Hold Me Tight: 5 Conversations For A Lifetime Of Healthy Relationships with Peggie Dickens
Week of November 13, 2027
Program Overview
Step away from old habits and discover a new way of nurturing trust, intimacy, and connection in every relationship that matters — with a partner, family, friends, or colleagues. Hold Me Tight is not about quick fixes, dramatic gestures, or learning how to “fight fair.” Instead, it offers a week-long journey into meaningful conversations that open the door to deeper understanding, compassion, and secure bonds.
Over the course of five powerful sessions, you’ll be guided through “conversations for connection” — each one focusing on key turning points that shape the quality of your relationships. These touchstones provide both insight and practical tools to help you strengthen healthy bonds, breathe new life into those that feel distant, or find healing where disconnection has taken hold.
Conversation One – Where did the connection go?
Explore the foundation of emotional responsiveness and how attachment styles shape the way we show up in relationships.
Conversation Two – The demon dialogues
Shine a light on the negative cycles and recurring patterns that leave us feeling stuck. Discover the dance you and others move through when conflict arises.
Conversation Three – Understanding our raw spots
Recognize your triggers and learn how to navigate those rocky, vulnerable moments. This is not about perfection — it’s about presence.
Conversation Four – The Hold Me Tight conversation
Practice speaking your deepest needs and listening with openness. Here, the tools of connection help you create security, closeness, and trust.
Conversation Five – Keeping relationships alive
Anchor the positive changes you’ve built. Whether with a partner, family, or friends, learn how to sustain growth, focus on what truly matters, and write resilient stories together.
By the end of the week, you’ll leave with more than just tools and insights—you’ll carry a renewed sense of trust and clarity into every corner of your life, creating relationships that thrive long after the retreat ends.
Peggie Dickens is a licensed counselor and life coach with a master’s degree in psychology and mental health counseling. Drawing on advanced training in somatic-based therapy, attachment-focused approaches, and EMDR, she specializes in helping individuals and couples navigate life transitions, heal from trauma, and move through anxiety and depression with greater ease and resilience.
Based on Bainbridge Island, Washington, Peggie offers both group and one-on-one intensive workshops designed to spark growth and transformation. For more than three decades, she has guided individuals, families, and organizations in setting meaningful goals, developing practical strategies, and creating lasting change.
At the heart of her work is a simple but powerful focus: helping people build the skills to meet life’s challenges with confidence, while also creating the relationships and the life they truly want — and deserve.
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