Join us at The Retreat for a conversation, book signing, and sound healing experience centered around rewriting the stories we tell about ourselves.
We are honored and excited to host an evening dedicated to women empowerment and personal transformation, featuring a Q&A with Sara Hirsh Bordo, the author of Autoimmunity and the Good Girls. This intimate gathering invites you into an honest conversation about healing, self-permission, and reclaiming your voice, followed by a soothing sound healing experience designed to help you release, restore, and reconnect with yourself. Whether you’re navigating your own healing journey or simply craving space to put yourself first, this evening offers community, insight, and rejuvenation — a reminder that your wellbeing deserves the same devotion you give everyone else.
Your admission to the event is your pre-purchased book. You may purchase locally in Austin at Book People, on Amazon, or anywhere you purchase books. Books will not be sold at the event.
All are welcome to stop in to meet Sara, have your book signed, and to join in on the conversation! However, admission to the free sound bath event will be on a first come-first serve basis… and we highly suggest reserving your spot at the link below.
Event Schedule:
6:00 PM • Book Signing & Mingling
6:30 PM • Conversation & Audience Q&A
7:15 PM • Community Circle & Sound Bath
8:00 PM • ClosingThe Book: Autoimmunity and the Good Girls is an Amazon bestseller that has captured national attention, with features in Oprah Daily, Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper, and Psychology Today, plus mentions on SiriusXM and in candid conversations with Dr. Gabor Maté and Liz Moody — as well as an appearance on Monica Lewinsky’s podcast, Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky. Weaving together intimate memoir, exclusive expert interviews, evidence-based research, and real women’s stories, this paradigm-shifting book illuminates the missing modality in female wellness: the sovereign self-permission to speak up, transform, and heal.
The Author: Sara Hirsh Bordo is a first-time author and 15-time award-winning filmmaker and Founder/CEO of Women Rising®, named "One of the Most Innovative, Interesting, and Purpose-Driven Women-Led Startups to Watch” by Inc. Magazine. Sara is currently directing short documentary films for Toyota and ESPN Women, and most recently executive producer of ConnectHer International Film Festival, consulting director for the Gates Foundation PitchFest Program, and the author and researcher behind the first proprietary quantitative survey at the intersection of female empowerment and health,Autoimmunity and the Good Girls which has been downloaded in 25 countries. Sara previously held positions in media and entertainment, including Executive Director of Interactive Marketing at Paramount Pictures, VP of Digital Marketing at MGM Studios, and CEO and Co-Founder of NowLive. A native Austinite, she now lives in New Mexico, is Aunt Sissy to eleven nieces and nephews, and Godmother Sara to three godchildren.
In Sara’s Words:“For most of my life I put others first to my own detriment, physically and emotionally; at home, at work I was always ’the good girl,’ the ’people pleaser.’ But the more I abandoned myself, the more my body followed suit and I needed to understand why.
This book is my multi-year research focused on healing through a reckoning around identity and immunity, and a road map for other women like me who have found themselves sick from over-compromising themselves in service rather than in sovereignty. But this isn’t my story alone, it’s the voices of generations of good girls raised to be dutiful to others instead of true to themselves.”