it's time.
Managing The Mental Load Retreat: Reclaim Your Energy at work and at home.
Join us for a transformative weekend in beautiful Parksville at our third annual Revive Physicians retreat that has been designed exclusively for female physicians seeking relief from the invisible weight of mental load.
Through curated experiences— thought-provoking discussions on mental load at home and work, and meaningful moments of rest—you’ll gain clarity, connection, and practical strategies to lighten the load.
Beach Club Resort | Parksville BC
October 24-26 2025
I'm in!our mission is simple: to help female identifying physicians live their best lives by supporting them to rediscover and redefine their values and gain skills to improve their lives and the systems in which they work.
"Resentment grows out of perceived unfairness."
Eve Rodsky
The Revive Retreat: Managing the Mental Load
Beach Club Resort |Parksville, British Columbia | October 24-26, 2025
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our mission
You don't have to live in a constant state of overwhelm. You have the power to define yourself on your own terms, by discovering what really matters to you and making time for it every day in both your professional and personal roles.
In our time together, we will support female identifying physicians to recognize, manage and reduce their mental load in both their personal and professional lives while reclaiming time & energy for creativity and fulfilment in the following ways:
⭐️ Increase Awareness: Support you to identify the components of mental load in your life and understand its impact on your well-being, relationships and professional effectiveness.
⭐️ Develop Practical Strategies: Provide you with tools & techniques to have an approach to redistribute the mental load, set boundaries and streamline responsibilities in your personal and clinical lives.
⭐️ Cultivate Personal Fulfillment: Support you to identify your creative passions and personal goals, creating space for "Unicorn Time" and meaningful puruits.
⭐️ Create an Action Plan: Help you develop a personalized, values-based plan to integrate rest, creativity, and balanced responsibility into your daily, weekly, and long-term routines.
Agenda: Managing the Mental Load
Day 1 | Friday, October 24, 2025
Day 2 | Saturday, October 25, 2025
Day 3 | Sunday October 26, 2025
Retreat Faculty
Jennie Aitken
Jennie Aitken works with emerging physician leaders across Canada as an educator, team builder and disruptor that is constantly looking to the next big opportunity to affect positive change in health care. She holds Masters Degrees in [Medical] History (Queen's University) and Dispute Resolution (University of Victoria) and has advanced training in change management, team building, leadership development, quality improvement and large group facilitation. Jennie is a sought-after speaker and facilitator for health care audiences across Canada.
Find her at Sofia Group
Dr. Sarah Lea
Dr. Sarah Lea is a double-board certified family and addiction medicine physician and certified executive and resilience coach. Upon completing her CEC training from Royal Roads, she took a step back from clinical medicine to support women and female-identifying physicians and healthcare professionals to thrive in life, medicine and leadership. Sarah lives with her husband, three boys and fur baby on Lekwungen territory, spending her free time hiking, biking, and generally enjoying the great outdoors.
Find out more about Sarah's coaching business at Dr. Sarah Lea Coaching.
Dr. Alicia Power
Dr. Alicia Power is a family doctor, maternity doctor and lover of efficiency and quality improvement. She is involved in various ways in working with physicians and her local health authority to positively affect change for our patients, our providers and the functioning of our system. She has two school aged kids, a hyperactive dog and a husband who supports all of her crazy ideas!
Dr. Pip Houghton
Dr Phillippa "Pip" Houghton is a family physician on Vancouver Island providing addiction, mental health and primary care to adults and youth in her community. Dr Pip is also a mother to three boys, wife to an amazing husband, house hippo owner, new-ish CrossFit enthusiast, creative writer and book nerd. Dr Pip has recently been certified as a Fair Play Facilitator and hopes to bring the Fair Play method to physician families who are looking for tools to more equitably balance the mental load, abandon toxic time messages, and find the freedom to be interesting OUTSIDE of their assigned roles.
You can find her over at www.timeoutMD.ca.
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With humility and gratitude, we acknowledge that we are uninvited guests gathering on the sacred and unceded territory of the Snaw-Naw-As First Nation and the Qualicum First Nations.
