Podcast: Reclaiming connection and healing through community and retreats
As women, we often carry the weight of multiple roles and responsibilities, sometimes without a space to exhale or process life’s overwhelming moments. It’s why I sought out retreats as a way to support my healing journey.
Long before I was co-hosting retreats with Dr. Sara Poldmae, she and I attended Wanderlust retreat festival in Stratton, VT where active breathwork found me! It cracked me wide open! I am grateful that I had invested in myself to take a pause from the day-to-day of being a working mom to connect with a community and (as I’d learn a few years later) find my life’s calling!
Retreats provide this space for connection, healing, and even transformation.
I’m honored to join my friend and colleague, Dr. Sara Poldmae, on her Midlife Rise + Thrive podcast to discuss our experiences. In this episode, we sit down with Rebecca, a past retreat participant, to dive into the importance of community for women’s healing and empowerment.
We discuss how retreats provide the opportunity to reset, reconnect with ourselves, and build supportive relationships with other women. Rebecca shares her experience of attending a retreat during a difficult time in her life and how it helped her regain balance, create lasting connections, and develop practices that continue to support her today.
This podcast features:
Why community is crucial for women’s mental and emotional well-being
What happens when we give ourselves permission to prioritize self-care
The transformational power of stepping outside your comfort zone
Tools like breathwork, yoga, and vision boards that foster healing
How retreats can offer both structured activities and downtime for reflection
Rebecca’s personal journey to healing and what she learned through retreat participation
If you're feeling the need to step away from the chaos and find clarity, this episode offers insights into how you can reclaim your peace through connection and intentional self-care. Listen to the podcast or search for Midlife Rise + Thrive podcast with Dr. Sara Poldmae wherever you access your podcasts.
Retreat Information:
Join us at the Rising Woman Retreat from April 26–28 in beautiful West Virginia. This weekend offers a blend of healing practices, including breathwork, yoga, wellness talks, and time for deep connection. You’ll also enjoy nourishing vegetarian meals, creative activities, and time to relax in nature.
About Dr. Sara Poldmae:
Dr. Sara Poldmae is here with the Midlife Rise + Thrive podcast for perimenopausal, menopausal, and postmenopausal women ready to heal and set new intentions as they write their next chapter.
Bringing you heart, humanity, and humor each week, Dr. Sara shares accessible education, real-world stories, and exclusive interviews for the modern woman. She’s dismantling societal aging norms one myth at a time as she explores new health and wellness approaches, changing relationships, healthcare advocacy, and midlife’s many complexities and opportunities.
Each episode comes straight from the heart to teach you how to live with intention and experience fulfillment in mind, body, and soul as you chart your bold course through life’s transitions.
For over 20 years as a healer, doctor of acupuncture and Chinese medicine, and functional medicine practitioner, Dr. Sara has bridged the gap between Western and alternative medicine practices for her patients and their physicians and healthcare practitioners. Today, she leverages her unique experiences and perspectives as a speaker, consultant, and fierce advocate committed to challenging the narrative of the invisible, aging woman.
Get ready to make midlife your best life.
