Nothing is homework to consider later. Everything is built in session, while the work is alive in your body.

Program details

Format

6 weekly live virtual sessions, 90 minutes each, with an extended closing session in Week 6

Followed by three monthly integration sessions, because change that holds needs time to hold.

Small group: up to 10 women

A witness partner for the full six weeks

Between-session practice: daily body awareness + state-specific regulation + one application task, never more than 15 minutes total

The Container

Every cohort opens with a Group Covenant, spoken aloud, not signed and forgotten.

Each woman commits to holding space without fixing, speaking honestly when it's uncomfortable, honoring full confidentiality, and bringing her whole self.

Tuesday evenings · virtual sessions

Cohort 1 begins in early 2027. Waitlist members hear the start date first.

Portrait of April Sherman, creator and facilitator of The Reclaim
A Note from April

April Sherman

I spent 25 years inside some of the most demanding corporate environments there are, most recently leading global teams at IBM. I was good at it. Exceptionally good at it.

And I was missing my life.

Not because I didn't care about it. Because I didn't know how to stop. The urgency felt real. The responsibility felt real. The belief that everything depended on me felt like fact, not pattern. Even when my body was telling me otherwise, in the most unignorable ways possible, I kept going.

It took a long time to understand what that was costing me. And longer still to build a different way.

What came after wasn't a pivot, it was a decade of building. Training in advanced energy medicine and somatic healing. Deep study of the body, the nervous system, and what it actually takes to change how you operate from the inside out. The Reclaim is what survived all of that, the parts that actually worked, in my body and in my life.

I know what it costs to be you. I know what it feels like to go home empty after giving everything to a room full of people who needed you. I know the particular loneliness of being the most capable woman in every room and having no one who sees what it's taking.

There is another way. And you don't have to find it alone.

Investment

$2,500

Founding cohort rate. Price increases to $3,500 after this cohort closes.

Includes the six weeks and the three monthly integration sessions that follow. 3-payment plan available.

Many participants in corporate or entrepreneurial roles fund this through leadership development or L&D budgets. This is not a wellness expense. It is an operating upgrade.

This is for you if
  • You've been carrying more than your share for years, at work, at home, or both, and you know it isn't sustainable
  • You've lost access to what you feel, and you miss it
  • Everything defaults to you and you're not sure how to change that without losing ground
  • You want change that holds, not a conversation about it
  • You're ready to stop carrying what was never yours
This is not for you if
  • You want gradual, comfortable change without disruption
  • You're not open to the possibility that over-functioning and high performance are not the same thing
  • You want a space to process indefinitely without committing to decisions
  • You're not willing to let go of what you've been holding, even when it is costing you

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