Healing Retreat for Adult Children of Divorce or Separation
Come for a greater understanding of the wounds left by your parents’ divorce or separation, for advice concerning love and trust of others, and for an experience of Christ and community that will lead to deeper self-understanding and healing.
November 15-16, 2025
Jesuit Spiritual Center at Milford (5361 S. Milford Rd. Milford, OH 45150)
$250 per person. A $50 deposit is required to reserve your spot.
(Fee includes, meals, lodging, and all retreat materials. Limited scholarships will be available.)
Space is limited. Must be 18 years or older to attend.
Questions? Contact Tina Ernst at [email protected].
Experiencing and living through a parents’ divorce is traumatic. The negative effects last a lifetime often endured silently. Most people never seek healing or even recognize the many ways in which this damaging experience has affected them. Oftentimes, individuals are only aware of brokenness and loneliness, feeling unable to move forward on a path of healing.
The Life-Giving Wounds retreat is a three-day retreat for young adults and adults with divorced or separated parents. It invites participants to move through the broken image of love that appeared to them in their parents’ relationship to their deepest identity found in God. The retreat gives participants a greater understanding of the wound of divorce and the ways it affects their lives, offers advice about the difficulties concerning love and trust of others, and explains how the Catholic faith, spiritual practices, and the Sacraments are essential to self-knowledge and healing. This retreat has something for any adult child of divorce or separation, no matter how much healing you have already received or need.
Dr. Daniel Meola and Bethany Meola are the founders of Life-Giving Wounds, a Catholic non-profit apostolate dedicated to the healing of adult children of divorce or separation. The Meolas, both graduates of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, live in Maryland with their family.