Recovery and Renewal Retreats for Veterans
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Rooted Within serves female veterans who are committed
to their full recovery from stressful and/or traumatic experiences.
Our programs are nourishing, educational, healing, and provide a peaceful and supportive
natural environment for women veterans to learn tools for holistic recovery
from PTSD, MST, and chronic stress.
Reintegration and a feeling of wholeness happen alongside others with similar military experiences,
re-orienting towards a fulfilling life of ease and satisfaction.
We have a history dedicated to female veterans
Rooted Within (previously known as CenterPoint Retreats) offers multi-day retreat-style programs,
based on a model of experiential, body-centred, trauma-informed, mindfulness, and relational healing.
Since 2011, this program has served over 400 women veterans, with the majority reporting
statistically significant and personally impactful increases in general well-being,
and a reduction in PTSD and stress symptoms as a result of participation in a retreat.
These retreats were previously funded by the DOVA and were entirely free of charge for eligible veterans.
We Believe
...Rooted Within each person is a
natural, innate capacity
to heal and find balance.
Renew
...Female Veterans are inherently strong, compassionate, resourceful, and capable of full recovery from
stressful or traumatic experiences.
Reorient
...In the same way that a stressful and traumatic experience can have a lasting impact on one’s life,
a deeply positive experience
of safety, connection, and nourishment
can also have a lifelong impact.
Reconnect
In the Words of Veterans
on Rooted Within Retreats:
“I am not alone. I am valuable.
There are methods I can do when I get triggered. I have feelings of belonging.”
"I learned what love and support looks
and feels like, how to be in control of myself even when life feels out of control.
I learned that I matter.
What’s inside of me is beautiful and strong. I got this! I got me!"
“I learned that I can be stable
when my environment may not be.”
“I learned to be vulnerable,
to open my heart, to enjoy having fun...
I wish I’d known about this kind of immersive therapy back in 2008 when
I returned from Iraq. If I had I would not have spent years re-living trauma and in depression.”
“I found my voice again and
I learned to set my boundaries again.”
“I learned my Self is enough.
That what was taken from me was nothing but an attempt of control. I am strong enough.
I can save myself. I am enough.”
