Rooted & Rising Retreats
Women's Wellness Retreats
Held Quarterly each year in
Southern California & North Georgia
Facilitated by Ellice Boone
& Dr Cheri McDonald
Dr Cheri PhD, LMFT
With over 40 years of clinical experience, Dr. Cheri brings a rare depth of insight into the healing process that extends beyond traditional therapy into lived transformation.
As the creator of Holistic Integral Therapy, her work bridges the nervous system, emotional experience, relational patterns, and deeper meaning.
Her approach is not about fixing or forcing change. It is about understanding what is unfolding and learning how to live differently within it.
In retreat spaces, Cheri offers clarity, precision, and a grounded presence that allows deeper patterns to be seen, felt, and integrated in a way that lasts.
She is also a certified end-of-life doula and Co-host of Rooted & Rising Podcast bringing a unique lens on meaning, legacy, and what truly matters.
Ellice Boone
Ellice has over a decade of experience holding women’s retreats and spaces rooted in connection, emotional safety, and authentic expression.
Her work is intuitive and body centered, deeply rooted in connection to nature, where the environment itself becomes part of the healing process. Through sensory awareness, movement, and time in nature, she creates space for the body to soften, regulate, and reconnect.
She brings an intuitive and expressive approach that creates space for openness, creativity, and truth to emerge naturally.
Through grounded presence and deep attunement, she guides others back into themselves.
She is a certified psychedelic integration coach and co host of Rooted and Rising Podcast, where she shares insights, meditations, and journaling practices.
Together
They bring over 50 years of combined experience, blending clinical depth with relational, somatic, and nature based practices. What makes this work unique is the way their approaches complement one another. Dr. Cheri brings deep clinical wisdom, offering a grounded framework for understanding patterns and transformation. Ellice brings an intuitive and experiential approach, creating space for the body and environment to become part of the process.
This is not a performance or a formula.
It is a carefully held, responsive space where each experience adapts in real time to the needs of the group and the individual.
Woven throughout is a connection to nature as an active part of the work, supporting nervous system regulation & reflection. Transformation is not rushed. You are met across all layers, emotional, physical, psychological, and intuitive. Most importantly the work does not end when the retreat does. You are supported in integrating what shifts here into your daily life, so it becomes part of how you live, not just something you felt in a moment.
Rooted & Rising Podcast
Hosted by Dr. Cheri McDonald and Ellice Boone, each episode blends clinical insight with lived experience, exploring the intersection of emotional well-being, nervous system health, relationships, personal growth, and intentional living.
Through honest conversations, guided reflections, meditations, and practical tools, the podcast offers gentle support for navigating life's challenges with greater awareness, resilience, and self-compassion.
Whether you're on a healing journey, seeking deeper connection, or simply longing to live with more presence and purpose, each episode is designed to meet you where you are and inspire meaningful change—one conversation at a time.