Complete your five minute, weekly check-in to update your scores and keep your trend data current.
Your score reflects how fast your nervous system recovers under the specific pressures of your role - across five behavioural domains and two decision-state markers. The number moves. Track the direction.
Five minutes, once a week. Complete it at the same time each week - the consistency matters more than the timing. Every check-in is a direct measure of how your recovery capacity is shifting across the program. Your scores feed your personal dashboard, building a picture week by week of what’s moving, what’s holding, and where the work is landing in your actual performance. Answer honestly - there are no right answers, only accurate ones. Bring patterns you notice to your sessions.
Set a recurring weekly alarm to complete this check-in - same day, same time each week. Sunday evening works well for most clients. Label it: Recovery Check-In. The data is only useful if it's consistent.
Your responses are saved to your dashboard and sent to Kemina.
Kemina has your responses for this week. Bring any observations that feel significant to your next session - don't try to interpret the data on your own before then.
Reach for these when you need them - not when it's convenient. Between sessions is where the real integration happens.
Thank you, mind, for keeping me safe.
I give you permission to sleep now.
When I sleep, I will gain wisdom about [your focus].
When I wake, I will remember my dreams.
Say this slowly, once, as you settle. Fill in your focus - something you're working through, a decision, a question. Don't force it. Just set the intention and let the system do the rest.
These four points on the palm activate the parasympathetic nervous system - the rest-and-digest state your body needs to transition into sleep.
Apply firm, steady pressure to each point for 30–60 seconds. Breathe slowly while you hold. Work both hands.
What supports the work between sessions.
After a session or protocol, you may experience things that feel unfamiliar. This is not regression. It's the nervous system completing cycles it's been interrupting for years.
Let it move. Don't analyse it. Don't rush it. The self emerges after the pattern collapses - not before.
The Coherence System works at a nervous system level. What you put into your body directly affects how much of that work can land and stabilise.
It is strongly recommended that you reduce or eliminate the following during the program:
This isn't about perfection. It's about giving the work the clearest possible conditions to take hold.
Sometimes the work moves things faster than expected. If you hit a point where the disruption feels significant - not just uncomfortable, but genuinely destabilising - reach out directly. Don't sit in it alone.
This is part of the container. Use it.
You don't need to do anything with a session except let it settle. The work continues underneath - quietly, while everything else carries on.
If something surfaces, reach for the protocols first. If something feels significant and the protocols don't move it, reach out.
Before you make any significant call - a conversation that matters, a decision that can't easily be reversed, a commitment with real weight - ask yourself one question:
“Can I recall the last hour clearly?”
If the last hour is a blur, you are not deciding from strategy. You are deciding from activation. Urgency is a feeling, not always a fact. A nervous system running at capacity generates urgency around almost everything - it has lost the ability to distinguish between what is genuinely time-sensitive and what simply feels that way.
This is not about slowing down. It is about deciding from the right layer. The decision you make from a clear state is almost always better than the one you make from activation - even when activation feels like confidence.
Six guided practices available on Insight Timer. Each is built for the specific pressures of executive performance - not generic wellness content.
What your nervous system is doing during hormonal transition and why pressure recovery capacity matters more for women.
Estrogen directly regulates dopamine receptor sensitivity. When estrogen levels are high, your dopamine system fires efficiently - motivation registers, rewards land, momentum builds. As estrogen declines through perimenopause and menopause, dopamine signalling becomes less efficient. Things that used to feel worth it stop feeling worth it.
This is not ambivalence. This is neurochemistry. The woman in this state isn’t choosing to stop caring - her biological reward architecture has shifted.
Cortisol and estrogen compete for the same biological resources. A nervous system running in chronic stress - the default state of most high-performing women by midlife - actively suppresses estrogen production. The harder you push, the more you drive down the hormones that regulate your motivation, mood, and cognitive function.
This is the mechanism underneath burnout in women. It is not the same as burnout in men. The hormonal component makes it more physiologically entrenched and more resistant to standard interventions.
The Sovereign Self System was not designed as a hormonal intervention. But reducing chronic nervous system activation, which is what the work does - directly reduces the cortisol load that is suppressing your hormonal function. The recalibration you’re doing here has a physiological downstream effect that goes well beyond mood and decision-making.
Important: This information is educational context only and does not constitute medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment recommendations. Individual hormonal, biochemical, and health circumstances vary significantly. Before making any changes to your diet, supplement use, or exercise regimen - including those mentioned above - consult a qualified medical practitioner or healthcare provider familiar with your personal health history. The Coherence Lab and Kemina Fulwood accept no liability for decisions made based on the information provided here. If you are experiencing symptoms of perimenopause, menopause, or any other health condition, please seek appropriate professional medical guidance.