What Our Recovery System Involves
The named practices, frameworks, and recognized approaches behind our nervous-system-based recovery system for CFS, Long COVID, fibromyalgia, and post-viral symptoms. This is what the work involves, and why it helps.
It's a nervous-system-based recovery system built on three pillars: neuroplastic, behavioural, and physical coaching. Clients do daily brain-retraining and somatic work, learn to respond calmly to symptoms instead of fearing them, and gradually expand activity at a pace the nervous system can handle.
The practices clients do
14 namedConcrete, do-it-today exercises, including but not limited to the below. This is what a normal day of the work could look like. Someone might use a few of these or many of them, typically a combination, depending on where they're at and what their nervous system health assessment is telling us.
The frameworks they learn
the mental modelsThe "why it works" concepts taught through the Recovery Science Blueprint, the models that explain why recovery is possible.
The Zones (the recovery map)
Red to GreenThe Stages of Recovery, framed as zones. Most people can place themselves on this map right away, wherever they're starting from.
How this maps to approaches you may know
If you or your doctor recognize these clinical names, this is how our work relates to them. We engage some form of each of these recognized approaches and integrate their principles into one nervous-system-based system.
| Our practice | Approach we engage some form of |
|---|---|
| Brain Retraining work | Neuroplasticity / brain retraining |
| Somatic Tracking + Responding Well | Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) / somatic tracking |
| Nervous System Triangle, affirmations, grounding | Polyvagal / nervous-system regulation |
| Pushing vs. Pacing, Duration vs. Intensity | Pacing & energy management (the "energy envelope") |
| Phase-based reconditioning | Graded activity, nervous-system-led (not GET) |
| Thought Reframing | CBT-style cognitive reframing |
| Breath-focus & gratitude work | Mindfulness & gratitude practice |
* We are not a certified or licensed provider of any single one.
Our graded reconditioning is deliberately not GET (Graded Exercise Therapy). GET pushes through symptoms on a fixed schedule, and it has harmed a lot of people. This is the opposite: it's led by the nervous system and only expands activity when the body is regulated and ready, never by pushing through a flare-up.
How we measure it
assessment toolsThis is a coaching and education-based recovery system, not medical treatment or diagnosis. Always consult your own medical professional before making changes to your care. Our practices are delivered as coaching support. We engage some form of the approaches named here, and we are not certified or licensed medical providers. Recovery looks different for everyone, and results vary.