What is The Creator Retreat?

When you feel stuck in your head, gasping for inspiration, it’s time to step back and retreat. After fighting the uphill battles for too long, what your soul craves isn’t more strategy or hustle—it’s a sanctuary.

The Creator Retreat offers that sanctuary. It’s a haven where you can exhale, reconnect with yourself, access the wisdom that lives within yourself, and let your inner voice lead the way. Here, you’ll discover a welcoming community and a safe, quiet space to pause, reflect, and chart your own authentic path to “making it”—on your terms.

Tired of marketing gurus and self-help coaches telling you want to do, how to do it, and what is best for you?

• The answers lie within. The Creator Retreat offers an educational process to tug at the heart-strings of your life’s experiences, ancestral assets, and internal truths so you can know in your core the best path for you. 

You know there isn’t a quick-fix or magick-pill, and you’re sick of the “scarcity” and “urgency” of other programs.

• When it comes to creating, especially when building a soul-centered business, slow and steady wins the race. The Creator Retreat provides a slow, winding, steady (and sometimes messy) path that focuses on evolution and growth rather than goals, accomplishments, and achievements. 

You’re done listening to the “sage on the stage” and want to talk with real people who treat you like an equal and actually listen.

• When like-minded sensitive souls come together to celebrate each other, imposter syndrome and people-pleasing melts. Through a curious community approach, The Creator Retreat creates a safe space for participants to see what you cannot see in yourself by mirroring and reflecting the blooming brilliance in everyone.

You’re discouraged by the metrics & analytics of business coaches and disillusioned by woo-woo ways of self-help gurus.

• Success isn’t only about metrics and tasks; it’s also about intuition, connection, and honoring the quiet inner work that lets your creativity truly resonate. The Creator Retreat helps you balance the wisdom you feel in your bones with a measured practical strategy so you can experience a new definition of success. 

What You Get When You Join The Creator Retreat

Monthly Spiritual Inner-Work Workshops - 45min

• Through an interactive mini-lesson and deep work process, you will learn simple 5-minutes a day exercises to train your brain, body and nervous system to realistically manage your worries, anxieties, perfectionism, control, imposter syndrome, feelings of inadequacy, not-enough-ness, loneliness, self-isolation, creator’s block, catastrophizing, self-sabotage, and much much more.

• Each month, you will practice ONE simple 5-minute a day “inner work” exercise to address your deepest insecurities and challenges on a spiritual level.

Monthly Practical Outer-Action Business Workshops - 45min

• We will explore a gentle winding  path to help you find your own best way to success on Substack through consistency, commenting, relationship building, and collaboration.

• Each month you will explore ONE simple daily “outer action” business task to build your digital online publication.

Monthly Immersive Workshops with Guest Educators - 60min

• Join online creators who have found their tribe, built their business, and redefined success for themselves on Substack.

• These immersive workshops are experiential and interactive. No talking-head lectures or q&a interviews…these guest presenters will be getting in the messiness of online creation with you.

Community Support Meetings and Private Chat Threads- (cohort only)

• Work together in safe space with a small group of 15-20 committed like-minded creators.

• Meet monthly in an open forum zoom hang-out where you will have time to share your experiences, ask for support, tell your stories, and offer guidance to each other.

• Between sessions, cohort members can communicate openly on any subject on the private chat thread.

Schedule

The Creator Retreat Cohort will meet Live in Zoom 3x per month
February 27, 2025 thru December 11, 2025

REGULAR MEETINGS - Thursdays at 12pm EST

FIRST MEETING - Welcome
Thursday, February 27, 2025 12pm - 1:30pm EST

• 1st Thursday - TeriLeigh💜 & Alex🩵

• 2nd Thursday - Guest Presenter

• 3rd Thursday - Hangout with Q&A

• 4th Thursday - Small Group Mentorship Meeting

The Creator Retreat Self-Study will have access to all lessons, materials, videos, and replays within 24 hours of each live session.

Our Team

The Creator Retreat is a place where a bunch of sensitive souls come together in community to celebrate and really meet each other at the heart and soul level.

Your Retreat Guides

Teri Leigh

• Mindfulness Mentor & Aura Reader: 30+ years experience guiding sensitive souls to uncover their inner wisdom through intuitive practices and transformative self-care.

• Writer & Advocate for "Weirdness": Sharing insights on breaking free from societal norms, embracing individuality, and cultivating a heart-centered creative life.

• Educator Turned Entrepreneur: Master’s Degree in education with 10 years experience in public schools informs 20+ years of pioneering a unique blend of mindfulness, spirituality, and self-guided learning for authentic growth.

Dr. Alexander Lovell

Alex is equal parts old soul and curious wanderer, a farm boy at heart, and a writer whenever he manages to corral his ADHD. As a political psychologist, yoga therapist, and integrative coach—anchored by both research and lived experience—he delves into questions of identity, connection, and wholeness, themes that form the foundation of his Substack publication, Life as I See It.

His yoga therapy and coaching practice blends restoration, release, and renewal to help individuals access a calmer, more energetic, and joyful version of themselves. Through gentle guidance—and the occasional playful nudge—he encourages others to pause, breathe, and reflect on the stories that shape their lives. For him, the most profound shifts often begin with a single, transformative question: What if you made just a little more room for yourself?

Guest Presenters

March 2025 - Consistency

The Perfect Weekly Routine To Grow Your Substack in 2025

Tom Kuegler of Writing the Long Game, Letters with My Father, & Finding Tom

April 2025 - Slow & Steady

The Art of Letting Go: Stress, Surrender, and Creative Flow

Alexander Lovell, PhD of Life As I See It

May 2025 - Getting “Out There”

Being a Vulnerable, Fearless and Compassionate Writer

Amanda Saint of The Mindful Writer & WestWord

June 2025 - Work/Play Balance

Embracing Joy and Play in a World of Perfectionism

Sherry Taveras of Momtemplative

July 2025 - Branding Your Identity

Turn Your WEIRD Into Your Biggest ASSET

Megan Lee of Shame Sandwich

August 2025 - Engagement

Grow Your Audience through Authenticity

Alexander Lovell, PhD of Life As I See It

September 2025 - Sales & Marketing

How to Self-Promote When You Loathe Self-Promoting

Michael Thompson of shy by design & Writing to L(Earn)

October 2025 - Integrity

Write Like A Compass - Wielding Badass Leaving Haters Spinning

Beckett Johnson of Quantum Nomad

November 2025 - Define Your Success

Let Your Soul Lead Your Success

Kelly Flanagan of Humaning with Dr. Kelly Flanagan

Join The Creator Retreat

Whether you’re going through a major-life challenge and transition and looking for a sanctuary to process all the big-stuffs of life, or you’re an online creator who’s been caught in the hustle of trying to make it all work and you need a retreat to turn within, The Creator Retreat is a safe space to get in touch with your Self.

Here’s how you can join:

Creator Retreat Self-Study

Self-study workshops, lessons, and homework exercises posted 3x per month, March - December.

• 10 x Monthly 45-Min Spiritual Inner-Work Workshops

• 10 x Monthly 45-Minute Business Outer-Action Workshops

• 10 x Monthly 60-Minute Workshops with Guest Presenters

Pricing

This process is a slow and steady growth. We have intentionally chosen pricing that symbolizes ascent through the spiritual and practical aspects of life and business.

• $23.45/month

• $234.56/year

• 10 x Monthly Interactive Spiritual Inner-Work Workshops

• 10 x Monthly Immersive Business Outer-Action Workshops with Guest Presenters

• 10 x Monthly Community Open Forum Hang-out meetings 

• Private Chat Threads 

• 90-minutes (3 x 30min sessions) 1-1 private coaching with TeriLeigh

• 90-minutes (3 x 30min sessions) 1-1 private coaching with Ryan
  

Pricing

Dana means generosity.

After an initial down-payment, each month cohort members will participate in a reflective process to assess their personal process, progress, and value of the program. We will provide a suggested minimum-base-rate for monthly payments, and participants commit to paying monthly what they think the program is worth based on their own generosity, financial situation, and self-progress-assessment.

Applications for 2025 Cohort are now closed.

Bonus Workshops

Engaging with Heart

Don Boivin of Shy Guy Meets the Buddha

Testimonials

"TeriLeigh led me through a life changing journey to the true me. She made such a difference in my life in shifting the way I look at things." ~Susan

"I’m so grateful to have Teri Leigh as a mentor in my life. Her unique, detailed and powerful approach does more for me in one hour than I get from months of traditional therapy."  ~Pam

"TeriLeigh has an ability to see in the dark like an owl. She just sees everything differently, and can change your perspective almost instantly. And that changes EVERYTHING! I really really really really believe in the work she does and that it does good for everyone who works with her." ~Julie