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A Retired Pilot’s Honest Review of a Rainforest Trip: What I Learned About Healing at Bali Palms
By Robert, Retired airline pilot After 35 years flying commercial aircraft, I retired at 62 and immediately spiraled into depression. I didn't know who I was without the uniform. My wife, Linda, suggested therapy I refused. Then she booked me a five-day rainforest...
How a Wellness Retreat Itinerary Transformed a Skeptical Mid-Career Professional
By James K., Procurement Manager Three months ago, wellness retreat packages felt like something for Silicon Valley types with unlimited PTO or yoga influencers with matching activewear sets. As a 44-year-old procurement manager drowning in the invisible middle of...
Best Places to Stay in Bali for Men Facing Retirement: One Engineer’s Unexpected Recovery
By Trevor M, Retired Petroleum Engineer I'm a 58-year-old retired petroleum engineer who went to Bali last year because my daughter forced me to. I was six months into retirement, gained 25 pounds, and honestly thought I was sliding into depression. The last thing I...
Resorts in Bali: A Manufacturing Supervisor’s Unexpected Journey from Burnout to Balance
Three months ago, the idea of writing a review about resorts in Bali would've seemed absurd to a 48-year-old manufacturing plant supervisor from Michigan. Managing 50+ workers while delivering news about restructuring and potential layoffs, the concept of a wellness...
Finding My Way Back to Myself: How a Bali Spa Experience Transformed My Retirement
By Diane, Personal Wellness Journey One Year Later A year ago, something completely out of character happened. A solo trip to a small wellness retreat in Tabanan, Bali a place never heard of before, in a village impossible to pronounce. At the time, one year into...
Bali in December: A Professor’s Journey from Guilt to Healing (One Year Later)
By Lynn M, Community College English Professor A year ago, I almost didn't go. I had the confirmation email open on my laptop while simultaneously texting my brother about Mom's latest doctor's appointment. My finger hovered over the "cancel reservation" button for...
How Mindfulness Meditation Helped Me Rebuild My Life After Losing the Only Job I’d Ever Known
By David M. At 52 years old, getting laid off from the manufacturing company where I'd worked for sixteen years felt like losing my identity. One Tuesday morning in a conference room, sixteen years as operations manager ended in twenty minutes. For the first time in...
Business vs Busyness: A Finance Professional’s Journey from Achievement to Authentic Living
By Kei, Financial Analyst At 4:30 AM in Singapore, finishing Ashtanga practice before markets opened. Eight years of disciplined yoga, several 10-day Vipassana retreats, successful career in asset management, therapy for "high-functioning depression." Everything...
How I Finally Found a Mind and Body Retreat That Actually Worked (And I’m Someone Who Researches Everything)
By Yuki M., Senior Accountant This is being written from the airport in Denpasar, waiting for the flight back to reality, still processing the past week. As a senior accountant on the CPA partner track at a regional nonprofit firm, my life revolves around...
Healing Mind Body and Soul Through Authentic Balinese Traditions: A Child Welfare Worker’s Journey from Burnout to Balance
By Keiko, Child Welfare Social Worker Six months ago, I couldn't sit in stillness before walking into a home visit. I couldn't control the anxiety that came with every case file. As a child welfare social worker carrying eight years of vicarious trauma, I'd tried...
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