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Kathy Love — 2x TEDx speaker, author, podcast host, and coach behind My Self Care Sh*t — has spent her career helping people reconnect with themselves, find balance, and live with the peace and stability they crave. As Chief Community Officer of The Outlier Project and a contributing author in the Standing O! book series, Kathy brings both depth and warmth to everything she does. Watch her TEDx talk "The Choices We Make" and you'll understand immediately why people follow her. She grew up near Buffalo, NY (Go Bills!) and now lives on the Connecticut Shoreline — close to the water, which feels exactly right for this trip.
Patrick W. Smith does not simply teach. He awakens awareness. For more than five decades, his work has lived at the intersection of music, movement, and human physiology. A lifelong orchestral percussionist, Grand Master level martial artist, and certified Tai Chi coach, Patrick offers not just a collection of techniques but a way of internal listening — one where breath organizes motion, structure supports freedom, and coordination replaces strain. Pain softens. Balance returns. His teaching reflects decades of study across the United States and Asia, distilled into one simple truth: healing is not applied. It is revealed.
Melinda Alcosser is the founder of With Heart Travel and the person who put this experience together. An accredited Experience Designer with the Transformational Travel Council, Travel Coach, experiential educator, and Level 2 IPTPA-certified Pickleball Coach, Melinda designs immersive experiences — from sailing retreats to pickleball getaways — that use travel and play as forces for good. She is also a facilitator of Writing as Heart Medicine Retreats, where free flow and guided writing allow what is inside to be revealed and expressed. Melinda brings energy, laughter, love, and light — and she designs every trip with the whole person in mind.
Together, these three bring a rare combination of embodied movement, self-care coaching, expressive writing, and play to a week aboard one of the world's most beautiful sailing ships. This is not a passive vacation. It is an active return to yourself.