What Women Are Actually Getting Out of Those Menopause Retreats
Self Magazine | 24.01.2026 00:00
Bobbing in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of a resort in Todos Santos, Mexico, a circle of women marvel at the colorful fish. Between whooshing waves, they chat about a wellspring of deeply personal topics, like challenges with intimacy or the parts of themselves they fear or have pushed down in service of others, their faces warm with kindness. You’d be forgiven for mistaking them as longtime friends. But they’re actually near-strangers, women who’d met a couple days prior on a menopause retreat called Emergence hosted by intimacy coach and somatic therapist Zoë Kors.