THE STORY WITHIN: A Healing Retreat for Professionals (November 7-8)
🌿 The Story Within: A Retreat for Helpers
You ask it every day:
“Who is this human before me?”
You listen deeply. You hold space. You help others feel seen, heard, and known.
Who makes you feel seen, heard and known…
Have you lost touch with your own story?
As therapists, medical professionals, social workers, and caregivers, we carry the weight of others’ trauma — often at the expense of our own healing. Time for self-care feels scarce. Therapy feels indulgent. And yet, your story matters too.
What if you gave yourself one weekend?
The Story Within is a neuroscience-informed, somatically grounded retreat designed specifically for professionals in the healing fields — a space to reconnect with your body, your story, and your sense of self in the company of others who understand what it’s like to care for others every day.
🧠What You’ll Experience
Nervous system restoration grounded in Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, and Interpersonal Neurobiology
Experiential practices to help you process your own story
Safe connection with a community of like-minded professionals
Insights you can carry back into your life and your work
Whether you’re feeling burnt out, emotionally numb, or just craving a deeper connection with your narrative, this retreat offers the space to pause and ask:
Who am I beneath the roles I carry?
đź’¬ Why We Created This Retreat
At 14 Peaks Counseling, our mission is simple:
To help you feel seen, heard, and known.
We do this by asking, “Who is this human before me?”
This retreat is your turn to be that human.
Much of how we show up in the world — how we react, connect, protect, or withdraw — isn’t random. It’s rooted in the stories we’ve lived. Our nervous systems remembers. Neuroscience shows that when we begin to understand the stories written in our bodies and brains, we can start to see why we respond the way we do. Why we withdraw, why we panic, why we feel overwhelmed or numb.
Dr. Dan Siegel teaches that the way we make sense of our own stories is one of the strongest predictors of how we will parent. This is why understanding our own narrative is so critical to our work as healers.
Your Story is not just in your Mind.
What if it’s in your stomachache, your startle reflex, your need to retreat when things get loud?
Ask yourself…
- Do you flinch when someone enters the room unexpectedly?
- Does being in a crowd make you want to disappear?
- Does your body ache with no medical cause?
- Do you feel defensive when asked simple questions?
- Do raised voices send you into hiding?
These aren’t flaws—they are clues: defensive accommodations and messages from your nervous system that learned how to survive. Within these messages lies a roadmap to healing.
At The Story Within Retreat, we offer an intensive, concentrated weekend designed specifically for those in helping professions. It’s like receiving multiple therapy sessions rolled into one, providing a deep dive into your own healing journey. We will guide you through:
- Polyvagal Theory to understand your states of regulation and defensive accommodations.
- Somatic Experiencing to listen to your body’s story and integrate its messages.
- Interpersonal Neurobiology to reconnect your brain, body, and relationships.
- Attachment Theory to uncover how you learned to connect — or protect.
In a safe and supportive space, you’ll experience the equivalent of multiple therapy sessions in one weekend, allowing you to:
- Develop a Trauma Timeline that brings clarity to how your story unfolded.
- Create a Somatic Map to understand how emotion is stored in your body.
- Recognize your Polyvagal States and learn how to shift from survival responses to safety.
- Explore Family Roles and how they shaped your nervous system.
- Gain insight into your Attachment Style and how it impacts your relationships.
- Craft a Somatic Narrative that gives voice to the body’s experience.
- Integrate a Story of Healing, grounded in neuroscience.
This weekend will give you the time and space to do your own work—to process, regulate, and heal in a way that’s often hard to achieve when you’re constantly helping others. You’ll experience a concentrated, healing environment where you can connect with your own story and with others who share the same mission of serving others—and who now recognize the need to care for themselves.
Join us for The Story Within—a healing retreat for those in the helping professions—where you’ll receive the benefits of a therapeutic narrative in one transformative weekend.
YOUR STORY MATTERS. LET’S MAKE TIME TO LISTEN.
🌿 The Story Within: A Retreat for Helpers
You ask it every day:
“Who is this human before me?”
You listen deeply. You hold space. You help others feel seen, heard, and known.
Who makes you feel seen, heard and known…
Have you lost touch with your own story?
As therapists, medical professionals, social workers, and caregivers, we carry the weight of others’ trauma — often at the expense of our own healing. Time for self-care feels scarce. Therapy feels indulgent. And yet, your story matters too.
What if you gave yourself one weekend?
The Story Within is a neuroscience-informed, somatically grounded retreat designed specifically for professionals in the healing fields — a space to reconnect with your body, your story, and your sense of self in the company of others who understand what it’s like to care for others every day.
🧠What You’ll Experience
Nervous system restoration grounded in Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, and Interpersonal Neurobiology
Experiential practices to help you process your own story
Safe connection with a community of like-minded professionals
Insights you can carry back into your life and your work
Whether you’re feeling burnt out, emotionally numb, or just craving a deeper connection with your narrative, this retreat offers the space to pause and ask:
Who am I beneath the roles I carry?
đź’¬ Why We Created This Retreat
At 14 Peaks Counseling, our mission is simple:
To help you feel seen, heard, and known.
We do this by asking, “Who is this human before me?”
This retreat is your turn to be that human.
Much of how we show up in the world — how we react, connect, protect, or withdraw — isn’t random. It’s rooted in the stories we’ve lived. Our nervous systems remembers. Neuroscience shows that when we begin to understand the stories written in our bodies and brains, we can start to see why we respond the way we do. Why we withdraw, why we panic, why we feel overwhelmed or numb.
Dr. Dan Siegel teaches that the way we make sense of our own stories is one of the strongest predictors of how we will parent. This is why understanding our own narrative is so critical to our work as healers.
Your Story is not just in your Mind.
What if it’s in your stomachache, your startle reflex, your need to retreat when things get loud?
Ask yourself…
- Do you flinch when someone enters the room unexpectedly?
- Does being in a crowd make you want to disappear?
- Does your body ache with no medical cause?
- Do you feel defensive when asked simple questions?
- Do raised voices send you into hiding?
These aren’t flaws—they are clues: defensive accommodations and messages from your nervous system that learned how to survive. Within these messages lies a roadmap to healing.
At The Story Within Retreat, we offer an intensive, concentrated weekend designed specifically for those in helping professions. It’s like receiving multiple therapy sessions rolled into one, providing a deep dive into your own healing journey. We will guide you through:
- Polyvagal Theory to understand your states of regulation and defensive accommodations.
- Somatic Experiencing to listen to your body’s story and integrate its messages.
- Interpersonal Neurobiology to reconnect your brain, body, and relationships.
- Attachment Theory to uncover how you learned to connect — or protect.
In a safe and supportive space, you’ll experience the equivalent of multiple therapy sessions in one weekend, allowing you to:
- Develop a Trauma Timeline that brings clarity to how your story unfolded.
- Create a Somatic Map to understand how emotion is stored in your body.
- Recognize your Polyvagal States and learn how to shift from survival responses to safety.
- Explore Family Roles and how they shaped your nervous system.
- Gain insight into your Attachment Style and how it impacts your relationships.
- Craft a Somatic Narrative that gives voice to the body’s experience.
- Integrate a Story of Healing, grounded in neuroscience.
This weekend will give you the time and space to do your own work—to process, regulate, and heal in a way that’s often hard to achieve when you’re constantly helping others. You’ll experience a concentrated, healing environment where you can connect with your own story and with others who share the same mission of serving others—and who now recognize the need to care for themselves.
Join us for The Story Within—a healing retreat for those in the helping professions—where you’ll receive the benefits of a therapeutic narrative in one transformative weekend.
YOUR STORY MATTERS. LET’S MAKE TIME TO LISTEN.
🌿 The Story Within: A Retreat for Helpers
You ask it every day:
“Who is this human before me?”
You listen deeply. You hold space. You help others feel seen, heard, and known.
Who makes you feel seen, heard and known…
Have you lost touch with your own story?
As therapists, medical professionals, social workers, and caregivers, we carry the weight of others’ trauma — often at the expense of our own healing. Time for self-care feels scarce. Therapy feels indulgent. And yet, your story matters too.
What if you gave yourself one weekend?
The Story Within is a neuroscience-informed, somatically grounded retreat designed specifically for professionals in the healing fields — a space to reconnect with your body, your story, and your sense of self in the company of others who understand what it’s like to care for others every day.
🧠What You’ll Experience
Nervous system restoration grounded in Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, and Interpersonal Neurobiology
Experiential practices to help you process your own story
Safe connection with a community of like-minded professionals
Insights you can carry back into your life and your work
Whether you’re feeling burnt out, emotionally numb, or just craving a deeper connection with your narrative, this retreat offers the space to pause and ask:
Who am I beneath the roles I carry?
đź’¬ Why We Created This Retreat
At 14 Peaks Counseling, our mission is simple:
To help you feel seen, heard, and known.
We do this by asking, “Who is this human before me?”
This retreat is your turn to be that human.
Much of how we show up in the world — how we react, connect, protect, or withdraw — isn’t random. It’s rooted in the stories we’ve lived. Our nervous systems remembers. Neuroscience shows that when we begin to understand the stories written in our bodies and brains, we can start to see why we respond the way we do. Why we withdraw, why we panic, why we feel overwhelmed or numb.
Dr. Dan Siegel teaches that the way we make sense of our own stories is one of the strongest predictors of how we will parent. This is why understanding our own narrative is so critical to our work as healers.
Your Story is not just in your Mind.
What if it’s in your stomachache, your startle reflex, your need to retreat when things get loud?
Ask yourself…
- Do you flinch when someone enters the room unexpectedly?
- Does being in a crowd make you want to disappear?
- Does your body ache with no medical cause?
- Do you feel defensive when asked simple questions?
- Do raised voices send you into hiding?
These aren’t flaws—they are clues: defensive accommodations and messages from your nervous system that learned how to survive. Within these messages lies a roadmap to healing.
At The Story Within Retreat, we offer an intensive, concentrated weekend designed specifically for those in helping professions. It’s like receiving multiple therapy sessions rolled into one, providing a deep dive into your own healing journey. We will guide you through:
- Polyvagal Theory to understand your states of regulation and defensive accommodations.
- Somatic Experiencing to listen to your body’s story and integrate its messages.
- Interpersonal Neurobiology to reconnect your brain, body, and relationships.
- Attachment Theory to uncover how you learned to connect — or protect.
In a safe and supportive space, you’ll experience the equivalent of multiple therapy sessions in one weekend, allowing you to:
- Develop a Trauma Timeline that brings clarity to how your story unfolded.
- Create a Somatic Map to understand how emotion is stored in your body.
- Recognize your Polyvagal States and learn how to shift from survival responses to safety.
- Explore Family Roles and how they shaped your nervous system.
- Gain insight into your Attachment Style and how it impacts your relationships.
- Craft a Somatic Narrative that gives voice to the body’s experience.
- Integrate a Story of Healing, grounded in neuroscience.
This weekend will give you the time and space to do your own work—to process, regulate, and heal in a way that’s often hard to achieve when you’re constantly helping others. You’ll experience a concentrated, healing environment where you can connect with your own story and with others who share the same mission of serving others—and who now recognize the need to care for themselves.
Join us for The Story Within—a healing retreat for those in the helping professions—where you’ll receive the benefits of a therapeutic narrative in one transformative weekend.
YOUR STORY MATTERS. LET’S MAKE TIME TO LISTEN.
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People in the helping field such as those individuals whose work is dedicated to supporting the emotional, physical, psychological, social, or spiritual well-being of others. Common roles include:
Mental Health & Counseling
* Therapists (LPC, LMFT, LCSW, Psychologists)
* School counselors
* Psychiatrists
* Social workers
* Substance abuse counselors
* Peer support specialists
* Case managers
Medical & Health Care
* Nurses (RNs, NPs)
* Doctors (MDs, DOs)
* Physician assistants
* Occupational therapists
* Physical therapists
* Speech-language pathologists
* Hospice workers
* Midwives
Spiritual & Pastoral Care
* Clergy (pastors, priests, rabbis, imams)
* Chaplains
* Spiritual directors
Human & Social Services
* Child welfare workers
* Nonprofit staff
*Domestic violence advocates
*Outreach Coordinators
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14 Peaks Neurophysiological Trauma Treatment
721 Ranch House Rd. Building B
Willow Park, TX 76087
313-314-7325
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Phone: 313-314-7325
Email: info@14peaksinc.com
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Tuition for the weekend retreat is normally $1000 and includes all materials, light refreshments, and Dr. Dunkins book YOUR STORY. For those in the helping field we reduce the price to $750 as our way of giving back.
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This retreat is led by Dr. Dunkin PysD, LPC, SEP and her senior staff. To read about Dr. Dunkin and her staff please go to the Meet the Team page.