Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Foreword
Introduction
How to Use This Book
Naming, Shaping, and Saying Yes
A Woman’s Retreat
A Retreat Outline
The Call to Retreat
Intention
For How Long Will You Retreat?
Where Will You Retreat?: Your Physical and Emotional Containers
What Will You Do?
Courage
Beginnings
Opening Ceremony
Uncomfortable Beginnings, Middles, and In-Betweens
Good Ways to Listen
Contemplations
Intention Chart
Practices
Gathering the Whole
Emerging from Chaos into Balance
Getting Juicy
The State of Being
Courting Yourself
Feeding the Artist
Portrait of Your Authenticity
One Who Chooses
Marking a Passage
Grieving
Reviving Your Spiritual Direction
Stuck in the Airport of Life
Completion
Returning Home
Closing Ceremony
Living Your Retreat Every Day
Retreating with Others
Retreat Plans
A One-Day Well-Being Retreat
A Lunch Hour Retreat
A Two-Day Artist Retreat
A Half-Day Trust Retreat
A Three-Day Spiritual Renewal Retreat
A One-Hour Getting Current Retreat
A Half-Hour Jump-Starting Your Creativity Retreat
A One-Day Grieving Retreat
A One-Day Birthday Retreat
A One-Day Retreat with a Friend
A Two-Minute Retreat
Final Notes
Resources
Permissions
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Books by Jennifer Louden
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher