Women who are recovering in all areas of their lives and who follow all pathways of recovery are warmly welcomed at all SHE RECOVERS retreats, events and offerings.

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Is a She Recovers Beach Retreat right for me?

If you answer “yes” to the following questions, then these retreats are perfect for you:

Are you a strong and courageous woman in recovery?
Do you love the sun, sand and the sea?
Are your days feel full but overly busy?
Do you ever feel like you just need to stop and catch your breath?
Would you like to hit pause and take a sabbatical from life?
Are you looking to form healthy relationships with women just like you?

Our retreats help us to fulfill our mission – to connect, support and empower women in or seeking recovery.

Our recovery retreat program started out with our first ever retreat taking place on the beach in Mexico in November 2012.

Our seven-day Playa Secreto, Mexico retreat (20 minutes from the Cancun airport) is a time to embrace your healing while being guided through a program intended to support your individualized pathway & patchwork of recovery. Trauma-informed yoga led twice a day by SHE RECOVERS Trauma-Informed Yoga teachers, sharing circles facilitated by professional SHE RECOVERS Recovery Coaches in the evenings, and shared mealtimes featuring fresh, nutritious, and Mayan-inspired dishes are included in the healing activities scheduled during the week. Spend the rest of your soul-recovery time beach walking, swimming in the beautiful Caribbean Sea or pool, resting, reading or journaling. Participate at your own leisure in other creative activities or spend healing time connecting with and supporting other like-hearted/like-minded women in recovery.

Mexico 1 Retreat 2022

Friday February 4 – Friday February 11

OUR FACILITATORS FOR THIS RETREAT WILL BE:

DAWN NICKEL, PHD

SHE RECOVERS Founder Dawn Nickel (PhD) looks forward to welcoming guests to one of her favorite spots on earth. In recovery from “all of the things” herself – Dawn works very purposefully on her recovery from workaholism. Dawn is currently writing a book about the “practice” of recovery.

PAYTON KENNEDY, RYT

SHE RECOVERS’ own Payton Kennedy, will be on site to support and guide both of the 2022 Return to Self Retreats. Payton is a woman in long term recovery herself, a yoga teacher and a gifted event planner. Payton is also the creator of the mindful movement modality SHE RECOVERS Dance.

Mexico 2 Retreat 2022

Friday February 11 – Friday February 18

OUR FACILITATORS FOR THIS RETREAT WILL BE:

DAWN NICKEL, PHD

Jen Yockey, CPC, CPRC, SRCD, E-RYT

Jen feels, resolutely, that awareness, willingness, compassion and small steps forward are keys to recovery, personal growth & healing. Jen is passionate about creating sacred space for women to come together to connect, breathe, and move. She is a SHE RECOVERS Coach and a graduate of the inaugural SHE RECOVERS Yoga Teacher Designation Program which took place in October, 2019.

Our retreats fill up immediately, so don’t hesitate if you want to join us!

What’s included?

7 nights’ accommodation in a beautiful oceanfront villa
3 healthy gourmet meals per day (vegetarian, gluten-free and other dietary requests possible)
SHE RECOVERS Trauma-Informed Yoga sessions at sunrise and sunset (recommended but optional, no yoga experience necessary)
Tea, coffee and cold alcohol-free beverages
Evening sharing circles
Moonlight celebration
Partial Gratuities (guests take up a small collection on last night of retreat to supplement gratuity paid by SHE RECOVERS)

What’s Not included?

Airfare to Cancun and return
Ground transportation from Cancun airport to villa and return (approximately $45 usd each way)
Travel insurance (including travel health insurance)
Full Gratuities (guests take up a small collection on last night of retreat to supplement gratuity paid by SHE RECOVERS)

Women recovering in ALL areas of their lives will benefit from this week of extreme self-care, but out of respect for women recovering from alcohol and drug addiction, this is a sober women’s retreat and no drugs or alcohol will be allowed.

Pricing

Please note updated pricing for 2022.

Clicking on one of the retreats below will take you to the retreat detail page where you can pay your $500 USD deposit and request your room preference.

Due to how quickly spots are purchased online when registration opens you are not guaranteed the room you request but we will always do our best to accommodate your preference. Please note that all of the king beds in rooms must be shared between two women.

QUESTIONS?
Contact: payton.kennedy@sherecovers.org

She Recovers on the Beach Retreats for 2022

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2022 Mexico 1 (Playa Secreto)
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2022 Mexico 2 (Playa Secreto)
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She Recovers on the Beach Retreats for 2021

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2019 Mexico 1 (Playa Secreto)
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2019 Mexico 2 (Playa Secreto)
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2019 Mexico 3 (Playa Secreto)
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Shelly Dimitrijevic

Shelly Dimitrijevic’s professional and philanthropic activities have always focused on improving the lives of others. She began her nursing career at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis and went on to become a LifeFlight nurse specializing in neonatal, pediatric, and cardiovascular intensive care.

Shelly has been involved with numerous charities focusing on children and education including the Charlee and the Chocolate Factory gala, The Venus Orbit, Design For A Cure, Jackson Memorial, and Impact Oasis. In 2010 she founded the Lotus program, a program that focused on educating parents on the nutritional needs of children and basic child development. Shelly also served on the Frost Science Museum gala committee for 7 years before Co-Chairing the event in 2015.

After a diagnosis of Celiac disease and subsequently receiving Certification as a Nutritional Consultant, Shelly recognized that topically applied products have an effect on her Celiac Disease and overall health. She turned her focus to developing skincare that was free of toxic and hormone-disrupting ingredients.

Since she lost her only sibling in 2012 Shelly has been determined to find a way to contribute to the recovery community in a way that can make a great impact and ensure that others have the resources necessary when they are struggling.

Shelly's substantial contributions to SHE RECOVERS of both time and resources have been instrumental and deeply appreciated.

Kirsten Newquist

As a result of being introduced to SHE RECOVERS through retreats and meet-ups, Kirsten will be starting her yoga teacher training in the fall. These retreats also led her to become more deeply involved with SHE RECOVERS in a volunteer capacity. Kirsten was instrumental in setting up some of the Foundation's grassroots groups and currently volunteers her time helping SHE RECOVERS Foundation to design and implement the Volunteer Chapter Network. Kirsten and her husband recently moved from Southern California to Roswell, Georgia to be closer to Kirsten's sister and two young nieces. When she isn't spending time being an aunt, you can find Kirsten hanging out with their rescue Labrador or exploring their new state.

Mary Beth O'Connor

Mary Beth is a founding member of SHE RECOVERS Support for Legal Professionals and is active at the local level with SHE RECOVERS in the Bay Area. Mary Beth has been living a sober life in recovery for over 26 years. She also has a history of trauma and abuse, from which she’s worked hard to recover as well. 6 years into her recovery, Mary Beth attended Berkeley Law. She worked at a large firm in Silicon Valley, then litigated class actions for the federal government. In 2014 Mary Beth was appointed an Administrative Law Judge. She recently retired, so she could devote her time to completing her writing and being more active in the recovery community.

She regularly speaks on behalf of LifeRing and develops relationships with organizations supportive of the multiple pathways approach. In August 2020, Mary Beth had an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, I Beat Addiction without God, where she described building a personal recovery plan by combining ideas from LifeRing, Women for Sobriety, and Narcotics Anonymous. In November 2020 she had an op-ed published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, I was a federal judge, and I support Safehouse. Here’s why. She is currently working on a full-length memoir.

Taryn Strong

Taryn Strong is a founder of SHE RECOVERS® Foundation as well as a trauma-informed yoga instructor, recovery coach, aromatherapist, and herbalist (and daughter to Mama Dawn). Taryn has developed a unique yoga retreat program and led over 40 yoga for recovery retreats since 2012. She is also the host of the SHE RECOVERS Podcast and most recently created and taught the inaugural trauma-informed SHE RECOVERS Yoga Teacher Training Program. Operating from a trauma-informed lens and a firm believer in anti-oppressive practices, Taryn brings an empathic and invitational approach to healing - empowering women to find and follow individualized pathways and patchworks of recovery.

Taryn's courageous vulnerability and passion for recovering out-loud has made her an influential voice in the global recovery movement - smashing the stigma often associated with substance use and mental health issues. Taryn creates and lives with her beloved and two dogs within the ancestral and unceded traditional territory of the Hul’qumi’num and SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples (Saltspring Island).

Susan Carter

Susan is an architect of hope and healing with over 30 years of experience in providing executive-level leadership to heart-centered teams in the non-profit realm. Since joining SHE RECOVERS® Foundation as Executive Director in April 2020, Susan continues to weave her experience with her passion to help other women receive what she has been so graciously given – long-term recovery from substance use disorder, body image issues, codependency, perfectionism, and moral injury.

Susan’s work in the treatment industry quickly revealed how stigma kept women struggling with mental health issues and addiction from seeking help, and the lack of resources available to them once they did. Having served as a founding employee of Susan G. Komen for the Cure for 20 years, playing an integral role in creating the global grassroots movement that changed the way breast cancer is talked about and treated, she felt called to utilize that experience to do the same for women struggling with mental health and substance use disorders.

Celebrating more than 27 years of continuous sobriety, Susan is a Certified Peer Support Worker (CPSW) in the state of New Mexico to provide resources and peer support to those in or seeking recovery. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her fur family of four, Alex, Chaco, Bodhi, and Gracie.

Dawn Nickel

Dawn Nickel, Founder of SHE RECOVERS® Foundation, is a thought leader in the women's recovery sphere as well as an accomplished leader, dedicated researcher, and visionary in the recovery moment. She holds a Ph.D. in health care policy with extensive experience in researching and writing about women experiencing substance use disorders, mental health challenges, and intimate partner violence. Dawn started her own journey of recovery from a substance use disorder and domestic violence in 1987. She is also in recovery from anxiety, grief, trauma, overworking, and cancer. Dawn's tell-it-like-it-is wisdom has created a ripple effect where you will often hear her quotes "the shit you did is just the shit you did - it's not who you are" and "recovering from all the things" resonating throughout many recovery realms.

Currently working on her first book, Dawn is living proof that in a world where all women in or seeking recovery are celebrated, supported, and deemed essential to healthy communities - anything is possible. She is fondly referred to as Mama Dawn in the SHE RECOVERS Community and to her daughters Taryn and Ashley. Dawn lives, works, and plays with her beloved grandchildren on the traditional territories of the Lkwungen speaking peoples on Vancouver Island.

Nika is just one of more than 325,000 women in the She Recovers Community.

“Alcohol is what brought me into recovery but for me, it didn't tell the full story. That is why I love SHE RECOVERS so much. We don't just talk about our demons and the drugs and the alcohol, we talk about the real issues that led us to using those things in the first place.”— Nika

When she was ready to deal with her past traumas and what drove her to drink, SHE RECOVERS was there. Sadly an estimated 34 million women are suffering from mental health/substance use disorders.

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Is a She Recovers Beach Retreat right for me?

Mexico 1 Retreat 2022

OUR FACILITATORS FOR THIS RETREAT WILL BE:

DAWN NICKEL, PHD

PAYTON KENNEDY, RYT

Mexico 2 Retreat 2022

OUR FACILITATORS FOR THIS RETREAT WILL BE:

DAWN NICKEL, PHD

Jen Yockey, CPC, CPRC, SRCD, E-RYT

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