There is a moment when you realize the dream you have been chasing is no longer sustainable. Not because it was wrong. But because it was not yet ready. Or maybe you were not yet ready.

This is the story of how losing everything led me back to the earth. And back to myself.

The Leap

From 2021 to 2023, I made the kind of decisions that terrify most people.

I quit my job of seven years. I got rid of 80% of my belongings. I moved across the country with no formal job lined up. Just my retreat business that I had been nurturing for over six years at that point.

It felt wild. It felt aligned. It felt like I was finally saying yes to the vision I had been holding for so long.

I believed in what I was building. I believed in gathering women in nature. I believed in the transformative power of slowing down, of reconnecting, of remembering who we are when we strip away the noise.

And for a while, it worked.

*Astrology & Past Life Healing Retreat 2021- Sedona*

When It All Fell Apart

Towards the end of 2023, my business took a big hit financially.

I found myself thousands of dollars in debt. The retreats I had poured my heart into were not filling the way they used to. The income I needed to sustain my life was not coming in. And I could no longer keep up with my own wild visionary plans.

It was humbling. It was heartbreaking. It was one of the hardest seasons of my life.

I had to learn how to let go of my own crazy dreams. I had to step back into a reality I had tried so hard to escape. Even when every part of me was so determined to make it happen.

Sometimes the vision breaks. Not because you failed. But because there is something deeper waiting for you on the other side.

*Astrology & Past Life Healing Retreat 2021 - Oregon*

The Unexpected Detour

In 2024, I took a break.

I got a job working with at risk youth. And I was pregnant.

Every day, I showed up to work with teenage boys who had come from all over the country. Boys who had been in the trenches of substance abuse. Boys who had seen more trauma than most adults will ever know. Many of them were struggling with fentanyl. Many of them felt like they had no place in this world.

I sat with them. I mentored them. I witnessed their depletion of hope up close.

It was heavy work. But it cracked something open in me.

*Hiking with At Risk Teen Boys in the woods of the PNW*

The Realization

After two years of working with those boys and birthing my own son, something became crystal clear.

One of the most important values I hold is getting kids outside.

Seeing how disconnected the younger generations are from nature pulled at something deep in my chest. These kids did not know how to be still. They did not know how to regulate without a screen or a substance. They had never felt the quiet power of sitting beneath a tree or watching a fire burn down to embers.

And I realized this disconnection was not just happening with at risk youth. It was happening everywhere. In our homes. In our families. In the way we raise our children.

We have forgotten that the earth is our greatest teacher. Our greatest healer. Our greatest regulator.

The Pivot

So I created Wild Nest.

Wild Nest is a safe space for mamas and their babies or children to return to nature. Even if just for a weekend.

It is not about being an expert camper. It is not about having all the gear or knowing all the skills. It is about remembering that we belong outside. That our children belong outside. That something shifts when we let the land hold us.

If you have been feeling the pull to bring your little ones into nature but you do not know where to start, this is for you.

You can join us March 6th through 9th in Texas. We are filling up.

Your support of Wild Nest also helps to fund a Nature School project we have been quietly creating behind the scenes for almost two years now. It is one of those dreams that feels too big to talk about. But it is growing. Slowly. Rooted.

The Full Circle

Here is what I did not expect.

After ten years of my own wild soulful missions of bringing people together. After trying so many different models. After failing and rebuilding and failing again.

Somewhere along the way, I realized this was not just about retreats. It was not just about nature. It was not even just about motherhood.

It was about how women hold vision for their lives. For their families. For the future they are quietly building.

It was about learning how to lead and create and sustain something meaningful without abandoning yourself in the process.

That clarity hit me like a wave.

Her Vision

So I created Her Vision.

Her Vision is a four month Sacred Impact mentorship for the experienced woman who wants to create, lead, and build something meaningful without abandoning herself in the process.

It is for the founder, creative, practitioner, facilitator, retreat leader, or community builder who already carries experience, ideas, and a vision she cannot leave alone. She does not need another business formula. She needs the clarity, capacity, leadership, and structure to recognize what is truly hers and bring it into form.

We begin beneath the strategy.

We look at the nervous system responses, identities, subconscious beliefs, and patterns shaping how you relate to visibility, money, responsibility, receiving, and growth. We separate authentic desire from trends, expectations, and everything you have been conditioned to believe you should create.

Then we build the practical container around what remains.

Together, we develop your offer, project, gathering, or business direction. We work with your framework, positioning, pricing, boundaries, messaging, systems, and the decisions required to make your vision real and sustainable.

This founding circle is intentionally limited to four women. Over four months, you will receive two group mentorship sessions each month, one private session with me each month, guided support, the Sacred Impact Field Guide, and a personalized roadmap for the next six to twelve months of your work.

This is not about forcing the old vision back to life.

It is about listening closely enough to understand what the breaking was trying to show you and building what comes next from a more honest foundation.

An Invitation

If you are reading this and something is stirring in you, I want you to know that the broken vision is not the end of your story.

Sometimes the dream has to die so something truer can be born.

Sometimes you have to lose everything to discover what actually matters.

Sometimes the detour is the path.

I do not know where you are in your journey right now. Maybe you are in the middle of the breaking. Maybe you are standing on the other side, trying to understand what comes next. Maybe you are carrying a vision that feels too big and too tender to speak out loud.

Wherever you are, you are not alone.

The earth is still here. Your body is still here. Your vision is still here, even if it looks different from what you originally imagined.

Her Vision begins in January 2027.

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I would love to walk with you as you bring this next chapter into form.

With love,

Andrea

When the Vision Breaks: How Losing Everything Led Me Back to the Earth (and Myself)