Our Purpose
On our life journey as daughters, many experiences leave us hurt, traumatized, and broken. Trauma disorganizes our brains and leaves us scrambling for answers. During this Daughters HEAL Retreat, we will engage in exercises designed to attend to these traumatized daughter parts in an effort to help you reorganize and put these pieces of you back together. This will create a beautiful mosaic.
Nurture, Protect, and Guide the daughter parts of you to heal.
Making space for you
This is a space to focus on your individual healing without feeling inhibited. The brain-body activities are intentionally designed to help move trauma through your body.
You will be invited to engage in meditation, somatic exercises, focused mindfulness, forgiveness/release ceremony, and create a plan for continued care for your daughter parts.
Journey to healing
The trauma you have experienced in your mother-daughter relationship creates right brain injury. In attending the Daughters HEAL Retreat, you will be afforded the opportunity to begin receiving the relational care necessary to help heal this relational injury within a group setting of 8-9 women that will create an experience where you will be physically and emotionally safe to experience nurturing, validation, and affirmation.
All-Inclusive Nurturing Activities
Your time here will be spent with inner reflection and healing. While in this space at the Daughters HEAL Retreat, you will have permission to welcome and attend to the daughter parts of you that have missed out on the core elements of mothering: nurturing, protection, and guidance.
Body
Our own celebrity chef will be preparing deliciously crafted dishes with precision
Mind
Enrichment activities are created to take you deeper into your interpersonal journey to make space for reflection and healing
Soul
Take time to nourish your soul with time at the beach and restorative stretching exercises
Integrating the body to move through and release trauma.
Somatic Experiencing (SE)
We'll work together to notice, focus and release...
SE therapy is based on the idea that trauma is stored in the body as energy that has not been fully processed or released. This stored energy can manifest as physical symptoms, such as tension, pain, or discomfort, as well as emotional and behavioral problems. SE therapeutic exercises aim to help daughters release this stored energy and resolve underlying mother-daughter trauma.
Brainspotting
Our eyes will guide us to find, focus, and free trapped memories...
Sometimes the brain’s processing capacity is overwhelmed by trauma, which can cause parts of your mother-daughter trauma to be frozen in an unprocessed state. Brainspotting uses our field of vision to find where we are holding these unprocessed traumas in the brain. During Brainspotting the eyes serve as a scanner that helps to guide the brain to find lost internal information and process it.
Internal Family Systems
You will find and connect with our inner daughter parts
IFS takes the time to help you explore the part of you, for example, that still loves your mother or the part of you that gets angry at your mother. IFS works to assist you in addressing all your thoughts, feelings, or parts to get to know your system of parts better. The goal of IFS is to help you develop a strong and healthy sense of self and to create more inner harmony and balance. It is a holistic approach that recognizes the complexity of the human psyche and seeks to help you integrate all aspects of your being in a way that promotes healing your mother-daughter wounds.
You can expect...
What's Included
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3 nights accommodations in a beachfront cottage Located on the Historic Scruggs Harbor in Indian Rocks Beach, FL
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Transportation from the Tampa airport within the arrival windows (2pm EST on Thursday)
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8 meals, beverages (non-alcoholic), and snacks throughout the weekend all prepared by our personal celebrity chef
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Please note dietary restrictions in your registration form
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Attentive staff to help facilitate your healing
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Daughters HEAL Retreat workbook
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Brain-Body experiential throughout the weekend
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Intense learning
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Hands-on activities
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Safe and caring environment
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The incorporation of nature and natural resources in your HEALing experiences
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Gifts and prizes throughout the Daughters HEAL Retreat
​What's NOT Included
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Individual therapy sessions
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Your transportation to and from home is not a part of the all-inclusive investment
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Your transportation from Scruggs Harbor back to the airport
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Transportation to the Retreat site if you miss the Tampa Airport arrival window
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If you choose to arrive early or stay longer than the Daughters HEAL Retreat dates, your accommodations are your responsibility
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Travel/Trip Insurance is not included
Bonus #1
​Daughters HEAL Retreat Bonus #1
Before attending our Daughters HEAL Retreat, all participants must complete the Mother Hunger Virtual Book Study. If you still need to do so, we offer you an abbreviated Virtual Book Study.
​Daughters HEAL Retreat Bonus #2
Following our Daughters HEAL Retreat, you will have three virtual monthly group check-ins (September-November) designed to encourage your continued healing.
Bonus #2
The Facility:
Indian Rocks Beach Vacation Cottages Located on the Gulf of Mexico
Spend three nights in a private beachfront cottage just 45 minutes from Tampa.
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A family-owned and operated establishment with owners who take great pride in the hospitality of their guests
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Each cottage is delightfully and tastefully decorated and furnished with everything you may need – just bring a change of clothes and a bathing suit
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Centrally located on Indian Rocks Beach — the “safest beach in the world’
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Walking distance to local stores and outstanding restaurants
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Close to all major Florida Attractions and Theme Parks and we have discount tickets. 45 min to Tampa – 1-1/2 hour to Orlando, and 1 Hour to Sarasota
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A unique and very private beachfront area to unwind, relax and just have fun without the confusion and density of condo living with the endless rules and regulations
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Privacy and plenty of parking – a very rare commodity on any beach
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This beach community is a very friendly and safe town
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An Atmosphere conducive for healing
Hello
My name is Ann Dillard
I'm so excited to welcome you to this retreat. Especially curated for your healing experience to acknowledge, identify and work with the parts of you that are still hurting from mother-daughter trauma. This retreat is inclusive and while my faith in God and my Christianity influence the way that I show up in all areas of my life, it is important to know that this is not an evangelical retreat. Even with all my clinical training, years of experience, and education, I could do nothing without the help of God. Participants from any religious persuasion are invited to attend.
Costs
Important Information to know...
Designed to be an intensive retreat, Daughters HEAL is an extension of the Mother Hunger virtual book study group. Therefore, preferential acceptance will be granted to individuals who have participated in the book study.
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Participants must be at least 18 years old be in good mental health. It is not advised that participants attend with a family member. This is a space to focus on your individual healing without feeling inhibited
While therapeutic techniques will be incorporated in this intensive retreat experience, this is not a space where individual therapy will be provided. Participants will be well taken care of throughout this experience. There will be an additional licensed mental health professional to assist participants who may become dysregulated. However, INDIVIDUAL THERAPY WILL NOT BE PROVIDED. We will meet in large and small breakout groups throughout the weekend.
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CANCELATION and REFUND POLICY:
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Life happens, and things beyond our control arise. If you need to cancel for any reason, please contact Ann Dillard at info@daughtersheal.com.
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Before signing up, be sure that you have set this time aside to attend the entire 4-day Daughters HEAL Retreat.
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Cancelations received by midnight on April 30, 2024, will receive a refund minus the $250 non-refundable deposit.
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Cancelations received between May 1-June 30, 2024 will receive 50% of the payment minus the $250 non-refundable deposit.
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There will be no refunds granted for cancelations received after July 1, 2024.
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Cancelations do not include your airline tickets, which are not included in the all-inclusive retreat charges.
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We reserve the right to cancel the Daughters HEAL Retreat if it is not meeting the minimum attendance. In the event that we cancel, your deposit will be fully refunded.
Still have more questions about the Daughters HEAL Retreat?
Are there payment options if I am not able to pay all at one?
Absolutely! I am aware that the Daughters HEAL Retreat is a significant financial investment in your healing. We have carefully planned every aspect of this Retreat with your healing in mind and have given great consideration to include transferable tools and resources. I do not want this to be a financial burden for you and so you will have different payment options. Participants can pay all at once or spread payments over a 4 month period.
What precautions are you taking for COVID19?
At the Daughters HEAL Retreat we are concerned about your emotional as well as your physical safety. Therefore, all participants will be required to submit a negative COVID-19 test result dated within 36 hours of the start of the retreat.
Do I have to participate in all of the activities?
The large and small group activities/exercises for the entire Daughter’s HEAL Retreat are planned with everyone in mind. It is understood that ther maybe times when participants may feel overwhelmed or dysregulated because of the nature of the content that we will be sharing. There will be an additional mental health professional staff available to help when there is a need for additional time to regulate. Everyone’s participation contributes to the safe space that we create to help foster healing of these relational wounds.
How do I get to the Daughters HEAL Retreat location?
Transportation will be provided to and from the Tampa Airport. Participants who arrive 2:00 pm EST on Thursday, August 10th will be transported to our location at no additional costs. Participants arriving outside of that window will be be responsible for their own transportation to the site.
What if I have more questions?
Ms. Ann is readily available to answer your questions via; text/phone call at 763-228-9757, email at info@daughtersheal.com, or during a ZOOM call. Just let me know how you would like to connect.