Emerald Goddess was born from my own reckoning with truth.
For years, I tried to belong in spaces that rewarded performance over authenticity —
where intellect mattered more than intuition, and obedience was mistaken for integrity.

After completing my doctoral coursework and exams, I realized the cost had become too high.
The price of belonging was my voice, my joy, my dignity.

So I walked away.
From the hierarchies, the permissions, the performances —
and came home to what had always been mine: creativity, intuition, and the courage to be authentically me.

Emerald Goddess began as an act of reclamation.
It was born from my need to find meaning and voice after leaving systems that fed on silence.
It’s not about fixing or perfecting ourselves.
It’s about remembering who we are beneath the noise —
creative, feeling beings with stories that ache to be spoken.

This retreat grew out of that return — to authenticity, to truth, to the sacred in the ordinary.