The goal: to remind women that they are inherently worthy, unbroken, and loved, despite the stories they tell themselves.

Women are really good at being really hard on themselves. But those feelings don't come from nowhere, so let's spend a weekend together exploring those feelings and reshaping the stories we tell ourselves... This is an investment in YOU. This isn't your typical retreat - this is The Unbroken Women's retreat. 

You can expect a weekend intentionally shaped around the Mothered theme — a deep, compassionate exploration of how the ways you were mothered, or not mothered, continue to influence your emotional reflexes, your internal dialogue, and the patterns you’ve learned to call “just who I am.” This retreat isn’t about surface-level coping; it’s about understanding the psychological and developmental roots that still shape your present-day experience.

Throughout the weekend, you’ll move through a clinically structured sequence of learning, reflection, and integration. You’ll examine the attachment frameworks that informed your earliest sense of safety, consider how inconsistent nurturing shaped your beliefs about worth and belonging, and begin the work of rewriting the inherited narratives that have traveled with you for far too long.

And because meaningful work requires a regulated nervous system, you can also expect fully catered meals prepared by a private chef, restorative yoga, and thoughtfully designed relaxation opportunities woven into the rhythm of the weekend. Your body, mind, and breath will be supported so that your emotional work can unfold with clarity rather than urgency.

You can expect a space that is steady, warm, and gently disarming — a place where you don’t need to perform competence or minimize your history. Instead, you’ll be invited to explore the subtler, often unspoken longings and wounds that stem from how you were mothered, with enough structure to feel held and enough spaciousness to feel like yourself.

We promise there will be meaningful work, plenty of laughter, room for a few healing tears, delicious food, and even better emotional connection with women who understand what it means to carry complex stories. So, sit down, take a breath, and come on.

Enhance your retreat experience with a rejuvenating 1-hour yoga session led by the gifted Violet Browning. Designed to restore balance in both body and mind, this intimate practice will guide you through gentle movement, mindful breathwork, and deep, grounding relaxation. Whether you're new to yoga or simply craving a space to reconnect with yourself, Violet’s intuitive, steady presence creates an environment where tension eases, clarity returns, and inner peace becomes accessible again.

3:00 PM — Check-In + Welcome Bites
Settle in, exhale, get grounded, meet the space, meet the women, meet yourself again.

3:30 PM — Opening Circle + Intentions
A gentle arrival gathering to establish the emotional tone for the weekend.
Includes:

• Light introduction to the Mothered theme

• Nervous system settling

• Setting individual and group intentions

• Confidentiality Agreements signed to establish psychological safety and shared boundaries for the work ahead

5:00 PM — BREAK
Unpack, breathe, wander, reset.

7:00 PM — Dinner
Fully catered private-chef dinner; comfort-forward, nourishing, and intentionally slow-paced.

8:00 PM — Workshop #1: Attunement + Connection
Soft, low-pressure connection-building exercises designed for trust, warmth, and group cohesion — not emotional excavation.
Think: shared humanity, gentle prompts, light relational attunement.

9:00 PM — Restorative Yoga
A slow, grounding session to help the body transition into retreat mode.

8:00 AM — Breakfast
Slow morning meal prepared by the private chef; grounding, warm, and intentionally unhurried.

9:00 AM — Workshop #2: The Mother Imprint
A clinically structured exploration of:

• Early attachment patterns

• Developmental needs vs. developmental gaps

• Learned emotional reflexes

• Internalized maternal messages

10:45 AM — Break

11:00 AM — Workshop #3: The Neuroscience of Being Mothered
A deeper understanding of how the body and brain encode early caregiving experiences:

• Limbic wiring

• Emotional regulation

• Somatic storage

• Adaptive childhood patterns that show up in adulthood

12:30 PM — Lunch

1:30 PM — Rest + Personal Time
Walk, nap, journal, decompress — optional quiet spaces available.

3:00 PM — Co-Regulation Workshop
A gentle, guided practice introducing the concept of co-regulation — something many participants with mother wounds never consistently experienced.

4:15 PM — Break

5:30 PM — Dinner

7:00 PM — Breakout #2: The Post-It Note Confessional (Mothered Edition)

9:00 PM — Gentle Evening Wind-Down
Soft lighting, guided breathing, optional journaling, early bedtime encouraged.

8:00 AM — Breakfast

9:00 AM — Session 3: Cognitive Distortions Rooted in Mothering
A CBT-informed deep dive into:

• Childhood-derived distortions

• How inherited narratives become “truth”

• The restructuring process that follows awareness

• Clinically supported reframing work

10:45 AM — Break

11:00 AM — Session 4: The Mothered Self — Reparenting + Identity Reconstruction
Participants explore how to:

• Build secure internal attachment

• Create rituals of emotional safety

• Practice self-mothering

• Shift rigid internal narratives

• Introduce warmth, compassion, and steadiness into their inner world

12:30 PM — Lunch

1:30 PM — Rest + Integration Time
Space for journaling, walking, hammock resting, or quietly talking with peers.

3:00 PM — Afternoon Workshop: Writing the Anti-Love Letter (Mothered Edition)

4:30 PM — Break

5:30 PM — Dinner

7:00 PM — Evening Ritual: Emotional Release Ceremony

9:00 PM — Pajamas + Relaxation Ritual

8:00 AM — Coffee + Chats

9:00 AM — Closing Circle: Integration + Forward Frameworks

• What I’m taking home

• What I’m leaving behind

• How I will mother myself going forward

10:00 AM — Take-Home Toolkit Review
Participants receive:

• Attachment worksheets

• Self-mothering prompts

• Cognitive reframing tools

• Regulation strategies

• 30-day post-retreat integration guide

11:00 AM — Departure Brunch
One last private-chef meal, warm goodbyes, and a grounded transition home.

12:00 PM — Check-Out