Healing for the Healers: A Healthcare Workers' Wellness Retreat in Costa Rica with Drs. Jenna and Jillian

Dr. Jenna Creaser
Dr. Jenna is committed to helping others live a more balanced and healthy life. Her career as a physician includes Rural Family Practice, Women’s Health, Maternity Care, and Functional Medicine. After completing her medical training, she continued to explore and gain experience in several other holistic modalities including Ayurveda, Yoga, Acupuncture, Hypnotherapy, Health Coaching, Herbalism and more.

She is also a certified Yoga teacher with 500+ hours of training focused on mental health and yoga therapy. Her training also includes Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Compassionate Inquiry (Dr. Gabor Mate’s CI training). Jenna recognizes the ongoing personal growth and self care required to serve others and live well in today’s society, humbly continuing her own work and healing as her practice grows. She believes with intention and awareness we can become more grounded, balanced, healthy, empowered and present in our own lives… co-creating a healthier, more beautiful world. She loves to travel and connect with others in wild spaces and places, often with her companion Hanz (a mini dachshund) along for the ride.

Dr. Jillian MacDonald
Dr. Jillian MacDonald is a chronic pain physician, mother of three young children, wife, and passionate practitioner of mindfulness. In her early days as a new physician, she found meditation and yoga as a way to help with her feelings of overwhelm and burn out. Bringing her knowledge of mindfulness to her chronic pain practice, she realized it was not only beneficial for herself, but also for patients. This started a journey of self healing and discovery. Since then, she has completed multiple trainings in understanding and treating trauma and psychotherapy modalities including Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). She is a Trained Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) facilitator and has been leading online mindfulness groups and retreats for several years.

She enjoys traveling with her family, morning workouts and early bedtimes. She’s been attending wellness retreats for years, many with Jenna, and is looking forward to bringing her knowledge, skills and authenticity to create a beautiful transformational experience together.