Core Wound Healing

Many of us carry stories that taught us it was safer to stay small.

Safer to stay quiet.

Safer to fit in.

Safer to wait.

At SHINE BRIGHT, we explore the stories and habitual patterns that may be holding our truest expression back.

Yes, to heal them.

But also to free what is quietly asking to be expressed.

✨ Perhaps it's a bright dress you want to wear.

🎨 A creative spark you want to follow.

🧭 A choice you've been postponing.

💭 A dream you've been keeping to yourself.

🌿 Or simply a way of moving through the world that feels more like you.

A little less fear.

A little less caution.

A little more trust that your voice and authentic presence are wanted.

A little more freedom to be all of who you are.

✨ SHINE BRIGHT is a women's retreat for women who sense there is more of themselves waiting to come forward.

📍 Canmore, Alberta
📅 6–9 November 2026
🌿 Early Bird pricing available until 1 July

✨ Why do we still gather annually?

The answer is surprisingly simple.

Because healing is not a one-time event.

It is a practice.

A layer-by-layer return to who we truly are.

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You show up.

You gain awareness.

You heal a layer.

You leave with more freedom.

More authenticity.

More of yourself available.

Then you live your life.

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Every time you return to the work, you are not the same person who arrived last time.

The stories and protective strategies you became aware of previously have less of a grip.

And from that new place, another layer becomes visible.

A new opportunity for awareness, healing, and authentic expression emerges.

And again, you leave with more freedom.

More authenticity.

More of yourself available.

Over time, this is how many people become more and more aligned with who they truly are.

Not through a single breakthrough.

But through repeatedly showing up.

Layer by layer.

Becoming more fully themselves.

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This November will be our fourth Core Wound Healing retreat.

Some women will be joining us for the first time.

Others will be returning.

Wherever you are on your journey, the work meets you where you are.

✨ SHINE BRIGHT Women's Retreat

Canmore, Alberta

6–9 November 2026

✨ There is something deeply empowering about leaving SHINE BRIGHT with a group of women who genuinely support your growth, courage, authenticity, and expression.

Women who remind you that being daring, visible, honest, creative, emotional, or fully alive does not automatically lead to rejection.

That it can actually lead to deeper connection.

For many women, simply experiencing authentic support, encouragement, honesty, and emotional safety within a group profoundly changes how safe it feels to express themselves in the outside world.

To speak more truthfully.
Create more boldly.
Take healthier risks.
Share ideas more freely.
Trust themselves more deeply.
Live more visibly.

✨ 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.

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https://www.corewoundhealing.com/shinebright

✨ What do women actually leave with?

Greater awareness of the stories, beliefs, and protective patterns that have quietly shaped how they move through the world.

Practical tools and practices they can return to.

A workbook filled with reflections, insights, and discoveries from their own journey.

And perhaps most importantly...

A deeper connection to themselves.

✨ SHINE BRIGHT

A women's retreat to reconnect, reflect, and rise.

Canmore, Alberta
6–9 November 2026

Early Bird pricing available until 1 July.

✨ 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.

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

✨ 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