The Elixir of a Long Journey​

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Healing Havens is a gift forged through the fire of my own experience. A medicine that didn’t exist when I needed it most, so I created it ~ first as a dream, and now as a reality.

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For over 35 years, I walked a long road ~ one that looked like seeking,

surviving, achieving, breaking down, retreating, and rising again.

It took me around the world and deep into myself. And what I realized,

somewhere in the ache and the longing, is this:

I could have healed sooner…

if there had been a place designed for that very thing.

A place without pressure to perform.
A place where nervous systems could exhale.
A place where grief, joy, silence, and dreams could live in the

same room.

That place didn’t exist. Not fully.
I caught glimpses of it ~ around campfires, a 42 day Ayurvedic

treatment on the coast of India, spending a month with my mom's

best friend and her husband in their Long Island home in a quaint town,

in quiet cabins, during rare weekends of real connection.
But there was no sustained sanctuary.
No long-term, open-ended, soul-restoring haven.

So I made one.

Or rather ~ I let it be born out of everything I had lived.

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I explored many healing paths.  Some of it helped. Some of it distracted. Some left me feeling more fractured than before. But after all the searching, all the striving, all the practices and the promises, I realized: What I needed wasn’t more techniques. I needed a more human foundation.

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If I had to name the few things that were the most helpful — the ones that brought true healing—it would be this:

• A consistent person I could talk to, day in and day out. Not a guru. Not a coach. Just someone present, honest, willing to walk with me through the mess and the meaning.

• Regular bodywork and deep breathwork, saunas, cold plunges, ecstatic dance.  Because healing isn’t just in the mind—it’s in the body, the nervous system, the breath. And sometimes, words aren’t enough.

• A great deal of rest in a safe space. The kind of rest where you stop performing. Stop proving. Just be. A place where it’s okay to fall apart, and okay to start again.

• Nutritious meals

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And it’s from this quiet clarity that Healing Havens was born—not as a new modality, but as a return to what’s always healed us: presence, touch, breath, safety, time.

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Healing Havens is the conclusion of a long chapter of my life.  It’s the thesis my soul has been writing all along.

And like every Hero’s Journey, it ends not with isolation, but with return.
With the offering.
With the elixir.

This is mine.

A vision of a world where people have somewhere to go when they need to fall apart ~ and somewhere to stay long enough to come back together.

A world where healing isn’t a luxury or an afterthought, but a right.
A world where no one has to carry their pain alone.
Where we remember that, given the right conditions, everyone blooms.
 

Healing Havens are meant for all those who’ve been trying to survive without enough support, space, or sanctuary. Here’s an overview of the kinds of people who could deeply benefit from time in a Healing Haven:

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Who Healing Havens Are For:

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1. The Homeless or Houseless

• Those who’ve been living in shelters, cars, or on the streets—who haven’t known true rest in years.

• People who are ready for a new chapter but need safety, dignity, and time to rebuild.

• Those with gifts, talents, and stories—but nowhere to share them.

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2. The Job-Weary

• People stuck in the never-ending cycle of work → bills → burnout, with no time to reflect or reimagine life.

• Those who feel like they’re surviving but not living, whose souls are tired but not broken.

• Anyone longing to pause, reset, and ask, “What am I actually here to do?”

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3. The Artist From a Broken Home

• Creatives who’ve been living without emotional or financial stability.

• Those whose gifts have gone unseen or unsupported, who need space to reconnect with their voice and vision.

• Artists who carry childhood wounds that still shape their adult life.

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4. The Disoriented Teenager

• Youth just out of high school or college who feel completely lost—no map, no direction, no sense of belonging.

• Young people who need mentorship, inspiration, and quiet time with nature and community.

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5. The Long-Struggling Survivor

• The woman orphaned at 17 who’s been holding herself together ever since.

• Anyone who’s been surviving for decades without sustained care or the chance to rest and reflect.

• People whose pain runs deep and who have never had space to process it safely.

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6. The Burned-Out Healer or Helper

• Therapists, coaches, caregivers, social workers, nurses—those who are always giving but never receiving.

• People who’ve been everyone’s support system but have no one holding them.

• Those secretly exhausted, who need time to restore their own soul.

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7. The Grieving

• Anyone processing the death of a loved one, the end of a marriage, or a major life transition.

• People for whom the world kept going, but their world stopped.

• Those who need to move at the pace of grief, not the pace of society.

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8. The Escaped

• Survivors of abuse, violence, or toxic environments who’ve found a way out—but need deep, slow healing.

• People learning to trust again, speak again, dream again.

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9. The Soul-Seekers

• Those who feel there must be more to life—but can’t hear that inner whisper through the noise.

• People who need stillness, nature, ceremony, and honest conversation to remember who they really are.

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10. The Creators in Hiding

• Writers, musicians, makers who’ve buried their gifts under self-doubt, fear, or survival pressure.

• Those who need a sacred space to try again, to start over, to begin their real work.

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11. The Elderly Man or Woman Who Lives Alone

• Those who’ve lived long lives, often full of work, loss, service, and survival—but now face the long, quiet days without companionship.

• Elders who still have so much to share—wisdom, humor, stories, presence—but rarely anyone to receive it.

• People who long for warmth, connection, purpose, and a reason to rise each morning.

• Those who may not say it out loud, but ache for someone to make tea with, walk beside, or simply sit in silence together.

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