Costa Rica Retreat Recap
April 2025 | 5 days, 6 nights
Stepping into more ease, freedom, and confidence in the body.
Participants spent the week:
✓Reconnecting with their bodies — beyond the scale or expectations
✓Eating with more ease — without guilt or constant overthinking
✓Experiencing satisfaction — instead of control and restriction
✓ Building self-trust — in a way that felt steady and real
✓ Letting go of the pressure to shrink — and making space for a different relationship with their bodies
🌿 This wasn’t about changing bodies.
It was about changing the relationship with them.
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FEEL AT HOME IN YOUR BODY & FINDING EASE WITH FOOD - FOR LIFE.
In April 2025, we gathered in Costa Rica for 5 days and 6 nights of connection, reflection, and real change.
Together, we created a space where participants could step away from the noise of diet culture and explore a different way of relating to food and their bodies.
Through shared experiences, honest conversations, and time in nature, something shifted- not through pressure or perfection, but through trust, support, and being in it together.
What the week looked like
A closer look at how the experience unfolded—through connection, conversation, movement, and space to just be.
Daily workshop-style, interactive lessons
Guided sessions that invited honest reflection and real conversations. This is where deeper shifts started to take shape.
Beach excursions to relax and be present
Time by the ocean to step out of routine and just be. No agenda—just space to enjoy and reconnect.
1:1 conversations for personalized support
Individual time to be heard, supported, and guided through what was coming up. Grounded, personal, and tailored to each experience.
Community meals without pressure or rules
Shared meals in a space where food didn’t need to be controlled or overthought. Just eating, connecting, and being present.
Morning yoga with gentle, supportive movement
Slow, intentional movement to ease into the day. Focused on how it felt—not how it looked.
Dance to move and let go
A chance to move freely and drop the pressure to do it “right.” Letting the body lead for once.
What participants shared
Real reflections from those who were there—what shifted, what felt different, and what they’re taking with them.
Is the Nourish to Flourish Retreat Right For You?
Are you tired of feeling stuck in a cycle of wanting to change your body, only to feel exhausted, anxious, or overwhelmed at the thought of yet another “fix”?
If so, this retreat is for you.
At Nourish to Flourish, we won’t give you more rules, restrictions, or quick fixes. Instead, we’ll help you tune into yourself and tune out the noise—so you can finally break free from the patterns that have kept you trapped.
Will you be “healed” in five days? No. But you’ll be set on a new path.
Imagine you're in an airplane from NYC to Seattle, but you want to end up in San Diego. If you pivot the nose of the airplane just a few degrees, you'll end up hundreds of miles south in sunny San Diego.
This retreat is your pivot. A shift in direction that will change the way you move through life—leading you toward true freedom, peace, and self-acceptance.
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MEET YOUR CO-LEADERS:
CAROLINE
COHEN
Caroline is a certified life coach and speaker who specializes in helping women with high standards heal from a lifetime of dieting and body shame.
After spending over a decade of her own life chasing thinness through disordered eating and excessive exercise, Caroline began her own healing journey at age 29. Through co-active coaching, intuitive eating, and questioning the status quo, she transformed her relationship with food and her body and has never looked back.
Now, Caroline is devoted to helping other women who feel their body is never quite good enough, and turn to restrictive dieting and punishing fitness regimens to fix it. She provides the tools and guidance to help them throw off the shackles of diet culture, tune into their body's wisdom, and live life to the fullest.
WENDY
REEVES
Wendy is all about people, bodies, and play! Coaching and facilitation have become the perfect portals for her personality, skills and passions to shine. She is a dynamo and her style is deeply embodied.
Her career has been dynamic and it’s centered around creative art, customer experience, bodywork, and student services. In 2019, she dove head first into coaching through training at CTI. She is a CPCC, ACC, and graduate of their Leadership Program. Wendy is currently working on a certification program to become an Embodied Intimacy and Relationship Coach.
Wendy is an Enneagram 7 and she lives in Asheville, NC with her husband of 23 years, their 3 kids, 3 cats, and 30+ house plants. They are renovating their fixer-upper home, getting outside as much as possible, learning, reading, feasting, and building community.
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