On our last morning, we reviewed everything we had learned as well as doing a few activities including one that demonstrated the connections we made over the course of the week. Most of us marveled at the synchronicity of events that led each of us to say YES to coming on this retreat. Many of us weren’t really sure what we were getting ourself into when we signed on to come. But now we will travel back home with useful tools as well as new friendships.
At the beginning of the retreat our leader, Miriam, asked us to write down anything we wanted to “give up.” For some of us, this might have been an old identity that we had outgrown, or a habit that wasn’t serving us, etc. As part of our closing, we got a chance to see what we had written down and to decide if we still wanted to give it up. If so, it went into the bucket and then we had a ceremony of burning all those discarded parts of ourselves that we are leaving behind.
It’s been an honor to get to know a wonderful group of women and to share from deeply with them these last seven days. I am reminded again in the power of a group to help inspire us to keep working towards becoming our best selves. What fun we had, too, in the process!
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