St. Brieux's Amanda Perrot will host Step Up, Speak Up: A four week online retreat in November. (Facebook/Grounded Goodness)

By Angie Rolheiser

Step Up, Speak Up

Online retreat will focus on helping women speak up and use their voice

Oct 23, 2020 | 2:56 PM

A book author and business owner from St. Brieux is hosting an online retreat for women in November.

Amanda Perrot who is known for her in-person events for women will be facilitating the retreat.

“I think 2020 has been really difficult for a lot of women and has put a lot of pressure on women, in terms of taking care of their kids from home,” Perrot said. “I think we are getting to the point where women want something for themselves.”

Perrot began her decal and t-shirt business Grounded Goodness five years ago. That business expanded into in-person live events which eventually spanned over the province known as the Saskatchewan Sisterhood tour.

Perrot wrote her book 47 days: A Journey Back Home, from her experiences from the Saskatchewan Sisterhood road-trip around the province two years ago.

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“Since then, I have been sort of hibernating and looking for the next evolution of Grounded Goodness,” Perrot said. “With COVID, we have been pushed into doing virtual events.”

Step up, Speak up is a four week retreat that will be held over Zoom on Wednesday nights.

“I’m really excited to dive in with a small group of women to show up and see what they need and help to speak up and use their voice,” Perrot said.

The events that Perrot has held over the years, typically bring out women who she refers to as ‘recovering people pleasers.’

“Women that have been taught to be kind and to be nice but as a result we tend to silence ourselves because it is easier,” Perrot said. “That was me for the first 30 years of my life so I want to help women to navigate that.”

The retreat will focus on helping those women to intentionally create their lives moving forward.

Registrations are limited for the retreat and are being taken on the grounded goodness website.

“We are all still craving connection and maybe even more so now because we haven’t had it in a long time,” Perrot said.

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