The Reclaim™ · Founding Cohort · June 23, 2026
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 6-week small group program for high-performing women who have achieved the career, held the life together, and somewhere along the way stopped being able to feel any of it.
Founding cohort rate: $2,500. Price increases to $3,500 after this cohort closes. Up to 10 women.
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
The brain receives 80% of its available information from the body — not the reverse. Your instinct, your intuition, your early-warning system, your capacity to feel: all of it travels through the body first.
You have been leading, deciding, and living from the remaining 20%.
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.
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 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. That is The Reclaim.
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
Week 1 — See
"What is your body actually carrying?"
Map where your time and energy are actually going. Your body comes online for the first time — gently, without pressure.
Week 2 — Feel
"What is my body telling me?"
Learn to locate yourself in three distinct states. One regulation practice for each. You begin to see how your state has been driving your decisions.
Week 3 — Locate
"Where did I go?"
Map the distance between who you were and who you became in service of this life. Name what it has cost you.
Week 4 — Release
"What am I ready to put down?"
A somatic release practice. The Sovereignty Filter introduced and applied in real time to three things you are currently carrying — out loud, before the session ends.
Week 5 — Rebuild
"Who am I becoming?"
Your personal operating infrastructure built: decision filter, boundaries, daily regulation practices, energy rhythm, support structure. Your new narrative written and spoken aloud.
Week 6 — Reclaim
"Who are you, now?"
The threshold session. You name what you are leaving behind and who you are stepping into — witnessed by the group. Your complete personal protocol assembled.
You enter in Week 1. You cross a threshold in Week 6.
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.
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 activation, one for shutdown, one for connection
The Sovereignty Filter — your personal decision-making framework, applied to your real life before the session ends
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
6 weekly live sessions, with an extended closing session in Week 6
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
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.
Tuesdays · 8pm ET · 7pm CT · 5pm PT · Beginning June 23, 2026
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.
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.
- You've been performing at a high level for years — 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
- 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
Want the full details before you apply? Read the complete program overview → apriljsherman.com/the-reclaim
Applications are reviewed. You'll hear back within 48 hours. Founding rate closes when the cohort fills.