MoreYou Mini-Retreat

When the pressure is on, most capable people carry it alone, and the voice inside is usually the harshest one in the room.
This retreat is practice in shifting from judging yourself to actually listening to yourself.
This is where having your own back actually begins.

Two hours on a Tuesday evening, with other people who are also tired of pushing.
Not a workshop. Not a class you take notes in. There is discussion, there is instruction, and there is a fair amount of silence — the kind most of us have stopped making room for.

What happens
We talk about the habit of struggling: the pattern your nervous system learned so early it stopped looking like a pattern and started looking like personality. Most of the people in the room will recognize it before it is fully described.

Then we practice listening to ourselves — noticing what is happening inside without judging it, fixing it, or pushing past it. It is simple enough to learn in an evening and specific enough to use the next morning. You will practice it in the room rather than take it home as a theory.

And then quiet. Not guided, not performed. Just time that is not asking anything of you.

Who this is for
You are capable, dependable, and running on reserve
You are hardest on yourself exactly when it matters most
You have read enough and are ready to try something
You are done with self-improvement framing and would like something plainer
You want to be around people who understand the pattern without needing it explained

Practical details
Second Tuesday of every month, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Doors open at 6:15. Held at SolFlo in Wicker Park.
Limited to twelve people.
Wear something you can sit comfortably in.

Registration closes when the room is full. Registrations are non-refundable and can't be moved to another date.

2026 dates
October 13
November 10
December 8
Registration opens one session at a time, so you can book the next date on the calendar.

Mary Meduna-Gross, Ph.D. is the founder of PlenaVita Shift and a NeurOptimal® trainer in Wicker Park.

Questions to [email protected].

Less Struggle. More You.