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A guided recovery experience

 faith-intergraded, trauma-informed, and restorative.

Designed for burnout recovery, spiritual renewal, and sustainable resilience.

Each intensive Retreat at Annandale is a guided recovery experience — not a getaway. Every gathering rests on the same foundation: Christ-centered and faith-integrated spiritual direction, trauma-informed practices that help the nervous system settle, restorative and reflective rhythms, generous hospitality, and quiet engagement in the natural surroundings that allow you to finally exhale.​

 

Every element is designed to support nervous system recovery, emotional healing, spiritual renewal, and sustainable resilience.

Led by someone who has walked the road

Retreats are organized and led by Jeremy McQuown, who has spent more than fifteen years walking alongside pastors, ministry leaders, healthcare workers, social workers, and first responders in burnout recovery, sabbatical coaching, and faith-integrated counseling and care.

 

That experience shapes every hour of these retreats — how the days are paced, how safety is built into the space, and how care is offered without pressure or performance. Nothing here is improvised. It is the product of fifteen years of learning what elements of care actually help people recover and find a more sustained rhythm of life and vocation.

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What every retreat includes

  • Trauma-informed practice that supports nervous system regulation and stress recovery

  • Faith-integrated spiritual direction — prayer, Scripture, and guided reflection

  • Restorative movement and somatic-based practices, as appropriate

  • Shared meals and communal rhythm, with no obligation to perform or participate

  • Unstructured quiet — genuinely unscheduled hours, protected on purpose

  • A plan for sustainable resilience you can carry home​

Upcoming Retreats

September 28 – October 1, 2026

Set Down the Weight

You were never meant to carry it this long.

October 20 – 23, 2026

Church Planter Cohort (closed)

Private Retreat

November 9 – 11, 2026

Held in Confidence

For those who carry what no one else can know.

December 3 – 6, 2026

The Quiet Season

Advent, for the ones who usually work straight through it.

January 8 – 10, 2027

Unclenched

Learning to steward what has been entrusted to us

January 17 – 20, 2027

Still Waters

Rest your body can finally believe.

January 21 – 24, 2027

Keeping Watch

For the people who answer when the phone rings at 3 a.m.

February 21 – 24, 2027

Embers

What's left when the fire burns low is still fire.

February 25 – 28, 2027

The Ones Who Hold

For those who carry other people's worst days.

April 4 – 7, 2027

First Light

Morning comes, even for you.

April 8 – 11, 2027

Rooted

Rhythms that hold when you go back.

May 13 – 16, 2027

The Way Back

Return to your calling without returning to burnout.

You have spent years making room for everyone else. This is a place that makes room for you.
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The Retreat at Annandale is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

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