Located in the Rocky Mountains, 4Winds Farm offers a holistic approach to mental health and wellbeing—one that integrates body, mind, and spirit while dissolving the limits of traditional treatment models. Our women’s wellness and retreat center in Colorado moves beyond diagnostic categories, creating a space where residents are not defined or divided by their diagnosis. Instead, our healing therapies extend to joining our greater community in classes and workshops, breaking down the silence and stigma that can feel so isolating.

Each journey begins with a psychosocial and interpersonal assessment, allowing us to design custom wellness retreats and trauma recovery programs tailored to the individual. With a deep understanding of traumatic memory, we address unresolved trauma, PTS, and co-occurring disorders through approaches that honor both science and spirit. Trauma may stem from many sources—accidents, medical procedures, abuse, neglect, war, disaster, cultural and generational wounds, or the corrosive effects of chronic fear and conflict.

As Nature Made Us: Linear Thinking, Circular Being

One of the most important concepts that informs all wellness and healing practices at 4Winds Farm is “linear thinking, circular being.” Both are powerful, innate capabilities we share as humans, but today’s modern culture tends to prefer the linear—often to the detriment of human vitality and social capability.

When we talk about linear thinking, we’re referring to straight-line goal orientation. To many of us, this feels satisfyingly practical and targeted. But when you’re focused on the straight, confined highway in front of you, you compromise your peripheral view—which is to say that you miss most of what’s going on.

Moreover, circular being makes us aware of our true nature as thinking beings, and it allows us to learn from the environments we occupy. The seasons always come around again. Our measurements of years and months are in fact measurements of cycles, not lines.

True connection to ourselves and to the earth requires inviting our environment in rather than pushing it away—observing and connecting with the natural cycles rather than artificially creating a track for humanity to go down.