Whether you are moving through menopause, divorce, an empty nest, a career change, or simply feeling like you’ve lost yourself somewhere along the way, this retreat offers a space to pause and reflect.
This immersive retreat is designed to help you quieten negative thoughts, understand your challenges, and build lasting strategies for living your best life. With guidance from expert psychotherapists and holistic therapists, you’ll leave with a renewed sense of clarity, confidence, and inner peace.
Connect with others who truly understand—people who have walked a similar path and are ready to support and inspire you. You’ll gain practical tools for daily life, a personal plan for continued growth, and the feeling that you’re not alone.
Mindset and Positive Psychology
On the first day of the retreat, we introduce essential, evidence-based tools to support recovery from anxiety and depression. Through a powerful blend of Positive Psychology, and mindset work, you will learn to:
Understand and challenge unhelpful thinking patterns
Build resilience through gratitude, strengths, and positive focus
Develop a growth mindset to navigate setbacks with self-compassion
Practice accepting difficult emotions without being overwhelmed
Gain some tools and techniques to let go of people and emotions that hold you back
Day One will equip you with practical strategies to manage your mind, cultivate emotional balance, and begin moving toward a more meaningful, empowered life.
Exploring Values, Self-Care, Self-Compassion & Life Purpose
As part of your retreat journey, we’ll take time to gently explore what truly matters to you. Understanding your core values—the things that give your life meaning and direction—can be a powerful guide through recovery and beyond.
When we reconnect with our values, we can start to make choices that feel aligned and authentic, even in the midst of challenges.
Clarify what’s most important to you.
Explore what self-care looks like for you—not just routines, but meaningful ways of tending to your emotional, physical, and mental well-being
Develop self-compassion practices that help you soften harsh inner criticism and respond to yourself with kindness.
Make choices in life aligned with your values to live authentically and happily.
Personalised One to one Counselling/Psychotherapy or CBT sessions
As part of your retreat experience, we offer individual one-to-one sessions with our highly skilled team of psychotherapists and counsellors. Each therapist is qualified and experienced in counselling, CBT, mindfulness, and trauma-informed approaches, providing you with personalised, expert support.
Tailored Support for Your Recovery
In your one-to-one sessions, you’ll have the opportunity to:
We can explore inner child, trauma, burnout, stress relief, life transitions, bereavement or ongoing addictions recovery.
Receive focused guidance to help you integrate the skills and practices from the retreat into your everyday life
Access continued support after the retreat, if you choose to continue your sessions
Ongoing Support Options are available.
Yoga For Emotional Wellbeing, Anxiety and Depression
Our yoga teachers bring not only professional expertise but also personal experience with anxiety and depression, making them deeply attuned to your emotional and physical needs. Each session is thoughtfully tailored to support mental health and is designed to meet you exactly where you are.
What to Expect:
Gentle, adaptable yoga suitable for all physical abilities
A compassionate, non-judgmental space that honours your emotional experience
Practices that promote calm, balance, and emotional grounding
Our yoga sessions are not about pushing the body—they are about nurturing it. Through mindful movement, breathwork, and deep relaxation, yoga can help you reconnect with your body, build self-esteem and confidence, and gently support mood regulation.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
During the retreat, you’ll be introduced to Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also known as “tapping” — a simple yet powerful practice that helps reduce anxiety, release emotional blocks, and bring calm to the body and mind.
EFT combines gentle tapping on specific acupressure points with mindful attention to difficult thoughts, feelings, or memories. This process helps to regulate the nervous system, ease emotional intensity, and create space for new, more empowering perspectives.
Through EFT, you will:
Learn a practical, self-soothing technique you can use anytime
Reduce the emotional charge around stress, anxiety, and limiting beliefs
Begin to gently shift emotional patterns that may feel stuck
Support your body’s natural ability to find calm and balance
The Power of Connection with likeminded people
One of the most transformative parts of this retreat is the opportunity to connect with like-minded people who truly understand. Anxiety and depression can often feel isolating, but when we come together in a supportiveA benefit of a retreat is the opportunity to connect with likeminded people. By sharing with others you remove feelings of isolation and loneliness. You come away with a sense of being heard and knowing that you are not alone.
Group sessions are facilitated by Vanessa Wallace and her psychotherapeutic team bringing a family feel to the whole retreat and safety to share and be open about your feelings.
You are not asked to share more than you feel comfortably able to and there is an opportunity for 1-1 session if you prefer to not share in a group.
Workbook and extra gifts
You will be guided through the whole experience with a workbook of your own to take home. We aim to make you feel so special and cared for during this retreat and if you have special requests as to the sessions or support you need we will do our best to accommodate this.
Options of full body deep tissue, neck, back or head massage.
Our Deep Tissue Massages are the perfect way to help you fully relax and settle into your retreat experience. This is pure, indulgent time just for you—a chance to pause, breathe, and let your body be cared for.
The Benefits:
Feel deeply calm, grounded, and revitalised
Experience relief from stress and physical tension
Support the gentle release of stored emotions held within the body
Deep tissue massage not only eases tight muscles—it can also help release the emotional layers we carry, offering you a sense of lightness and freedom as you continue your healing journey.
Allow yourself this beautiful time-out to truly rest, recharge, and reconnect with yourself.
If you prefer to not have a deep tissue massage other massages or treatments are available.
Arrivals from 9:30am - Day 1
Close 5.30pm Day 3
Accommodation available at Sedgebrook Hall or you may stay locally as well if you wish. Day attendees also accepted.
Our next Renew and Reconnect retreat is from the 11th-13th June 2027. Early bird offer £950, after 11th May price is £1150.
Accommodation not included but can be booked at Sedgebrook Hall or locally if preferable. Lunch, massage, yoga sessions and workshops are included.
Only a few miles from Northampton train station and located not far from the M1 this venue is easily accessible by public transport or car. There is a good taxi service from Northampton train station.
