Michigan Lakeside Fall 2024 Retreat

5-Year Anniversary Retreat

Michigan Lakeside Fall 2024 Retreat for Adoptees, DCPs, LDAs, & NPEs

House/Bed Reservations

Retreat Registration and House Reservations are separate

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Prior to making your house reservation, you must first follow the instructions in our private Facebook community https://www.facebook.com/groups/hiraethhopeandhealing

All accommodations in the retreat home are reserved on a first come-first served basis and there are no holds via deposit. Your bed in the house is not confirmed until full payment is received.

Join us for a weekend of relaxation, healing & FUN!

Thursday October 10 - Monday October 14, 2024

$449/PP (Thur - Sun Brunch, Mon Breakfast Included)

Fees do NOT include lodging!

~Limited space~No refunds will be issued~No children may attend any portions of the retreats~ Hosted in a private home in South Haven, Michigan by Erin Cosentino, Cindy McQuay, and Annie Persico

63.2 miles from GRR

Check out our AWESOME line-up of facilitators!

Liz DeBetta, Janet Nordine, LMFT, RPT-S, Jen Scully, Trauma Therapist, Eve Sturges, LMFT, more to come…

*Facilitators subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances* 

With gratitude to our generous sponsor

We are NOT professional licensed counselors or therapists. These retreats should NOT replace traditional therapy. We are NOT affiliated with any particular group or entity.

Michigan Lakeside Fall 2024 Retreat Saturday Shenanigans

TOMFOOLERY & TOGETHERNESS

TOMFOOLERY & TOGETHERNESS

October 12

6 pm/$49-Dinner included

If you are in need of some in person connection, but are unable to commit to an entire weekend, we have a solution for you! If you live local-ish, we invite you to join us for an evening of FUN! Every Saturday at retreat we play what we affectionately call “Eve’s Game” (shout out to Eve Sturges). Think Left, Right, Center, combined with 20 Questions, and add a dash of “Las Vegas” casino night! Bring 3 $1 dollar bills and your beverage of choice, we'll supply the rest. No refunds will be issued.

Meet our Michigan Lakeside Fall 2024 Retreat Facilitators

Liz DeBetta

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Eve Sturges, LMFT

  • Eve is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #103942) in California where she sees clients in her private practice, MagpieLife Psychotherapy. After her own DNA Discovery, she launched her podcast “Everything’s Relative with Eve Sturges,” where she explores MPE issues with other people who have experienced shocking results. Eve worked hard against adversity to create a thriving existence for herself and strives to inspire the same for others. She uses her writing, her podcast, and her role as an LMFT to share her message that it is possible to “create a life you love with the life you have.”

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Janet Nordine, LMFT, RPT-S

  • Janet is a Nevada Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, and Nevada Board Approved Supervisor for Marriage and Family Therapist and Clinical Professional Counselor interns. She works with adults and children from all walks of life and as a foster care alumnus, she has a special place in her heart for children in the foster care system. She is an expert in adoption as she has been adopted her whole life, which gives her special insights into the needs of children and adults who have experienced relinquishment and disconnect from their families of origin. She is a sought-after teacher, presenter, facilitator, and podcast guest. She often presents on the topics of the importance of play, working with the inner self, and adoption related topics. Janet has lived in Las Vegas her entire life. In a “previous life,” she worked in the Las Vegas hotel industry and understands the unique culture of the city. She has interests in the local food scene, live Theatre, travel and loves to read, write and explore life through lived experiences. She is a wife and mother to 2 amazing adult children and one really cute dog. experiencecourage

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Jen Scully, Trauma Therapist

  • Jen is a licensed counselor in several states, a certified trauma professional, a functional medicine practitioner in training, and a newly minted NPE Coach. She has an acronym soup list of licenses and training credentials (LCPC, LPCC, LPC-MHSP, CCTP, SEP, blah blah blah)... that really just mean she’s passionate about being a therapist. REALLY passionate! A self described “rabidly passionate” Trauma Therapist. Her heart holds a special place for people who buck the system, and she adores supporting rebel rousers, non-conformists, family scapegoats, and black sheep. Her own traumatized childhood and family system has afforded her a great reverence for anyone brave enough to step outside The Matrix, deprogram from family and societal conditioning, and become a cycle breaker of transgenerational trauma. She believes in the power of making meaning from suffering and that all people can experience post traumatic growth and rediscover their birthright of self authority and personal power. She loves a good challenge and works with lots of clients who are fed up with the broken medical-industrial complex system. Many of her clients have been iatrogenically injured, abused by the system that hurt them, and then gaslit by doctors and psychologists. Her framework of care is holistic and integrative. She has an affinity for all things “outside the box” and incorporates somatics and energy psychology into her work. She sees herself as a survivor of the human experience (just like her beloved clients) and in 2020 discovered that she is an NPE. Prior to 2020 she was exploring the country, living the van life lifestyle, and working remotely. After her NPE discovery she moved home to Chicago, so she could spend some time getting to know her newfound family. In 2021 she moved to the Red Rocks of Sedona where she could focus on her own NPE discovery healing. She emerged from that work in 2022 refreshed and ready to help other NPEs. She has now settled down in rural Tennessee where she runs a humble private practice, focuses on good old fashioned one-to-one psychotherapy, does some bee-keeping, and enjoys a peaceful and quiet life in the country.

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Michigan Lakeside Fall 2024 Retreat Attendee Agenda

  • 4:00 PM - Open House with hors d'oeuvres

    6:00 PM - Dinner - included

    7:00 PM - Welcoming in Hygge

  • 9:00 AM - Breakfast - included

    10:00 AM - Session - Group 1

    12:00 PM - Lunch, included

    1:00 PM - Session - Group 2

    3:30 PM - Session - Group 3

    6:00 PM - Dinner - included

    8:00 PM - Cards Against Humanity - optional

  • 9:00 AM - Breakfast - included

    10:00 AM - Session

    12:00 PM - Lunch - included

    1:00 PM - Session

    6:00 PM - Dinner - included

    8:00 PM - Eve’s Game - optional

  • 9:00 AM - Hiraeth Hope & Healing

    10:45 AM - Quotes

    11:00 AM - Brunch - included

    12:00 PM - Retreat officially ends

    1:00 PM - Relax, Renew, and Refresh with Optional Offerings and Private Sessions

  • 9:00 AM - Breakfast - included

    10:00 AM - Clean up and farewells

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Michigan Lakeside Fall 2024 Retreat Menu