11/17/2025
✨Sedona retreat weekend ✨
We are not the same women who arrived in Sedona.
We carry the grounding from nature and yoga amongst the red rocks…
the sacred home created by a woman who once sat in her own deep well with God, a reminder that beauty can rise from pain, and that what breaks us can also become what blesses us.
We carry the moment at the Chapel of the Holy Cross when Jesus seemed to look right into our eyes and say,
“You belong exactly as you are.”
We carry dinner at Mariposa, the sunset photos, the joy in simply being together.
And we carry the courage it took to get on those e-bikes, the fear, the fall, the synchronicities, the wind and rain sweeping in at the perfect time. Nothing was random.
Every moment was part of the blessing.
This weekend also held something deeply personal for me…
I got to spend time with my future sister-in-law and friend, Andrea, and I couldn’t be happier to be walking with her into this next chapter of her life as she marries my brother. Being with her and her closest friends, some since they were four years old, was an honor. The love around her is real, deep, and decades strong. 💪🏼
And may this entire weekend be a message to each of our younger selves, the parts of us that felt alone, afraid, unseen, or unsure:
You made it.
You are held.
And who you are today is exactly who you needed then.
As we step back into our lives, may we go gently.
May we listen inward.
May we carry the beauty we touched in the desert into the beauty we live every day.
Sedona will stay with us always.