Are you a Highly Sensitive Person? It's been over a decade since I discovered this trait and the unique strengths and challenges that lie within deep perception. Being empathic, creative and highly attuned to environments, the subtle needs of others can often lead to overwhelm and overstimulation.

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About the same time of this discovery, I stumbled on a monastic opportunity. I was increasingly drawn to slowing down. I was searching...The weight on my shoulders felt ill fitting. Vague anxiety not founded in any one thing made me too hard on myself and those around me. The moment I reached this sprawling Monastic Center, I felt an exhale as an enveloping Holy Silence met me. Not many explanations were given, just a simple invitation of open space and time. Time to say nothing. Space to wander acres of land with towering trees and walking trails. I fell in love with the rhythm, routine and ritual of these weekends. My life began to change shape pivoting from within. 

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Out of this experience, I've created The Pleasure of Healing Retreats.

I want women radiant, not resentful. 

As women we are often overextending,

giving others what we need too, care and love. 

How can we truly give without the harmonic note of receiving?

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This is an invitation to help yourself!

Help yourself to being well. Don't wait until you're sick.

 Make this a year where you invest in nurturing yourself to wholeness.

No master class needed, just a vital pause, an understated offering.

Listen. Receive. Notice.

Slow down to settle down.

It takes investment to have a return. You are worth it!

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Our world and culture are in enormous pain and more stressed than ever before. On the precipice of great change, we'll need physical places that support and heal. We'll need places to land, literal land to walk on and roam. We'll need in-person communities and real person to person connections. 

Our Health is Our Healing.

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At The Pleasure of Healing Retreats, you'll have space

and time to turn inward, given spiritual and physical nourishment.

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Come home to yourself.

Within each of us is Home, a place of natural beauty and ease.

Pause and let the world wash away for a few days.

All the details are attended to. 

Bring your bare feet, empty hands and open heart.

I'm expecting you. 

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I am an author, artist and creative leader. A Certified Spiritual Director with nearly three decades of lived experience in home and hospitality. My soulful work infuses wisdom with practical guidance. Through my writings, teachings and retreats, I invite a sense of beauty in the ordinary, seeing the natural world with fresh eyes. I live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with my husband and five children.