Restore and optimize your clarity, calm, and resilience.

The PALM Reset Retreat is designed for individuals who are seeking to:

Gain greater mental clarity

Increase calm and reduce anxiety

Expand their capacity to respond with intention

Improve energy and reduce fatigue

Strengthen overall psychological resilience

Regulate their stress response

Psychiatrist-designed. Highly personalized.

Developed by Dr. Nigel Lester, this retreat was designed to help people cultivate the inner resources to meet the professional, social, and personal demands of everyday life today.

What You Gain

Mental Freedom

 Step out of habitual loops and reclaim your attention.

Learn to release repetitive thought processes that quietly consume bandwidth.

Leave with a calmer internal landscape and practical skills to stay there.

Insight into Internal Barriers

See the drivers you couldn’t name until now.

Identify the hidden forces behind hesitation, overcontrol, avoidance, or emotional reactivity.

When a pattern becomes visible, it becomes workable.

Clarity, Acceptance, and Real Change

Develop awareness that creates momentum.

Build a level of self-understanding that is precise, compassionate, and actionable.

Translate insight into decisions, boundaries, and behaviors that actually hold.

Renewed Energy

Recalibrate with deep physical recovery.

Rebuild the biological foundation that allows your mind to operate with more ease, stamina, and flexibility.

Support your nervous system’s capacity for restoration.

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What You Experience

This retreat is a dedicated week away from daily demands, structured for the depth that shorter interventions can’t reach.

Psychiatrist Dr. Nigel Lester brings decades of clinical expertise in personality development, resilience, and human flourishing into a highly practical format.

A deliberately small cohort of eight creates the safety needed for honest reflection and meaningful breakthroughs without performative sharing.

Each participant has an individual session with Dr. Nigel Lester to explore their temperament, character, personal patterns, and obstacles, with the goal of gaining insight and practical direction for growth.

Guided group sessions help participants build self-awareness, emotional insight, and practical tools for healthier patterns of thinking, behavior, and overall outlook.

These classes in neuroplasticity, cardiac coherence, and body awakening combine education and practice to help participants better understand the brain, nervous system, and body, while learning techniques that support focus, regulation, and mind-body awareness.

Each day includes a curated selection of advanced wellness services designed to support recovery, restoration, and overall well-being through therapeutic body-based experiences.

Hosted at PALM’s affiliate wellness center, Origin Wellness in Midtown St. Louis, the program offers a calm, thoughtfully designed space away from daily demands, allowing you to engage wholly in the process. Participants can stay at a nearby hotel or return home to sleep.

Before arrival, you complete an intake process that includes the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), ensuring that your daily experience is shaped around you, right from the start.

From first inquiry to Day One, Coach and Counselor Sarah Lewis will guide you through every step: scheduling, logistics, questions, and preparation, providing a simple, private, and seamless path into the program.

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This program is truly meant to give you the tools to be your best self.

– 2025 Participant

Next Steps

Reach out to Sarah Lewis, who will walk you through details and enrollment.

Clarify your goals and confirm the fit with a complimentary 30-minute consultation.

Select from upcoming sessions. With only eight participants, this retreat has intentionally limited availability.

Secure your place and enroll. Sarah will send your program agreement to sign and a link to complete payment.

You’ll receive the TCI and intake materials to build a precise psychological profile in advance.

Your only job is to show up — everything is prepared for you.

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Upcoming Retreat Dates

Spring 2026

Monday, April 27 to Saturday, May 2

Fall 2026

Monday, September 14 to Saturday, September 19

Meet Your Team

Nigel Lester

Nigel Lester, MD

Director of Mental Health, Psychiatrist, and Program Director

Sarah Lewis

Sarah Lewis, LCSW

Counselor, Coach, and Program Coordinator

Sarah Lewis

Sarah Bird, DNP

Functional Medicine Nurse Practitioner

Sarah Lewis

Alinda Muszynski

Well-Being Coach

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This week has totally reset my life.

I would describe the program as a wellness reboot. A way to find peace and also a glimpse at your own personal worth. To have your cup refilled.

I came into the program stressed and unable to let go. Now that we’ve finished the program, I am a happier, healthier, less stressed individual.

This past week has helped me to start to let go and has given me the tools to work on the aspects of myself that I’d like to improve. In a sense, it feels like the biggest reset of my life.

I feel lighter and more relaxed than I have in a while.

Feels like pressing the reset button on your brain.

– 2025 Participant

Let’s find out if the PALM Reset Retreat is right for you.

Program Coordinator Sarah Lewis will reach out to you for a 15-minute Discovery Call.