What was the most beneficial activity for you at the retreat?

“Cash, Cookies and Cortina” if you know, you know.

Equine Therapy was incredible, and everything was perfect build up to TCM being the release ultimate.

TCM – it presented a dynamic opportunity to address trauma and move forward.

TCM – finding my voice and realizing I could not protect myself from the past and I do not have to allow other actions, opinions against me to control my present and future.

Yoga. Keep me loose and relax and put me in a beautiful place mentally every time.

TCM – because it changed my perspective of memories that brought negative emotions.

All activities were beneficial if I had to choose one, it would have to be Carrie.

The Cortina Method was the most meaningful part of this retreat. It allowed me to release some of my serious deep held trauma – including my MST and PTSD without having to relieve it.

TCM – It has helped me to gain skills to manage people and situations going forward.

Loved Sound Healing with Joe and Warrior Art! Thanks,

Testimonial to Project New Hope Inc.

Thank you, Bill, Donna, Patty, TCM. The services and resources you provide are beyond valuable. You truly serve those who served. From my heart, thank you for inviting me to return to trach at these healing retreats! I am extremely grateful to be part of the experience and meeting all the participants is a gift. The more I get to know you all, the more I Love You. Watching the positive transformation over the four days is Amazing!!! You all are doing God’s work. The spaces at Genesis are also so Inspiring and Spiritual. You are very generous and may those offerings ALL be returned to you tenfold. YOU ARE A Blessing! C.A.

I have never felt more comfortable or safe with a group/space so quickly. I immediately fell in love with Donna, Patty… and Bill, too 😊Their passion for PNH and what they do shined through in every moment of the four days. The schedule/agenda was well-planned and thought out. Yoga made my body feel like I could move in ways I have not in years. It gives me hope for getting back to sports/activities that I used to enjoy as a coping mechanism. TCM was like voodoo in the best way. I never felt anything like it, feeling more hopeful overall. This retreat was transformational, and the cookies were to die-for!!

A 5-star experience! I feel extremely blessed to have the opportunity offered by Project New Hope. From the beginning to end I felt the love and support given by all the staff. The healing therapy modalities were amazing and the TCM is an incredible experience that exceeded my expectations.

TCM is unlike anything I have ever tried before. I enjoyed the sessions and felt changed for a more positive outlook. I slept peacefully without a single nightmare last night for the first time in years. I am so grateful to have been included in the women’s veterans group May 1-5, 2025. The massage made me feel well cared for and pampered like going to a spa. The reflexology was amazing. Yoga in the mornings and evenings was just what I needed to help alleviate the physical pain. The reiki was quite different, and I have no words to explain, but I feel helped. The food and lodging were wonderful, and everyone was so kind and uplifting. I felt accepted just as I am for the first time.

Oh my Gosh! This is an amazing place and retreat. Everything was so well thought out by the staff, volunteers, and the food every day. I am beyond blessing and grateful for this opportunity to attend this retreat. I appreciate everyone that made this event possible. Much gratitude!!

I came to the retreat to reunite with a long-lost bestie. What I left with was renewed strength (mental) and clarity as well as bonds with a beautiful group of “friends.” I plan to move through the remainder of my life staying connected. This retreat has had a profound impact on my life. I will NEVER forget the people I met here, and me & my bestie will carry these cherished memories with us forever. Aside from that, TCM is something that I feel should spread through Veteran communities in every state. Its cabs help so many people if they just have access to it. God Bless you all for making this retreat available.

I learned through TCM a way to file my past traumatic memories/evets as just emotions from what happened in such a way that I am telling the story as a fact, but without the welling up of emotion and thinking,  I could do nothing to change that. I learned to pay attention to be living in the moment, not dwell on the past (which I can’t change) and not think of the future (which I can’t predict) and live the present knowing I will be able to handle what will come in the future.

Honestly, being transparent and brutal as possible, this retreat was unlike anything I have ever experienced through my healing journey so far. Being a USMC with a history of PTS & MST, chronic pain, unknown medical issues, and multiple concurrent diagnosis, I came here brunt out, physically, emotionally, spiritually and at my last straw of breath. The Cortina Method gave me the space and safety, I needed to finally, so freaking quickly let go of my trauma without being retraumatized (repeatedly so). The facilitator SAW ME and held space with so much honest compassion that finally for once in this complicated life I did not just feel like a diagnosis, I felt like a WHOLE PERSON again. The equine therapy (my Pablo) touched a part of me, I did not even know (I honestly did not) that it also needed to use some healing. The Yoga Nidra, the sound bowls, and all the holistic tools/methods allowed me to feel present and, in my body, again (and in control). That is something I know I have struggled immensely with for years due to trauma and chronic illnesses, (one pandora box was opened). I walked away today, sad to leave, though it was scheduled time to do so. Now with some freaking impressive tools, sisters, friendships, connections, and more than anything else hope. I now can attest that I believe every Veteran (woman or male “or not”), whose carrying some invisible wounds should experience what I just experienced and went through with an honest ab open mind, healing is possible and it can/should begin here – so come and try it.  Thank you, Project New Hope Inc, thank you from the bottom of my (refreshed) heart. You are all truly reminded and shown that I matter and importantly I am not alone.

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