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.
Your cortisol results and wearable data sit alongside your weekly scores to give a complete picture of what's shifting at a physiological level across the program.
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From time to time, anonymised and aggregated data from across The Coherence Lab client base is used for program development, research, and reporting to partner organisations. No personally identifiable information is ever shared. Your name, email, and session content are never included.
Clients assigned to you as a practitioner trainee. You can see their progress, scores, and physiological data.
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. Answer honestly — there are no right answers, only accurate ones.
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.
Your data has been recorded. Your dashboard will reflect this week's scores. See you next week.
Precision tools for specific nervous system states. Use them when the situation calls for it.
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 — 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.
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.
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.
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.
Important: This information is educational context only and does not constitute medical advice. Consult a qualified medical practitioner before making any changes to your diet, supplement use, or exercise regimen.
Establish your physiological baseline at program start. This data becomes the comparison point for everything that follows.
Your Pressure Recovery Capacity score is one signal. The benchmark captures the physiological layer underneath — the nervous system state that score is sitting on top of.
Two measurements: cortisol (available through a saliva test kit) and your wearable data if you have it. Neither is mandatory. Both sharpen the picture.
We track HRV, resting heart rate, and sleep quality alongside your weekly PRC scores. The combination of subjective check-in data and objective physiological data gives the clearest read on what's shifting.
Upload on the same day as your weekly check-in so everything sits on the same timeline.
Active clients appear in all lists. All other statuses are hidden from active views but data is preserved.
Track when kits are sent and when results are expected. Overdue entries are flagged automatically. Dispatching a kit sends the client an email with collection instructions.
Outcome data across all active clients. Physiological comparisons use first 2 weeks vs most recent 2 weeks.
Clients who have completed, paused, or discontinued. Their data is preserved. Completed clients are included in outcome reporting — discontinued and paused are counted but excluded from averages.
Add contacts from partner organisations who need access to the cohort view. They log in via the Hoffmann Reed link on the login screen.
The Pressure Recovery Capacity score (0–28) measures how efficiently a leader's nervous system recovers between demands. High scores indicate sustainable high performance. Compromised scores indicate functional but reserve-depleting operation — the most common pattern in senior leaders and the primary target of the SSS intervention. Depleted scores indicate a broken recovery cycle requiring immediate recalibration.