Women live increasingly busy lives, especially if you are a wife and mother. Between work, family, church, and school volunteer activities or running your children across town for their sporting events, dance lessons, and social events, you lose yourselves in everyone else’s lives around you.
Whether it’s a weekend getaway with a few girlfriends or a larger retreat organized through your church, getting away with the girls is so important to deeper relationship development. Weekly Bible study can be rich in spiritual content but leave little time for chit-chat. A women’s retreat is a great way to get to know each other on a more personal level.
If you have a group of friends who share a common interest such as writing, art, religion, parenthood, running, or yoga, for example, you have a retreat in the making. A retreat is a group vacation but with a purpose beyond tourism or leisure time. With a successful retreat, shared relationships will help energize the group and come up with ways to pursue shared interests.
In your pursuit of health and happiness, you may tend to focus so much on material goals, exercise, or relationships. These are important and should be addressed; however, you can completely forget about how you are connected to nature and how much your modern lifestyle has separated you from your roots.
The corporate world is highly competitive in all sections of the economy. The stress of maintaining a competitive edge can often be high on organizations and employees alike. At times, workloads can lead to burnout in managers and employees as well, leading to high levels of frustration and stress and lower work efficiency and excellence.