The signature experience · Bar 17
The Come Home Retreat.
A five-day homecoming for the woman who has spent years taking care of everyone else, and is finally ready to come home to herself. On a working Texas ranch, with only eight women per retreat.
Book a conversationFor the woman who has given everything
This is what it feels like to come home.
You have spent years being everything to everyone, until you barely know yourself anymore. You were never meant to disappear inside the life you worked so hard to build. Come Home is five days to set the performance down, let yourself be held, and remember the woman underneath it all.
All on the land where my family has welcomed people home for generations.
What it is
Small enough that no one hides.
Eight women per retreat. A real working ranch. Nervous-system work alongside deep rest. Five days built so you can finally exhale, be seen, and lay down what you have been carrying.
- 8women, because healing rarely happens in a crowd
- 5days and six nights, long enough to stop performing
- 1homecoming that reaches your body as well as your mind
The lodge
A horse barn, remodeled into a home.
The lodge was never designed to impress you. It was designed to help your nervous system exhale. Every corner, the leather, the wood, the wildflowers, the rooms that used to be stalls, says the same quiet thing: you can rest here.
The journey home
The six movements of coming home.
These are six movements your nervous system makes, from performing to peace, as it feels safe enough to set down the woman you have been carrying and remember the one who was always underneath.
Arrive and exhale.
Coffee on the porch. Wildflowers underfoot. Meals around one table. The creek, and the longhorns moving across the pasture. The land asks nothing of you, and slowly, neither does anyone else.
Be seen.
I see what you are carrying, and what you have been avoiding, often before you can name it yourself.
Regulate and release.
Gentle nervous-system work, honest conversation, and self-forgiveness, so peace reaches your body as well as your mind.
Shed the labels.
The identities the world handed you come off. What is left is the woman underneath.
Find your voice.
On the vision walk, the turning point of every retreat, you remember what you came here to do.
Carry it home.
You leave rooted and light, and everyone in your life feels the difference.
Your host
The woman who knows the way home.
This is my family’s ranch. I open it to eight women at a time, on the same ground where my husband Mike’s family, the Linders, has gathered and changed people for generations. My father-in-law built a legacy here of helping people find their way, and I carry it forward now, for you.
I walked this road before I ever asked you to. I walked myself home on this land first. Now I simply walk beside women as they find their own way.
The Come Home Method
Most healing asks you to become someone new. Come Home asks you to remember who you have always been.
I help you see the woman underneath the performance.
We calm the nervous system until she feels safe enough to emerge.
You leave leading from peace instead of performance.
Is Come Home for you?
This retreat is for the woman who knows something has to change.
- Has spent years taking care of everyone else
- Is successful on the outside, but quietly exhausted
- Wants peace more than another strategy
- Is ready to stop performing
- Knows something inside her is asking for more
The women who came home
They remembered who they were.
“I realized I hadn’t laughed in years. By the second day, I could breathe again. I finally remembered who I was before everyone needed me, and built the life I’d kept putting off.”
“I came still grieving my husband, sure my best days were behind me. I left ready to say yes to a stage in front of thousands, speaking on the very thing that nearly broke me.”
“I arrived unsure I belonged anywhere. I went home, got certified, and built something that is finally mine.”
The investment
Everything you have been searching for, in one place.
Many women spend years piecing their healing together, a therapist here, a coach there, a conference, a stack of books, one retreat after another, and still feel fragmented. Come Home brings it together in one place: five days, eight women, and real time to rest and remember who you are.
What changes
- You stop performing and begin leading from peace
- You feel safe enough to be yourself again
- You remember the woman underneath it all
- You come home present to the people you love
Included: five days and six nights at the Bar 17 lodge, only eight women, nervous-system work with Teresa, every meal and gathering, and the vision walk. Dates and lodging details are shared on your conversation.
Before you come
Questions women ask.
When is the next retreat?
We'll share dates, lodging, and travel details on your conversation.
What's included?
Five days and six nights at the Bar 17 lodge, all meals and gatherings, nervous-system work with Teresa, and the vision walk. We'll share lodging details on your conversation.
How do I get there?
Bar 17 is in the Texas Hill Country, about an hour from Austin. We'll share travel details on your conversation.
What are the accommodations like?
We'll share lodging details, what to bring, and what is provided on your conversation.
What if I'm not in crisis?
Good. This is not a rescue. It is for the woman who is doing fine on the outside and knows something underneath is asking for her attention.
Who else will be there?
Only eight women per retreat. Each one carries a lot and is ready to come home. Small enough that no one hides.
How do I know if it's right for me?
We will know together on the conversation. That is exactly what it is for, and it is simply a real conversation.
Start here
Not ready for the ranch yet? Come home in ten minutes.
A short guided meditation to teach a tired nervous system that it’s safe to slow down, and to receive. The first taste of what coming home feels like.
Send me the meditationLet’s have a real conversation
Let this be the place you come home to.
You spend your whole life being the woman everyone else comes home to. Come have a real conversation with me. I just want to see you.
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