t Thrive with Susana
For women rebuilding after cancer treatment

You survived cancer. But you're still too exhausted to fully live the life you fought to keep.

The brain fog. The broken sleep. The feeling that your family gets whatever is left of you.

Everyone is relieved you're alive. You want to feel alive, too.

The Reclamation Method is a step-by-step survivorship course to help you rebuild energy, sleep, strength, and trust in your body, starting with your cellular foundations.

Restore→ Regulate→ Rebuild→ Reclaim→ Expand

Created by Susana Demore, PT, DPT.

A Doctor of Physical Therapy, breast cancer survivor, and mom who lived this, too.

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Susana Demore smiling in her kitchen with an iced coffee
Susana Demore, PT, DPT Doctor of Physical Therapy & breast cancer survivor

If this is your story

You thought the hardest part would be getting through treatment.

You weren't prepared for how hard ordinary life could feel afterward.

You lose your words halfway through a conversation and wonder where your brain went.

You love your kids desperately, but by the end of the day you have almost nothing left to give them.

You try to exercise because you know it's supposed to help, then spend the next day wondering whether you did too much.

And an unfamiliar ache can take you from an ordinary afternoon to wondering whether cancer is back.

And somewhere in all of that, you're thinking:

Is this just who I am now?

I remember that question. I remember being grateful to be alive and still feeling devastated by how hard it was to live that way.

Gratitude didn't make the exhaustion easier. And telling myself to try harder wasn't giving me a way forward.

The approach

You need more than "give it time" and another list of things to do.

Eat betterExerciseSleep moreReduce stress

Okay. But where do you start when making dinner already feels like too much?

The Reclamation Method gives you a plan for rebuilding after cancer, from supporting cellular energy and improving your daily routines to returning to movement, building strength, and working through the fear that keeps making your life smaller.

We start with cellular and mitochondrial health: understanding how your body produces energy and supporting the foundations it depends on through hydration, minerals, light, and nutritional raw materials.

Cellular foundations → regulation and sleep → nourishment, movement, and strength → self-trust and fuller participation in life.

You don't need to feel amazing before beginning. You need a next step that makes sense for the body and life you have right now.

Real women

Their experience inside Reclamation.

Email from Lyn beginning Phase 2: less fatigue, waking up feeling better, sleeping better

Lyn, beginning Phase 2. Sent to my inbox, unedited.

These are individual experiences, not a promise of the same result for everyone.

Why me

I'm Susana. I didn't survive cancer to spend the rest of my life feeling like that.

Susana in a hospital bed holding her newborn, with her husband and older son beside her
Diagnosed at 35.
Seven months pregnant.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer at 35, while seven months pregnant.

Chemotherapy. Surgery. Radiation. Treatment-induced menopause.

Treatment saved my life. But afterward, I was exhausted, foggy, anxious, and sleeping about three hours a night. I was snapping at the people I loved and wondering what happened to the woman I used to be.

Then came the panic attack on Christmas Eve.

I was supposed to be celebrating. Instead, I was on the closet floor, struggling to catch my breath.

I was a Doctor of Physical Therapy. I knew how to help people regain function. Yet I was still trying to push my own way through a body and a life that felt completely depleted.

Eventually, I changed how I approached rebuilding.

I started with my cellular foundations, learned tools for overwhelm, and changed how I nourished myself and rebuilt strength. I paid attention to what I could handle and recover from instead of constantly chasing what I thought I should be able to do.

Over time, I had more energy. I slept better. I became more present with my kids. I felt stronger. And my life started to feel like mine again.

I brought my experience as a survivor and my training in rebuilding physical function together to create The Reclamation Method.

Three minutes, from me to you, before you read anything else.

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What's actually going on

Treatment ended. What your body has been through still matters.

Chemotherapy can affect the mitochondria involved in producing cellular energy. Surgery and radiation can change tissue and movement. Treatment-related hormonal changes can affect sleep, mood, and how you feel in your body.

Microscopy image of a living cell showing internal structures

Then life expects you to return to work, parenting, appointments, relationships, and everything else.

No wonder "just get back to normal" can feel impossible.

Reclamation turns that understanding into a practical progression: support your cellular foundations, build routines for sleep and nourishment, return to movement, and learn tools for the moments fear takes over. Symptoms can have multiple contributors, and the course also helps you recognize when medical evaluation matters.

Rebuilding capacity

What you can handle, recover from, and do again.

In real life, we're working toward having something left after work, feeling stronger doing everyday things, and spending more of your day living it. Cellular health is where our progression begins, alongside the other parts of recovery that affect how you feel and function.

Symptoms can have more than one contributor. New, persistent, worsening, severe, or concerning symptoms deserve appropriate medical evaluation, especially with a cancer history.

The roadmap

A way forward you can picture in your actual life.

Five phases. One place to begin. Room to move at your own pace.

1

Phase One

Restore

Start rebuilding the energy your everyday life demands.

Before adding another workout or demanding routine, we begin with the cellular foundations involved in producing energy: hydration, minerals, light, and nutritional raw materials.

You'll learn how treatment can affect your mitochondria and how to put those foundations into practice, including optional supplement pathways.

The goal: more energy for ordinary life, getting through your afternoon with something left for yourself and the people you love.

Inside this phase
  • Cellular and mitochondrial health, capacity, and energy physiology explained in plain language
  • Hydration and electrolyte balance
  • Light and daily rhythm
  • Nutritional raw materials and optional supplement pathways
  • Implementation guidance, plus optional mitochondria and cortisol deep dives
2

Phase Two

Regulate

Unwind at night. Feel less overwhelmed during the day.

For the nights you're exhausted but can't switch off. The afternoons everything feels like too much. The moments you snap before you can stop yourself.

Use step-by-step practices to settle when stress takes over, along with the Reclamation Sleep Framework to build routines that support rest.

Working toward: more moments when you can pause, respond with more patience, and stop carrying the whole day's tension into bed.

Inside this phase
  • Understanding wired-and-tired patterns
  • Step-by-step breathing and regulation practices
  • A toolbox of more than six practices to choose from
  • The Reclamation Sleep Framework
  • Recognizing when sleep or mental-health symptoms need additional support
3

Phase Three

Rebuild

Build strength for everyday life, with a plan beyond "push harder."

Know how to feed yourself without making food another source of stress. Understand movement changes after surgery. Begin walking and progressively building strength, with a way to adjust when your body needs more recovery.

You don't need a workout that leaves you unable to function tomorrow. You need a starting point, a progression, and permission to use the version that fits today.

Working toward: walking, lifting, and keeping up with your day with more confidence, and a way to adjust before one workout takes over tomorrow.

Inside this phase
  • The Reclamation Plate: Protein + Plant + Fuel + Fat
  • Four weeks of breakfast, lunch, and dinner recipes with grocery lists
  • Practical education on digestion, hormones after cancer, and lymphatic health
  • Post-surgical movement, scars, and tightness
  • The Surgical Pathway Mini Rehab Program, organized around surgical history
  • Walking, progressive strength, and your Physical Capacity Plan
  • A 24-hour response check and Minimum, Normal, and More-Capacity options

Challenge → Observe → Recover → Repeat.

4

Phase Four

Reclaim

Stop letting every unfamiliar sensation take over your day.

An unfamiliar sensation can send your mind straight back to cancer.

Learn to work through the alarm, recognize when something needs medical attention, and rebuild trust in your ability to respond. Begin reconnecting with the woman whose identity became wrapped around surviving.

You don't have to wait until you feel completely fearless to start participating in your life again.

The goal: more attention for the people, plans, and experiences in front of you, while still taking your health seriously.

Inside this phase
  • Fear of recurrence and the cycle of sensation, interpretation, and alarm
  • Notice → Regulate → Assess → Respond
  • Self-trust, identity, joy, and your future self
  • Resources for when you need support beyond the program
5

Phase Five

Expand

Build a life that leaves room for you, too.

As you rebuild, you get to ask a different question: what do I want this energy and strength for?

Look at the work, expectations, boundaries, and responsibilities that keep leaving you depleted. Make a realistic plan for busy weeks and setbacks.

Working toward: room for relationships, purpose, and things you enjoy, with a plan to support yourself when life gets heavy.

Inside this phase
  • Work, time, support, boundaries, environment, and purpose
  • Your Personal Depletion Fingerprint and capacity check-ins
  • A Maintenance Blueprint and ways to return to the tools you need
  • Optional wellness resources, clearly distinguished by evidence level
  • Your new standard for the life you're building
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In their words

Hear from the women doing this in real life.

These are their messages, in their own words. Unedited.

Email from Ann: her insomnia has gone and she felt an uplift in energy
Message from Meghan starting week 5 of the Method: feeling better and hopeful
Text from Amber finishing Phase 4 about the fear of recurrence repatterning work
Text from Katy finishing Phase 3: using the recipes, morning sunlight, falling asleep is getting easier
Message from a therapist and Radical Remission coach who felt seen and heard by the introduction

Each woman's experience is her own. Results vary.

Included in the course

Were you told to take it easy after surgery, but never shown how to rebuild?

Inside Reclamation, the Surgical Pathway Mini Rehab Program gives you movement education and video guidance organized around your surgical history, including mobility, scars, and tightness.

This is where my DPT training becomes something you can use: education on returning to movement, with guidance on when you need an individual physical therapy assessment.

So returning to movement doesn't have to mean guessing what to do next.

Included in your enrollment. No separate purchase.

What you get

Here's what comes with your Reclamation.

✓

The complete five-phase online course

Restore, Regulate, Rebuild, Reclaim, and Expand, organized inside one private platform. Open it on your phone, tablet, or computer and follow the next step without piecing together advice from a dozen places. Includes your cellular and mitochondrial foundations, regulation toolbox, Reclamation Sleep Framework, hormone and lymphatic education, and fear-of-recurrence and identity work, all organized into the five phases above.

✓

A printable, fillable companion workbook

Follow along, reflect, and make the plan your own. Keep the prompts and tools beside you instead of trying to remember everything you read.

✓

Video demonstrations and implementation resources

See practices and movements demonstrated, then return to them when you need a reminder.

✓

A simpler way to feed yourself

The Reclamation Plate plus four weeks of breakfast, lunch, and dinner recipes with matching grocery lists. Repeatable meals. Convenience allowed. Fewer evenings staring into the fridge wondering what to make.

✓

The Surgical Pathway Mini Rehab Program

Included within the course, with education and video guidance organized around surgical history. A starting point for understanding post-surgical movement, mobility, scars, and tightness, with guidance on when you need individual physical therapy.

✓

Walking, strength, and your Physical Capacity Plan

A progressive framework, a way to observe your recovery, and options for the days when your energy is different. You have a plan beyond "I guess I should exercise more."

✓

A maintenance plan for real life

Minimum, Normal, and More-Capacity options, check-ins, and a map to return to when work, illness, family, or stress change what you can manage.

✓

A private survivor community

A place to connect, share, and hear from women who understand why life after treatment can still feel complicated. Join the conversation or read quietly. Participation is optional.

✓

Lifetime access and future course updates

Come back to the course, workbook, and community at your own pace. No subscription. No deadline to finish.

Getting started

"This sounds helpful. But what if I'm already exhausted?"

Then the starting point needs to fit that.

You do not open Reclamation and get told to change your food, workouts, sleep, supplements, and entire schedule by Monday.

Here's what beginning looks like:

  1. Log in to the private course platform and open Start Here for orientation and symptom reflection.
  2. Move into Restore to learn about cellular capacity and work through the foundational implementation guidance.
  3. Use the companion workbook to record what fits your life, practice those changes, and continue through the phases at your pace.

Some weeks you'll have more energy. Some weeks doing one small thing will be enough.

There are no live calls to catch up on.
No deadline chasing you through the course.
No starting-over penalty if life interrupts.

You don't have to know how you'll manage every phase before you begin. And if life interrupts? Come back to the part of the map you need.

Email from Susan: feeling calmer since discovering she does not have to do everything in a day

Susan, on starting small. Sent to my inbox, unedited.

Enroll

You don't need to piece together another recovery plan on your own.

Get the complete Reclamation Method: cellular foundations, sleep and regulation tools, nourishment, progressive movement, and the work of trusting yourself again, all organized into one course you can return to.

The Reclamation Method

$147

One payment. Lifetime access.

Instant accessSelf-pacedNo subscriptionNo required supplement purchases

The complete course, companion workbook, video demonstrations, four weeks of recipes and grocery lists, Surgical Pathway Mini Rehab Program, and private survivor community are included. Lifetime access and future course updates are included, too.

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Is this for you?

Is this the support you've been looking for?

Reclamation was created for the woman who:

  • Finished cancer treatment and still doesn't feel like herself
  • Is trying to work, parent, or keep life moving while feeling exhausted or foggy
  • Wants tools for stress, sleep, and fear alongside a path back to movement and strength
  • Is tired of collecting advice without knowing how to put it into practice
  • Wants to begin at a manageable pace and build from there
  • Wants her life to become about more than managing how she feels

You may be months out of treatment or years into survivorship. You don't have to be newly finished to want a clearer way forward.

This is education and practical support. Individual medical, rehabilitation, nutrition, or mental-health needs still deserve individual care.

Still wondering?

Frequently Asked Questions

What format is the program in?

It's a self-paced online course organized into five phases, with a downloadable companion workbook, video demonstrations, and implementation resources. You can access it on your phone, tablet, or computer. Your enrollment also includes the private survivor community.

How much time does it take?

There is no required weekly target. Read or watch a lesson, choose a practice or next step, and give yourself time to use it. Some phases may take longer than others. Lifetime access means you can move at a pace that fits your life.

What if I've been out of treatment for years?

You belong here, too. I spent years trying to function around symptoms before changing my approach. Reclamation includes energy foundations, stress and sleep tools, physical rebuilding, self-trust, and maintaining your progress, so you can use the parts that meet your needs now.

Is this mainly a supplement program?

No. I share what I personally use and the role supplements played in my experience, along with optional pathways and considerations. Buying supplements is not required to participate. The method also includes regulation, sleep, nutrition, movement, identity, and maintaining your progress. Review supplements with your medical team when relevant to your treatment or medications.

What if I'm too tired to exercise?

You don't have to arrive ready for a strength program. We begin with lower-demand foundations, and the movement education helps you find an appropriate starting point and observe your response. If your symptoms or treatment history require assessment, individualized clinical guidance comes first.

What changes is Reclamation designed to help me make?

The goal is more energy for daily life, better routines for sleep and nourishment, growing physical strength, and tools for working with stress and fear. You put those tools into practice through the five phases. No specific outcome or timeline is guaranteed; your health and circumstances matter, and persistent fatigue or distress may also need professional care.

Is this medical treatment or individualized physical therapy?

No. I bring my perspective as a DPT and survivor to an educational program. It does not diagnose symptoms, replace oncology care, or provide individualized rehabilitation, psychotherapy, lymphedema treatment, or medical nutrition care.

Can I use this during active treatment?

The program is primarily written for rebuilding after treatment. Some education may be relevant earlier, but active treatment changes what is appropriate. Discuss movement, nutrition, supplements, and other significant changes with the oncology team who knows your situation.

What happens if I stop for a few weeks?

You come back. There is no catching up and no deadline. Return to the phase or tool that fits what you need now.

Is there a subscription or an additional community fee?

No. The $147 payment includes lifetime access to the course, companion workbook, and private community, along with future course updates. Optional products mentioned inside are separate and are not required purchases.

A final word

You fought hard to be here. You deserve support for what comes next.

More energy for your day. More confidence in your body. More moments when you're participating in your life instead of just getting through it.

That is what we're rebuilding toward.

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