EMOTIONAL WELLNESS RETREAT
Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
Discover the whole-body healing system that addresses what’s actually keeping you stuck and how to reset it in as little as 7 days…
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A Whole Person Healing
We deep dive into healing your inner wounds, restoring your health, and empowering you to live fully again.
Our 7-, 14-, or 21-day Emotional Wellness Health Restoration Retreats work with the entire you: your body, mind, and soul, simultaneously, to help you not to merely cope, but to bring back your happy self from the inside out.
Individual Healing Path™
Whether you’re carrying grief, anxiety, old trauma, or just the heaviness of feeling lost, this is where real healing begins. Using more than 40 restorative therapies and 30 integrated healing protocols, we design a plan that helps you release what’s been weighing you down and rebuild from the inside out.
Safe Space to Process Emotions
We use gentle, deep-healing methods that do not force you to repeatedly relive trauma. Our one-on-one sessions take place in a supportive environment where you can unpack underlying patterns, release stuck emotions and rebuild healthy boundaries without judgement.
Healing Mind through the Body
At Fresh Start, we understand that every cell in your body is exhausted and yearns for love. This is why you start your journey here with extensive rest and relaxation, assisted by body and energy therapies, such as:
Experienced Team
The Fresh Start multi-disciplinary team has an average combined experience of 20 years and includes:
What Our Guests Are Saying…
Guests often report feeling calmer, sleeping better, and having more energy after the program.
What Our Guests Are Saying…
Guests often report feeling calmer, sleeping better, and having more energy after the program.
Our Healing Modalities
We use Personalized therapies that calm your nervous system, clear your mind, and rebuild your body for lasting change. Expect faster relief, better sleep, improved mood, reduced cravings, and habits you can keep.
Custom Healing Protocols™
Custom, data-backed protocols built from 40+ therapies and 30+ organ-focused cleanses target your priorities, accelerate change, and keep improvements consistent throughout your stay.
Professional Assessments
Comprehensive pre-program assessments drive the creation of your individualized healing plan, while detailed post-program evaluations measure your progress and ensure long-term success after your stay.
Emotional Wellness Services
Ensures you have all the tools you need to process stress, rewire patterns, and sustain breakthroughs, making the mental health retreat transformative. Results or guests often report.
Brain & Cellular Reprogramming
Targeted massage sequences and neurosomatic techniques calm the nervous system, improve circulation, and support cellular renewal, easing tension while sharpening focus & overall resilience.
Energy Balancing Support
Gentle, non-invasive methods like Reiki, Shiatsu, and craniosacral work rebalance your system, settle stress, and lift mood for deeper sleep, steadier energy, and clear emotional focus.
Localized Hydrotherapy
Focused hot and cold treatments and therapeutic inhalations stimulate circulation, reduce inflammation, clear sinus and foot congestion, and refresh tired muscles for quick relief and lasting comfort.
Muscular-Skeletal Services
Precision bodywork improves alignment and mobility, releases chronic tension, and retrains movement patterns so you feel lighter, move better, and stay active without recurring pain
Advancing Body Cleansing
Supervised wellness services like colon hydrotherapy, halotherapy, infrared sauna, and ionic foot baths ease organ burden, bloat, and cravings while boosting energy and skin clarity.
Naturopathic Services
Licensed ND consults personalize your plan, coordinating supplements and injections while adjusting medications to ensure your progress remains safe, effective, and aligned with your health goals.
Is This Retreat Right For You?
This is for you if:
This is NOT for you if:
Location & Dates
Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
7-Day Retreat
14-Day Retreat
21-Day Retreat
Choose Your Stay
- The total program cost consists of TWO numbers:
- Program rate – year around rate is the same. (Paid to Fresh Start)
- Accommodation rate – Ocean Resort rates are seasonal and are subject to the type of room and booking policy. (Paid to Ocean Resort).
Financing Available
Option 1: 0% financing is available with payment plans from 4–12 months.
Option 2: Low long term payments through MediCard
Accomodations
Paid Separately to Ocean Resort
We have a block of the best rooms at the Ocean Resort.
Once you’ve registered with Fresh Start, we’ll notify Ocean Resort and you’ll be able to book the room at preferred rates.
Ocean Resort vary by room type and season. E.g. Ocean View, No View or Pet Friendly Suites.
More From Our Guests…
Guests often report feeling calmer, sleeping better, and having more energy after the program.
“I learned to live alongside the grief instead of letting it consume me! I have hope for my future, that the grief I have is just love with nowhere to go, instead of punishing myself.”
“Now I catch my reflection and think, wow, look at that glow. I see the smile again. I used to avoid mirrors and photos. Today I start my day happy with what I see and how I feel, and that lifts every interaction that follows.”
“Counseling here felt like ten years of therapy in ninety minutes. I had seen many therapists; this one broke everything down, helped me process and compartmentalize my trauma, and gave me a clear plan.
For the first time in five or six years, I feel genuinely well”
“I arrived after days of nonstop tears, hiding them from my kids on the school run. The pain felt endless and I could not let go.
Working with the therapists, staying positive, and following the program lifted the weight. I feel lighter now. I feel free.”
“Fresh Start used counseling I had never tried and the breakthroughs were real. In 21 days, neck pain disappeared. Joints and spine improved. Energy returned.
I can breathe freely. The counsellor and group support changed me into a hopeful, equipped version of myself.”
“Anger ruled me because I did not understand what was happening inside. Three weeks focused on body, mind, and spirit opened me to new practices, self-love, and a more positive lens.
Now when anger rises, I pause and ask what I am truly feeling. Often the root is sadness, worry, or fear. Naming the real emotion diffuses the fire. I can meet myself with understanding instead of rage.”
“I carried heavy guilt after losing my wife, mourning the plans we made and the moments she would miss with our grandkids. I learned to face that guilt and work with what remains. I know myself better. Rather than battling the pieces of my grief, I understand them and live alongside them. I can honor her legacy and move forward.”
“Before coming here I felt lost, like I had no place in the world. Worthless kept echoing in my head. I am leaving with real self-confidence, a sense of worth, and the feeling that I belong.
The calm environment, caring staff, and thoughtful Program Directors made it feel like a second home where healing is possible and you are truly taken care of.”
“Facing the truth of repeated, violent childhood abuse was brutal, even as a healer.
I fully processed what happened and chose not to live as a by-product of it. My nervous system settled, adrenals tested normal, energy and sleep returned.
I feel resilient again and can meet challenges without breaking.”
Frequently Asked Questions
You will leave with an end-of-stay assessment and continuation plan. There is also optional post-program support where guests opt to continue working with their Emotional Wellness Specialist on an as-needed basis.
No. Unlike some rehabilitation and treatment centers, Fresh Start does not use circles. All emotional wellness appointments and therapies are conducted one-on-one. We do conduct a group ice-breaker on arrival as guests get to know each other. At Fresh Start, we always respect your privacy.
Most guests invest privately, as insurance rarely covers holistic retreats. Some extended plans may reimburse specific services (such as counselling or naturopathic sessions). Many participants view this as an investment in health and quality of life, offsetting years of ongoing medical and therapy costs.
Every guest receives a personalised Individual Healing Path™ in addition to the Core Program. This may include 1-on-1 counselling, body therapies, detox treatments, acupuncture, or energy balancing chosen specifically for you. Over 40 therapies and 30 organ-specific protocols are available.
That’s common. The program focuses first on stabilising your emotional wellness and nervous system. Once those are improved, secondary goals like weight loss or medication management can be addressed in future visits. Trying to tackle everything at once can overwhelm the body, so the retreat uses a prioritised, phased approach.
– Persistent low moods, excessive worrying, trauma, effects of past traumatic experiences, grief, caregiver burnout.
– Emotional eating, substance reliance (social alcohol, vaping, smoking, marijuana).
– Stress, insomnia, adrenal fatigue, hormonal imbalance.
– Physical issues linked to emotional stress: digestive problems, blood pressure, nervous system regulation.
Guests often arrive with multiple concerns, and the program prioritises what can be worked on safely during your stay.
Your care is provided by a multi-disciplinary team: nurse psychotherapists, trauma-informed counsellors, naturopathic doctors, acupuncturists, massage therapists, energy practitioners, and wellness coaches. Each has years of professional experience. The program has been running successfully for over 20 years and has served more than 2,500 guests.
Fresh Start is a comprehensive healing program that combines evidence-based emotional wellness counselling, naturopathic support, energy work, and physical therapies. You’ll have structured daily routines, organic plant-based meals, and one-on-one sessions that target root causes.
Your Emotional Wellness Retreat Will Be a Life-Changing Experience
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