09/29/2026
This weekend, 10 women gathered for our very first SHINE Facilitator Exchange Retreat Weekend, with one intention at the heart of it all⦠to heal the healers. āØ
Each woman came into this space carrying her own powerful gifts, talents, experiences and medicine. We all hold space in different ways, we all have different things to offer, and I think that is what made this weekend so beautiful. We had the opportunity to experience one anotherās gifts, learn from each other, share what we know and also allow ourselves to receive.
One of the biggest intentions I had when creating this weekend was that we donāt compete, we witness and celebrate one another. Another womanās gifts donāt take away from mine, and mine donāt take away from hers. There is room for all of us to SHINE, and there is so much we can learn when we allow ourselves to truly see and support the women standing beside us.
We created a space where we could cry, laugh, dance, rest, be vulnerable, have real conversations and simply be ourselves. A space where the women who are so often holding everyone else could put some of that down and allow themselves to be held too.
But more than anything, I wanted this weekend to be about uplifting one another and reminding each other just how worthy we are. Worthy of taking up space. Worthy of sharing our gifts. Worthy of being seen. Worthy of receiving support. Worthy of resting. Worthy of the same love and care that we so freely pour into everyone else.
There was something really fu***ng beautiful about watching women celebrate other women without comparison or competition. Just genuine support, connection, collaboration and a whole lot of āI see you, sister.ā
My heart is so full after this weekend and I am incredibly grateful to every woman who trusted this vision, showed up as herself and shared a piece of her gifts with us.
This is what SHINE is about ā when we allow ourselves to SHINE, we give the women around us permission to SHINE too. āØ
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