A retreat is not giving up. It is choosing to regroup. It is choosing to restore. It is choosing to strengthen yourself so that when you return, you aren't simply going back to the same life depleted and exhausted—you are returning with a little more clarity, a little more energy, and a little more of you.

“you can’t pour from an empty cup.” It’s in those times, when I find myself in a tail spin, feeling so overwhelmed that I’ve learned to stop, ~breath~ and remember who I am. I

A day off….completely. A day when you have nothing to do. A day to be bored, A day to be with yourself, A day to be together, A day to rest and restore, A day to do nothing at all but waste your own damn time…. but not wasting because you’re spending it in the most beneficial and very pinnacle definition of what humans are striving for, A day of enjoyment!!!