You are good at this.

You always have been.

You show up, you handle it, you hold it together, or you try to, even when the trying is starting to cost more than you have. You have spent so long making sure everything keeps running that you have started running yourself out of the picture. 

Maybe your life looks fine from the outside. Maybe the cracks are starting to show. Maybe you are somewhere in between, holding it together in some areas and quietly unraveling in others. 

What you share with the women who will be in this room is not a particular appearance. It is a particular pattern.

You have been doing more than is sustainable for longer than you want to admit. You have been overriding your own needs, your body, your desires, your sense of what is actually true for you, in order to keep meeting the expectations, filling the roles, and being the person everyone counts on.

That pattern has a name.

Over-functioning.

And it does not care whether it is visible or invisible. It does not care
whether you look polished or exhausted. It just keeps running.

You are capable. You are responsible. You are someone who shows up.

And you are carrying more than is yours to carry.

That is not a failure of will. That is what happens when you have been the capable one for a very long time, and the pattern that once helped you has started to cost you more than it gives.

We know this woman.

We have been her.

We have sat with her, walked alongside her, and spent years doing this process with her. We know what it costs. We know what it asks. And we know what is possible on the other side of it. 

 This is our calling. And this retreat is for you.

You land in Costa Rica and we are there waiting for you. You do not have to navigate or figure anything out. You are met from the moment you arrive.

That first evening, you sit around a table with the other women. Something happens in that room that you did not expect. Your shoulders drop. Your jaw unclenches. Your breath, without you asking it to, comes a little slower and a little deeper. There is a quality in this space, in being surrounded by women who understand without needing an explanation, that allows you to exhale in a way you have not exhaled in a very long time. 

You do not have to manage how you are received here. You do not have to hold yourself in any particular way. For the first time in longer than you can remember, you are simply held. 

You go to sleep that night and something in your body already knows this week is going to ask something real of you. And something else, something quieter, already knows you are ready. 

The next morning, we head south together along the Pacific coast. The city gives way to mountains, mountains give way to jungle, jungle opens onto coastline that fills your chest. The landscape shifts and something in you shifts with it. By the time we arrive at the retreat property, you have already been traveling inward for hours. 

 The week moves through you more
than you move through it.

The Life That Fits is an 8-day immersive retreat in Costa Rica for women who are ready to stop overriding themselves, reconnect with what is actually true, and return home with a direction that finally fits. 

This retreat goes deeper than a wellness vacation. It is a professionally held, body-led experience designed to help you slow down enough to hear yourself again, and stay with what you find. 

You will move through daily somatic practice, guided reflection, honest conversation, and integration, in a setting that gives your nervous system enough room to actually exhale. Excursions are woven into the week not as activities but as living encounters with what becomes possible when something is allowed to be fully itself. 

 You will be asked to stay with yourself. We will hold the rest. 

I was thirteen years old the first time I went to Costa Rica.

I was there on an exchange program, a thirteen-year-old girl landing in a country she had never seen, and something happened the moment I arrived that I have never been able to fully explain and have never stopped trying to honor. I knew I was in a place where I belonged. Not visiting. Not passing through. Belonging. At thirteen, I did not have language for what that felt like in my body. I just knew I was not leaving the same way I arrived.

I kept going back.

Through different seasons of my life, through the corporate career, through everything that came with being a high-functioning woman in a high-demand world, I kept returning to Costa Rica. It has become my second home in the truest sense of the words. I live there part of the year now, with my partner. I have family there. I have friends there. I have a home there. 

What Costa Rica has always given me is this: it helps you understand the true meaning of nature and connection. The people smile, genuinely. The country holds you. It has what you need, and it has always had what I needed, in every season of my life I have brought myself there. 

There is a difference between a retreat facilitated by someone who has visited a beautiful place and one facilitated by someone who belongs there. I am not bringing you somewhere I discovered. I am bringing you into a world I have lived in for over thirty years, where I know the people, understand the culture, feel the land, and can show you the kind of beauty that takes a lifetime of returning to know how to find. 

And the land itself is unlike anywhere else on Earth. Costa Rica holds nearly ten percent of the Earth's entire biodiversity in one tiny country. In a single day you can move from jungle to cloud forest to ocean to mountain. The animals that feel exotic to us, the macaws nesting in the trees overhead, the toucans, the parrots, the creatures of every shape and size going about their lives as if they have always been there, because they have, are simply the ordinary fabric of daily life there. 

Being in a place where life is that abundant, that unapologetic, that completely itself, does something to a woman who has been overriding herself for years. Nature at that scale does not hold itself back. It just is.

I bring women to Costa Rica always. We travel to beautiful and meaningful places around the world, and every one of those experiences matters. But I will always, always come back to Costa Rica, because there is nothing like being guided somewhere by a person who does not just know it, but loves it, belongs to it, and wants to bring you into what it has meant to her entire life.

Valerie

The retreat property sits in the rainforest above Uvita, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. 

When you arrive, you feel the quality of the place before you can name it. The rooms are airy and simple, with jungle views and the sounds of the forest coming in from every direction. The materials are local, the design is grounded, and the spaces between buildings are as intentional as the buildings themselves. Outdoor studios open to the trees. Waterfalls and river pools right on the property, available to you throughout the week as practices in presence, not just recreation.

This is eco-luxury in the truest sense, where luxury means space to breathe, not performance or polish. Meals are shared together under open sky. Evenings bring stars, the sounds of the jungle, and the particular quiet that comes from being somewhere genuinely remote from the noise of ordinary life.

Your room is yours. The property is yours. The pace is yours.

Nothing here asks anything of you except to be present.

November timing is intentional. 

Before the holiday season asks you to give everything to everyone else,
you come back to yourself first.

Not a list of things to do differently. 

A different relationship to yourself. 

A clearer understanding of what no longer fits, in your roles, your patterns, your identity, your life. Language for the over-functioning patterns that have been running you, and genuine compassion for why they developed. A deeper relationship with your body as a source of truth rather than something to push through. Renewed access to what you actually want, what brings you joy, and what you have been putting aside. 

One grounded, aligned change you are ready to carry home.

 A 30-day integration plan so the retreat becomes a real shift, not a temporary high. 

A community of women who know exactly where you were when you arrived, and what you came back with.

 Everything you need for a complete, generous retreat experience.

•  8 days and 7 nights in Costa Rica
•  Arrival night accommodation
•  Retreat lodging in Uvita
•  All meals throughout the retreat, prepared fresh daily by our private chefs
•  Ground transportation within the retreat itinerary
•  Daily somatic practice, movement, and guided sessions
•  Bahia Ballena beach
•  Onsite waterfall hikes
•  Indigenous Village experience
•  Cacao farm visit and ceremony
•  1 spa treatment
•  Opening and closing circles
•  Retreat workbook
•  Guided journaling and reflection materials
•  Pre-retreat welcome call
•  Post-retreat group connections
•  30-day integration plan
•  Retreat gift
•  Packing guide and travel support
• Renewed Sisterhood Membership

The Food

Every meal is an experience in itself. Rich, organic, and prepared fresh daily by our private chefs, the food at this retreat is part of the healing. Meals are shared together (or on your own if that is what you need at that moment,) unhurried, and designed to nourish at the level this week is asking of your body. Every woman completes a pre-retreat survey so we understand your dietary needs, physical accommodations, and anything else that helps us care for you well. You will not be managing anything here. You will simply be fed, with care, for an entire week.

Not included: flights, passport fees, travel insurance, personal purchases, alcohol 

Nestled into the rainforest canopy and tucked along river trails, our casitas offer privacy, comfort, and jungle views in every direction.

Each casita is outfitted for eco-lux living - blending simplicity and care into every detail. 

Reserve Your Space

$500 Early Enrollment Deposit, applied toward
your total investment

The ones you might not say out loud first.

Not to fix everything. Not to burn it all down. Just to stop overriding yourself long enough to hear what is actually true.

Imagine yourself on the last evening in Uvita.

The week is behind you. You are somewhere quiet, watching the light change over the Pacific. Your body feels different than it did eight days ago. Not “fixed,” not transformed in some performed way, but cleaner. Lighter. More like yourself than you have felt in years.

You know what you are going home to. And you know what you are leaving behind.

That is the life that fits.

It is waiting for you in Costa Rica. 

November 7 through 14, 2026. 

RESERVE YOUR SPACE - $500 DEPOSIT 

11 spaces total. Early Enrollment pricing available now.
Flexible installment options available.

 Questions?

Contact Valerie directly at [email protected] or chat with her on Zoom by booking a call HERE.