People have ideas about who goes on women's retreats.
Wealthy women with lots of free time. Women who are "into" that sort of thing. Women who already have it together and just want a luxury experience.
That is not who comes on our retreats. Here's who actually does.
The woman who has been holding it together for everyone
She's capable, competent, and completely exhausted. She's the one people call when things go wrong. She's been the strong one for so long she's forgotten she's allowed to need something too.
→ She books the retreat nervously, convinced she doesn't have time. She comes back saying it was the most important thing she's done in years.
The woman at a crossroads
A relationship ending. A career that no longer fits. A life that made sense five years ago and doesn't anymore.
→ She's not broken — she's between versions of herself. She needs space to figure out who she's becoming, away from the noise of her regular life.
The woman who gave herself away
In a relationship, in motherhood, in a job that required everything. She's been so focused on what everyone else needs that she genuinely doesn't know what she wants anymore.
→ The retreat is the first time in years she's done something purely for herself. The first morning she wakes up without a responsibility, she cries and doesn't know why. By the last day, she does.
The woman who is already doing the work
She meditates. She sees a therapist. She reads the books. She's not coming to start her healing — she's coming to go deeper, and to be in community with other women doing the same.
→ She leaves with a circle of women she's known for five days and will know for life.
The woman who almost didn't come
She talked herself out of it twice. She almost cancelled the week before. Something in her kept saying: you don't deserve this, you can't afford it, the timing isn't right.
→ She came anyway. She is consistently the one who says: I almost didn't come, and I can't imagine who I'd be right now if I hadn't.
What they all have in common
- They're done waiting for the right time
- They know, at some level, that something needs to shift
- They've chosen — however nervously — to say yes to themselves
That's it. That's the only requirement.
If you recognized yourself somewhere in here, that's not a coincidence. Our retreats are in Mexico, Morocco, and Kenya. We'd love to have you.