The Weight You’ve Been Carrying:

You’ve built a life by always being the strong one, at work, at home, and in your community. But behind your relentless strength, there’s a quiet exhaustion. A silent yearning for space to breathe.

A place where you can simply be.

The Restoration You Deserve:

This Self-compassion retreat is a luxurious sanctuary where you can finally stop holding it all together and start culturally attuned, luxuriously restorative care. Here, you’re invited to set down the armor, reconnect to joy, and reclaim your full humanity.

Experience the radical power of collective rest led by a licensed therapist and guide with more than 20 years expertise. And return to your life refreshed, clear, and reimagined..

What makes this retreat different?

The Compassion Collective creates culturally rooted, luxuriously restorative wellness spaces where women of color can set down their armor, rediscover joy, and return home to themselves. Blending clinical insight, communal care, and experiential luxury, we offer more than retreats, we offer sanctuary. 

What other women are saying about Compassion Collective Retreats

“What differentiates this retreat is the continued support even after the retreat- I love knowing I have this collective of women in my life.”

“A Compassion Collective retreat is like the exhale on a Jill Scott song- restorative, supportive, energizing.”

“My experience in one word? Peaceful. The villa and meditations allowed my busy body to be still and find pleasure in the quiet solitude.”

Meet Your Host and Guide

Esther Boykin, LMFT has spent over two decades supporting high-achieving Black women in therapy and coaching. She’s a grounded strategist, a fiercely loving friend, and the creator of Compassion Collective, designed to meet you beyond the page of a journal or a Zoom screen. Her lived experience as a therapist and founder ensures this retreat is both deeply safe and powerfully transformative.  

Have more questions?

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