Small, intimate retreats created around seasonal food, women's health, rest, and the conversations we rarely make enough time for.
Hosted by Margaret Bell — Women's Health & Nutrition Practitioner, Retreat Chef & Author of The Nourish Reset
My retreats were never meant to be about cramming as much as possible into a weekend, they're about having enough space to actually stop to eat properly, sleep, cook, talk, learn, and sit around a table with other women. To understand more about what's happening in your body and go home feeling like you've genuinely had time away from the noise of everyday life.
Nourish & Reset brings together the different strands of my work; food, gut health, hormones, the nervous system and the simple pleasure of cooking and eating together in beautiful countryside settings with very small groups of women. No enormous retreat groups, no punishing schedules and no restriction, detox or trying to be “good”, just really good seasonal food, thoughtful support, and room to breathe.
Nourish & Reset is also an opportunity to understand your body better. Depending on the retreat, this may include individual time with me, blood testing and interpretation, practical sessions around gut and hormonal health, food and cooking, nervous-system support, meditation, restorative therapies, and carefully chosen guest practitioners. Each retreat is slightly different and I don't believe in filling an itinerary simply for the sake of it. What we do is chosen because it adds something useful to the weekend, whether that's helping you understand your health, teaching you something you'll use at home, or simply helping your body come out of permanent go-mode for a while. There is always time built in to do absolutely nothing, too.
Intentionally Small
This is one of the most important parts, Nourish & Reset retreats are deliberately kept small, usually with around six women, which changes everything. You aren't disappearing into a group of twenty people, there's time for conversation, individual attention, and genuine connection without having to spend the weekend making small talk with a room full of strangers. You can come on your own, in fact, many women do but by the time we've cooked and eaten around the same table a few times, nobody feels like the woman who arrived on her own.
While every Nourish & Reset retreat is shaped around its location, season, and focus, you can expect:
Certain retreats also include additional elements such as private bedrooms, individual consultations, and blood testing. Full details are always provided for each retreat before you book.
This Isn't A Retreat Where You're Told How To Be “Healthy”
There are no detoxes here, no tiny portions, no guilt attached to food and no expectation that you'll go home and completely overhaul your life. My work is about understanding what's happening in your body and finding realistic ways to support it. Sometimes that means looking more closely at your gut or hormones, sometimes it's recognising what years of stress and constantly being “on” have done to the way you eat, sleep, digest and feel and sometimes it's simply remembering that food can be something that brings pleasure, connection and nourishment rather than another bloody thing to get right. That's what these retreats are about.
Nourish & Reset retreats are deliberately small, and places are limited. If you're looking for a huge retreat with a packed timetable and dozens of people, this probably isn't it. But if the thought of a beautiful house, a handful of women, proper food, cooking together, conversations that actually matter and enough space to hear yourself think sounds rather lovely… I'd love to have you around the table.
Ready to see what's coming next?
You can find current Nourish & Reset retreat dates, locations, what's included prices and availability on my Pricing & Booking page.
