Boone, North Carolina
October 16 to 18, 2026
Motherline is a weekend retreat for women seeking healing, remembrance, friendship, embodiment, and belonging.
Together, we will honor the women who came before us. We will make space to tend the patterns, stories, and pain that have moved through our maternal lines, held by them without enough support, and still felt by us today.
We created Motherline because sometimes the healing we've been searching for begins when we are finally witnessed, held, and remembered within the sanctuary of a circle of women.
A space to honor what was and heal what remains
Motherline is not about blaming mothers.
It is not about shaming women, judging families, or reducing anyone’s story to who did something wrong.
This is a healing space.
Many mothers and grandmothers carried grief, trauma, financial pressure, body shame, silence, isolation, caregiving roles, and expectations they never had the support to question. Many did the best they could with what they were given.
At the same time, our experiences matter.
The love we received shaped us.
The love we needed and did not receive shaped us, too.
At Motherline, we make room for the full story.
We honor what was given.
We grieve what was missing.
We begin to heal what no longer needs to be passed down.
A retreat born from
15 years of friendship, motherhood, storytelling,
grief, and
sacred community.
Meg brought Sarah homemade chicken pot pie and frozen cookie dough after the birth of her third baby.
“Some day you will just need a spoonful of cookie dough.”
It was kismet.
Instant kindred spirits.
Two mothers of four.
Two women raising children slowly and soulfully in a fast, fragmented world.
We met in a mother's group and quickly became inseparable.
Our friendship was forged in the beautiful chaos of raising young children.
Sticky counters.
Breastfeeding.
Soup on the stove.
Alpacas and chickens.
Toddlers underfoot.
Late-night phone calls.
Laughter until we cried.
And then life deepened.
We buried our fathers within a few years of each other.
Navigated aging parents, distance, marriages,
moves, and motherhood changing shape.
We learned to love each other not for perfection, but for truth.
For years, the heartbreak was distance.
Sarah moved from New York to North Carolina.
We kept imagining ways to collaborate across states, seasons, and busy lives.
But the thread never broke.
Eventually, we realized:
Maybe the work itself was calling us back together.
Maybe all those years of tending women, friendship, grief, ritual, and motherhood were leading us here.
Motherline was born from that remembering.
Your Motherline guides
Motherline is guided by two women whose work meets at the intersection of healing, embodiment, ritual, motherhood, and women’s thresholds.
Meg Tobin
Meg Tobin is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, somatic psychotherapist, retreat leader, espanded-state therapist, founder of Breathing Space Psychotherapy and Anam Wellness.
Her work centers trauma healing, nervous system regulation, embodiment, grief, transformation, and helping people return to themselves, creating a sanctuary within,.
Learn more about Meg HERE.
Sarah Eiley
Sarah Eiley is a Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula, Certified Professional Midwife, folk herbalist, music therapist, grassroots birth activist, ordained interfaith community chaplain, and mother of four.
Her work honors the body’s wisdom, birth, parenting, family, informed choice, transformation, and the need for women to be supported through life’s thresholds.
Learn more about Sarah HERE.
Together, Meg and Sarah bring the wisdom of psychotherapy, midwifery, ritual,
embodiment, friendship, and deep respect for women’s stories.
They are Motherline guides.
There is a line that runs through every woman
There is a line that may include:
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The mother you had
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The mother you longed for
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The mother you became
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The mothering you still need
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The women before you
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The women beside you
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The woman you are becoming
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Motherline is a place to explore these stories with care, honesty, and compassion.
You do not need to have the perfect words.
You do not need to know exactly what you are coming to heal.
You only need to feel a genuine desire to gather, reflect, and reconnect with yourself.
The three wounds we will explore
At Motherline, we will gently explore three themes that many women carry:
These are not labels meant to define you.
They are pathways for reflection.
They help us name some of the ways women have been shaped by family, culture, community, religion, history, and systems that often taught women to stay quiet, stay pleasing, compete with one another, disconnect from the body, or carry too much alone.
The wounds we carry and the healing we begin
The Mother Wound
The Mother Wound can include the places where we needed more care, protection, tenderness, guidance, or emotional presence.
This may show up as:
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People-pleasing
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Perfectionism
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Guilt
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Difficulty receiving care
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Fear of disappointing others
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Over-functioning
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A deep longing to be seen, chosen, or understood
This work is not about blaming your mother.
It is about tending the places in you that still need care, while making room for the full truth of your experience.
Both can be true: you can honor your mother’s humanity and still honor your own healing.
The Sister Wound
The Sister Wound is the pain that can happen between women through comparison, competition, exclusion, betrayal, judgment, or feeling unsafe in groups of women.
Many women deeply long for sisterhood, but their bodies remember being hurt by other women.
At Motherline, we practice something different:
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Being witnessed without being ranked
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Being heard without being fixed
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Being celebrated without comparison
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Being honest without being shamed
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Belonging without needing to perform
The Sister Wound begins to heal through new experiences of women who can listen, repair, celebrate, and stay.
The Witch Wound
The Witch Wound is the fear of being too much.
Too intuitive.
Too powerful.
Too emotional.
Too wise.
Too sensual.
Too outspoken.
Too visible.
This wound is connected to the long history of women being silenced, shamed, punished, or feared for their knowledge, power, intuition, creativity, sexuality, anger, or voice.
At Motherline, we gently explore what it means to call back the parts of yourself that learned to hide.
This is not about performance.
It is about grounded, embodied self-trust.
This retreat is for women who are longing for
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A deeper relationship with themselves
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More honest connection with other women
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A place to explore mothering, daughtering, and lineage
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A retreat that honors the body, the nervous system, and the soul
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A circle that feels grounded, warm, and real
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A weekend away from constant caretaking and output
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A way to begin untangling old stories without doing it alone
This retreat may be especially supportive if you have carried the role of the strong one, the responsible one, the helper, the fixer, the peacekeeper, or the woman who holds everything together.
What we will explore together
During the weekend, we will gently explore the stories, roles, wounds,
and wisdom carried through the feminine line.
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Mother-daughter relationships
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Maternal ancestry and lineage
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The Mother Wound, Sister Wound, and Witch Wound
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Friendship, trust, and repair between women
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Body image, nourishment, aging, and belonging
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The roles women inherit, perform, resist, and reclaim
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The archetypes of Maiden, Mother, Queen, and Crone
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The grief and gifts carried through the feminine line
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The ways women learn to silence themselves
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The possibility of returning to the body, the circle, and the self
This work brings together psychological depth, ritual, story, embodiment, and women’s circle.
The experience
Motherline is an intimate weekend retreat held in the mountains near Boone, NC.
You will always be invited, not forced.
You can participate at the level that feels right for your body and your nervous system.
You can look forward to:
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Opening circle
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Guided reflection
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Journaling
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Story-based exploration
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Gentle embodiment practices
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Ritual and ceremony
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Creative expression
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Women’s circle
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Time in nature
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Rest and integration
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Closing circle
Our Gathering Place
We will gather at Phantasia Mountain Homes near Boone, North Carolina.
This private mountain retreat includes multiple homes, shared gathering spaces, 60 acres of nature trails,
a fire pit, a hot tub, and mountain views.
The setting offers us room to be together and spaciousness for rest.
It offers a place for circle, quiet, reflection, conversation, and connection with the land.
Choose Your Sanctuary
Every room includes the full Motherline experience.
Choose the space that feels most like home.
Private King
Main House - En Suite
$897
Shared Bunks
Main House - Shared Bath
$497
Private Queen
Main House - Shared Bath
$797
Private Queen
Cottage - Shared Bath
$897
Shared Twins
Main House - Shared Bath
$597
Shared Twins
Cottage - Shared Bath
$697
Shared Twins
Main House - Shared Bath
Why women's circle matters
Women heal differently when they are safely witnessed by other women.
When stories can be spoken aloud.
When shame meets compassion.
When no one has to perform.
When grief has somewhere to go.
When laughter returns.
When the body realizes it is not alone.
Motherline is a space to be witnessed, not fixed.
A space to remember that healing often happens in relationship.
What's included
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Weekend lodging at Phantasia Mountain Homes
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Motherline retreat programming
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Opening and closing circles
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Guided embodiment and somatic practices
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Ritual and ceremony
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Creative and reflective exercises
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Women’s circle and story work
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Time for rest, nature, and integration
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Shared gathering spaces
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Connection with a small group of women in an intimate retreat setting
Additional details about meals, rooming, transportation, payment plans, and cancellation policies will be shared when registration opens.
Cancellation Policy
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Cancellations made before midnight on August 15, 2026:
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Your $200 retainer is refundable minus $50 service fee.
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Cancellations made between August 16, 2026 and midnight September 15, 2026:
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You will forfeit 50% of the total trip cost, in addition to the non-refundable $200 retainer.
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Cancellations made on or after September 15, 2026:
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Unfortunately, no refunds can be given at this late date.
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Transfer Option
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You may transfer your registration to another woman (subject to our approval) up until October 1, 2026, provided all payments have been made.
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If Motherline is canceled by the hosts
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You'll receive a full refund of all monies paid, including your deposit. We are not responsible for airfare, lodging before or after the retreat, or other travel expenses.
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Trip Insurance
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We strongly recommend purchasing trip cancellation insurance to protect your investment, especially if you are flying. This insurance may provide coverage for illness, family emergencies, weather, and other unforeseen circumstances that prevent attendance. Travel Guard Insurance offers a variety of policy options you may wish to explore.
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This cancellation policy is firm. Please do not make travel arrangements until you have received official registration confirmation from Meg or Sarah.
Important note
Motherline is a retreat experience.
It is not psychotherapy, medical care, or a replacement for mental health treatment.
The retreat may include emotional reflection, group sharing, embodiment practices, and ritual. You are always responsible for choosing what feels appropriate for your own body, needs, and capacity.
You will be invited, never forced, to participate. You do not have to share or engage in any practice that does not feel right for you.
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