Healing in the Company of Women
Motherline
Boone, North Carolina
October 16 to 18, 2026
A weekend retreat for women who want to explore healing, lineage, friendship, embodiment, and belonging in a supportive group setting.
This retreat is not about blaming mothers or blaming the women who came before us.
It is about healing what women have carried, often without enough support.
A healing space, not a blaming space
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.
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
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:
The Mother Wound
The Sister Wound
The Witch Wound
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, North Carolina.
You will always be invited, not forced.
You can participate at the level that feels right for your body and your nervous system.
The retreat will include:
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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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Somatic practices
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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
Where we will gather
We will gather at Phantasia Mountain Homes near Boone, North Carolina.
This private mountain retreat includes multiple homes, shared gathering spaces, nature trails, fire pits, hot tubs, and mountain views.
The setting gives us room to be together and room to rest.
It offers space for circle, quiet, reflection, conversation, and connection with the land.
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, and 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 with more compassion and steadiness.
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.
Together, Meg and Sarah bring the wisdom of psychotherapy, midwifery, ritual, embodiment, friendship, and deep respect for women’s stories.
They are Motherline guides.
Their own long friendship through motherhood, change, grief, and becoming helped inspire this retreat.
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.
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.