with support from Morenike Olorunnisomo, LPC, SEP, RYT
and other members of the Empowered Healing Dallas staff
Healing Your Way Home
A retreat led by Dr. Danica Harris, SEP
& Dr. Brittany Escuriex
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Are you longing for more on your healing journey? Do you want space to focus on your healing away from the stress and distraction of everyday life? Would you benefit from connection with others who have experienced complex trauma, and a team of providers who have supported hundreds of people in their healing?
Join us for a healing-focused retreat. This trauma-informed, immersive experience will allow you to settle into a safe container with highly skilled trauma therapists and Somatic Experiencing Practitioners, as you attend to the parts of yourself that need gentleness, support, and care so that you can move forward from your traumatic past. Community is incredibly important, and we will use our knowledge and expertise to maximize the healing impact of community as we come together for this shared experience.
Healing-focused retreats can provide support and transformation equivalent to months of therapy. We have designed this experience to help you not only gain new knowledge, but to have time and space to practice how to work through nervous system activation and trauma responses in the moment. Stepping out of your life for a few days will allow you the space to connect with yourself in a deeper, more meaningful way. And different from a vacation, you won’t simply be returning to your typical life after a break from it, you will be returning to your life with more integration and tools than you had just a few days prior.
who is this for?
“I absolutely love co-hosting our Healing Your Way Home retreat. As a therapist, I deeply believe in our inherent capacity to grow and heal, and especially to do so in a safe space with others committed to a similar journey. As a human, I know the ways trauma can impact how we view ourselves and our relationships with others, and the ways we can come to feel disconnected from our inner wisdom. I’ve experienced the power of mind/body awareness and integration at both a personal and professional level and know this retreat will be transformative for anyone who attends. It’s an honor to be on this journey with you, and I look forward to everything from deep and meaningful connection to sharing pics of furry family members and talking about your favorite tv shows!"
Dr. Brittany Escuriex
“I truly believe that these healing focused retreats are my life’s work. I long dreamed of creating healing spaces for complex trauma survivors and I have been blown away by the results those who have attended have reported during and after their time with us. I know how deeply impactful trauma can be, and in my experience, both as a therapist and as someone who has been on her own healing journey for many years, I know that healing can also have a dramatic impact. When we can help our bodies learn the difference between trauma and stress, between back then and right now, and between safety and harm, we are much better equipped to handle future stressors and activation when they arise. I hope that together we create a healing community that is supportive, nurturing, healing, and appropriately playful and light-hearted. Can’t wait to support you in your healing journey!"
Dr. Danica Harris, SEP
Meet the facilitators
Reflections From Past Attendees
"It was amazing! Just what I needed from start to finish"
"Beautiful, healing, and exactly what my heart needed"
"It was amazing! I loved the group connection, the learning, and the experiential aspects. And there was a feeling of intense safety"
“This was a life-changing experience and the facilitators are absolutely amazing!”
"Wow! I’m processing the duality of feeling grateful and totally mind-blown. I am dumbfounded about the power of Somatic Healing"
"It was incredibly well-planned yet the flexibility was great with no stress"
"This retreat was worth every penny!"
We're here to help you heal through integration, gentleness, and support
The transformation you’ll experience:
- You'll go home with more awareness of your body
- You'll understand what it means to ride the wave of your own nervous system activation
- You'll gain awareness of your trauma responses and attachment wounds
- You'll learn how to be gentle with yourself when difficult situations arise
- You'll begin to understand what softening to yourself really looks like
- You'll start building a practice of self-care that applies to you in each and every moment of your life
- You'll begin to really understand that everything you endured is not your fault
- You'll learn how healing your attachments wounds will strengthen your relationship with yourself
- You'll learn how to feel into your emotions and sensations rather than run from them or allow them to swallow you whole
Itinerary of events:
- Individual Coaching Session: After you register you will sign up for a coaching session with Danica & Brittany where they will learn about you, you can ask questions, and your individual needs can begin to be addressed.
- Building the container: Meet all the participants, facilitators, and support staff at this virtual event! This virtual meeting will be held the Friday before the retreat.
- Arrival, Thursday: Retreat orientation begins at 5pm, Dinner at 6:30pm
- Day 1, Friday: Creating safety, understanding the nervous system, containment
- Extra activities: Trauma-Conscious Movement and documentary night
- Day 2, Saturday: Befriending your nervous system, differentiating stress from traumatic stress, understanding attachment
- Extra activities: Expressive Arts and Sound Bath Healing
- Day 3, Sunday: Moving past shame and finding your way back to your body
- Extra activities: Trauma-Conscious Movement and a facial party
- Departure, Monday: Breakfast, closing activity, and goodbyes completed by 11am
You can expect community. You can expect support. You can expect education. You can expect fun. You can expect gentleness. You can expect embodiment. You can expect to go home with tools, resources, and an increased sense of connection with yourself.
This won’t just be a serious space. We know trauma survivors sometimes need help tapping into their younger, more playful parts, and each and every part of you will be accepted and honored during this retreat.
There will be support staff and highly trained therapists available during all hours of the retreat so you can trust that if you need support, you will get it in the moment.
There will be a mix of activities, education, gentle movement and engagement with your body, and community building.
You will learn how to build your own internal resources, and we will be customizing the retreat with all of the participants in mind. While we have a plan for the topics we intend to cover, we will meet with each participant one on one prior to the retreat to ensure that we begin the relationship with each attendee before they even arrive so we can consider all of your specific needs in our final plan.
This will be a space free of diet talk, anti-Blackness, homophobia, sizeism, ableism, and any other form of discrimination or oppression.
We understand that trauma was anything that was too much, too fast for the nervous system, so this experience has been designed to be intentional and flexible to the needs of the folx who are in attendance.
We believe that healing happens in trauma-informed spaces, so you can expect us to consider what is needed to provide a safe container for this experience.
What can I expect?
Want more info or interested in seeing if this retreat is a good fit for you? Feel free to send inquires to hello@theempoweredtherapist.com
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