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Replenish Retreat: Your Journey to Wellness

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In the hustle and bustle of modern life, it’s easy to lose sight of ourselves. We feel overwhelmed and disconnected. Daily demands weigh us down. Moreover, we constantly juggle responsibilities and battle stress. As a result, we lose touch with our inner peace.

However, what if there was a sanctuary? Picture a place where you could pause, breathe, and reconnect with your true essence.

Experience Transformation

Imagine yourself on our wellness retreat. Every moment invites you to rediscover balance and harmony. You’re surrounded by soothing sounds. The gentle breeze envelops you. Experienced mentors guide your journey while giving you space to explore what you need.

Additionally, we weave together ancient practices. These include meditation, breath work, and personalized Eastern skin wellness. We create a holistic journey that nourishes your mind, body, and soul.

Uncover Your Potential

Through daily workshops and one-on-one coaching, you’ll discover any limiting beliefs. These beliefs and conditioning have held you back. Therefore, you’ll emerge with newfound confidence and clarity.

Perhaps most importantly, our retreat offers a powerful sense of community. Together, we create a space grounded in authentic energy. As a result, you can let go of distractions and chaos. This will allow you to find new ways and have tools to embrace a life of purpose and fulfillment.

More Than a Getaway

Replenish Retreat is a journey of self-discovery and empowerment. Through daily presence, you’ll step into confidence, clarity, and purpose. Additionally, with support from fellow participants, you’ll forge deep connections. This sense of belonging lasts long after the experience ends.

What’s Included in Your Retreat

Luxury Accommodations

Indulge in peaceful accommodations at our luxury space. This provides the perfect backdrop for relaxation and renewal.

Organic Meals

Nourish your body with daily organic meals. Our onsite private chef prepares them with care. Furthermore, we use farm-fresh produce and locally sourced ingredients. Each meal supports your well-being.

Beach or Mountain Day

Choose to soak in the beauty of the ocean or the majestic mountain. It’s a day of adventure and relaxation. Consequently, you can connect with nature and experience the joy of being alive.

Holistic Wellness Sessions

Dive deep into quantum healing sessions. Experienced educators lead them. Moreover, explore guided meditation and breath work practices. These cultivate inner peace and clarity.

Facial Treatments & Skincare Rituals

Pamper yourself with luxurious facial treatments. Additionally, learn holistic skincare rituals to nourish your skin from within. Our workshop empowers you to awaken your skin cells. This ensures radiance and vitality.

Clean Beauty Welcome Kit

Receive a complimentary clean beauty kit valued at over $200. It’s filled with carefully curated skincare products. Therefore, these support your journey to radiant skin and holistic wellness.

Grounding Experiences

Enjoy a welcome dinner and grounding experience. This sets the tone for your retreat. Furthermore, connect with fellow participants and embrace community support.

Closing Ceremony

Conclude your retreat with a sacred ceremony. It’s a beautiful ritual of gratitude and reflection. Therefore, you’ll honor your journey and celebrate your transformation.

Unlock Your Inner Radiance

At Replenish Retreat, we believe in reconnecting with nature. We harness ancient wisdom to nourish mind, body, and spirit. Imagine waking up to the soothing sounds of waves. The morning sun gently embraces you. Each day holds the promise of growth, renewal, and transformation.

Holistic Wellness Practices

Our retreat is more than just a getaway. It’s a holistic experience designed to empower you. From daily skincare rituals to personalized meditation, we provide essential tools. These help you navigate life’s challenges with grace. Say goodbye to stress. Instead, welcome a life filled with vitality, purpose, and authentic connection.

Community and Support

Perhaps the most profound aspect is our sense of community. Surrounded by like-minded souls, you’ll find strength in vulnerability. Moreover, you’ll discover courage in connection. Together, we create authentic space. Here, you can let go of distractions. As a result, you’ll embrace clarity, purpose, and balance.

Daily Skincare Rituals for Holistic Wellness

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At Replenish Retreat, we believe true beauty starts from within. Therefore, we’ve curated a daily skincare regimen. It goes beyond surface-level beauty. Instead, it nourishes your skin from the inside out.

Skin Mimicking Nature’s Cycles

Just as seasons change, so does our skin. Throughout the year, our skin experiences renewal cycles. Weather, diet, and lifestyle influence these changes. Consequently, we teach you to tune into these natural cycles. You’ll adjust your skincare routine accordingly. By mimicking nature’s rhythms, you optimize your skin’s health. This ensures radiance and vitality all year round.

Daily and Weekly Rituals

Our daily skincare rituals are simple yet effective. They take less than 10 minutes. First, we start with a gentle cleanser. This removes impurities and prepares your skin. Next, we apply a nourishing serum infused with botanical extracts. This hydrates and revitalizes. Finally, we finish with a lightweight moisturizer. This locks in moisture and protects against environmental stress.

In addition to daily rituals, we incorporate weekly treatments. These further enhance your skin’s health. They may include exfoliation to remove dead skin cells. Moreover, masks nourish and detoxify. Massage techniques improve circulation and lymphatic drainage. By incorporating these rituals, you awaken your skin cells. As a result, you reveal a radiant, youthful, glowing complexion.

Empowering You to Shine

We believe skincare is more than a routine. It’s a ritual of self-love and self-care. Our goal is to empower you to embrace your natural beauty. Therefore, you’ll shine from the inside out. Through daily skincare practices, we teach you to honor your skin’s unique needs. Consequently, you’ll cultivate a deep connection with yourself and the world.

Whether you’re looking to revitalize tired skin or combat aging signs, our rituals support you. Similarly, if you simply want to pamper yourself, we’re here for your holistic wellness journey. Awaken your skin cells and body. Let your inner radiance shine bright.

Take the Leap

Are you ready to step into your power?

Are you ready to reclaim control of your life?

Are you ready to embrace vitality, confidence, and joy?

Your journey starts here. All you have to do is say YES to yourself. It’s time to embark on transformation. Furthermore, it’s time for self-discovery, holistic wellness, and authentic connection. We can’t wait to welcome you home.

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2025 was full of flashy 12 step skin care routines 2025 was full of flashy 12 step skin care routines! Here’s what no one tells you about these rituals: not only can they wreak havoc on your microbiome, but they have to flex with your life or you’ll abandon them completely.

After 25+ years of working with real people through real life - weddings, grief, moves, breakups, illnesses - I know that rigid doesn’t work. What does work? Learning what your skin is actually telling you. Dryness isn’t always about hydration. Breakouts aren’t always about oil. Redness isn’t always about sensitivity. Your skin speaks a very specific language, and once you understand it, everything changes.

That’s where modalities like LED light become powerful - not as a daily must-do, but as a strategic tool that serves your skin’s current needs. Different wavelengths address different concerns, and together we can customize your treatments to work with your life, not against it.

Consistency at home + strategic in-studio support = your healthiest skin. Let’s make 2026 about intentional, true to YOU steps with #cleanbeauty ingredients that support your optimal health.
To our future couples: We don’t transform. We elev To our future couples: We don’t transform. We elevate. We reveal. We honor what’s already beautiful in you. The moment I live for is when a bride looks in the mirror during her design session and says ‘I look like me - elevated’ - with relief in her voice.

Somewhere along the way, we were conditioned to think that wedding beauty means looking different. More done. More trend-forward. More… something.

But the people I work with? They’re the ones who want to look at their wedding photos in 30 years and recognize themselves naturally beautiful.

Radiant. Vibrant. Timeless.

Not 2025. Not Instagram. Not anyone else.

They want to see all their natural beauty brought forward, enhanced, celebrated. That’s the kind of beauty that doesn’t need updating. It’s never about covering or fixing. It’s always about being fully honored, magnified and cared for. 

photography @hollyhursleyphoto
planning @hostedby.co
floral @wildflower_portland 
ceremony venue @csrgpdx
reception venue catering: huntandgathercatering
DJ @dillonbartellmusic
beauty @kellithomsen 
rentals @powerofloverentals
paper goods & signage @kellielynnthayer transportation @shanghaipartybus
ceremony entertainment correabrandonpaul @salemstringquartet 
ceremony bartending @bliss_bar 
rings @malkadiamonds

#cleanbeauty #oregonwedding #weddingbeauty #portlandmakeupartist #weddingmakeup
I got this email from a colleague that completely I got this email from a colleague that completely stopped me in my tracks. It’s exactly what I’ve been feeling as we head into 2026. She asked: “What’s the dream you keep pushing to the side because it feels too big?” I felt that in my whole body.

Here’s what I know after 25+ years in this industry: I see it all the time - you want glowing skin, so you panic and buy seven new products at once, get overwhelmed, and then do nothing. Or you want to finally learn makeup that actually works for your face, but the idea of figuring it all out feels impossible, so you don’t start.

But that’s not how your healthiest skin gets revealed. Real change starts small. Not with the perfect 10-step routine. Not with buying out Sephora. It starts with switching ONE product to something clean. Learning ONE technique that actually flatters your features. Booking ONE skincare session. Creating ONE morning ritual that actually feels good.

One block. Then another. Then another.
And suddenly six months later you look up and realize - holy shit, my skin actually glows now. I know how to do my makeup. This actually works. I can breathe. That’s how I built my small business. That’s how I created my lifestyle and sanctuary. That’s how nervous systems regulate and your healthiest skin reveals itself. 

What’s your one small action for the next 7 days? Maybe it’s:
-Tossing one toxic product and replacing it with something botanical
-Booking that makeup lesson you’ve been putting off
-Actually using that face oil sitting on your shelf
-Spending 60 seconds on a face massage instead of doom-scrolling
-Finally trying that technique I showed you in your last session
Just one thing. That’s your first block.
And if you’re thinking “I don’t even know where to start,” I’ve got something coming that’ll help.

2026 is the Year of the Fire Horse, known for unstoppable momentum, fierce independence, and breaking convention. I’m absolutely channeling that energy into what’s coming and I have a surprise coming the week leading up to Chinese New Year (February 12-17)! STAY TUNED. Happy New Year 🎆
Winter Solstice. The longest night. The turning po Winter Solstice. The longest night. The turning point. The exhale. It’s 11 pm on this first day of winter and I’m feeling deeply grateful. This past wedding season was extraordinary! 68+ weddings from Bend to wine country. Incredible couples who trusted me. Vendors who became true collaborators. Brands and companies who actually share my values around clean beauty & intentional work.

And now I get to pause. To reflect. To actually metabolize it all. This is the part people don’t always see, the winter quiet after a season of intense creation. But it’s essential. This is where I integrate everything I learned. Where I ask myself what worked, what didn’t, what I want to carry forward. Where I honor the season that just passed and tend to what wants to emerge.

To every couple who let me be part of your day, thank you for trusting me with your beauty. To the photographers, planners, florists, and venue teams who make this work collaborative magic, you inspire me. To the clean beauty brands doing it right, thank you for making products I believe in.

I’ve been using this solstice energy to appreciate this and to create what’s next. My studio is becoming the sanctuary I always envisioned. I’m developing my first online course and I’m genuinely excited to share what I’ve been building soon. I’m spending time with my true friends making art and setting real intentions for the year ahead.

Our 2026 wedding calendar is almost full and we’re building a waitlist for 2027. But right now, in this moment, I’m not focused on what’s next. I’m honoring what was. I’m sitting in the stillness. I’m letting myself feel how big this season actually was. This is how I prepare for a successful, fruitful year. Not by hustling through winter, but by doing the quiet work that makes everything else possible. By being selective about how I spend my time and who I spend it with. By tending to what matters. 

The goal is as the light is returning, I’ll be rested and ready. ✨

Venue: @thecragrathut
Planner: @silkandsaltevents
Caterer: @ripcitygrill
Hair & Make-up: @kellithomsen
Dress: @waichingstudio
Suit: @indochinoweddings
Jeweler: @withtheseringshandmade
Desserts: @papahaydn
There’s something about a Hood River wedding that There’s something about a Hood River wedding that asks you to trust the elements, and Kathleen did just that.

Golden hour light spilling across The Gorge. Soft winds that honored her delicate veil instead of fighting it. A bridal party that moved through the day with the kind of ease that only comes when everyone feels genuinely cared for.

For Kathleen’s makeup, we let her natural freckles show through because why would we cover what makes her uniquely beautiful? Warm taupes and neutral tones that enhanced rather than masked. Soft and natural individual lashes. A rosewood lip chosen specifically to complement her natural skin tone, not fight against it.

This is what happens when you choose a beauty approach that works with your skin, your features, your natural coloring. Kathleen’s makeup held beautifully through riverside portraits, emotional vows, and dancing under the twilight because it was designed for her skin, this climate, these conditions.

This is the Pacific Northwest wedding beauty we’ve spent 25+ years perfecting. Weather-tested, botanically-driven, designed to let you be fully present instead of worried about how you look.

Thank you to this exceptional vendor team who understands that true luxury is in the details, the care, and the experience!

Venue: @thegriffinhouse
Planning/Design: @amandajeanpdxevents
Photography: @megangallagherphoto
Florals: @trellis_flowers
Hair: @styledbymattie
Skin & Makeup: @kellithomsen
Catering: @bellyfulcatering
Band/DJ: @bluewaveband
Rentals: @riverhoodrentals
At 50, I’m not winding down, I’m finally warmed up At 50, I’m not winding down, I’m finally warmed up! What I’m tending now? 

It’s been growing all along. After years of trial & error, I finally learned how to be still enough to enjoy it bloom - the garden, the work, the space and balance of energy. Everything around me is finally aligned. There’s this flow now where nothing is forced and everything feels organic, exactly how I approach the work I do, exactly how life is meant to feel. 

RECAP of the most important things I’ve learned: 

-you don’t need a master plan, just keep showing up for what feels true.

-build your life like a garden, one intentional choice at a time.

-some people are seasonal, others are perennial, the storms show you which is which.

-your body’s wisdom is smarter than your mind’s logic, listen to it.

-you can’t show up for others unless you’re showing up for yourself first.

-boundaries aren’t walls, they’re how you protect the energy for what truly matters.

-healing changes your taste… in people, in habits, in dreams.

-trust what lights you up, because your excitement is real data.

-you don’t have to choose between the wild & intentional, be both!

#Turning50 #CultivatingBeauty #ComeSitInMyGarden #CleanBeauty #SlowingDown #TendingToMySanctuary #Enhancement #IntentionaLliving

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