Starting the Year with Serenity: A Women’s Renewal Retreat
For Moms impacted by their child’s substance abuse or other mental health condition
January 11-13, 2019
Mercy Spirituality Center
65 Highland Ave
Rochester, NY
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Step into the New Year in a gentle and empowering way. Renew – Recharge – Rejuvenate - Reawaken If you’re longing for some self-renewal and would love to empower yourself to move into 2019 with kindness and compassion for yourself, then this retreat is for you. This retreat is for you if you have loved a child with these challenges, no matter where you are on this journey, no matter where your child is on this journey, whether your child is doing well right now, struggling, or even if your child has died. All that matters is that you have known the unique experience of loving this child – the powerlessness, the hope, the fear, the loss… that others may never know or understand. Living and loving a child who struggles with addiction or mental health challenges can feel like being in a hurricane – the chaos picking up and throwing everyone into its fury. It’s scary. It’s exhausting. And, it takes a toll on everyone involved. You often wonder if it will ever end or if its destruction is just going to continue and worsen. |
Let’s take this weekend, to step away and
come into a space of peace and community with others who “get it.”
Retreat offers an opportunity to focus on YOU and to make your self-care and well-being a priority
– you are the top priority.
You’ve done enough. You are enough.
You’ve tried hard enough and worried more than enough, and you deserve this time.
Rather than throwing yourself into New Year’s resolutions,
instead let’s slow down and take a weekend to pause and enter this coming year mindfully.
We often move and live at a pace that’s unsustainable, and we often don’t have time
to think about what’s to come next or how we want to respond – most of the time we’re in sheer reactivity.
In this very spacious weekend, you will have time to rest and reconnect with yourself –
to discover or remember who you are, how you’re feeling, and what you’re most wanting and needing.
There will be nothing here to fix or figure out
and no one else who needs anything from you.
Your mind can take a break while your heart and soul are restored.
come into a space of peace and community with others who “get it.”
Retreat offers an opportunity to focus on YOU and to make your self-care and well-being a priority
– you are the top priority.
You’ve done enough. You are enough.
You’ve tried hard enough and worried more than enough, and you deserve this time.
Rather than throwing yourself into New Year’s resolutions,
instead let’s slow down and take a weekend to pause and enter this coming year mindfully.
We often move and live at a pace that’s unsustainable, and we often don’t have time
to think about what’s to come next or how we want to respond – most of the time we’re in sheer reactivity.
In this very spacious weekend, you will have time to rest and reconnect with yourself –
to discover or remember who you are, how you’re feeling, and what you’re most wanting and needing.
There will be nothing here to fix or figure out
and no one else who needs anything from you.
Your mind can take a break while your heart and soul are restored.
Investment in yourself – Overnight and Commuter Options
Participants may arrive any time after 3 on Fri. -
there is a group welcome party at 5:30 and dinner at 6:15 (optional)
or plan to arrive by 7 at the latest.
Our retreat will end on Sunday at 12:30 with an optional lunch following the morning session
$375 Full weekend – Private room (limited to 8 women overnight)
(includes non-refundable deposit of $125)
includes all retreat activities and meals Fri. dinner – Sun. lunch
$275 Commuter rate –
(includes non-refundable deposit of $125)
includes all retreat activities and all meals except breakfast
Cancellations and Refunds
We certainly hope you don’t need to cancel! But, if something comes up and you can’t make it, here’s the scoop:
If you need to cancel after paying in full and it’s Dec. 1, 2018 or earlier OR we can fill your spot, we’ll refund any monies you’ve paid minus the non-refundable deposit, so please make sure you can attend when you register.
If it’s after Dec. 1, 2018 and we cannot fill your spot, we cannot refund you, but you are welcome to sell or give away your spot, contingent upon the woman who is taking your spot emailing Barb and submitting a registration form no later than January 4, 2019.