Fall Women's Retreat

Joy Trachsel Ministry Team, Certified Mental Health Coach, Certified Premarital Prepare/Enrich Program Facilitator Joy graduated from Mary Baldwin College with a degree in Business Administration. She has also done graduate studies at Trinity Evangelical School of Divinity. Joy has served over 10 years in the non-profit arena focusing on women in poverty and crisis. She has been speaking to women for over 15 years both nationally and internationally at women's events and can be heard on Moody Radio – Cleveland (WCRF) as part of the Pause For Prayer Team. She is also the author of The Great Cover-Up, a book that inspires women to say YES to God. Joy is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors and a Certified Mental Health Coach. She is also a certified Prepare/Enrich program facilitator for enagaged couples seeking premaritial counseling. She has a passion for working with women that are feeling trapped by anxiety and depression and watching them be set free in Jesus.

Tina Farist Ministry Team, Story Coach, Spiritual Director & Certified Trauma-Informed Yoga Instructor Tina believes that healing and wholeness can be found by integrating mind, body, and spirit through mindfulness, movement, and story. She is passionate about seeing women reconnect with their bodies, releasing trauma to find freedom and wholeness. By combining her Narrative Focused Trauma Care Training through The Allender Center at The Seattle School of Psychology and Theology with her Somatic Trauma Therapy, Trauma Informed Yoga and Spiritual Direction Certification, Tina will journey alongside you on your path to healing. She will guide you into compassionate self-care; through breath, prayer, and mindfulness practices, bear witness to your story with honor, and hold space as you discover God’s movement throughout your life. Tina sees herself as a spiritual midwife for women as they witness their bodies, spirits and souls and allow for the Spirit to move in all three. She offers Individual Spiritual Direction and both Individual & Group Story Work and Movement Classes. In person and virtual. Tina has also partnered with RAHAB Ministries since 2016, bringing movement and prayer to survivors of human trafficking. Education & Training: Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate, Embody Lab, 2022 Narrative Focused Trauma Care, Levels I-III, Allender Center, 2019 - 2023 Spiritual Director, Sustainable Faith, 2020-2022 Integrative Prayer and Counsel, Free to Be, 2021 Trauma Informed Yoga, Holy Yoga, 2017 International Ministries, Moody Bible Institute, 1994

Laura Brenner Prayer and Counsel and Somatic Ministry Team, Bowen Technique Facilitator Laura is a women's ministry leader, National Certified Bowen Practitioner, and a trained staff member of Free to Be. Laura graduated from Mount Vernon Nazarene University and started her career teaching elementary school. She later went on to receive a Master of Arts in Ministerial Studies with Women’s Leadership Concentration from Grace Seminary in 2020. She now works at Grace Church as a leader in women’s spiritual leadership support. She has completed the Free to Be Ministries Integrative training as well. "Through my own life experiences and journey, the Lord has fostered in me a desire to help other women find hope and healing through holistic means. I believe in God’s power to restore and redeem all aspects of our lives in this broken and fallen world. By focusing on all areas of our health – mental, emotional, physical and spiritual – I believe we can become all we were created to be in Jesus. I find joy and purpose in encouraging and helping others become and remain healthy."