Lindsay Voorhees Wellness

🍂 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 & 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 🍂
𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐍𝐨𝐯. 𝟏𝟓 | 𝟏𝟎:𝟑𝟎𝐚𝐦-𝟒𝐩𝐦

You're invited to come release and rest. You're invited to lean into the rhythms of the season by slowing down and letting go.

For this gentle community retreat, we'll gather in the lovely (and aptly-named) retreat space of The Trees in Durham, NC.

There will be time together as a group, including guided practices of release, as well as ample time on your own to rest in whatever ways feed your soul.

Pay-what-you-can: $95-150, which includes vegetarian lunch, tea/coffee, and afternoon snacks.

🔗 Find more details + registration here:
https://www.lindsayvoorhees.com/release-rest-retreat-2025

If you’re in the Triangle Area, I hope you’ll join – and feel free to invite others who might enjoy this retreat.

💜 Lindsay

I’m excited to be offering a 3-part series this summer all about exploring and embodying self-compassion in your real, right-now life.

We’ll have an easeful rhythm of meeting once a month for June, July, and August. In each 90-minute virtual session, we’ll explore a different foundational topic of mindful self-compassion:

💜 Amplifying the Inner Advocate — June 11
💚 Letting Go of Comparison — July 9
💛 Honoring Grief & Joy — August 6

Our first session is next week! We’ll begin by exploring how to recognize and soften the inner critic and how to amplify the inner advocate.

Whatever challenges you’re facing in this season, whatever goals you’re pursuing, this is an opportunity to practice being a good friend, a loving companion to yourself.

🔗 You can find all the details + registration here: https://www.lindsayvoorhees.com/summer-of-self-compassion

And feel free to share with anyone who might welcome the invitation to deepening self-compassion.

You’re invited to come refresh & reconnect.

You’re invited to set down the to-do list and the “shoulds.”

With a balance of guided/group time and solo exploration, you can embrace the spaciousness of a day to reconnect with whatever you need — peace, play, intention, wonder.

On Saturday May 31st, we will gather in the lovely and unique retreat space of The Trees in Durham, NC, near the Eno River State Park.

This is especially for you if you are…
* Taking care of others;
* Navigating ongoing health challenges; and/or
* Feeling the overwhelm and grind of daily life

🔗 Link below for more details + registration ~ Sliding scale $95-150 (includes lunch)

https://www.lindsayvoorhees.com/refresh-reconnect-retreat

If you’re in the Triangle Area, I hope you’ll join – and feel free to invite others who might enjoy this retreat.

💜 Lindsay

Hi lovely humans! I’m hosting a free workshop on Zoom this Thursday, 11/21 @ 12pm ET called 💚 Protecting Your Energy Around the Holidays.

We’ll be diving into practical energy management strategies and guided self-reflection to help you align your energy with personal priorities in this season. We'll wrap up with group discussion and an opportunity for Q&A.

➡️ Find details + registration here:

Protecting Your Energy Workshop — Lindsay Voorhees Wellness If you want to avoid end-of-year overwhelm and navigate the holidays with ease as you take care of your health and whole self, this workshop is for you. November 21 @ 12pm ET SAVE YOUR SPOT HERE! The end of the year often brings a flurry of activity, from wrapping up projects at work and squeezing i...

Across my years supporting folks with chronic health issues, I can tell you that the #1 concern I hear about is fatigue.

And that makes total sense because having consistently low or fluctuating energy levels can impact every part of your life – connecting with friends and family; parenting; bringing in an income; managing your health; and doing the things that bring you joy.

Essentially, energy is the bridge to what you need and want to be able to do. And to extend this metaphor, fatigue is kind of like the bridge troll saying, “You shall not pass” (or whatever it is that bridge trolls say)...

Fatigue is different from general tiredness because it:

—May occur even after a restful night’s sleep
—Often worsens as the day progresses
—Tends to be aggravated by heat and humidity
—Can trigger other symptoms, like pain and cognitive difficulties
—Is more likely to interfere with day to day life

Fatigue is complex and so is energy management – the process of decreasing the impact of fatigue on your life and adapting to still engage in your most meaningful roles and relationships.

Navigating fatigue and fluctuating energy levels is exceptionally challenging and there isn’t an easy recipe. This is something I work with 1-to-1 clients on for weeks and even months.

But I promise, I’ve seen folks slowly but surely find sustainable and supportive rhythms – and discover a kinder way of being along the way.

On November 21st, I’m hosting a free virtual workshop: Protecting Your Energy Around the Holidays 💚

This is an offering for folks with health issues to embrace ease, avoid overwhelm, and navigate the end of year mindfully.

I hope you’ll join us!

Find more details + register at the link in my bio ⬆️ (There will be a recording for folks who register)

I did not grow up nor do I live in the mountains of western North Carolina. I have received the gifts of its beauty, hospitality, and expansive room to breathe in some really hard seasons of my life. (This picture is from the Balsam Grove area last October.)

Hurricane Helene made landfall almost two weeks ago now, ravaging the Southeast and changing the lives of so many in unimaginable ways.

Continuing to hear the stories and see images of the complete devastation, especially in the mountain communities here in North Carolina, I am overwhelmed with grief. Many people lost their homes, their businesses and livelihoods, their lives.

If this place holds a special place in your heart, if you have the resources to support the relief (and eventually recovery) efforts, please consider helping individuals directly (if you know them) or these local organizations:

💜 MANNA Food Bank
🧡 Beloved Asheville
💚 Triangle Mutual Aid

I already had a retreat I’m hosting here in Durham, NC on the calendar for Saturday, October 26th. The Release & Rest retreat will be a protected time for both self-care and community care.

20% of retreat sales will go to Hurricane Helene relief efforts. You can find more info + sign up here 🍁 https://app.paperbell.com/checkout/packages/101258

Sending you all, wherever you are, deep care.
~Lindsay

I made these 3 guided meditations be your gentle guide on days when the struggle is real and you need a kind voice:

1. Energy Check-In 💚 An intentional pause to check in with your own energy (in mind, heart, and body) through gentle attention and soothing touch.

2. Pivoting with Ease 💙 Fatigue set in, other symptoms are flaring, or life is just rudely throwing curveballs your way. This is a guided practice to help you pivot when your plans are coming undone.

3. Self-Compassion for This Moment 💜 An invitation for you to practice loving presence and tend to yourself in whatever challenge, pain, or struggle you’re facing.

Get the 🧡 You’re Allowed to Be Human meditations right here: https://subscribepage.io/4B22zg

P.S. Each meditation is about 7 minutes and you can download to have them accessible when you need them most.

Walking labyrinths has been a transformative and restful practice in my life for the past several years.

I love that it’s a place where I can’t get lost. Where I can trust the contours of the path to guide me to the center and back out again.

It’s a place and practice in which I can release the effort of thinking and discerning and deciding… and just be.

The near-constant buzz of the thousand things I should/must/need to do gets quieter. Sometimes it fades completely.

Rest can be many different things. There is no right way to rest. I think it’s anything that allows us to come home to our true selves, the selves that are worthy and beautiful without any doing, fixing, or improving.

In his book Consolations, David White writes,

“To rest is to give up on worrying and fretting, and the sense that there is something wrong with the world unless we are there to put it right…”

I often feel like I have to hold it all together, like if I don’t figure it out things might very well fall apart.

I’m an Enneagram One, which means that the gift of envisioning better ways can sometimes bring the burden (and misconception) that I must do it alone. In all honesty, being a solopreneur has greatly exacerbated this and sometimes I wonder if it’s sustainable.

My invitation to rest right now looks like welcoming in support in many different ways. From co-working sessions to biz coaching, I’m letting myself explore what it feels like to not go it alone… It will be a continual journey, but there have already been some deep sighs of relief.

Are there any ways you’re being invited to rest in your life? Is there any worry you can release to let the universe sort out? Can you welcome in more support, so you can come back home to yourself?

Toxic wellness culture keeps us focused on the trappings, not the heart of true wellness.

We become more and more entangled in comparison traps and the exhausting pursuit of perfection, striving to become our “best selves” (whatever that means).

There’s always something else to try (and to buy), so it’s never enough. And it becomes easy to believe you are never enough.

💚 What if instead wellness looks like supporting gentle change?

When you're navigating chronic health issues, there are always new things popping up (whether with symptoms or just life happening) that require adaptation, pivots both big and small.

And you also have all these other goals and dreams you want to see happen! But the "go big or go home" approach to making change is not going to work or feel good for many reasons.

You can support gentle change by:
* Centering the simple & sustainable
* Setting generous intentions
* Meeting challenge with creativity
* Embracing the seasonality of life

I believe wellness is something we can continually tend, like dedicated gardeners with beloved plants. The fruits of this tending look unique for each person and change throughout the seasons of life.

✍️ READ MORE ON THE BLOG:
Redefining Wellness: A Guide to Living Well with Chronic Health Issues

(Read at the link in my bio)

I believe living well and living with a health condition aren’t mutually exclusive. But we need a wider, more expansive understanding of wellness, one that allows for and even embraces our messy, beautiful humanity.

💜 What if wellness looks like cultivating authentic connection?

We thrive when we connect in meaningful ways to ourselves, to others, and to all those things that matter to us. This can be challenging in a culture that glorifies productivity, celebrates impersonal popularity, and generally keeps us hustling.

Cultivating authentic connection can look like:
* Discovering & deepening inner resources
* Welcoming a mindful pace
* Finding companions for the journey
* Rooting into purpose & values

I believe wellness is something we can continually tend, like dedicated gardeners with beloved plants. The fruits of this tending look unique for each person and change throughout the seasons of life.

✍️ READ MORE ON THE BLOG:
Redefining Wellness: A Guide to Living Well with Chronic Health Issues

(Read at the link in my bio)

Just a few reminders for you at the end of this week:

💜 The journey you’re on might be wildly different than what you expected. And you don’t have to go it alone.

💛 Joy and grief live side by side in you.

💚 You are allowed to rest without excuse, reason, explanation, or a completed to-do list.

Pick one that resonates and carry it with you into the weekend, trusting that you matter deeply in ways beyond your imagination.

We need a wider, more expansive understanding of wellness, one that allows for and even embraces our messy, beautiful humanity.

💜 What if wellness looks like nurturing self-compassion?

We need a vision of wellness that centers our capacity for creative adaptation and compassionate response to the inevitable waves of life.

Nurturing self-compassion means:
* Honoring the struggles & the joys
* Befriending your body
* Holding yourself tenderly through the hard stuff
* Discovering your inner advocate

I believe wellness is something we continually tend, like dedicated gardeners with beloved plants. The fruits of this tending look unique for each person and change throughout the seasons of life.

✍️ NEW BLOG POST
Redefining Wellness: A Guide to Living Well with Chronic Health Issues

(Read at the link in my bio)