A RETURN TO LOVE - Women's Healing Circle

Sat, 11 Apr, 2026 at 10:00 am to Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 at 01:00 pm UTC-07:00

5223 Somerset Dr | Nanaimo

Linda Sutton
Publisher/HostLinda Sutton
A RETURN TO LOVE - Women's Healing Circle
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A space for women and gender-diverse people to come home—to their bodies, their wisdom, and the healing power of connection.
About this Event

A RETURN TO LOVE - Women's Healing Circle


A three week journey of embodied healing and feminine wisdom - 3hr sessions - 3 Saturdays

A space for women and gender-diverse people to come home—to their bodies, their wisdom, and the healing power of connection.

There comes a moment when something inside us whispers:There must be another way to live. A way that feels slower. Truer. More connected.

A Return to Love is an invitation into that remembering.

This women’s healing circle is for those who feel the quiet pull to come home—to their bodies, their intuition, and their innate capacity for love and connection. It is a space where healing is not rushed, where grief is welcome, and where feminine wisdom is reclaimed through shared presence and care.

When women heal in community, something powerful unfolds. We remember that we are not meant to do this alone. As one woman softens into herself, she makes space for others to do the same.


What You May be Longing for

You may recognize yourself in some of these experiences:

  • You move through life feeling busy or driven, yet disconnected from your deeper needs
  • You struggle to slow down, breathe, and truly listen to yourself
  • You find it difficult to fully feel your emotions or give yourself permission to simply be
  • You carry stress, anxiety, sadness, or exhaustion beneath the surface
  • Old wounds or trauma responses arise unexpectedly, leaving you unsure how to make sense of them
  • You rarely take time to honour grief or loss, or to extend compassion toward yourself
  • You question your worth, your intuition, or your inner voice, shaped by cultural messages that say you are never quite enough
  • You have lost yourself in the roles you carry—mother, partner, daughter, caregiver, achiever—and are no longer sure who you are beneath what others need from you

If any of this resonates, you are not broken. These are human responses to living in a world that often values productivity over presence, and separation over connection.


What to Expect

In this three week healing circle, you will gather with other women and gender-diverse people in a supportive, trauma-informed space designed to foster safety, connection, and gentle transformation.

Together, you will be invited to:

  • Reconnect with the wisdom of your body and learn to listen with curiosity and care
  • Understand trauma as an adaptive survival response rather than a personal failing
  • Explore both the protective and limiting ways you have learned to cope
  • Cultivate self-compassion as a daily practice, softening shame and inner criticism
  • Examine how cultural and patriarchal conditioning has shaped your relationship with yourself
  • Reclaim feminine ways of knowing—intuitive, relational, cyclical
  • Honour grief and loss in their many forms, allowing what has been carried alone to be witnessed
  • Experience the healing power of ritual, reflection, and being deeply seen and heard
  • Integrate mind and body, restoring connection to your authentic self
  • Experience the healing power of ritual, reflection, and being deeply seen and heard
  • Integrate mind and body, restoring connection to your authentic self

The Heart of This Circle

In my private practice, I work with resilient women who are longing for a healthier way to meet the challenges of everyday life. Many feel disconnected from themselves, uncertain about how their past has shaped them, or yearning for deeper, more meaningful connections with other women.

This circle was created to bring women together as they once gathered thousands of years ago—to share stories, to be witnessed, and to remember the power of the feminine through ritual, poetry, song, meditation, and shared presence.

Whether you are seeking healing, support, or simply a place where you can arrive exactly as you are, A Return to Love offers a circle of care, presence, and possibility.

This is an invitation to invest in yourself. To be held in community. To remember who you are beneath the noise.

If you are listening closely, you may already know—this is the path your heart has been waiting for.



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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

5223 Somerset Dr, 5223 Somerset Drive, Nanaimo, Canada

Tickets

CAD 280.00

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