Exhale Summit
Exhale Summit is a sacred pause — a space for women to lay down the weight of daily demands, breathe deeply, and come back to themselves. Through practical mental wellness strategies, restorative experiences, and the power of community, we help women prevent burnout and create lives rooted in peace, purpose, and wholeness.
Summit Objectives
Your 2027 Theme
This year’s theme is a sacred invitation to rise again, honor what has shaped you, and release into the fullness of who you are becoming.
Resurge speaks to the power of rising after the stretch, the shift, the loss, the lesson, or the season that required more from you than you knew you had. It is the reminder that your story is still unfolding — and there is strength in beginning again.
Revere honors the sacred act of seeing yourself fully. Not just for what you do, carry, or give, but for who you are. It invites you to celebrate your resilience, your wisdom, your softness, your body, your boundaries, your becoming, and the beauty of your own lived experience.
Release You is a call to loosen the grip of everything that has kept you small, silent, overextended, or disconnected from yourself. It is permission to let go of what no longer belongs to you and make room for freedom, joy, healing, and wholeness.
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Together, these words form a powerful cycle of transformation. For BIPOC women, whose strength is often expected but rarely replenished, this theme is both a declaration and an invitation. You are allowed to rise. You are worthy of reverence. And you deserve to release into a life that feels more honest, whole, and free.
Why We Do this
30%
​BIPOC Women are the head of household in roughly thirty percent of homes, compared to nine percent of Caucasian homes.
25%
Approximately twenty-five percent of African-Americans seek mental health therapy compared to forty percent of Caucasians.
3%
Less than three percent of mental health care practitioners are African-American, so many worry that available resources are not culturally competent to treat their specific issues.
40%
Forty percent of Latinos and thirty-nine percent of African-Americans report having stress, anxiety, or sadness due to the pandemic and at higher rates compared to twenty-nine percent of Caucasians.
"I want a space where BIPOC women in particular can feel cared for and honored for their unique experiences."
Dr. Kristie Norwood
Founder of ReMind-U and Remind-U Outreach and Wellness, Exhale Summit Director
Dr. Kristie Norwood is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, college professor and the Director of Student Counseling at a University. She has used her 15 years of experience in the mental health field to empower and educate communities by providing intervention services that decrease the overall stigma of mental health, eradicate health disparities and improve mental and physical well-being. Dr. Norwood created ReMIND-U in 2020 to specifically target barriers to mental health in BIPOC communities.
