​You built a life through discipline, urgency, and excellence.
Now your nervous system doesn’t know how to stand down.

You are the competent one.
The reliable one.
The one who handles everything.
You don’t fall apart.
You over-function.
Rest feels uncomfortable.
Calm feels unfamiliar.
Success never quite lands.

​What you call “drive” may be a nervous system that learned early that slowing down wasn’t safe.

Many high achievers grew up in environments where:
  • Emotional needs weren’t prioritized
  • Chaos was normal
  • Performance created safety
  • Being low-maintenance was rewarded
And now?
The very strategy that built your success is exhausting you.

What This Intensive Actually does

What We Work On Specifically
Over 2–3 focused days, we will:
  • Map your nervous system patterns under stress
  • Identify the trauma-linked beliefs driving over-functioning
  • Target performance-based identity structures
  • Interrupt activation cycles in real time
  • Recalibrate safety without removing ambition
  • Build capacity for calm without collapse
  • Chronic fight-or-flight activation
  • Inability to rest without guilt
  • Work addiction masked as excellence
  • Relationship strain from over-control
  • Chaos-seeking when things feel calm
  • Emotional detachment disguised as independence
  • Collapsing when not achieving
  • Burnout that keeps repeating

What This Is Not

​Who It’s For
This is not:
  • A business mastermind
  • A yoga retreat
  • A coaching container
  • A trauma-processing free-for-all
  • Somatic reparenting in a circle
It is structured, psychologically rigorous, trauma-informed work.
This intensive is for:
Entrepreneurs
Executives
Physicians
High-performing clinicians
Founders
​“The strong one” in their family

​Why an Intensive (Not Weekly Therapy)

High performers don’t want endless process.
Weekly therapy maintains insight.
Intensives interrupt entrenched patterns.
When your nervous system has been rehearsing activation for decades, change requires depth and focus.

About Dr. Sally Riggs

I know this pattern from the inside.

I was that person.
Type A. Disciplined. Relentless. High-functioning.

I built my life on intensity.

I ran three businesses. I trained for and ran marathons and ultramarathons.

Achievement felt stabilizing.
Pushing felt normal.
Rest felt earned — or unsafe.

For years, I mistook activation for strength.

Until I didn’t.

Life dealt me a curve ball in the form of a debilitating, disabling illness that totally shut down my nervous system (and took hold because my nervous system was constantly on high alert).

Recovering Type A is not about becoming soft.
It’s about building a nervous system that no longer needs urgency to feel alive.

I’ve done that work myself.

Now I help other high-achieving adults step out of constant activation and build a nervous system that can actually support their life.

Structure & Investment

  • Format: virtual (available to clients resident in NY, NJ, PA, FL, and TX at the time of services).
  • A limited number of in-person intensives are offered in Houston, TX at certain times of the year which doesn't limit residency.
  • 2–3 consecutive days
  • Pre-intensive assessment session
  • Post-intensive integration plan
  • Nervous system regulation elements and somatic practices may be incorporated where appropriate (including potentially the Safe and Sound Protocol)
  • Investment range: $7,ooo-$12,000
  • Application required

Apply for the Recovering Type A Intensive 

​If you’re ready to stop running your life on stress and urgency, complete the application below.