09/18/2025
As I was planning my very first retreat I saw a creator I follow make a post about how going on retreats was no longer in fashion. How we must take the medicine our daily lives offer us, and we must stop engaging in escapism. She wasn’t directing that post at me, but for some reason it felt so demoralizing. Like I had finally showed up on to the cool kid scene, and the cool kids had just left.
I did the retreat anyway. I found my wounded inner child who was never quite cool enough, always a bit behind the trends, always standing a few layers out of the popular circle hoping to be seen and chosen, and I told her she was really cool anyway.
I found my inner 20-something self, who was hustling so hard to stay alive that days off from work were not a thing, and vacations would always leave me in financial ruin for a few months, and I told her that getting away from normal life was safe now.
I found my inner young mom, who was touched out and lonely… oh so lonely. Longing for a moment to breathe. Longing for someone to take care of me for a change, and I told her we’d create a space for people like her to do just that.
And I found myself. I got to know what my gifts were. I reaffirmed how deeply aligned the energy of a retreat felt. I validated my plan in spite of people’s opinions of it.
The retreat happened. It was so beautiful. The communion of women. The care I provided to not just them, but to all those wounded hungry parts of me, felt like freedom, and I felt so powerful.
I decided during that retreat that maybe there would be a point where I viewed retreats as escapism, but it was not today, and it likely wouldn’t be soon, so right after I finished the spring retreat I put the deposit down and paid for the fall retreat, full of faith that I can pull off the coolest experience and connect my people to their deepest inner knowing.
The Fall retreat is here, and I am so so excited to invite you into it.
If you need a moment to feel cool, to feel rested, to feel seen, may this be your moment and may these be the people who introduce you to a new experience of Belonging, like you’ve never felt before.
I’ll see you there
