3-Day Residential Retreat
for Women

You Have Been Navigating This Blindfolded.

It Is Time To Take It Off.

A 3-Day Residential Retreat for Women Ready to

Understand, Reclaim, and Redesign Their Lives Through Menopause

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THE INVITATION

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from not knowing what is happening to your own body.

You have felt it. The 2am wakefulness. The rage that arrives without warning. The fog that settles where your sharpest thinking used to live. The body that seems to be doing things without your permission. The relationships that are fraying at the edges. The career that no longer fits the way it used to.

You have been coping. Managing. Getting through.

But what if you could actually understand it?

What if three days could change the way you move through the rest of your life?

Welcome to The Blindfolded Retreat.

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Here Is What Nobody Told You

Most women enter menopause with almost no real information about what is actually happening inside their bodies. Their doctors run tests and find nothing alarming. Their mothers never spoke of it. The women around them are going through the same thing in silence.

The result is millions of women navigating one of the most significant biological transitions of their lives entirely blindfolded.

Not because they are not capable. Not because they are not paying attention.

Because the information was withheld. The conversation was silenced. The symptoms were dismissed. And the cultural narrative around menopause has, for generations, been one of decline rather than what it actually is: a profound, irreversible upgrade.

Perimenopause. Menopause. Post-menopause.

Three distinct stages. Each with its own hormonal signature, its own symptom profile, its own demands and its own gifts. Each requiring something different from you — and from the people around you.

And almost nobody explains this.

Until now.

WHAT IS THE BLINDFOLDED RETREAT

Three Days That Change Everything

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The Blindfolded Retreat is an intimate, women-only, fully residential three-day experience built on the framework of Blindfolded — the book that is finally telling women the truth about menopause.

This is not a spa weekend. It is not a wellness retreat where you do yoga and go home feeling temporarily relaxed. It is a genuine education, delivered in a warm, deeply supportive environment, that gives you the knowledge, the strategies, the community, and the clarity to move through menopause and beyond it with your eyes completely open.

We go deep. We go honest. And we go there together.

Residential. Women Only. Transformational.

Limited to 8 women per intake to ensure every participant receives individual attention.

WHAT YOU WILL WALK AWAY WITH

The Blindfold Comes Off In Three Days

You will finally understand what is actually happening in your body not a vague overview, but a real, clear, evidence-based understanding of what oestrogen decline actually does, how it affects your fascia, your cortisol, your sleep, your mood, your libido, your joints, and your brain — and why the symptoms you have been experiencing are not imagined, not exaggerated, and absolutely not your fault.

You will have a personal symptom strategy that actually work, because managing menopause is not one-size-fits-all. You will leave with a framework built around your specific experience and life, and the practical tools, nutrition, movement, sleep, stress reduction, and, where relevant, medical and holistic options that are genuinely evidence-based rather than heavily marketed.

You will know when to seek medical help and how to advocate for yourself when you do, including a clear, demystified understanding of hormone therapy, non-hormonal interventions, and how to evaluate the flood of products and treatments competing for your attention and your money.

You will have the language to bring the people you love into this with you, because menopause does not happen in isolation. Your partner, your children, your colleagues, and your friends are all affected by this transition. You will leave knowing how to educate them, communicate your needs, set boundaries without guilt, and build a support network that actually supports you.

You will have clarity about your career and your next chapter, because menopause has a way of clarifying priorities that nothing else quite matches. What do you no longer want? What do you actually want? What are the transferable skills you have spent decades building that the world desperately needs from experienced women? How do you design the year, the month, the week, and the day that finally feels like yours?

You will leave with a community of women who understand, because the isolation of navigating this alone is one of the most unnecessary costs of menopause. The women you meet at this retreat will become part of your ongoing support system long after you leave.

DAY THREE

Taking Off the Blindfold

The integration. The redesign. The beginning.

Your Career Next Chapter Day Three opens with one of the most powerful and underexplored conversations in the menopause space: what do you actually want your working life to look like from here? We work through knowing what you no longer want, knowing what you do want, how to articulate your experience and mastery with confidence rather than apology, and how to identify and name the transferable skills that women over fifty carry into every room they enter. We look at your options — full time, part time, flexible, virtual, a complete pivot, a portfolio career — and we help you begin designing your perfect year, month, week, and day.

Different Experiences Across Women Because no two women experience menopause the same way. We hold space for surgical menopause, early menopause, menopause across different cultural contexts, and the specific considerations around endometriosis, weight loss surgery, alcohol, and other health factors that are so rarely included in mainstream menopause conversations.

Integration and Personal Planning The final session of the retreat is yours. We bring together everything from the three days — the knowledge, the strategies, the clarity, and the community — and we help you build your personal Blindfolded Plan: a clear, realistic, compassionate map for the months ahead. What changes first. What you need from the people around you. What you are letting go of. What you are moving toward.

The Closing Circle

We end as we began — as women, together, in a room where the truth is welcome. The closing circle is a space to name what has shifted, to speak what needs to be spoken, and to step across the threshold of the retreat with your eyes fully open.

DAY TWO

Your Body, Your Relationships, Your Life

Because menopause does not happen in a vacuum.

Basic Strategies That Actually Work Sleep hygiene. Stress reduction. Nutrition. Movement. Relaxation. Burnout prevention. Day Two begins with the practical foundations — not as a generic wellness list, but as a personalised strategy built around your specific symptoms, your specific life, and what is actually sustainable for you.

Strength Training, Protein, and Why Your Body Needs Both More Than Ever We cover the physiological case for strength training and adequate protein intake during menopause — not as aesthetic goals, but as non-negotiable foundations for bone density, muscle mass, metabolic health, and long-term quality of life.

Training Your People to Support You This is one of the sessions women tell us they needed years ago. We cover how to educate your partner, your children, your family, and your colleagues about what menopause actually looks like — how to communicate your needs clearly, how to create a support language that your household can use, how to set boundaries without guilt, and how to build a wider support network that holds you rather than adding to your load.

Relationships Under Pressure — The Honest Conversation Menopause affects intimate relationships profoundly, and most couples are not equipped to navigate it. We cover the communication shifts that protect relationships during this transition — listening without dismissing, the power of validation, avoiding fixing language, and how to navigate the loss of confidence that so many women and their partners experience. We address divorce and separation statistics honestly, and we give both sides of the dynamic the language and understanding they need.

Conflict and Misunderstanding — At Home, at Work, With Friends, With Family We move through each relationship context honestly — what menopause looks like in each space, what the specific communication challenges are, and how to navigate them without losing the relationships or yourself in the process.

DAY ONE

Understanding What Is Actually Happening

The education that should have come years ago.

We begin where most women have never been given the chance to begin: with the truth about their own bodies.

The Three Stages of Menopause Perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause are three distinct hormonal experiences. We map all three — what is happening in your body at each stage, why the symptoms shift and change, and what the average timeline actually looks like so you can locate yourself in the journey rather than feeling lost in it.

What Falling Oestrogen Actually Does Most women are told their oestrogen is declining. Very few are told what that actually means. We cover the physiological reality — how it affects your fascia, your bone density, your cardiovascular system, your cognition, your emotional regulation, and your sleep — with clarity and without alarm.

The Symptoms Hiding in Plain Sight We examine the full symptom picture — including the ones most commonly misattributed to stress, anxiety, depression, or simply getting older. We look at the relationship between cortisol and symptom severity, the role of overall health and lifestyle factors, and the emotional impact of menopause that is so rarely given the space it deserves.

Separating Ageing from Menopause Not everything you are experiencing is menopause. Not everything you have been told is ageing actually is. We give you the clarity to tell the difference.

Medical Options — The Full, Unfiltered Picture We cover hormone therapy honestly — what it is, what it is not, who it suits, who it does not, and how to have an informed conversation with your doctor rather than walking out of the appointment feeling more confused than when you walked in.

Holistic Options — What Actually Works We cut through the noise. We examine the evidence base for non-hormonal supplements and interventions, identify what the research actually supports versus what is being heavily marketed without adequate evidence, and give you a clear framework for evaluating any product or treatment so you never waste your money or your hope on something that will not help.

What We Cover

THE RETREAT FRAMEWORK

The Blindfolded Retreat is built around the full framework of the book, delivered across three immersive residential days. Here is what we move through together.

WHO THIS IS FOR

Is The Blindfolded Retreat For You?

You are in the right place if:

You are somewhere in the perimenopause, menopause, or post-menopause journey, and you still feel like you are navigating it largely in the dark without enough information, without enough support, and without a clear sense of what comes next.

You have been told your symptoms are stress, or anxiety, or just part of getting older and something in you knows that is not the whole truth.

You are exhausted by the noise, the products, the promises, the conflicting advice, and you want someone to cut through it and give you what actually works.

You can feel your priorities shifting, but you do not yet have the clarity or the language to act on them.

Your relationships are under strain, and you want to understand why and what to do about it.

You are approaching a significant career or life decision, and you want to make it from a place of real clarity rather than exhaustion or fear.

You are ready to stop coping and start understanding.

This retreat is women-only.

All are welcome regardless of where you are in the journey — early perimenopause through to post-menopause.

WHO THIS NOT FOR

This retreat is not for women who are looking for a passive experience. The Blindfolded Retreat asks you to show up fully — curious, honest, and willing to sit with the parts of this journey that are uncomfortable before they become clear. If you are ready for that, you are ready for this.

The Experience

What Three Days Actually Looks Like

Fully Residential

You arrive. You stay. You are held for three complete days in an environment designed for rest, connection, and genuine transformation. No commuting. No domestic responsibilities. No performing. Just you, the work, and the women around you.

Small Group

The Blindfolded Retreat is deliberately intimate — limited to 8 women per intake. This is not a conference. It is a deep experience, and that requires space for every woman in the room to be seen, heard, and genuinely supported.

Expertly Facilitated

The retreat is facilitated by Terri Lee, author of Blindfolded and a practitioner with 30 years of experience working with women through menopause. Every session is grounded in the evidence base of the book — honest, current, and delivered with the warmth and directness that women in this transition actually need.

Nourishing and Restorative

All meals are included and designed around the nutritional principles covered in the retreat — high protein, anti-inflammatory, genuinely delicious. The physical environment is chosen deliberately: comfortable, beautiful, private, and conducive to the kind of openness and rest that real transformation requires.

Ongoing Connection

The Blindfolded community does not end when the retreat does. All graduates join our ongoing community/alumni network group, where the conversation, the support, and the collective wisdom continue.

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Your Investment

RETREAT INVESTMENT: $4,995

Includes three nights residential accommodation, all meals, all retreat materials, a copy of Blindfolded, and access to the ongoing alumni community.

Payment plans available.

Early registration: $3,995 3 months out from the event.

Places are strictly limited to 8 women per intake.

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EMPOWERING YOU

The Blindfold Was Never Yours to Carry.

It was inherited. It was imposed. It was the result of a culture that never took the time to tell women the truth about one of the most significant chapters of their lives.

Three days.

That is all it takes to change the way you move through the rest of yours.

The next Blindfolded Retreat takes place in November at a Victorian Venue.

Places are limited to 8 women.

To start your journey press start now and book in for your FREE Discovery Session.

The Blindfolded Retreat is based on the book Blindfolded by Terri Lee. All retreat content is grounded in current evidence-based research and is designed to complement, not replace, the advice of your personal healthcare provider.

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