I got tired of waiting for someone else to build this. So I did.
Hi! I’m Abby
I moved to a new city and realized there was nowhere for adult women to just... play. Not network. Not optimize. Not transform themselves over a silent breakfast. Just play, the way we did before adulthood convinced us fun needed to be earned.
I wanted campfires and real conversations and staying up too late with women who actually get it. I wanted the girls' trip that didn't require one person to hold the whole thing together. I wanted to show up somewhere and leave with friendships that followed me home.
I looked for it. It didn't exist.
So I built Dame Lodge.
Dame Lodge is where the ambitious girlies come to laugh too loud, stay up too late, and come home more themselves than when they left.
We're the anti-wellness retreat. A community built on play, friendship, and the radical idea that real fun doesn't need permission and shouldn't require homework. No performative transformation narrative. No mandatory silence. No journaling your way to a better self.
Just sisterhood without ceremony and the kind of joy that makes you wonder why you waited so long.
What we believe
Play shouldn't require a permission slip. And neither should the women who show up for it. Joy isn't a reward for productivity. It's the actual point.
Connection needs a container. The best friendships of your adult life aren't going to happen by accident. They need time, shared experience, and an environment designed to let people actually be themselves. Dame Lodge is that environment.
You don't need to be fixed. You don't arrive broken and leave enlightened. You arrive as yourself and leave as more of yourself; refilled, restored, and with a group chat already going.
Finding your people is always the shortcut back to yourself. That's not a tagline. It's what keeps happening here, weekend after weekend.
Who comes here
Dame Lodge is for the woman who plans everything for everyone else and is ready for something that plans itself for her.
For the woman who got the link from a friend and needed exactly one reason to say yes.
For the woman who doesn't have a squad to come with and is tired of that being a reason not to go.
You show up. The friendships follow you home. One weekend becomes a year round group chat, a standing brunch, a "remember when we…" that you'll tell for years.
I’m convinced, where do I sign up?
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