Married Couples Retreat in California, Made Private: Just the Two of You at The Glass House

Invaluable skills I will carry with me for the rest of my life

I am so grateful to PIVOT and what it’s brought to my life- perspective, clarity, a road to peace. I came to PIVOT lost, confused about myself, my relationship, and my family. I wanted to blow up my life and didn’t know where to go from there. Pausing and learning how to take stalk of myself has given me invaluable skills I will carry with me the rest of my life; incredible tools to be a more grounded, peaceful, clear-headed person. I feel much more empowered to move through the challenges of being a human being in a modern and chaotic world. My coach, Jean, was matched specifically to me, and she guided me through this beautiful, thoughtful, individualized program with incredible compassion, intelligence, and clarity. I’m so thankful, and have recommended PIVOT to anyone who will listen- you won’t regret it!

‒ Celeste

I truly feel transformed after that 5-day retreat

I tell other people’s stories for a living through a podcast that I run with authors and through the interviews I run for leading brands. What I didn’t realize until I attended a Glass House retreat was that the story I really needed to uncork was my own. Over five days at The Glass House, I reconnected with my inner child, rediscovered my teenage self, and identified the repairs I needed to make so I could become a healthy adult. I cried hard, laughed harder, and now know what my non-negotiables are for my marital relationship.

Most importantly, while I have felt unseen for most of my life, I embrace that I now truly am the writer of my own story. In short, I matter. Believing this has helped me show up differently in the relationship I have with my spouse, my friends and family, my clients, and myself.

Words cannot express the gratitude I feel for the Pivot team as well as for the other men I spent the week with. I truly feel transformed after that 5-day retreat, much more so than after being in individual therapy for over two years.

‒ Mike Carlon

L.I.F.E. C.H.A.N.G.E.

I think one of the easiest ways for me to say what Pivot means to me is to explain what life was like without Pivot. Too much of the same old fights and not understanding each other as a couple (Read: resentments, bitterness, hurt, lack of connection, sense of being incomplete) Feeling hopeless in my primary relationships. Feeling misunderstood and unseen by those around me. Lack of my own self-understanding as to why I feel the way I do sometimes and what to do about it to help change it.

Pivot resolved (read: changed for the good) ALL of that. Now my partner and I have a much deeper connection, high trust and commitment, more openness and shared dreams. Before we lived as "Semi's" (Without even knowing it) and now we have steadily experienced being a "Good" for each other and with a little wine, etc. we have even experienced the rare and magical event of truly being one another's "Inner." Less fights, more laughs. Less fear, more joy.

As for parenting I have far less need to over-step in my kids' lives and instead just show up and enjoy their presence in my life. If they need me to put on my Wise Elder hat and help them through something, I am happy to do that but am just about as happy not to do that, too. This is a HUGE change for me. I used to worry incessantly about them and over-involve myself in their worlds.

‒ Cindy