HYL Self-Care Retreat Reflections
The way these women leaned into the Harmonize Your Life Women’s Self-Care Retreat 2025 is giving me life this morning!!! This year our theme was Rest, Refresh, Rejuvenate, Repeat. And we did just that!
We moved our bodies in the mornings with Sheila L. Agnew and discovered fitness at every age. We learned the power of affirmations with Cheryl Polote-Williamson. We created healthy boundaries with Dr. Valerie Bridgeman. We learned how to handle our money with Mona Roberts. We learned how to care for ourselves while caregiving with Dr. Jeanne Porter King. We discovered work/life harmony with Co-Pastor Freida McCullough and the value of girlfriends with Roz Bogle. A special thanks to Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes who helped us tear down the Strong Black Woman Syndrome, restore our humanity, and love ourselves as black women (especially after this last election...) ❤️
We laughed heartily and did not care who criticized our laughter. We cried together and leaned on one another in moments of grief as I taught us how to care for the Whole Woman. We lined danced around the poolside, and indulged in massages, facials, and hydrotherapy at the resort spa. We took nature hikes, explored the beautiful flowers and foliage, listened to the birds, and ran from the monkeys… 😂
We did amazing Costa Rican excursions, rainforest and volcano tours, mud baths, horseback riding, zip lining, and some of the women visited Nicaragua. 🇳🇮 We completed our time together with a delectable dinner buffet, dancing under the stars with the Latin Hinestra Dance Group and DJ Devon as the resort sent us off with a wonderful fireworks show!!!
This morning as I reflect, my heart and spirit is full. Only God can take a black girl from the Southside of Chicago and give her a vision to lead black women around the world to discover self-care. 💚
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