Deep Emotional Healing Retreats
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With Jon Terrell, M.A.

Mental Health Retreat For Grief, Loss and Other Difficult Emotions 

Are you searching for deep emotional healing retreats? Do you feel anxious or overwhelmed? Our retreats provide a safe, loving space for you to work through your "old story” and reclaim your life.

My name is Jon Terrell, and my life work is helping people with emotional transformation. For 30 years, I directed wellness centers and worked as an advanced meditation teacher to help people heal and awaken. 

Then, over 25 years ago, I was stuck. Despite all my training and good work, I wasn't happy, and my marriage was failing. I didn't know what to do.

After a lot of exploration without success, I finally realized, with the help of a  depth therapist, that I needed deep emotional healing. On his recommendation, I studied at several retreat centers that specialized in body-oriented depth emotional healing. I became a retreat leader myself as I continued to clear out and transformed a ton of old grief, fear, and other stuck feelings.

It was a whole new beginning for me. I felt alive, passionate, and energized. I was finally at peace and in joy, which has lasted in a way that nothing else did.

For the past 25+ years, I have been leading deep emotional healing retreats, helping people through grief, anger, anxiety, and other stuck feelings that lead to emotional trauma. These mental health retreats in Massachusetts, Florida and California have changed hundreds of lives.

I am always amazed at the depth of grief recovery work we can do in just a few days.

Creating A Deep Emotional Healing Space

We need to feel safe to go deep enough to get to where we are stuck.

When we are in pain, we can become obsessed with our issues. We may talk about these problems to others, but that usually does not bring more than temporary relief. And we can find ourselves caught up in hopeless thoughts and reactions. We realize that something needs to change and begin our search for healing.

We need a safe place away from our daily lives to do our work. We need to feel secure enough to allow anxiety, anger, grief and other uncomfortable feelings to surface.

The first part of every retreat is all about this. We create a loving community to set the stage for the depth work that follows.

We do simple exercises to get to know each other. We help reduce anxiety and uncertainty by providing a comfortable, relaxed environment with nurturing food, warm conversation, and a beautiful setting.

At the retreats, we practice fully seeing you and honoring your thoughts and feelings. We help you arrive in the present moment, ready to do your work.

Emotional Trauma Healing

The core of our deep emotional healing retreat is an individualized one-on-one process supported by the whole group that explores the places where you are emotionally trapped.

We stay with your feelings, helping them transform. What often keeps us locked in emotional trauma are hidden feelings underneath the surface one.

We start with where you are mentally and emotionally. Then, with the safety and power of a loving community, we go deeper. 

Each emotion offers us a gift that we have been searching for. What a relief it is to find that gift. Working through grief, for example, is our gateway back to joy.

Gradually, the whole environment changes. As we come back to ourselves and come to our senses, the world is different—more peaceful, expansive, and joyful. We see things more clearly, we feel more alive, and there is a sense of Presence.

How To Get Started

We offer deep emotional healing retreats about eight times a year, mainly at Star Dance Ranch in western Massachusetts and in the winter in Florida. We occasionally lead retreats in California, as well.

Working Through Grief, Loss And Other Difficult Emotions are usually Thursday-Sunday events in western Massachusetts. The maximum size of our grief recovery retreats is 12 participants. 

Breaking Free To Emotional Wellness is an extended version of our mental health retreat and held every summer.

To get started, contact Jon using the form below. Provide your best phone number and good times to reach you and we will get back to you very soon.

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Recent Comment

What a blessing to have found this retreat!

Jon Terrell has definitely a gift to heal people plus with all his knowledge, the retreat was memorable. We left on Sunday with a new family and new friends for life. The connections that I made with those persons is beyond words.

What a blessing to have found this retreat! The universe really put all the right people together and Jon made everyone feel at ease to be able to let go and heal. This retreat was such an emotional and powerful experience full of love, and I left feeling more connected to myself too.

I now have the tools to work on myself and heal my marriage. I can also see and feel my children on a different level… much deeper.

Isabelle P. Langevin, Tampa, FL

I learned that my Mom died fourteen months after her death. It was my Mom's dying wish that her death be kept as a family secret from four of her five children to whom she was not speaking.

All the painful memories from my family, a family that never learned to love or support one another, flooded over me. I needed help processing that my Mom and family would never meet my need for acceptance and love.

During the Grief, Loss and Difficult Emotions Retreat with Jon Terrell, I was seen, heard, and held. I was "mothered" and nurtured to help me access the deep mourning, pain, and anger of my complicated grief.

I learned new skills to move these feelings out of my body while I felt supported and safe.

I will always cherish the memory of the group celebrating my "process" with me.

Jon said a group experience is the essential starting place. Within myself, I resisted a group retreat out of fear of being judged by others and judging myself. However, I trusted Jon and overcame my fears. I'm so glad I attended this retreat.

If you're considering attending Jon's grief retreat, just do it! You need this more than you can imagine. I wish you the same healing support I experienced.

With Infinite Love and Gratitude,

Abigail Thurston, New York

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