This powerful women's retreat is a wonderful tool for discovering in a deeper way the beauty and value of femininity and how it relates to the spiritual life. Katrina Zeno draws heavily on the thought of John Paul II and uses personal experience to bring the concepts home. She includes prayer for healing women's wounds. The talks given during the retreat are as follows: First a Daughter, Then a Bride (Katrina focuses on our relationship with God, especially as Father), The Genius of Woman (She draws from the Pope John Paul II's writings on Genesis 2 and 3 and speaks about the nature of woman as it's been discussed for 2500 years to show how John Paul II is making an original contribution to the dignity of woman. She also  looks at original sin and how it affects our ability to make a sincere gift of self to God and others, as well as four ways it has affected women in their bodies.), Weaving a Tapestry of Life (She discusses the struggles involved in creating