Our one-day retreat is designed to give you the space to pause from your everyday life and reconnect you with what truly matters- yourself. Through guided activities, mindfulness exercises, and meaningful conversations and connections with like-minded women, you’ll walk away feeling refreshed, inspired and most of all ready! Take this time for you—because you deserve to be NOURISHED.

Dive into radical self-love in a community of women with stretching, meditation, journaling, and embodiment practices. You will feel leave feeling renewed and empowered.

Sheila Maloney, CEO of Life Match is giving a keynote presentation on creating meaningful relationships in an increasingly disconnected world. Gain actionable tools to strengthen bonds and balance your personal and professional life.

Nourish Retreat is a recurring collaboration between Dating Coach and Matchmaker, Sheila Maloney, and Executive Coach Venu Gupta of Solidarity Futures. Sheila and Venu provide spaces for professional women of color and their allies to unpack what is going on in their lives in a safe, nurturing space that is holistic. We talk about work challenges and the joys and challenges of our personal relationships, all within the context of our larger world. We don’t leave any parts of us at the door, including our connection to a higher power, our cultural upbringing, or the cyclical changes in our bodies. At Nourish, you are whole and together, we heal, nourish, and create a blueprint for how we want to move forward as whole, healthy women.

The Greatest Love of All is an annual collaboration between Dating Coach and Matchmaker, Sheila Maloney of Life Match and Intuitive Coach and healer, Elias Patras. Sheila and Elias share a passion for providing interactive opportunities for women seeking empowerment and growth to come together and level up. Greatest Love of All is a call to self-love through healing, reflection, nurturing ourselves and one another. Participants in 2024’s sold out retreat came away feeling loved and deeply connected.

Brazilian-born Chicagoan Sheila Maloney is a lawyer, wife, mother of three and the author of Family Gap Year. Family Gap Year: How We Moved to Brazil, Dropped Our Overscheduled Lives, and Created A Sustainable, Happy Future for Our Family recounts the adventure-filled "Family Gap Year" when her family lived in the Vitória region of Espírito Santo, Brazil. They left behind a life of regimented schedules, the hustle and bustle of Chicago and joined a life of greater freedom and simplicity. Join us as we discuss how we can honor what is sacred in our lives and taking time for self.

Searching for your own Eat Pray Love experience, but with your family? Join Chicago authors Sheila Maloney (Family Gap Year) and Margo Weinstein (Jalan-Jalan) for a lively discussion of how they changed their families lives by taking a family sabbatical-and how you can too. They will share specifics of how they did it and why they recommend it to everyone else.

Sheila Maloney, J.D., author of Family Gap Year, will be presenting on her personal Family Gap Year and the importance of de-stressing from our regular 9-5 schedules. She will share her personal experience of taking a gap year to Brazil with her family and living a simpler life.

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Chicago Bar Association Via Zoom A discussion on how lawyers can enhance their personal relationships while navigating the unique challenges of their profession. Event Details to be added at www.chicagobar.org

Presentation by Sheila Maloney of Life Match. Explore how to make every date count, from honoring love languages to showing up as your best, most authentic self. Plus, take interactive quizzes and receive dating book recommendations!

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Library patrons learned a little bit of Portuguese, celebrated birthdays Brazilian style - complete with delicious brigadeiros - all without having to renew their passports!

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Brazilian-born Chicagoan, Sheila Maloney, is a lawyer, wife, and mom of three. Her family moved to Brazil and had an experience of a lifetime. Join us for this exciting and informative program where Sheila will share her Gap Year experience with you and help you create your own adventure!

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