Dear worn-out friends,

You spend so much of your life caring for everyone else.

You think about what your family eats. You make the meals. You carry the worries. You research, prepare, nurture, notice, and hold so much that no one else sees.

But somewhere along the way, caring for everyone else can leave very little space for you.

This fall, I want to invite you to Tuscany—not to learn how to do more, but to experience what it feels like to slow down, be cared for, and become deeply nourished again.

For six days, we’ll gather at Relais La Chiusa, tucked among the olive groves and rolling hills of Tuscany, and step into a rhythm of life that feels increasingly rare.

Slow mornings. Beautiful food. Hands in dough. Walks through vineyards. Long conversations around the table. Time outside. Time to learn. Time to breathe.

This retreat is about discovering the Italian art of nourishment—not simply through what we eat, but through how we live.

We’ll learn through experience:

• Making pasta by hand and discovering the traditions behind the food
• Cooking beautiful meals from simple, seasonal ingredients
• Exploring olive oil, herbs, fermentation, and traditional Italian culinary practices
• Walking through vineyards and the Tuscan countryside
• Truffle hunting alongside locals connected to this land
• Experiencing thermal waters that have drawn people here for centuries
• Sitting around tables where meals are meant to be enjoyed, not rushed

But some of the most important moments may be the ones we don’t schedule.

A quiet morning with nowhere to be.

Sitting beneath an olive tree.

Talking with another woman who understands what it means to carry a family.

Laughing over dinner until the candles burn low.

Remembering that rest doesn’t have to be earned.

And discovering that nourishment is about far more than nutrients.

It is beauty.
It is belonging.
It is connection.
It is stillness.
It is food prepared with care.
It is being present enough to actually receive your own life.

Our evenings will be slow—long dinners beneath the Tuscan sky, food made from ingredients grown nearby, and conversations with women who understand the desire to create healthier, more intentional homes.

There will be space for learning, but there will also be space simply to be.

You’ll return home with recipes and culinary skills you can bring into your own kitchen, a deeper appreciation for traditional ways of preparing food, new friendships, and perhaps most importantly, a different understanding of what it means to nourish a family.

Because maybe healing isn’t always found in doing more.

Sometimes it begins when we finally become still enough to receive.