Nature's Healing Embrace

🌿 NAVIGATING LIFE’S SEASONS 🌿
A Women’s Wellness Retreat for Life Transitions & Renewal
Part of the Fall Women’s Wellness Series at Shenandoah River State Park

Sometimes we need a day to slow down, step away from our everyday responsibilities, reconnect with ourselves, and simply breathe.

Join us for a FREE nature-based women’s wellness retreat surrounded by the beauty of Shenandoah River State Park. 🌿

🌿 A DAY FOR YOU
Life brings many seasons—change, loss, new beginnings, shifting relationships, career changes, an empty nest, retirement, changing dreams, and moments when we simply realize we need to reconnect with ourselves.

This retreat is an opportunity to step away for a few hours and spend intentional time caring for your mind, body, and spirit through nature, reflection, creativity, and connection with other women.

🍂 WHAT TO EXPECT
Throughout our day together, we’ll explore gentle nature-based wellness practices, including:
• Opening Circle & Grounding
• Nature Connection & Reflective Walk
• Women’s Wellness & Life Transitions
• Lunch & Community Connection
• Nature Art
• Nature Journaling & Reflection
• Moving Forward Through Change
• Closing Circle

There is no pressure to share your personal story. You are welcome to participate at your own comfort level—share, listen, walk, create, reflect, or simply be present.

This day isn’t about having everything figured out. It’s about giving yourself permission to slow down, honor where you are, reconnect with what matters to you, and make space for what comes next.

🌿 Come exactly as you are. You are welcome here.

💚 RETREAT COST
The retreat is FREE. There is a $10 fee to enter Shenandoah River State Park, unless you have a Virginia State Parks Annual Pass.

🥗 Please bring your own lunch, water, and anything you need to be comfortable spending the day outdoors.

Navigating Life’s Seasons is part of the Fall Women’s Wellness Series 2026, which I’m grateful to offer as a volunteer with Shenandoah River State Park.

🌿🥾 MORNING WALK & STRETCH 🥾🌿

Shenandoah River State Park | Fall Women’s Wellness Series 2026
Start your morning with movement, fresh air, nature, and connection. 💚

Join me for a Morning Walk & Stretch as part of the Fall Women’s Wellness Series at Shenandoah River State Park.

🌿 THREE DATES TO JOIN US
📅 Sunday, September 20, 2026
📅 Saturday, November 14, 2026
📅 Saturday, December 5, 2026
🕘 9:00–11:00 a.m.
📍 Shenandoah River State Park
🚗 Meet at Cullers Overlook parking lot

🥾 ABOUT THE WALK
We’ll begin at beautiful Cullers Overlook with a gentle stretch and time to arrive and connect before heading out on the Overlook Trail.
We’ll walk from Cullers Overlook to the Visitor Center and back, taking our time and enjoying the sights, sounds, and changing seasons around us.

This isn’t about how fast or how far we can go. It’s an opportunity to move your body, slow down, breathe, connect with nature, and enjoy time with other women.

🌿 No hiking experience is necessary.

Come for one Morning Walk & Stretch or join us for all three! Each walk gives us another opportunity to experience the park as the season changes from early fall into winter. 🍂❄️

💚 PROGRAM COST
These programs are FREE. However, there is a $10 fee to enter Shenandoah River State Park, unless you have a Virginia State Parks Annual Pass.
📍 Shenandoah River State Park
350 Daughter of Stars Drive
Bentonville, VA 22610

The Morning Walk & Stretch programs are part of the Fall Women’s Wellness Series 2026, which I’m grateful to offer as a volunteer with Shenandoah River State Park.

🌿 Seasons of Grief: A Women’s Circle-A Monthly Nature-Connected Grief Circle

### 🍂 NOVEMBER THEME: GRIEF AT THE HOLIDAY TABLE

The holidays can bring warmth, tradition, and connection — but they can also make grief feel especially close.

An empty chair.
A tradition that feels different.
A family gathering that no longer looks the same.
A season that carries memories we weren’t prepared to feel so deeply.

Our November gathering will create a gentle space for women to acknowledge the grief that can surface as the holidays approach.
🍁 Sunday, November 15, 2026
⏰ 9:00–10:00 AM
📍 Blandy Experimental Farm
💜 All forms of grief are welcome.

You may be grieving someone you love, a pet, a relationship, a family change, illness, caregiving, a job, a life transition, or simply the way things used to be.

There is no requirement to share.

You are welcome to speak, listen, journal, reflect, connect with nature, or simply sit quietly in the circle.

During our time together, we may explore:
🍂 Memories and holiday traditions
💜 Giving ourselves permission to do things differently
🌿 Creating boundaries around difficult gatherings
📓 Gentle seasonal reflection and journaling
🕯️ Remembering those who are missing
🤍 Optional sharing and quiet reflection
Sometimes the holidays ask us to hold joy and grief at the same table.
Both are allowed to be there.
This circle is not about finding the “right” way to get through the holidays.
It is about making room for what is true for you.
🌿 Sometimes nature gives us what words cannot — a place to breathe, remember, feel, and simply be.

💜 Please note: Seasons of Grief is a supportive community gathering and is not therapy, counseling, or mental health treatment.
It is not intended to replace professional mental health care.

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