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Meet Your Retreat Leaders

Sarah Levy & Haley Hoffman Smith

Some retreats are built around a place. 
This one is built around people. 

Some retreats are built around a place. Because who guides the experience shapes everything—how it feels, what unfolds, and what you walk away with. 

At the Sober Curious Retreat at Ocean Edge Resort & Golf Club this May, you’re in the hands of two women who approach transformation from different angles—but meet in the same place: 

Helping you come back to yourself. 

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Sarah Levy: Redefining What It Means to Opt Out 

Sarah Levy isn’t here to tell you what sobriety should look like. 

She’s here to show you what it can look like. 

A writer and the author of Drinking Games—named one of the best nonfiction books of 2023—Sarah has built her work around something deeply personal: what it means to step away from a culture that revolves around drinking, without stepping away from your life.  

Her perspective is refreshingly real. 

She didn’t get sober at rock bottom. She got sober at a crossroads—in the middle of a full, social, ambitious life in New York City. And then she kept going. Built a career. Fell in love. Became a mother. All without alcohol.  

That lived experience shapes everything about how she shows up. 

Her teaching style is rooted in radical honesty—the kind that makes people feel seen, not judged. Through writing, conversation, and shared reflection, she creates space for you to explore your own relationship with alcohol, creativity, and presence… on your terms.  

Because for Sarah, this work isn’t about restriction. 

It’s about expansion. 

 

Haley Hoffman Smith: Clearing What’s Holding You Back 

Where Sarah helps you explore what’s possible… 

Haley helps you remove what’s in the way. 

Haley Hoffman Smith is a subconscious breakthrough coach, author of You Have the Magic, and founder of the tapping membership Dreamaway. With a global audience of over a million, she’s become a leading voice in the world of mindset, manifestation, and creative transformation.  

But her work isn’t just inspiring—it’s practical. 

Through Faster EFT tapping, visualization, and guided journaling, Haley helps you identify the subconscious patterns that keep you stuck—whether that’s procrastination, perfectionism, or the quiet belief that you’re “not ready yet.”  

And then? 

She helps you shift them. In real time. 

Her sessions are known for those “wait… everything just clicked” moments—the kind that don’t just give you insight, but actually change how you move forward.  

It’s deep work. But it doesn’t feel heavy. 

Because Haley brings something unexpected into the process: lightness. Energy. Even a little fun. 

 

Why They Created This Retreat—Together 

Individually, their work is powerful. 

Together, it becomes something more layered. 

Sarah focuses on sober curiosity, storytelling, and reconnecting with your voice. 
Haley focuses on clearing subconscious blocks and unlocking creative flow. 

One helps you understand yourself. 
The other helps you shift what’s been holding you back. 

The result is a retreat designed to move you from: 

  • Stuck → to inspired  
  • Disconnected → to aligned  
  • Overthinking → to creating  

All within a space that feels intentional, intimate, and deeply supportive.  

 

What It’s Like to Learn From Them 

This isn’t a lecture-style experience. 

It’s interactive. Personal. A little bit transformative in ways you can’t quite script. 

You’ll move between guided wwriting and open conversation with Sarah, subconscious rewiring and EFT tapping sessions with Haley, moments of insight… and moments of quiet integration.

And somewhere in that rhythm, things start to shift. 

Not because you’re being told what to do. 

But because you’re finally given the space—and the tools—to hear yourself more clearly. 

 

A Shared Philosophy: You Already Have What You Need 

If there’s one thing Sarah and Haley both believe, it’s this: 

You’re not starting from scratch. 

You’re not broken. You’re not behind. You’re not missing something everyone else seems to have figured out. 

More often than not, you’re just… 

  • Disconnected from your own voice  
  • Moving through patterns that no longer serve you  
  • Caught in noise that makes it hard to hear what you actually want  

This retreat isn’t about becoming someone new. 

It’s about returning to who you already are—with a little more clarity, a little more confidence, and a lot more creative energy. 

 

And If You’re Feeling the Pull… 

That’s usually how it starts. 

Not with a perfectly logical reason. 
But with a quiet sense of this might be for me. 

If you’re curious about your relationship with alcohol… 
If you’ve been craving creative momentum… 
If you’re ready to step away from the noise and into something more intentional… 

You’ll be in very good hands. 

And very good company. 

 

RETREAT WITH US

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