Shannon is the founder and creator of Mind & Body Complete. She is a best selling author, podcast host, retreat leader, performance coach and tequila connoisseur (not really but she does enjoy sipping on a good pour). Shannon has a passion and a mission to elevate women in mind & body in order to connect, grow & thrive.
If you’re running on empty and can’t remember the last time you felt like yourself, I want to tell you about the cheapest, most effective therapist I know: the ocean. No co-pay. No forty-five minute session limit. No insurance filings. Just waves, salt air, and the kind of thing that actually rearranges something in your…
If you have been white-knuckling your way through the school pickup line, your inbox, and everyone else’s needs while your own tank sits on empty, you are not imagining it. Burnout is real, and it is not something you fix with a bubble bath and an early bedtime. That is exactly why a retreat for…
If you’re running on empty, here’s a strange comfort: champagne spends years sitting in the dark before it ever fizzes. There are no shortcuts. No rushing the process. Just time, pressure, and patience, quietly doing their work underground. Sound familiar? You’ve been showing up, holding it together, and pouring from a bottle that hasn’t been…
You’ve done the vacation thing. The flights, the packing, the itinerary you built at midnight because it was the only quiet hour you had. And you came home just as tired as when you left, maybe more tired, because now there’s a mountain of laundry and three hundred emails waiting. That’s exactly why more women…
You’ve typed “women’s stress relief retreat” into Google more than once this month. Maybe you’ve bookmarked three, closed the tab, and gone back to making everyone else’s lunch. If you’re looking for a retreat for burned out women, you already know something needs to change. Wanting a reset isn’t the hard part. Picking the right…
Something is shifting for women in midlife right now, and it isn’t just hot flashes, brain fog and calendar chaos. You’re craving real conversation. Real laughter. Real people who get it without you explaining the whole backstory first. If you’ve been searching for a women’s stress relief retreat lately, there’s a reason behind it, and…
Picture a four-year-old in the back of a truck, bouncing down a dirt road in the back woods of Ohio. That was me. My uncle was driving, and as we rolled up on a little family cemetery he turned around and barked, “Hold your breath!” I sucked in air so fast I nearly turned blue.…
A no-shame checklist for the woman who has been running on empty for a while now. You can be successful, genuinely loved by your people, and still feel like the spark quietly went out somewhere around your 43rd birthday. If you have been wondering whether a retreat for burned out women is something you actually…
I want to talk about where you might be right now. You wake up already behind. You pour everyone else’s coffee, answer everyone else’s questions, and somewhere between the carpool and the inbox you lost track of the woman who used to laugh loud and dance in the kitchen. She is still in there. She…
I just spent eight days sipping my way through the Champagne region of France, and I came home with a souvenir I did not expect. Not a scarf. Not a case of bubbles (okay, also that). What I carried home was a lesson about burnout, and it came straight from the vines. One thing nobody…