MERIT Presents: Health Gossip x STARGIRL Day Retreat

A recap of Saturday.

Last weekend, about 25 of us gathered for the Health Gossip x STARGIRL day retreat, hosted in collaboration with MERIT Beauty.

I first connected with Emma Glenn Baker of STARGIRL last year, after our respective appearances on each other’s platforms (you may remember her Health Gossip interview, or my STARGIRL episode). We realized how much our audiences overlap, and throwing an event together felt like the natural next step.

It was truly such an honor to meet you all and celebrate the spirit of our projects. As the first retreat that either of us had thrown, it quickly exceeded our (…already high) expectations. We shared our daily routines, learned new practices to carry home (Eyren Powell’s lymph massage, Supriya Jein’s sky body meditation), and walked away with goodies from Earth Archive, VanMan, Pro Mix, MERIT, and more… along with a custom flower essence blend, created in a workshop led by Amanda Fortini.

(Listen to the audio below for a taste of what led Amanda to this medicine, which you can also read about in her “Remedies” column for County Highway.)

Here are some more highlights, captured by Angela Cabarios and Marco de Acetis.

See you at the next one?