Why Create a Retreat for Women in Midlife and Beyond?

A Long Time in the Making

The truth is, this retreat didn’t come from years and years of planning. It came from a moment.

A moment when I walked away from a toxic situation and finally chose myself.

Everything in my life shifted after that. Not instantly, not perfectly—but enough for me to start breathing again. Enough for me to start imagining a future that wasn’t built on survival, but on strength. Enough for me to say, “If I can rebuild my life from the ground up, maybe I can help other women do the same.”

That’s when the idea of a retreat first appeared.

It didn’t show up as a fully formed plan. It came quietly, like a spark: a vision of a cozy weekend, a peaceful setting, and a group of women who were ready—really ready—to step into the next version of themselves.

Women who had carried heavy things. Women who were tired of pretending everything was fine—women who were ready to stop shrinking and start rising.

I didn’t ignore that spark. Not this time.Because when you’ve finally walked away from something that drained the life out of you, you learn pretty quickly what deserves your energy and what doesn’t.

And creating a space for women to breathe, restore, and reconnect with themselves? That felt right. That felt true.

So I followed it.

I found the venue. I set the dates. I shaped the weekend around everything I wish I’d had when I was trying to find my footing again—a mix of reflection, rest, nourishment, movement, and meaningful connection.

And somewhere along the way, the spark became a real event.

This retreat is exciting to me because it represents the turning point I lived through. It’s the physical “yes” to the life I chose when I walked away. It’s proof that healing doesn’t just happen in theory—it builds momentum, and eventually it leads you to places you never expected to go.

I’m hosting this retreat because I want to offer other women the same thing I desperately needed in my own transition: a weekend where you can lay everything down, exhale the old year, and step into the new one with clarity and strength.

It’s been a long time in the making—not because it took years to plan, but because it took courage to become the woman who could host it.

And now that she’s here? She’s not going back.