My Experiences with Sober Retreats

I often get asked, “What is it like to go to a sober retreat?”

I have had many sober retreat experiences and I’m happy to share my feedback.

In this blog, I will be reviewing 3 specific retreats: ​​Brave Recovery Coaching, Sober in the City — Zero Proof Experiences, and SheRecovers Annual Conference. These are three very different experiences with different goals, taken at different points on my alcohol free journey.

Spoiler alert, they were all fantastic. TLDR.

My first ever sober retreat was a female hiking retreat in Sedona, AZ hosted by Brave Recovery Coaching. I was an acquaintance of the host, Carrie May, a Certified Recovery Coach and Nurse Practitioner. I had met two other attendees briefly at a previous local event. I didn’t really know anyone and I really didn’t know what to expect. I was very nervous because I wasn’t friends with any of the attendees. I was basically going alone. I ended up flying and driving with a total stranger. Most of us were strangers. Yikes. Talk about Brave.

(all time favorite photo of my friend Kate and me, by Hayley Haws)