Wild& Whole
A retreat for women who have been giving everything and forgotten what it feels like to receive.
Move through the days. Come home to yourself in the evenings. Leave different.
Only 5 places. When they're gone, they're gone.
You're exhausted from being the reliable one
- You say yes before you've even thought it through
- You can't remember the last thing you did just for you
- You feel guilty the moment you slow down
- You've been meaning to do something like this for years
- You're running on empty and calling it fine
That's not a character flaw. That's what happens when someone has spent years prioritising everyone else's needs above their own. Research from the University of California shows that chronic self-neglect activates the same neural pathways as physical pain, which is why burnout doesn't just feel exhausting. It hurts.
Wild and Whole was built for the woman who knows, quietly, that something has to change, but hasn't found the right space to start. An arrival evening, two full days of movement and honest conversation, and a journey home that feels different. That can do what months of thinking about it never will.
This is that space.
Not a spa weekend.
Not a yoga retreat.
Something truer than that.
Arrive on the evening of the 19th. Two full days in the landscape and in honest conversation. Leave on the 21st carrying something real.
Wild and Whole combines the science-backed benefits of time in nature with the depth of genuine coaching and clinical hypnotherapy. During the days, we move, we breathe, we let the landscape do its work on the nervous system. In the evenings, we gather, we talk honestly, and we go deeper into the patterns that have been keeping you stuck.
No scripts. No performing. No pretending everything is fine. Just five women in a beautiful setting, doing the real work.
An arrival evening.
Two days that move you.
Evenings that hold you.
Arrive.
Exhale.
You arrive carrying everything you always carry. The evening begins with a shared meal together, the kind of table where real conversations start naturally. From there, a gentle opening session where we get honest about where we actually are and what we're hoping shifts. By bedtime, you'll already feel less alone in it.
Ground yourself.
Then push yourself.
The morning is for coaching in nature, working through what's keeping you stuck with the landscape doing its quiet work on your nervous system. The afternoon is where it gets interesting: an outdoor adventure activity, think caving, abseiling, or something equally brilliant. By evening you'll have surprised yourself twice.
Walk it out.
Leave lighter.
The second day begins in the landscape. A walk in nature to process everything that's shifted, with coaching woven through as you move. Then a closing session where each woman leaves with something clear and practical, not vague inspiration. And home, genuinely different from how you arrived.
This is what Wild & Whole actually looks like.
The outdoors does half the coaching work before we've said a word.
Minutes of walking in nature measurably reduces activity in the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for rumination and anxious overthinking. Stanford University, 2015.
Reduction in cortisol after just 20 minutes in a natural environment, according to research from the University of Michigan. Your nervous system responds to landscape in ways that nothing else replicates.
Miles Jo walked alone on the Pennine Way in 2022, after 14 years of putting it off. The walk that changed everything. She knows what moving through the land does to a person who's been standing still too long.
Women. That's it. Small is intentional. Research consistently shows that smaller groups create deeper trust, more honest conversation, and more lasting change than larger retreats.
"Getting into nature wasn't self-indulgence. It was the first thing I had done purely for myself in years. It changed the way I thought, the way I moved, and eventually the way I lived."
Jo Brown knows what it means to give everything and have nothing left.
Jo is a Wellbeing Coach, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and TARC EFT Practitioner who spent years in NHS management before burnout forced her to stop. She knows that moment from the inside, not from a textbook.
Since rebuilding her own life through personal development, nature, and genuine self-awareness work, she has helped hundreds of adults find their way back to themselves. Her approach combines coaching, clinical hypnotherapy, and the kind of honest conversation that actually shifts things.
She coaches in Aberdeenshire, online across the UK, and now, in the landscape she loves.
In 2022, Jo walked the Pennine Way alone. 268 miles. Something she had put off for 14 years because of limiting beliefs. One step at a time was the whole lesson. She brings that understanding to every session.
Two days that change the direction of the next three years.
Your £100 deposit is non-refundable but fully protected: if we do not reach minimum numbers, your deposit is returned in full. Accommodation is included and organised by Jo. No hidden costs, no surprises.
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Accommodation is included in your retreat fee and organised by Jo. All you need to do is arrive.
A few things people usually ask
Do I need to be fit or an experienced walker?
What does the £425 include?
What if minimum numbers aren't reached?
Is this therapy?
I'm travelling from Yorkshire or Manchester, how far is it?
Can I come if I haven't worked with Jo before?
You've been meaning to do something like this for years.
Five places. One weekend in June. The version of you that exists on the other side of three honest days in the landscape.