The Self-Led Woman

An Internal Family Systems and spiritual leadership retreat

Self-Led Woman

Embody Your Sovereignty

We live in a world that has never quite trusted women to trust themselves. We were taught to be good, to be helpful, to manage and perform and hold it together—often at enormous cost to ourselves. Somewhere along the way, the thread back to our own knowing and aliveness got buried under all of that.

This retreat is an invitation to find that thread again. Self-leadership isn't a skill you develop so much as a territory you return to, and when a woman learns to recognize when her parts are running the show—and return to the clarity of her deeper Self—something fundamental shifts.

Gradually, she stops outsourcing her authority, stops abandoning herself in small ways and large, and begins to act from truth rather than fear, habit, or the exhausting work of keeping everyone else comfortable. That is sovereignty, and it changes everything.

Join Level 3 Certified IFS Practitioner, author, and women's spiritual leadership mentor Sara Avant Stover for a retreat that takes you beneath the surface of who you think you are and into deeper ground.

Through IFS-based psychological inquiry, meditation, embodiment, sacred ritual, and women’s circle, you will:

  • Learn to work with your inner world using the IFS model—meeting the parts of you that protect, the parts that carry old pain, and the deeper Self that can lead them all.
  • Release the patterns of burnout, self-abandonment, and self-doubt that have kept you managing your life rather than fully living it.
  • Develop the clarity, inner authority, and courage to act from your own knowing—in your work, relationships, and life.
  • Deepen your relationship with spiritual guidance and let it become your compass, not just in times of crisis, but every day.

This retreat is for women who sense that something truer is available to them—and are ready to find out what that is.

Recommended Reading: Sara Avant Stover, The Way of the Happy Woman, The Book of SHE, and Handbook for the Heartbroken 

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