“Hey Maegan, what do you do on your retreats?”

For years, it’s been hard for me to answer that question because these retreats don’t fit neatly into a clearly defined box.

I used to work inside clearly defined boxes, and it was awesome!

When you’re using a method or model that people know about, there’s ease in communicating what you do in a way that others understand.

For me, that used to sound like, “I’m an EFT and AASECT certified couples and sex therapist.” Bam. If you were in the therapy field or were a discerning client who knew what you were looking for, that sentence immediately communicated what I did and how I did it. That was convenient AF.

But sometimes, we outgrow other people’s models.

Sometimes, we feel a deep yearning to create something new.

That’s what’s been happening with my retreats.

I have a huge toolbox of trainings, methods, and experiences that inform how I show up as a facilitator. Years of experience as a therapist, years of spiritual study and apprenticeship, years of training as a business coach. But the threads that weave those skills together come straight from my soul. They are unique to me and cannot be easily described in someone else’s language.

My retreat process began emerging in 2021, and only recently has it started to click in my thinking brain what is actually happening in these spaces.

Which means that for the past five years, the best answer I could give to people who asked me what I did on my retreats was:

“Umm… It’s complicated. But awesome.”

(Truly the most unhelpful response when someone is trying to discern if your offering is right for them, but we’re all doing our best. )

Imagine my delight when I received this card in the mail from Emily, a guest on my recent Fall retreat.

She said that this card perfectly captured her experience at the retreat.

It’s complicated because there are so few spaces we can go as business owners that can hold the depth of our inner work (personal) with the complexity of our outer work (professional).

And that’s what these retreats are all about—giving you space for both.

Personally, I’m less interested in helping you sort out the mechanics of your business and more interested in helping you dive deep into yourself—into the places inside of you that know what you’re meant to do next and how you’re meant to do it.

Yes, I promise you those places exist!

Here’s what that looks like in reality:

• Before the retreat, during your preparation sessions, we’ll explore what’s happening in your business—what’s going well, where you’re feeling challenged or dissatisfied. I’ll help you clarify what big questions you have about your work and set intentions for the retreat that support you in finding the answers in unconventional ways.
• During the retreat, we don’t talk about your business at all. There are no laptops, mastermind sessions, or strategy workshops. The retreat space is for you. Not just the part of you that owns a business, but the whole of you. We trust that clarity and vision will emerge when we tend to our full selves.
• After the retreat, during your integration sessions, we’ll bring your business back to the forefront. We’ll explore what you discovered on retreat and create an action plan for integrating that soul wisdom back into your life and business.

It’s like when you get a song stuck in your head and you can’t remember the name of it to save your life. Eventually, you give up and stop trying to think of it. Then, a few hours later, usually when you’re in the shower, the title miraculously pops into your head.

Your retreat experience is like that miraculous shower!

When you pause working on your business, when you make space to tend to your full self, the deepest ah-ha’s about your work bubble to the surface of your consciousness.

So, if we’re not talking about your business during the retreat, what are we doing? How are we spending all of our time?

Great question!

This is where things get juicy—and a little witchy.

If you’d like to learn more about the Spring Equinox retreat, including what happens while you’re there, click “Respond to Maegan” at the bottom of this post and I’ll send you all of the information via email.​

Here are the highlights:

• Spring Equinox Retreat: March 19–23, 2026
• A deeply evolved experience—five years of refinement have transformed this into a psycho-spiritual, transformational visioning retreat for business owners.
• Past guests describe it as “five years of therapy and five years of business coaching in five days.”
• Our signature three-phase journey:
  • Preparation — two group calls + a private session with Maegan to set intentions.
  • Immersion — five days on sacred land with nourishing food and deep transformation.
  • Integration — two post-retreat circles + a private session to ground your insights into action.
• Small, curated group—only 12 mission-driven healers and leaders.
• Early Bird Rate: $3,500 (save $1,000) available until Friday, 12/5!

Just so you don’t miss this information…

This is your final opportunity to join the retreat at the $3,500 rate.

Next year, these retreats are getting a glow-up, and the price will increase accordingly. If you know you want this, now’s the time to say yes!

• Want to learn more about the Spring Retreat or
   book a call to see if we’re a good fit?
  Reply to this email, and we’ll get it scheduled ASAP!

I’ll bring this email to a close with the last sentence Emily wrote in her card:

“I didn’t come with a lot of expectations, but I think even if I had, you would have shattered all of them.”

Thank you, Emily. I am so honored.

In my next email, I’m going to pull back the curtain and share more about what happens during the retreat. I’m a little nervous to share this publicly, but it’s time. Stay tuned!

P.S. Shout out to Emily Crookston, the sender of this amazing card! Emily is an editor and ghostwriter who has an incredible newsletter for high-achieving experts and business owners who are ready to write a book that sells. Click here to subscribe!

People ask me all the time, “What actually happens on your retreats?”

And honestly, it’s a hard question to answer.

Not because I don’t know, but because the kind of transformation that happens on retreat doesn’t come from the part of you that’s asking the question.

Let me explain.

As business owners, we spend an enormous amount of time in our thinking minds. We rely on our executive functioning, our problem-solving brains, our endless ability to analyze, anticipate, and strategize.

Your mind is operating on overdrive, and yet, you live in a world that constantly tells you you don’t know enough.

Take one look at the newsletters in your inbox or the ads in your Instagram feed. You’re being inundated with ads that speak directly to your mind’s fear that you don’t know enough.

Maybe I need to be using a different sales strategy…

Maybe a new marketing system would solve my problems…

Maybe I’m a big fraud and actually have no idea what I’m doing…

And then, your mind comes alive, offering up solid rationale for buying the helpful courses and programs, like a drooling Labrador proudly offering up a soggy tennis ball in the world’s longest game of fetch.

Our minds are exhausted.

And when we hear the word “retreat,” your mind immediately tries to make sense of it: What will I learn? What are the objectives and outcomes? What exactly am I going to get?

That’s how our minds operate. The mind wants data and logical reasoning. The mind wants a clear return on investment. The mind wants to keep you safe. That’s its whole job!

But all of this thinking doesn’t keep us safe.

In this case, the mind’s attempt to keep us safe is actually keeping us stuck in a state of burnout. The medicine we need isn’t to know more or do more—it’s to practice knowing and doing less.

What most of us need to heal, transform, and grow in our lives and businesses isn’t more information.

What we need are more embodied experiences.

Space to feel, to remember, to reconnect with our own wisdom.

That’s what makes retreats magical—not the learning or the doing, but the being with yourself, in your body, with absolutely no need to use your mind!

The ​Spring Equinox Retreat​ is designed to give you exactly that: five days away from the noise of your mind and the constant demand to perform so you can return to the wisdom that lives in your body.

During this retreat, I will guide you through a series of experiences designed to quiet your mind and bring you back into your body.

No teaching, no coaching. Just experiencing.

Each moment of this journey is built around five core experiences—five medicines for the parts of you that have been overworked and overlooked.

Restoration

In our daily lives, we exploit our own energy—constantly drawing from an empty well to keep things running. On retreat, you get to stop pushing and start replenishing. You’ll experience what deep rest actually feels like in your body.

Connection

Modern entrepreneurship thrives on toxic individualism—the illusion that you have to do everything alone. On retreat, we remember that we’re not meant to do this alone. You’ll experience genuine, authentic connection in a non-hierarchical community, where leadership and vulnerability are shared.

Alignment

Misalignment manifests as stress, resentment, and a dull sense that you’re living slightly off your true path. Through reflection, movement, and ritual, you’ll reconnect to what’s true—what you want, what you’re ready to release, and what wants to emerge next. You’ll experience alignment as an embodied sensation, not just an idea.

Self-Trust

Most of us have been conditioned to outsource our wisdom to other people. We spend thousands of dollars each year paying coaches and experts to tell us what to do. This retreat is an invitation to rebuild your own inner authority. Every choice you make here is a practice in listening to yourself and trusting that what you hear is enough.

Sovereignty

When you’ve rested, reconnected, realigned, and remembered your self-trust, something powerful emerges: sovereignty. This is the felt experience of being in your full power by standing in clear, grounded authority over your life and business. Once you tap into your sovereignty, everything transforms for the better.

I’m not here to teach you anything you don’t already know. I’m here to help you experience the truth you’ve been too busy to feel.

That’s what my transformational wellness retreats are all about.

If your body is whispering yes — trust that.

Here’s an order of operations you can try on for size:

1. Acknowledge your curiosity.
2. Let your soul know you’re listening.
3. Ask your thinking mind if she has any questions you should ask me about the experience. I’m sure she will, and that’s great! I welcome all of your questions here in my inbox.

The retreat will take place from March 19-26, 2026, near Portland, OR.

Early bird registration for the Spring Retreat is open now, with $1,000 off tuition through Friday, December 5th.

If you want the details, click respond to Maegan at the bottom of this post and I’ll send you everything you need to know.​

I trust that I’ll hear from you if the time is right.

Either way, I hope this email gives your mind permission to rest, and reminds you that your body already knows the way forward.