The Inner Mother Journey – A Four-Session Home Retreat

A Live Online Home Retreat
with sisters Hollie Holden and Lizzie Winn

Fri 13th  to Tue 17th November

🌱 “It’s an invitation back to our original knowing of our loveliness - to connect to our own inner
wise, kind, championing, fierce, authentic mother 
– the one who loves us whatever we’ve done,
loves us however we are,
and wants to remind us of our beauty and innocence.”🌱
Hollie Holden

So many of us are run by forces we can’t quite see: the harsh inner critic that cuts us down, the old patterns that keep us small, the blind spots that stop us living from our true soul voice. Marion Woodman, Jungian analyst and expert in feminine psychology, called this the territory of the inner 'negative mother.' Most of us know this side of the inner mother well but our culture doesn’t tell us much about the other side of this story – that there is also a deep, grounded, endlessly loving mothering presence available inside each of us, ready to guide, nourish and champion us.

This November, we – sisters Hollie Holden and Lizzie Winn – invite you into a nourishing home retreat space to meet this 'positive mother' within. Together we’ll explore how the 'negative mother' can grip us and then turn towards the aspects of the true, divine mother that our families and the wider world rarely speak of: the one who is wise, kind, fierce, curious and loves us exactly as we are. This is the work of re-parenting ourselves so that we can live authentically, from the inside out, and truly re-teach ourselves our loveliness. 

At the heart of the retreat are Hollie’s new Inner Mother cards. Hollie received the guidance to create them after a visit to Lourdes this summer, where she experienced direct contact with the active love of the Great Mother – who appears in many forms, in many cultures - and, in Lourdes, as Mother Mary.

This won’t be a weekend of taking in more information; we will be creating a warm, genuine container for direct experience of the love inside us. We will learn, deepen and discover the power of this inner mother presence together. You will probably uncover some old pain and wounds, and it will also be joyful and restorative. We will move our bodies, we will dance, share and support each other. You can join from your own home - in your pyjamas if you like – all you need is a journal, a pen and access to zoom. 

Who this journey is for: Anyone (of any gender) who wants to deepen their relationship to the loving, wise voice within and deepen into Self-love. 

Below is a video we created to say more about what this means to us and what this invitation is made of. 

If you feel a spark inside as you read this, we would completely love to see you there.

About Us:

Hollie is a mother, artist, writer, poet, soul coach and ordained Interfaith minister. She weaves together wisdom from the Enneagram, Marion Woodman & Jungian dream work, A Course in Miracles, IFS and family constellations work in her one-to-one practice and group retreats. The Inner Mother cards are a crystallisation of all of these threads of experience and inner knowing weaving together.

Hollie is excited to combine forces with her sister Lizzie because she knows the liberation, humour, healing and brilliance that happens when they create containers together.

Lizzie is an Integral Development Coach and teacher as well as supervisor to coaches and also holds the role of Chief People Officer in a global music business. Her podcast of nine years, Turning Towards Life, is a weekly dedication to spirituality, life and love. Her days are spent nurturing her young family, doing the school run and deepening her own inner work. She’s a poet, a podcaster, wife, coach, mother, sister, auntie, daughter.

Lizzie is delighted (really delighted) to be working alongside her sister, Hollie once more to spread the love and humour, depth and realness they share together.