A Four-Day Retreat with Geneen Roth
What’s in The Way
is The Way
You’ve changed your life. Why do you still feel that something is missing?
Maybe you have done years of work on yourself. Maybe you have changed your body, your food, your relationships, your work, or your way of seeing the world.
And still, the same old belief may rise up at the worst moments.
Something is wrong with me.
I am not enough.
I should be different by now.
Join Geneen Roth for four days of conversation, reflection, eating meditation, and The Six Steps practice to turn toward what has been running beneath the surface and discover what becomes possible when you stop turning against yourself.
A small, intimate retreat with limited seats available.
“Geneen Roth’s book Women, Food, and God changed how I see my relationship with food. It blows the doors off.”
“Geneen’s work will blow you away. It is beautiful and funny and deep, and most of all, she speaks the truth.”
“Her insights and simple practices will help you rediscover the power to live your most vibrant life.”
The Conversation Has Changed.
The Questions Haven’t.
The world has changed.
For some people, GLP-1 medications have changed their relationship with hunger, appetite and weight. For others, success, therapy, relationships or years of inner work have changed the shape of their lives.
And still, the deeper questions remain.
You may still find yourself asking:
- Why am I still anxious?
- Why do I still feel unseen?
- Why do I still turn against myself?
- Why do I still feel as if real life is waiting somewhere else?
- Why do I still believe something is wrong with me?
These questions are rarely about weight, achievement, willpower or effort. They are about the old beliefs and conclusions we carry for years, often without knowing they are there.
This retreat is a place to bring those questions into the light, learn The Six Steps with Geneen and begin seeing the beliefs beneath the pain.
What’s in The Way is The Way
Most of us spend years trying to get away from the places that hurt.
We distract ourselves. We blame the other person. We reach for food. We tighten control. We collapse. We try to become calmer, thinner, better, healed, more disciplined, more spiritual, more together.
We tell ourselves that once the body changes, once the relationship changes, once the pain finally leaves, once we become the person we think we should be, then we will be able to relax.
Geneen Roth’s work begins in the exact place we have been trying to escape.
The trigger.
The shame.
The resentment.
The food struggle.
The body judgment.
The old wound.
The belief that something is wrong with you.
These places are not mistakes in the path. They are the path.
They show you the old conclusions you have been living inside of. They reveal the beliefs you made about yourself long ago and kept treating as truth. They point to the part of you that learned to turn against yourself before you even knew you were doing it.
During this retreat, Geneen will guide you through the process at the heart of LOVE, FINALLY: turning toward what has been avoided, feeling what has been unfelt, questioning the beliefs you have mistaken for truth, and discovering the part of you that has never been damaged by what happened.
This is what it means to find that what’s in the way is the way.
“Your life isn’t asking you to become someone else. It’s inviting you to remember who you’ve been all along.”
This Retreat May Be for You If:
You may recognize yourself here.
You have done a lot of work on yourself. You have read the books, tried the practices, gone to therapy, changed your food, changed your body, changed your habits, changed your thoughts, and still, something in you does not feel free.
You may look capable on the outside and feel unsettled on the inside.
You may have moments when the old belief rises up again:
Something is wrong with me.
I should be over this by now.
I am too much.
I am not enough.
I will never really change.
This retreat may be for you if:
- You are tired of trying to fix yourself and still feeling like the problem.
- You understand your patterns, but you still get caught in them.
- You use food, control, blame, achievement or self-criticism to get through pain you do not know how to meet.
- You have worked on your childhood, your mother, your body, your relationships or your spiritual life, and still feel haunted by the same old conclusions.
- You can be kind to other people, but you turn against yourself in ways you would never speak to someone you love.
- You want to stop living as if your peace depends on the right weight, the right relationship, the right mood, the right approval or the right outer conditions.
- You are beginning to see that the thing you keep trying to get away from may be the very place that needs your attention.
- You want a process you can use when you feel triggered, ashamed, angry, anxious, rejected or afraid.
- You are ready to stop arranging your life around old wounds.
- You want to feel at home in your body, your mind, and your life.
This retreat is for the woman who is no longer satisfied with understanding why she suffers.
She wants a way through.
The Six Steps Give You
a Way Through
When something touches an old wound, it can feel as if you are back inside the original pain.
A comment from your daughter.
A look from your partner.
A number on the scale.
A moment of rejection.
A feeling of being ignored, dismissed, criticized or unseen.
Suddenly, the present moment is no longer only the present moment. The old belief rises up again.
Something is wrong with me.
I am too much.
I am not enough.
I will never be loved as I am.
I have to protect myself.
I have to disappear.
Most people try to manage these moments by eating, blaming, controlling, collapsing, explaining, fixing or turning against themselves.
The Six Steps offer another way.
They help you slow down enough to see what is happening while it is happening. They give you a way to turn toward the feeling without being swallowed by it, to recognize the belief underneath the reaction and to question the story that has felt like reality for years.
During the retreat, Geneen will guide you through this process so you can begin to:
- Work with a trigger without getting lost in it.
- Feel what you have been trying not to feel.
- Recognize the old conclusion underneath your reaction.
- See how a wound from the past may still be shaping your present life.
- Question the belief that has been running your choices, relationships, food, body and self-worth.
- Meet yourself with more honesty, steadiness and care.
- Discover that you are larger than the feeling, larger than the wound and larger than the story you have believed.
This is the heart of the retreat.
The Six Steps are the way Geneen will help you turn toward what has been in the way, so it can become the doorway into what you have been looking for.
If You’ve Been Waiting to Feel Better About Yourself
Many of us live as if real life is waiting just beyond the next achievement, the next breakthrough, the next version of ourselves.
We tell ourselves:
- I’ll relax when I lose the weight.
- I’ll be happy when I find the relationship.
- I’ll feel worthy when I accomplish enough.
- I’ll trust myself when I’ve healed a little more.
- I’ll begin my real life when I finally feel ready.
So we wait.
We wait for permission, certainty, thinness, approval, success, healing or the perfect conditions.
Geneen’s work asks a different question:
What if nothing essential has ever been missing?
What if the part of you that feels damaged, ashamed or not enough is the very doorway into the freedom you have been looking for?
What We’ll Practice During These Four Days
For four days, you will step out of the pace and noise of ordinary life and enter a space where the old patterns can finally be seen with clarity, kindness and support. This is where the ideas in LOVE, FINALLY become lived experience. You will not be left alone to figure it out. Geneen will guide you through The Six Steps in real time, with the kinds of triggers, beliefs and tender places that actually shape your life.
You will work with the places where you still get caught: food, body, self-judgment, mother and daughter wounds, resentment, anxiety, shame, relationship pain and the belief that you should somehow be different by now. You will begin to see how an old conclusion can color an entire life, and how much becomes possible when that conclusion is questioned with honesty and care.
During the retreat, you will practice how to:
- Recognize the old beliefs that keep you feeling not enough, even after years of growth, healing, success or spiritual work.
- Use The Six Steps when you are triggered by food, your body, a relationship, a memory, a comment or a familiar wave of self-judgment.
- Feel what is here without being overwhelmed by it, running from it or turning it into another reason to criticize yourself.
- See how a wound from the past may still be shaping the way you interpret the present.
- Stop treating your pain as proof that something is wrong with you.
- Listen to your own experience instead of outsourcing your authority to diets, teachers, approval, achievement or old family rules.
- Relate to yourself with more honesty, steadiness, tenderness, kindness and respect.
- Discover the part of you that has never been damaged by what happened.
- Meet your life as it is, with less resistance and more trust in your capacity to be with what comes.
You leave with more than insight. You leave with a process you can return to when life touches the old places, and with the lived experience of what happens when you stop turning against yourself.
What Happens at the Retreat
This is an intimate, in-person retreat with Geneen Roth in San Rafael, California, designed to give you the space, guidance and support that are hard to create in ordinary life.
Over four days, you will experience:
- A carefully held retreat container with Geneen and a small group of women who are ready to bring honesty, attention and compassion to the places they have hidden or judged for years.
- An opening session on Thursday evening to gather the group, set the tone and begin stepping out of ordinary life and into the retreat experience.
- Two guided sessions on Friday and Saturday with teaching, conversation, reflection, practice and time to integrate what is opening.
- Guided eating meditation on Friday and Saturday during lunch, bringing one of Geneen’s signature practices into a direct, embodied experience.
- Small-group, dyad, and triad exercises so the work is not only heard, but practiced in connection with others.
- Reflection and Q&A with Geneen so you can bring your real questions, tender places and lived experience into the room.
- Gentle movement and spacious pauses to help your body, mind and heart stay present with the work.
- A closing session on Sunday to gather what has shifted, clarify what you are taking with you and begin carrying the work into everyday life.
This is a rare opportunity to work closely with Geneen in person, inside a small group setting where the work can be personal, spacious and deeply supported.
Reserve Your Place
Why Thousands Have Turned To Geneen Roth
For more than four decades, Geneen Roth has been one of the most trusted voices in the conversation about women, food, body, self-judgment, and the hunger beneath the hunger.
Long before the culture had language for emotional eating, body shame, self-compassion, and the connection between old wounds and present-day suffering, Geneen was teaching women to look beyond diets, discipline, willpower, and self-improvement. Through her bestselling books, retreats, workshops, and appearances with Oprah Winfrey, her work has reached hundreds of thousands of readers and students who were tired of fighting themselves and ready for a more truthful way through.
What makes Geneen’s work so enduring is that she does not stop at the surface of the struggle. She helps people turn toward the beliefs, wounds, and old conclusions that shape their relationship with food, their bodies, their mothers, their choices, and themselves. Again and again, her students discover that the part of them they have been trying to fix or hide is often the doorway into the freedom they have been seeking.
This retreat brings together the heart of Geneen’s life’s work with The Six Steps process at the center of LOVE, FINALLY. It is a rare opportunity to sit with Geneen in person, practice the work directly with her, ask real questions, and be inside a small group where the teaching can become personal, immediate, and alive.
For women who have read Geneen’s books, followed her teachings, or carried her words for years, this is more than another retreat. It is a chance to be in the room with the teacher whose work has helped generations of women stop turning against themselves and begin trusting what they know.
What Participants Say
“I’m just really, really happy with myself. Being on my own side now. Not stuffing my feelings, eating my feelings. It’s miraculous!”
“I’m healing old beliefs with tenderness and compassion, and now my new-found love for myself fills me so much that I don’t even think about eating.”
“Geneen’s teachings are priceless. I’ve got the tools to choose freedom from addiction, drop self-rejection, and allow the true me to emerge.”
A Note from Geneen
The thing you believe is blocking you may be the doorway.
The wound, the shame, the trigger, the food struggle, the old belief, the part of you that you have tried to fix or get away from may be the place where everything begins to change.
This retreat is an invitation to stop turning against yourself and begin working with what is actually here.
You do not need to become someone else.
You do not need to wait until you are healed, thin, calm, ready, or different.
You can begin where you are.
That is the way.
Retreat Details
- Dates
- September 17–20, 2026
- Location
- San Rafael, California
- Format
- Four-day in-person intensive retreat with Geneen Roth
This is an intimate retreat experience, not a large conference or passive lecture series. You will be in the room with Geneen, learning directly from her, practicing The Six Steps, reflecting in community and bringing the work into your own lived experience.
- Investment
$2,495$2,195 Special Mid-Summer Discount- Special Mid-Summer Discount
- The Mid-Summer Discount ends July 31, 2026.
Save $300 by reserving your place before the deadline.
What’s Included
Your retreat registration includes:
- Four days of direct teaching and guided practice with Geneen Roth in a small, intimate retreat setting.
- The Six Steps process taught and practiced in real time, so you can begin working with the triggers, conclusions and tender places that shape your everyday life.
- Guided sessions with Geneen every day, with space for teaching, reflection, practice and integration.
- An opening session on Thursday evening to enter the retreat container, gather as a group and begin the work.
- A closing session on Sunday to gather what has opened, clarify what you are taking with you, and begin bringing the work back into your daily life.
- Eating meditations at lunch on Friday and Saturday, one of Geneen’s signature practices, to help you bring presence, attention and kindness to your relationship with food and your body.
- Small-group, dyad, and triad exercises so the work becomes personal, relational and alive rather than something you only understand intellectually.
- Reflection and Q&A with Geneen, giving you the opportunity to bring your real questions and lived experience into the room.
- Gentle movement and spacious pauses to support your body and nervous system throughout the retreat.
- A supportive community of women who are also ready to stop turning against themselves and meet their lives with more honesty, compassion, and courage.
What’s Not Included
Your registration does not include:
- Airfare.
- Lodging.
- Transportation to and from the retreat.
- Meals other than those specifically listed above.
- Personal travel expenses.
Who It’s For
This retreat is for women who are ready to stop living at the effect of old wounds, self-judgment, food and body struggles, painful relationship patterns or the belief that something is wrong with them.
It is for women who have done real work on themselves and still find themselves caught by the same old conclusions. Women who understand a lot, have tried a lot and are ready for a process that helps them meet what is here in a different way.
It is for you if you are tired of waiting until you are thinner, calmer, healed, more successful, more certain or more ready before you allow yourself to live with more ease.
It is for you if you want to be in the room with Geneen Roth, practice The Six Steps directly with her and discover what becomes possible when you stop trying to get away from the very place where the way begins.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this retreat only about food and weight?
Food and body struggles may be part of what brings you here, but this retreat goes deeper than food. Geneen’s work looks at the hunger beneath the hunger, the beliefs and conclusions that shape how you relate to food, your body, your relationships, yourself and your life.
Do I need to have read LOVE, FINALLY before attending?
Reading LOVE, FINALLY will support your experience, but you do not need to have finished the book before attending. The retreat will include teaching, practice and guided work with The Six Steps.
What are The Six Steps?
The Six Steps are a process for working with triggers, painful reactions, old wounds and the beliefs underneath them. They help you name what is happening, feel what has been unfelt, question what you have believed and begin relating to yourself in a new way.
Is this therapy?
This retreat is not therapy. It is a guided retreat experience with Geneen Roth based on her decades of work with food, body, self-rejection, inner freedom and The Six Steps process from LOVE, FINALLY.
What if I have already done a lot of personal growth work?
This retreat may be especially relevant if you have done years of work and still feel caught by the same old belief, trigger, shame or self-judgment. The focus is not on gathering more insight. The focus is on practicing a process that helps you meet what is here and begin unwinding what has felt fixed.
What if I’m taking GLP-1 medication or my weight struggle has changed?
You are welcome here. The conversation around weight and appetite has changed for many people, but the deeper questions often remain. This retreat is about the beliefs, wounds and patterns that continue to shape your relationship with yourself, whether or not food and weight are still the center of your struggle.
How many people will attend?
This is an intimate retreat with limited seats available. We have 7 spaces available that will be allocated on a first-come basis.
What happens after I reserve my place?
After you reserve your place, you will receive confirmation and any next steps for attending the retreat, including location details, reservation link for our special room block at the hotel, schedule information, and preparation guidance.
What is the schedule for the retreat?
The retreat starts on Thursday, September 17, with room check-in at 4:00 pm PT and the Opening Session with Geneen at 5:30 pm PT. The retreat ends at Noon on Sunday, September 20, with the Closing Session. For questions about the daily schedule, contact Judy Ross at retreats@geneenroth.com or call 703-401-0871.
Are accommodations available at the retreat location?
YES, we have arranged for a block of rooms at our all-suite hotel location in San Rafael, CA, with special event pricing for our participants traveling from a distance or those who live locally but want to stay onsite during the retreat. All the details on the hotel and the LINK to make your reservations at the hotel will be sent to you when you register.
What airports and transportation should I use if I’m flying to the retreat?
Both San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and Oakland International Airport (OAK) are approximately 45 minutes to an hour from San Rafael, with service by Lyft, Uber or airporter shuttles.
What are the payment options?
Yes, we can offer payment options. A deposit is required to reserve your spot. The balance is due July 17, 2026. If you prefer to pay by check and avoid credit card processing fees, or have other payment questions, please contact Judy Ross at retreats@geneenroth.com or call 703-401-0871.
Is the retreat accessible for people with disabilities?
The hotel is handicap-accessible. We strive to make the retreat as accessible as possible. Please contact us ahead of time to discuss any specific accommodations you may need so we can ensure the venue meets your needs.
Will there be opportunities to speak directly with Geneen?
Yes. This intimate retreat is designed to offer both group sessions and smaller interactions. There will be opportunities to engage with Geneen during Q&A periods, group activities, and shared discussions throughout the retreat.
Can I attend the retreat if I have dietary restrictions?
Absolutely. Our lunches on Friday and Saturday include gluten free, dairy free, vegetarian, and vegan choices. You may also bring any food items that suit your dietary needs.
Who do I contact with other questions?
Call or email Judy Ross, our retreat manager, with any and all questions. She can be reached at: retreats@geneenroth.com or 703-401-0871.
What is the cancellation policy?
The retreat deposit is non-refundable. If you cancel before July 17, 2026, your tuition will be refunded, less the non-refundable deposit and any credit card fees paid. After July 17, 2026, the full tuition is non-refundable and non-transferable. Please consider these terms carefully when booking.
Join Us
What’s in The Way is The Way.
The thing you have been trying to fix, hide, manage or get around may be the doorway into the freedom you have been looking for.
For four days in San Rafael, Geneen Roth will guide a small group through The Six Steps process from LOVE, FINALLY, with time for conversation, reflection, daily eating meditations and direct practice.
If something in you is tired of circling the same pain, this is a place to bring it into the light.
September 17–20, 2026
San Rafael, California
The Mid-Summer Discount ends July 31.
Limited seats available.
QUESTIONS? Call us at 703-401-0871
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A Four-Day Retreat with Geneen Roth
September 17–20, 2026 | San Rafael, California
The Mid-Summer savings ends July 31
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