18/09/2026
With over 100K of you here now, it feels like a pretty good time to reintroduce ourselves 🥰
Hi, we’re Kate and Kristy - the co-owners of Retreat Yourself.
Kate started Retreat Yourself back in 2015 from the spare room of her little beach shack in Torquay, after leaving the corporate world with an idea to create something that would help people slow down, look after themselves and make their wellbeing a priority.
And fun fact: Kristy was Retreat Yourself’s very first subscriber.
We originally met years earlier working together in corporate, and in 2018 Kate convinced Kristy to come on board. What started as a friendship eventually became a business partnership, and Retreat Yourself became something we really started building together.
Since then, there have been a LOT of boxes.
There have also been babies (four between us), huge growth years, very hard years, plenty of mistakes, some slightly questionable decisions, some brilliant ones, many late nights, big ideas, rebuilt teams, products we’ve obsessed over, and more conversations about boxes than any two people probably ever expected to have in one lifetime
Somewhere along the way, this little idea became a business we’re incredibly proud of and a community of more than 100,000 people here - plus the many thousands of you who have had a Retreat Yourself box arrive at your door over the years.
And while so much has changed, the reason we do it really hasn’t.
We want Retreat Yourself to be a reminder to come back to yourself. To make space for the things that help you feel good. To try something new. To slow down when you need to. And to remember that your wellbeing deserves a place in your life too.
So whether you’ve been here since the spare-room days or you followed us five minutes ago, thank you.
We’re very, very glad you’re here
Tell us below - how long have you been part of Retreat Yourself?
Kate & Kristy x
