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PANDAS / PANS Mom's Sacred Healing Retreat 2024

A new possibility to bring healing to the

hearts and souls of our community

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​​Every day, hour after hour, patient after patient, mom after mom, I am faced with the difficulties and trauma our community endures. Some days are better, some are worse. We've learned to continue to adapt, lower our expectations and reach into some endless bucket of courage that keeps us going.  But we are often left in tatters, trying as hard as we can to stay connected to whatever good is left inside of our lives and marriages and families and relationships.

 

This is why we are putting together a healing retreat for PANDAS/PANS parents, for moms specifically.

 

The purpose of the retreat is to provide a safe healing environment to support parents with emotional and soul recovery from the burden of living with a child(ren) with PANDAS/PANS/Lyme/Autism and other immune dysregulations and deficiencies.  

 

The weekend includes opportunities for self-recovery, sharing, reflection and hopefully, to remember, at least for a moment, what it feels like to live as a free woman and remember how strong and whole and amazing and inwardly joyful you STILL are. To put faces and living people to our Facebook connections, creating real relationships and friendships that reduce the ongoing isolation. And to bring home a couple of new tools that may help in those moments of intensity, to take care of yourselves and your families and find a way to reconnect to goodness and joy.

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The retreat begins on Friday at 5pm and concludes on Sunday at 3pm

(but you are welcome to come early and stay late and just enjoy the time)

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EVENT FORMAT

The format includes a mix of unstructured time for socializing, resting or reflecting plus structured activity offerings with restorative and therapeutic value, as well as structured play :)  You are of course free to choose whatever you want to do at any given period of time at this wonderful hotel, although we hope you'll participate in the retreat offerings.

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Some of the work of the retreat will be in large and small group sharing, meditation, breath work, yoga, exploring the enneagram, and other somatic modalities that may encourage release of tension, enhance inner awareness and self compassion, and hopefully some cellular and spiritual recovery through just plain fun and relaxation and comradery.

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We spent the evenings gathering around the many firepits on the beautiful waterfront property, walking along the marina, in the hot tubs, and just enjoying some much needed downtime with others to whom we never have to explain a single thing about our life challenges.

 

The weekend will be facilitated by Drs Kim Ward and Hilary Stokes.  They are deeply familiar with PANDAS/PANS and experienced in a multitude of psych and somatic and trauma integrative healing work. They are humble and lovely. I have known them for half my life. Here is their website if you're interested in knowing more about them:  https://www.authenticityassociates.com/ 

 

I have tremendous confidence that the 2024 Retreat will provide another profound and transformative healing experience that will fulfill its vision and offer many benefits to everyone attending the Retreat.

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WHAT'S INCLUDED

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The event is being offered in service, it is not a money making venture.  We are working hard on sponsorships and donations to eliminate any financial barriers to participation.  In October 2021, our first retreat, the actual venue costs were covered by generous sponsorships we received on behalf of participating mothers.  We were able to provide room scholarships for 22 mothers and 4 staff, in addition to covering meals for all 30 participants and staff, throughout the entire event.

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included:

Friday Evening Dinner Reception

Breakfast, Lunch and Snacks on Saturday (and some Saturday dinners for scholarship participants)

Brunch and snack on Sunday

Discounted room rate and resort fees

All hotel amenities plus a spa discount for those inclined

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Not included - transportation from/to the airport / Saturday night dinner

 

All 2021Retreat facilitation and hotel activities were covered at no charge to participants through our Sponsors, and we hope to  be able to do the same through fundraising.

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LOCATION AND RESERVATIONS LINK

Hyatt Mission Bay, San Diego

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Discount room reservation link HERE:  $219/night 

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REGISTRATION 

Please send an email to sacredhealingretreat2024@gmail.com to register

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Our last event filled quickly.  Space is Limited. Please register soon if you know you want to be there.

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ROOM SCHOLARSHIPS

In 2021, in addition to the venue costs being completely covered through Sponsorships, we were able to offer 25 moms partial or total room scholarships.  We are striving to do at least the same in 2024.  You can help by reaching out to anyone you know that is a stakeholder in our community.  Scholarships will be awarded as soon as they are available, in order of those who are registered and requesting scholarships.

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Remember... We are all and always busy.  Even overwhelmed with things that come up to do and go to for your children and family, that's our life.  But....There is ONLY ONE RETREAT. YOU NEED AND DESERVE THIS TIME.  Everyone you know will benefit.        

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​TTO OUR 2024 SPONSORS

 

This event would NOT be possible without YOUR KINDNESS and

 the generous support of our community stakeholders - I cannot begin to express my gratitude to each of you.

Our Sponsors represent the diversity of support for our community we would expect - parents, family members, non-profits, providers, infusers,

supplement and testing companies. 

We Thank Each and Every One of YOU

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If you would like to SPONSOR or donate to the 2024 PANDAS/PANS Mom's Sacred Healing Retreat, please click on the Paypal link or call the office.​

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2024 Retreat Sponsors

 

Platinum Sponsors

Barbi and Stefan Walker

Steven Scott and Sherry Floyd Scott

Meghan Champagne and BioPLUS Rx Specialty Pharmacy​

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Golden Sponsors

Northwest PANDAS/PANS Network

PANDAS Network

Wendy Ryder and IV League Infusion Services

Brain Inflammation Collaborative

Brittany and Evan Rothman

Diagnostic Solutions Laboratory

Dr Sri Ganeshan and Mitoswab

Anonymous​

 

 

 

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​Silver Sponsors ​

A Mother's Rest

Moleculera Biosciences

Ashok Gupta & Gupta Program Brain Retraining

Doctor's Data​

Integrative Therapeutics

Julie and Jordan Harris

Anonymous 

Jennifer and Robert Loffink

Margaret McKnight

The Harrison Family

Samantha and Aaron Jacobs

Blue Vibrant Oils

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**PARENTS SPONSORING PARENTS**

 

 

We could not be more grateful for the GIFT OF THE RETREAT​​

by THESE sponsors

to 30 amazing courageous persistent exhausted beautiful valiant Women​​

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