I want to share with all of you what it was like to be there.  I want you to feel as if you are there with me.  But mostly, I want to capture it while I can for me and for you.

Many of the posts will have humorous anecdotes, but I really want to tell you something important about this weekend for me.  I met some amazing women there.  Women who touched me.  Women who forever changed my life.  Women who created a circle of protection, caring and friendship around me when I needed it most.  These women gave me the kind of healing that my soul so desperately needed.  And I am forever grateful.

As I write this, I struggle to find the right words.  Words that let them know (and let you know) how much I appreciate them.  I sit here with tears streaming down my face as I think of how I arrived a broken and rather shattered woman and left with a soul that had been healed.  I needed to be there.  I needed to meet every woman I met.  They each gave me something I can hold onto forever.  I found sisterhood, friendship and warmth in so many of them.

To think that I almost didn’t come.  To think that I almost didn’t open up. And to think that I might have missed this chance to be with these women.  It is unfathomable.

You gave me what I did not even know I needed and strengthened me when I was at my weakest.  Thank you.  From the bottom of my heart.  Thank you.

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