Clarity and Mind Retreats' mission is to fundamentally encourage people to come together to transition, develop and achieve new thought processes to heal and move on in their personal lives. I am technically a 'middle aged woman' and am heading into a whole new world of ‘singledom’ at nearly 52 after a 33 year relationship and now a 'semi redundant mother’ of 2 young adults who have independent lives. People ask me the question, why? and I can only tell them I have dreamed of living by the sea for five years and the house and town I found just fitted, it felt right so I took the plunge and I could not be happier. Friends who are still in my life are the ones that count and I choose to be around and I have lost the noise of chaos London brought. Hitting the change and leaving everything I know has lead me to bring my emotions to the forefront, to deal with hard facts about myself I hadn’t wanted to tackle and to take responsibility of my past so I can let it go. It can be a hard road to face but if I don’t do it I can’t move forward so instead of burying myself in hormonal turmoil I am embracing 50 something and deciding to smile. I felt I needed to help other people which led to the creation of Clarity and Mind Retreats to share experiences and to have fun after dedicating our lives to work, partner and family. I believe we are meant to experience the life we have lead for us to lean and develop. we are not taught to believe in ourselves enough and allow others to unknowingly negatively influence us, usually due to their own problems and ‘demons’. Society tells us to ‘get on with it’ without dealing with these feelings so we bury them and this is what resurfaces later in life which , I believe is where we are now, dealing with these hidden issues, People don’t know why they feel the way they do, they don’t necessarily know where to go to find help or are told to go on medication, just ignore and carry on. I am not of this belief, I did that and got very ill, and I just won’t accept it anymore
