Frances GoodallA Women's Retreat
Free HerWomen Rage Release
A transformational day-retreat to help you release the anger, hurt and emotional baggage carried from past relationships with men.
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I see it often in my practice. Women holding it in. Bracing. Staying quiet. Being the 'good girl'.
Biting their tongue. Smiling sweetly. Managing everyone else's emotions. Shrinking themselves to feel safe.
The result?
A tight jaw from biting back the words that weren't safe to speak.
Tension in the pelvic floor from bracing and holding in emotion.
Unexplained exhaustion from the energy expenditure of keeping a lid on feelings.
The shut down, contraction and shrinking to fit in.
The managing of everyone else's emotions around you in a bid to control the external environment with the intention of wanting to feel safe.
Because previously the narrative was on 'her':
- 'What she didn't do'
- 'What she shouldn't have worn'
- 'What she should have said'
- 'How she should behave'
The victim-blaming.
By labelling us…
- Too much
- Too difficult
- Too sensitive
- A troublemaker
- Emotional
- Drama queen
From this we were taught silence.
This retreat is to bring trust into the body — to speak up and to feel.
What's rising to the surface
In recent months, the Epstein files, the Manosphere documentary and the continued exposure of rape culture have brought a lot to the surface for women.
For many women, these stories haven't been shocking. They've been validating. Because what women have known in their bones for years is finally being spoken about publicly.
And so they find rising to the surface…
The anger. The rage. The grief. The disgust. The fear.
This isn't about avoiding.
This is about completion.
- The words left unsaid
- The emotions left unfelt
- The experience left unacknowledged
- The reality left invalidated
We’re not here to get stuck in rumination about blaming men.
We aren’t here to stay consumed by anger.
This is about recognising that when pain, betrayal, violation, disappointment, abandonment, rejection or heartbreak haven’t been fully processed, they don’t simply disappear.
They leave a relationship residue.
They live on in our bodies, our nervous systems, our beliefs and our relationships.
This pain may be from our past romantic relationships or from our relationship with our father, or the men in our lives when we were growing up.
Sometimes they show up as:
- Hyper-independence
- People-pleasing
- Struggling to trust
- Staying too long
- Pushing good people away
- Feeling constantly guarded, suspicious, resentful or emotionally exhausted
You may not think you’re angry. You may think you’ve moved on.
But if you’re finding yourself repeating…
- Relationship patterns
- Feeling disconnected from yourself, struggling to set boundaries
- Attracting unavailable partners
- Tolerating behaviour you know isn’t right, or
- Finding it difficult to fully open your heart
Then there may be unfinished emotional business asking for your attention.
There may be a part of you saying…
"I don't want to go there."
"I don't want to feel it."
But the thing is — not feeling it doesn't make it disappear.
Just because you choose not to acknowledge your anger, hurt, grief or resentment doesn't mean it isn't there. It's there, underneath the surface, running your nervous system.
Freedom doesn't come by pretending you're OK.
You become free by feeling what is there, acknowledging it and allowing it to move through you. You get to start relating to men from the present, not your past.
For You
Who this retreat is for
The women who attend this retreat aren’t broken.
They’re ready.
· Ready to stop carrying what was never theirs to carry.
· Ready to stop relating to today’s relationships through yesterday’s wounds.
Ready to feel…
· Safer in their bodies,
· Clearer in their boundaries,
· More connected to their intuition, and
· More available for the love, intimacy and relationships they truly desire
You may benefit from this experience if:
You struggle to trust men, even when they’ve done nothing wrong.
You keep attracting emotionally unavailable partners.
You find yourself settling, over-giving or abandoning your own needs.
You feel resentment that never seems to fully go away.
You avoid conflict or difficult conversations.
You feel disconnected from your femininity, sexuality or desires.
You second-guess your intuition and question yourself constantly.
You know you’ve done a lot of personal development work but something still feels unresolved.
You feel exhausted carrying the emotional weight of experiences you’ve never had the opportunity to fully process.
You want to create healthier relationships but feel like old wounds keep getting in the way.
What will happen
- · Opening sharing circle (share as much or as little as feels right)
- · Gentle somatic practices to safely connect with emotion
- · Guided processes to complete the stress cycle
- · Space to express what was never said and acknowledge what was never validated
- · Embodiment practices to reconnect with your healthy "no" and your powerful "yes"
- · Nourishing integration practices to leave grounded and resourced
You'll leave feeling
- · Lighter — with a sense of freedom and openness in the body
- · More connected to yourself, less burdened by the past
- · More confident speaking up for yourself
- · Clearer on your boundaries
- · Better able to trust your intuition
- · More able to recognise safe people and safe relationships
- · Deeply validated in your experience
- · Supported by a community of women who understand
What's included
- · Pre-retreat Zoom call
- · Full-day retreat in the UK
- · Nourishing food
- · Professionally guided group support
- · Post-retreat 1:1 integration call with Frances or Carla
Co-Facilitator
Frances Goodall
Chronic illness recovery specialist · IFS & Family Constellations practitioner · Pleasure advocate
Frances Goodall is a chronic fatigue recovery specialist, birthkeeper and pleasure advocate. She co-founded The Women's Wellness Circle which ran for 10 years offering women circles to support healing chronic illness, and she works as a coach, therapist and trainer.
Over five years, she went from house-bound with chronic fatigue to running half marathons, and she's since spent nearly two decades supporting thousands of women to recover their health from CFS and related conditions.
Frances has been on her own deep healing journey around finding safety with men, growing up in a family system with a somewhat absent father and a wider system that included sexual abuse. She has felt the pain of growing up in a patriarchal society, and has been in the field of personal growth for 25 years.
She is most passionate about helping you move from illness, pain, burnout, trauma or anxiety, to full thriving, joy and pleasure.
Co-Facilitator
Carla Crivaro
Certified Sex, Love & Relationship Coach · Men's Sexuality & Masculinity Coach
Carla Crivaro is a certified Sex, Love & Relationship Coach and a Men's Sexuality & Masculinity Coach.
Carla works internationally with women, men and couples to empower them from bedroom to boardroom — to speak up and embody their deepest desires, to build deep and authentic relationships and to attain the relational and sexual life they desire.
Carla holds women's circles, is a speaker, a media commentator and runs events and retreats to inspire, empower and educate on topics related to sex, healthy masculinity, female empowerment and outside-the-box relationship dynamics and communication.
Carla's relationship with men hasn't always been smooth sailing. As a self-proclaimed 'anti-man feminist' in her late teens and early 20s to a men's advocate in women's spaces, Carla's journey and evolution in her relationship to men has been a rocky one to say the least. Carla now takes her own personal learnings and experiences to engage men in their own self-development and to support women to have better relationships with the men in their lives.
She is most passionate about helping you speak up, embody your deepest desires, and build the deep, authentic relationships you deserve.
Join the priority waitlist
Women on the waitlist will be the first to hear when dates are released and will receive priority access before spaces are opened publicly.
Because of the intimate nature of this work, places will be limited.
If this experience speaks to something inside you, join the waitlist now and be first in line when applications open.
Held with care · Limited places