Shawn Mahshie & The Center for Self-Solidarity

The Center for Self-Solidarity, founded by Shawn Mahshie, supports women who are powerful catalysts for change—but who have lost pieces of themselves in service to their families, work, and missions. This work is for women who’ve done the inner work and are quietly tired of how hard life still feels. Through retreats at Chesapeake Paradise, Shawn helps women integrate deep professional dedication with personal well-being, so they can move to the next level in love and leadership. The focus is not self-improvement or fixing, but Self-Solidarity—learning to stand with, by, and for yourself, no matter what—so clarity returns, self-trust deepens, and life can be navigated with calm, grounded resilience while staying true to who you are and what you care about.