I have just returned from yet another fabulous retreat but this time in Spain. It was only our second time abroad, the first...

After just 2 years of launching Mending Hearts Retreat and with a pandemic hopefully behind us we finally got to have our first ever international retreat back in May. For the past 2 years, we've been hosting Mending Hearts in the beautiful English countryside of East Sussex. No retreat is the same, some can be more challenging than others, but as long as we keep going we become stronger and better each time. March was so much fun, we had a lovely bunch of women 10 in total,

Being with my ex-husband for twenty years, I felt restricted with the type of holidays we could book, he wasn't big on the sun and he certainly wasn't into outdoor sports or adventure. But then due to my vertigo I also felt held back on some of the trips I had constantly dreamed of. I have suffered from vertigo all my adult life it can be so bad and disabling, sometimes just walking up a set of steep stairs would set it off. I remember visiting Angkor Wat in Cambodia some yea

After months of anticipation and stress in the hope, that the retreat would go ahead, we managed to scrape through. This was primarily due to all the attendees that stayed committed and supportive. Everyone had either been tested or vaccinated before their arrival which provided the group added reassurance throughout the weekend. For our first day, we had our favourite artist back Dave Randall, who gathered the group into the main bar to paint a self-portrait of themselves in

Wow, what an amazing weekend we had! We laughed, we cried and bonded, whilst having the most fun. The weekend couldn't have gone better. The group were amazing and so were our grief and divorce coaches and our superstar therapist Heather Mallery. Thank you to Stephanie Corking and Karen Sutton our life, grief and divorce coaches who made a strong and positive impact to the weekend, but if we had to choose one who stole the show, it would have to be our therapist Heather Mall