A Weekend Retreat for Women
Coming Home to Self
Beneath the story you inherited, there is a woman waiting to emerge.
This weekend, you’ll finally meet her.
An Invitation
For women ready to stop living inside the old story — and come home to who they actually are.
The Quiet Knowing
There is a version of your life that feels just out of reach
Not dramatically — you can’t always name what’s missing. But there is a quiet knowing that you are not living as fully as you could be. That something keeps holding you back from the things you most want.
You stay where you are — in the relationship that’s fine but not quite right, in the version of yourself that’s acceptable but not quite free, in a life that fits but doesn’t sing.
You worry, almost constantly, what people think of you. You adjust yourself before you’ve even spoken — softening your opinion, shrinking your need, making yourself easier to be around.
You are not too much. But you have been living as though you are.
This is not a character flaw. It is not weakness. It is what happens when you learn, very early, that love is conditional — and build your whole life around never losing it again.
WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
It goes back further than you think.
Somewhere in the accumulation of your early life, you absorbed a verdict about your own worth. Sometimes through cruelty. Sometimes through absence. Through love that felt conditional, or approval that had to be earned.
You took that verdict on as truth. It became the lens through which you see yourself. The quiet ceiling on what you believe you deserve. The voice that says not quite when you reach for something real.
But you’ve been living inside a story about yourself that was never true.
You don’t need to be fixed. You were never broken. You need to meet the self that has been waiting, all this time, beneath the story.
Is This Retreat for You?
You might be ready for this if…
About Claire
Registered Clinical Counsellor · Director, Safe Haven
Claire De Boer has built her practice around the belief that the most important work a woman can do is come home to herself.
For more than a decade she has sat with women — from their mid-twenties through their fifties and beyond — navigating the most intimate questions of identity and worth.
Her work is attachment-informed and IFS-trained (Internal Family Systems), a leading-edge therapeutic model that understands the self as made up of different parts — and that healing happens when those parts are met with compassion rather than judgment.
This retreat is the work she was built for.
How It Works
STEP 01
Apply
Complete a short application and schedule a 20-minute call to make sure this retreat is the right fit for you.
STEP 02
Reserve Your Spot
A deposit holds your place. The group is limited to 10 women. Once it’s full, it’s full.
STEP 03
Come as You Are
Arrive Friday evening. Leave Sunday afternoon with a clearer, truer sense of who you are — and the freedom to finally live from that place.
A Question Worth Asking
What Happens If Nothing Changes?
You keep abandoning yourself. Adjusting, softening, and shrinking just to keep everyone else comfortable.
You keep accepting less. In your relationships, in how you’re treated, and in what you allow yourself to want.
The life you want stays out of reach. Not dramatically. Just quietly. Year after year.
Maybe you are thinking: It’s too late for me. I’ve been this way too long.
But a decade of sitting with women has taught me otherwise. It is never too late to stop abandoning yourself. The only thing harder than doing the work is looking back ten years from now and realizing you didn’t try.
Not SUre yet?
Download the Free Guide
“5 Signs You’re Living Inside an Old Story About Yourself”
Retreat Details
Coming Home to Self
01 Date
02 Location
03 Investment
04 group size
05 schedule
06 includes
Sun, snacks & drinks
Limited to 10
On-site accommodation available (optional, booked separately).
What Becomes Possible
Imagine leaving Sunday evening feeling something has fundamentally shifted.
You hold your head a little higher. There is a lightness in your chest. You have shed an old skin. The story that said you weren’t quite enough, weren’t quite lovable, or weren’t worth the space you take up has loosened its hold.
By the end of the weekend, you will:
Understand your roots
See exactly where your old story came from — and realize why it was never the truth.
Catch the old patterns
Notice the old story the moment it arises, rather than living inside it blindly.
Shift from collapse to compassion
Gain practical tools to respond to self-doubt without shrinking or hiding.
Own your worth
Develop an embodied sense of value that does not depend on anyone else’s approval.
Apply Now
The woman beneath the story is waiting.
Limited to 10 women. Apply today to schedule your 20-minute fit call.