I first started running retreats in 2019 as a place for women to have a space where they could step off the treadmill of life and rest, feeling nurtured and safe.
Over the years, hundreds of women have joined our retreats and tell me that they feel lost and want to find themselves again.
But what does “finding yourself” actually mean?
What It Means to ‘Find Yourself’
To me, finding yourself means coming back to the essence of who you are, without the labels, roles, pressures, and expectations that life puts on us.
As women, we spend so much of our lives giving to others, in motherhood, in our work and in our relationships. Until one day we realise we don’t know who we are anymore outside of those roles.
We’ve been conditioned to be strong, to keep it together, to prioritise others, to strive, be productive and to always be achieving something. But that constant push and endless need to prove ourselves is exhausting and slowly disconnects us from our true selves. The process of losing ourselves is slow and gradual.
We learn to suppress our emotions, and we hold in our anger, we swallow our sadness, hide our shame, and silence our grief because we’ve been told it’s too much, too heavy, or too inconvenient and society doesn’t know what to do with all these strong emotions.
Until one day, it all catches up with us.
The Midlife Awakening
It’s often at the midlife point where something in us shifts. It’s often when we have a spiritual awakening. A quiet knowing that life can’t keep going the same way and something needs to change.
Sometimes it’s triggered by a major life event like loss, illness or heartbreak. Sometimes it’s simply a deep exhaustion from holding it all together for too long.
It can feel like a breakdown but in actual fact, it’s a breakthrough. A call from your soul saying, “It’s time to stop and start finding your way home to yourself.
And that’s where a Bali Healing Women’s Retreat can be profoundly life-changing.
How a Bali Retreat Helps You Find Yourself Again
1. Pause.
The first step is creating space.
When you step away from your everyday life and arrive in a place like Bali, surrounded by nature and held by the island’s healing energy, something inside you softens. You exhale.
You begin to calm your nervous system and feel safe enough to truly stop.
This pause becomes the circuit breaker and lets you see your life not from within the chaos, but from the outside as the observer of your life.
2. Feel.
Once your body begins to feel safe, your heart opens.
And what often comes up, are the emotions you’ve been holding for years because you’ve needed to be the strong one, holding it all together.
The buried emotions like grief, anger, shame, sadness, resentment and fear are not wrong or bad. They’re simply asking to be seen, held, and healed. It’s like meeting up with a long-lost friend you didn’t realise how much you missed.
3. Remember You’re Worth It.
As you soften and begin to release what you’ve been holding, you start to remember your worth.
Not the worth that comes from achievement or perfection, but the innate worth that’s always been there and that you were born with.
You begin to redirect the love, care, and compassion you’ve always given so freely to others, back towards yourself. And in doing so, you start to heal from the inside out.
This is fierce love, which is the foundation of every Bali Women’s Healing Retreat we offer.
4. Reconnect to Self.
When you create space for healing, you reconnect with the true essence of who you are.
That part of you that is Calm, Compassionate, Courageous, Clear, Curious, Creative, Confident, and deeply Connected.
When we can connect with all the parts of ourselves, we start to appreciate the duality of life, the light and the shadow, the beauty and the pain, the joy and the grief.
You realise that healing isn’t about becoming someone new.
It’s about remembering who you’ve always been. You are whole, worthy, and enough.
Coming Home to You
That’s the number one reason women come to our Bali Healing Retreats. Not to escape their lives, but to come home to themselves.
To grieve what has been lost, to feel what has been unfelt, and to rediscover the joy and aliveness that’s been buried underneath the weight of years of responsibility and expectations.
Because when a woman reconnects with herself everything shifts. Her whole life expands as she learns to direct the light within her outwards, rather than constantly searching for it outside herself.
She becomes the powerful creator of her own life, living on her terms, grounded, empowered, and free.
Ready to reconnect and come home to yourself?
Join one of our Bali Women’s Healing Retreats www.hartandsoulretreat.com/bali-retreat-2025
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