Time Away to Heal: Wellness Retreat Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe wellness retreats, from a single day away to a fourteen-day Ayurvedic programme in Kerala. People went after a loss, a diagnosis, years of poor sleep or a job that had swallowed everything: a widowed bus driver at a grief weekend, an ICU nurse on a silent week, a sous chef who ate standing up, a solicitor living in six-minute units, a pastor who needed a pastor, a retired police officer among people who understood, new mothers on rest stays with their babies, a man learning to eat after triple bypass surgery. They write from Bengaluru to Buenos Aires, Accra to Copenhagen. The book covers forest walks among cedars, cold-water swims, a desert weekend on hot flashes, a pilgrimage walked on a pension, three weeks weeding on a farm, a borrowed Norwegian cabin, a sleep week, a phone locked in a box, and a cook's view from the retreat kitchen. Some came home with a habit, a friend or a slower pace at work. The harder accounts are told plainly: a juice week that went wrong for an Iowa farmer, a fasting retreat that stirred an old eating disorder, nine kilos lost and eleven regained, an altitude trip too much for COPD, and a woman who left early and was glad.

Who it's for

For anyone weighing a retreat, carers and shift workers who can't imagine getting away, and readers who want honest notes on what helped, what disappointed and what to ask first.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 233 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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