Held at Yoga by Abbey, St. Catharines, ON. Come to one or all.
Dates: Friday, September 18th, 7:00-9:00 PM
Friday, October 9th, 7:00-9:00 PM
Friday, October 30th, 7:00-9:00 PM
Friday, November 20th, 7:00-9:00 PM
You’re capable, self-aware, and you’ve probably already done a fair amount of inner work. Therapy, books, podcasts… You’re not someone who avoids looking at yourself. And yet you’re still exhausted, dysregulated, and holding everyone else up. Still waiting for your life to actually feel like yours.
This is burnout in a high-functioning woman. Not the kind where you can’t get out of bed, but the kind where you never stop moving, and nobody around you can tell anything’s wrong.
These mini retreats are for the woman who is tired of explaining herself and quietly desperate for a few hours where she gets to be in the receiving seat for once.
Most healing approaches ask you to talk more, reflect more, do more. But when you’re a chronic over-functioner, even healing can start to feel like another responsibility you have to manage well.
Laurie leads a group reading where she intuitively picks up on what’s actually going on beneath the surface. The things you’ve been carrying that nobody else can see. For a lot of women, this is genuinely the first time someone names what they’ve been feeling without needing them to explain or justify it first.
Four dates with four themes. Return to Mind. Return to Body. Return to Soul. Return to Self. Come to the one that’s calling you, pick the dates that fit your schedule, or attend all four at a discounted rate and get consistent support plus a community that’s doing this alongside you.
Held in St. Catharines, in the heart of the Niagara region.
You’re the one everyone leans on. The one who keeps it all together. But inside, you’re exhausted—and craving space where you don’t have to perform or explain. This is that space. You don’t have to carry it all here.
You’ve read the books. Done the therapy. Tried the routines. But something still feels… off. These circles meet you in that space where logic ends and deeper self-connection begins.
You’re in your head all the time—planning, fixing, managing. You’ve talked about healing and your wounds, and now you want to feel grounded. This is where you get to soften, breathe, and remember what it’s like to feel fully human again.
Laurie Oakes is an Intuitive Coach and Spiritual Teacher who helps high-achieving women stop spiralling in burnout, overthinking, and self-doubt so they can finally trust themselves again.
After years in a high-pressure culinary career and a lifetime of navigating her mother’s illness, Laurie hit a level of burnout that forced her into her own spiritual awakening. What began as survival turned into a calling: a return to intuition, truth, and the deeper inner work most women avoid.
Today, she coaches women who look “put together” on the outside but feel disconnected on the inside. Through direct, grounded intuitive coaching, Laurie helps them break lifelong patterns, release the emotional load they’ve been carrying, and rebuild a relationship with their soul that feels clear, honest, and actually sustainable.
Absolutely! YES YES YES! Going to a retreat alone can be extremely powerful and transformative. Common feedback we also receive is the welcoming, safe and connected vibe we create and the relationships you create on retreats sometimes turn in to lifelong friends.
Another big YES! We welcome women of all levels and complete beginners too! Retreats are a great place to learn or to solidify established practices and routines.
Yes, a retreat information email with all this information will be sent out closer to the retreat date.
For the woman who’s done with surface-level answers.
Real conversations about the parts of the human experience we don’t talk about enough—burnout, identity, grief, intuition, and what it actually takes to come back to yourself.
Click the button below to instantly download your Workbook! ps. Check your email for a welcome note from Laurie!
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A pay-what-you-can masterclass for the woman who is ready to stop outsourcing her power & learn to trust herself.
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