Unleashing Your Wild, Authentic Self!
When: Friday, April 25, 2025 at 4pm – Sunday, April 27, 2025 at 1pm.
Where: Genesis Spiritual Life & Conference Center, 53 Mill Street, Westfield, MA, 01085.
(Located half an hour from bus and train stations in Springfield, MA, and Bradley International Airport in Hartford, CT.)
Facilitator:
Nadine Lucas, CAGS, LMHC (https://compassionbasedhealing.com/)
Workshop Fee:
Includes Accommodations (single room, shared bath) meals, snacks, and collage materials: $649. Scholarships and payment plans are available upon request.
Resources:
Untamed by Glennon Doyle (Mar 12, 2020)
Get Untamed: The Journal (How to Quit Pleasing and Start Living) by Glennon Doyle

Dear Wild-Hearted Women,

We will gather in this retreat for women to liberate the truest, most authentic version of ourselves that has been quietly waiting to be unleashed.
Just because we don’t live in a zoo doesn’t mean we aren’t caged! Inspired by Glennon Doyle’s revolutionary manifesto “Untamed,” this retreat is a sacred space for women to shed the invisible cages of expectation, societal conditioning, and internalized limitations. We are here to challenge the narratives that have told us who to be, how to behave, and what dreams are “acceptable” for us to pursue. Like the wild cheetah Doyle describes – who, when finally freed from her zoo enclosure, remembers her innate wildness – we too will reconnect with our primal wisdom. We’ll explore the difference between the life we’ve been told to want and the life our souls are truly calling us to live.
This is not a retreat about self-improvement. This is a radical reclamation!
Are You Ready to Break Free?
- Do you feel the crushing weight of expectations? Society demands perfection—beauty, behavior, success. You’ve worked so hard to fit the mold, but is it making you happy?
- Does your life feel like a hamster wheel? The endless to-do lists, the roles you juggle—it’s like there’s no time to pause and ask, What does my heart truly want?
- Do shame and self-doubt whisper that you’ll never be “enough”? That nagging voice inside that keeps moving the goalposts—when will it be your turn to feel whole?
- Are you exhausted from giving to everyone but yourself? Burnout is real, and when you’re the glue holding everything together, it’s easy to lose sight of you.
- Have you forgotten how to trust your instincts? Years of seeking approval, following the rules, and playing it safe can drown out that deep, wild voice inside.
- Do you ache to feel alive? Not just “okay” or “fine,” but fully alive. Whole. Unapologetically yourself.
- Do you long for a space to shed your armor? A place where you can explore your emotions, own your power, and reconnect with your true self—without fear, without judgment, without holding back?
It’s not crazy to want this. You’re not asking for too much. You’re a goddamn cheetah, and it’s time to run free!
We will:
- Create brave spaces for vulnerability and authentic connection
- Celebrate our complexity, contradictions, and magnificent imperfections
- Dismantle the patterns that have kept us small
- Reconnect with our intuition and internal knowing
- Learn to trust ourselves rather than rely on external validation
- Utilize a variety of modalities including Journaling, SoulCollage®, Psychodrama, and Internal Family Systems.
You are not here to be perfect. You are here to be real. Welcome home to yourself.
Love and blessings,
Nadine