Il Dolce Far Niente: From Overdoing to Overflowing
A Retreat for Women in Their Wild, Mid-life Unfolding with Brooke Hofsess
What if the most radical thing you could do right now is... nothing? Not one more thing to check off. No more proving. No more twisting yourself into a version of who the world expects you to be. What if, instead of pushing, perfecting, and producing, you could unfurl, receive, ripen—just like sunflowers expanding in the Tuscan light? What if you could be seen, held, and nourished on every level? This retreat is your invitation. Your permission slip. Your reckoning. A call to step out of the exhausting loop of "not yet, not enough" and into the sacred ease of your own becoming.
If this speaks to you, maybe you are also ready. Ready to surrender to the current of abundance and enoughness. Ready to feel your power and depth as a fully actualized being. Ready to turn toward beauty, magic, and the pleasure of your own company.
Come with me to Tuscany. Six slow, luxurious days in a landscape that insists you soak in its abundance. Imagine looking back, knowing you said yes. Will you join us?
October 4-10, 2026 | Tuscany, Italy
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Brooke Hofsess
Hi there, I’m Brooke Hofsess—a Midlife Midwife for women who are done waiting to feel at home in their own lives.
I guide women back. Back to their desires, their creativity. Back to the callings that won’t let them go.
Through coaching, workshops, and retreats, I hold spaces where women can exhale. Where they can listen. Where they can remember. Where they can step toward what matters, not with urgency, but with devotion.
For over 20 years, I have shaped spaces of transformation—as an author, scholar, and coach. Through gentle movement, creative writing, and soulful reflection, my work is about revealing what has been there all along—the wild wisdom inside you.
I believe in the potency of sweet idleness. In the quiet magic that unfolds when we stop striving and allow ourselves to simply be. Writing is one of the ways I listen. A way to soften into what is most true. This is the spirit behind Dolce Far Niente—a retreat devoted to the sweetness of doing nothing, where creativity and clarity arise not from effort, but from ease.
Come write, play, gather, be.
