Over the course of the day, you will:

• Learn a simple, grounding framework for understanding midlife as a meaningful and generative developmental shift and passage—not a crisis, but a call toward deeper alignment.

• Name the habits, identities, and expectations that once served you—and notice which now feel limiting.

• Listen more closely for what’s emerging in you—the longings, values, and truths asking for greater room in your life.

• Reflect through journaling, guided exercises, and small-group dialogue designed to surface insights that are often difficult to access alone.

• Connect with other thoughtful people who recognize this moment.

• Clarify what matters now, and leave with commitments, key questions, and/or experiments to carry forward.

The retreat is a pause, a threshold, and an invitation: a day to slow down, listen beneath the noise, and make room for the self that is quietly—and persistently—asking to come forward.

This retreat is for women who feel a quiet knock—the sense that something in you wants more room to breathe.

You might be:

• Standing in a successful life but feeling strangely disconnected from it

• Carrying a fatigue you can’t quite name

• Realizing you’ve outgrown some of the roles, habits, or expectations that once kept you safe

• Wondering, “Is this it?” or “What happens now?”

• Longing for a pause—a place outside of proving and performing—to hear what your deeper self is trying to say

• Craving community with other thoughtful, accomplished women navigating similar terrain

This is for you if you know something is changing—you just haven’t yet had the space to listen.

Participants in the first Clearing Retreat rated the day as “very” or “deeply” valuable. They highlighted the power of the small-group conversations, live coaching with Rachel, and the opportunity to reflect openly with others navigating similar questions about identity, ambition, and transition.

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Rachel is so authentic, relatable, knowledgeable and awesome to talk to. Her humility and great questions as a coach were validating, challenged me to think more deeply and helped me to gain better insight. I feel lucky to have gotten to do the retreat and highly recommend it to anyone who gets the chance! 

~ Stephanie

This workshop couldn't have come at a better time for me. Rachel is a truly gifted facilitator, and the a-ha moments continue to inform what’s next.

~ Janet

The Clearing was such a gift--  Rachel's workshop gave me the space and guidance to think through where I am and what I need to craft the life I want.

~ Liz