Core Wound Healing

✨ Imagine a few days of:

beautiful mountain mornings,
nervous system restoration,
somatic work,
voice work,
compassionate inquiry,
truth-telling,
exploring the human condition, our deep needs, and the unconscious storylines that shape our thoughts, actions, relationships, and sense of self,
oracle cards,
laughter,
and the kind of connection where nothing feels off the table.

There is something incredibly nourishing about spending a few days immersed in conversations and practices that help you explore:

your habitual patterns,
your protective strategies,
your nervous system,
your relationships,
your expression,
and yourself.

✨ SHINE BRIGHT intentionally weaves together deep inner work with rest, warm spaces, beautiful food, and the natural nourishment of the mountains.

A space to explore the adaptive patterns that once made hiding feel safer than being fully seen…

and to remember what becomes possible when you stop suppressing your authentic existence.

📍 Canmore, Alberta
📅 November 6–9, 2026

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✨ One month remains for Early Bird pricing for SHINE BRIGHT.

This retreat is not about becoming more shiny, confident, spiritual, successful, or “better.”

It’s about exploring what becomes possible when people no longer feel they need to suppress their authentic existence in order to belong.

How to feel safer:
• being seen
• being expressive
• being creative
• being emotional
• being impactful
• being joyful
• being powerful
• being fully alive

…without collapsing into shame, fear, self-monitoring, guilt, or over-adaptation.

✨ SHINE BRIGHT is about authentic expression, safe visibility, relational courage, creativity, voice, vitality, contribution, and the embodied brilliance of being fully yourself.

📍 Canmore, Alberta
📅 November 6–9, 2026

Be all of who you are.

⏳ Early Bird pricing available until July 1.

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✨ When humans suppress authentic expression, we all lose.

Ideas remain unshared.
Truth goes unspoken.
Creativity gets stifled.
Leadership stays dormant.
Businesses never begin.
Art doesn’t take form.
Relationships stay more surface level.

Not because people have nothing to offer...

but because somewhere along the way, fully expressing themselves stopped feeling safe.

✨ SHINE BRIGHT is a four-day embodied women’s retreat that explores what becomes possible when people no longer feel they need to suppress themselves in order to belong.

📍 Canmore, Alberta
📅 November 6–9, 2026

Be all of who you are.

⏳ Early Bird pricing available until July 1.

🔗 https://www.corewoundhealing.com/shinebright

✨ Honestly, just thinking about a few days at SHINE BRIGHT gets my nervous system unwinding.

Slow mountain mornings.
Beautiful hot showers.
Comfy clothes.
Herbal tea.
Nourishing food.
Deep conversation.
Laughter.
Movement.
Rest.

There’s something about the way Val and Ariel hold this space that changes your relationship with time.

Even with everything we move through together, there’s a feeling of spaciousness to it all.

Things unfold.
Everything somehow gets done.
And there’s still room to breathe.

✨ SHINE BRIGHT is intentionally designed to support both deep inner work and deep nervous system recalibration.

There is embodiment work.
Voice work.
Group process.
Learning.
Insight.
Reflection.

But also:
steam room visits,
wonderful meals,
rest by the fire,
journaling,
mountain air,
and the relief of simply being human together.

✨ SHINE BRIGHT
Canmore, Alberta
November 6–9, 2026

🔗 Link in bio https://www.corewoundhealing.com/shinebright

✨ One of the most powerful parts of SHINE BRIGHT is the experience of being part of a group of women where honesty, vulnerability, and emotional truth are genuinely welcomed.

A space where women can share things they may have never said out loud before...

and are met *not with judgement, fixing, comparison, or rejection...*

but with understanding, compassion, resonance, and humanity.

One of the things we often say in this work is:

✨ “The more personal, the more universal.”

Because so often, the moments we fear make us strange, dramatic, broken, “too much,” or alone...

are the very moments that allow others to feel seen too.

There is something profoundly healing about realizing:

• you are not the only one
• your patterns make sense
• your fears are human
• your story is survivable
• your truth does not disconnect you from love

✨ And amidst all the depth, there is also lightness.

Playfulness.
Laughter.
Humor.
Joy.
The relief of no longer needing to hide so much of yourself.

✨ SHINE BRIGHT
A four-day embodied women’s retreat

📍 Canmore, Alberta
📅 November 6–9, 2026

Be all of who you are.

⏳ Early Bird pricing available until July 1.

Link in bio.

🔗 https://www.corewoundhealing.com/shinebright

✨ The problem is not that humans are “not shiny enough.”

The problem is: many humans learn that authentic expression threatens belonging, safety, attachment, or acceptance.

So they become afraid that if they let themselves shine brightly... by leading boldly, creating visibly, taking up space, sharing their gifts, or fully expressing who they really are... they will be judged, rejected, or perceived as:

• “too much”
• “attention-seeking”
• “know-it-all”
• “full of themselves”
• “arrogant”
• “not humble enough”
• “wanting the spotlight”
• “who do you think you are?”

Not surprisingly they...

• hold back their truth
• don’t fully own their gifts
• delay their ideas
• brush off their achievements
• suppress any feelings of pride to ensure they appear humble
• wait for permission
• stay quiet in rooms they were born to contribute to

✨ They dim their naturally shiny light.

💭 What are some of the fears or judgments that have made it harder for you to fully express yourself?

At SHINE BRIGHT, we explore the protective patterns, relational dynamics, and conditioning that can disconnect people from the embodied brilliance of their authentic presence.

✨ SHINE BRIGHT
The 2026 Core Wound Healing Retreat

📍 Canmore, Alberta
📅 November 6–9

Be all of who you are.

⏳ Early Bird pricing available until July 1.

🔗 Link in bio https://www.corewoundhealing.com/shinebright

This year’s SHINE BRIGHT retreat includes an additional night compared to previous retreats.

Three nights instead of two.

This was a very intentional decision.

Now in our fourth year, we have come to realise just how much wisdom, insight, and transformational material there is to share through this work.

Equally, we want to honour the commitment people make when they choose to step away from their everyday lives to attend this retreat... by creating the deepest, most nourishing, and most impactful experience possible.

By extending the retreat, we are able to create even more spaciousness for learning, embodiment, reflection, rest, and meaningful transformation.

More time to soften.
More time to connect.
More time to release.
More time to grow.
More time to integrate.
More time to fully receive the experience.

Same intimate group.
Same carefully held process.

Just more space for the magic that unfolds when we gather together. 🤍

SHINE BRIGHT Retreat
Canmore, Alberta • November 6–9, 2026
Early Bird pricing currently available. ✨