Healing the Mother Wound Retreat

Recovering from emotionally unavailable and narcissistic parenting

A full-day, trauma-informed retreat
Saturday, May 9th • 10:00am–4:00pm
Embodied Health • Bradenton, FL

Investment: $195

**Early Bird Rate $165 ends 4/15

A small, intimate experience designed to support healing through gentle movement, nervous system regulation, guided reflection, and meaningful ritual.

Limited to 10 participants

A group of women sitting cross-legged in a circle on a wooden floor in a bright room with large windows, candles, flowers, and notebooks, engaged in a gathering or meditation.

For many, Mother’s Day brings more than celebration.

It can bring grief, distance, confusion, or the quiet weight of experiences that were never fully seen or understood.

There is a growing language around narcissistic and emotionally unavailable parenting — but understanding these patterns is only part of the process.

This retreat offers a different approach.

Not just insight — but integration.

A space to understand how these dynamics may have shaped you…
and to begin working with those patterns in a grounded, embodied way.

This retreat weaves together education, somatic practice, and reflection to support meaningful, sustainable change.

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ROOTED IN YOGA + INFORMED BY MODERN UNDERSTANDING

This retreat bridges traditional yoga philosophy with contemporary understanding of emotional patterns and nervous system regulation.

In psychology, you may hear terms like:

  • attachment patterns

  • core beliefs

  • nervous system responses

In yoga, we understand these as:

• Samskaras — patterns shaped by repeated experience
• Vritti — loops of thought and mental activity
• Ahimsa — practicing non-harm toward yourself
• Pratyahara — turning inward toward your own experience

Rather than analyzing the past, we work with how these patterns live in you now — and how they can begin to shift.

  • You’ll be guided through a clear, grounded understanding of common dynamics in narcissistic or emotionally unavailable parenting, including:

    • Emotional inconsistency and lack of attunement
    • Role reversal (parentification)
    • Gaslighting and self-doubt
    • Relational patterns like triangulation
    • Conditional approval and over-adaptation

    Rather than labeling or diagnosing, we focus on how these patterns may have shaped your experience.

  • Together, we’ll explore how these early dynamics often become:

    • patterns of people-pleasing or over-responsibility
    • difficulty with boundaries
    • disconnection from personal needs
    • cycles of self-doubt or overthinking

    This is approached through both modern understanding (attachment + nervous system) and yoga philosophy.

  • Through somatic yoga, breath, and guided practices, you’ll begin to:

    • regulate your nervous system
    • increase awareness of your internal experience
    • interrupt automatic patterns
    • build a sense of internal safety and choice

  • You’ll have space for:

    • guided journaling
    • brief, supported sharing (no pressure)
    • connecting insight to present-day patterns

    This is not open-ended processing — it is structured for safety and clarity.

  • Through Yoga Nidra and restorative practices, you’ll be guided into:

    • self-support and reparenting
    • parasympathetic (restorative) states
    • integration of new patterns

  • You’ll walk away with:

    • a clearer understanding of your patterns
    • simple ways to interrupt them
    • tools for self-regulation and boundaries
    • a more grounded relationship with yourself

WHAT THIS RETREAT IS:

• A calm, trauma-informed environment
• Clear structure and guided facilitation
• Space to reflect without pressure to share
• A balance of education and embodied practice
• Support for nervous system regulation
• Opportunities to build self-trust and internal awareness
• A small, intentional group (max 10 participants)

A promotional flyer for a healing retreat titled 'Healing The Mother Wound Retreat,' focusing on recovery from narcissistic and emotionally unavailable parenting, scheduled for Saturday, May 9th, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, with early bird pricing of $165 until April 15. The flyer features a background photo of a group of people with hands extended towards a small fire or bowl, and an illustration of a mother and child in a loving embrace.

WHAT THIS RETREAT IS NOT

• This is not a space for detailed personal storytelling
• Not group therapy or advice-based discussion
• Not focused on analyzing or diagnosing others
• Not designed for emotional overwhelm or uncontained processing

Instead, we focus on your present-moment experience — supporting your body, your awareness, and your relationship with yourself.

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