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Reflections on a Retreat Filled with Goosebumps

Reflections on a Retreat Filled with Goosebumps
October 20, 2025 Dawn Flynn
I had the pleasure of co-hosting a beautiful retreat and spending time  with the loveliest women on a wet October weekend on Guemes Island.  We dove down deep to understand the connection with mental, emotional, and cognitive health and the gut microbiome…
In between lessons we ate delicious gourmet meals together; vegetarian paella, butternut squash soup, seaweed and pumfu chickpea miso, kichadi with the most delicious sauce drizzled over the top, pumpkin cranberry oatmeal bake and more.
Melissa taught everyone how to make their own fermented vegetables and keifer at home in their own kitchen so that they could enjoy what we now know is most important for a healthy digestive system- DIVERSITY in organisms, more than you could ever get in a probiotic capsule.
Between chopping, chewing, slurping, and sipping we shared tips and new discoveries on how to best take care of our health.
At moments we were laughing so hard that our bellies hurt and our cheeks were wet with streaming tears.
We hiked to the top of Guemes Island and laid low inside drinking herbal tea and listening to the rain.
I would like to share a poem by the late Andrea Gibson that prompted us to get out there and beat the record for getting the most goosebumps. (894)

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