Debra Stangl, Author at Sedona Soul Adventures

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The Biggest Issue Most of Us Face

This is one of the most important videos I’ve every made.

Because this issue, the issue of thinking there is something wrong with you (even if you think it just a little bit) is at the core of any of the problems you might be having. I see this over and over again with all the people we work with.

I hope this helps…

From my experience, this issue is at the heart of everything that is going on with all of us. And if you need help with this, we’re here for you.

Give us a call and we’ll connect with you. Or both of you, for a couple — and believe me, the core issue at the heart of most relationship problems is that both of you are playing out your “I’m not good enough” issues with each other (even if you’re not able to see that yourself).

We’ll find what’s causing the problem and we won’t sugarcoat it – we’ll blast through it with you.

We’ll bring you into the self-love and self-acceptance that will change every part of your life.

Or if you’d prefer, call us at (877) 204-3664 or click here and one of our Soul Guides will call you.

Would you like to speak to someone today about doing a retreat?
We’re even open on Sunday, because we’re here for you!
And remember, there’s no cost or obligation and you can do it At-Home or here in Sedona.

Kelly says after my Soul Adventure “I am love, I am worthy, and I am an amazing woman.”

Did you see our newest reviews on TrustPilot? Click here

Do you know that we use TrustPilot as our 3rd party review service? A 3rd party review service is one where reviews go through them and they are verifying that these are truly people who have been customers of ours, so the review process is completely trustworthy.

We have a 5 star rating (out of 5 stars) on Trustpilot. You can read about the amazing transformations that are happening to individuals and couples here.

Join us for our new “Compassion Cultivation Training” 8-week online class Starting September 14, 2021

Would you like to learn about a way to give yourself a happier, healthier life? Then join us for our new “Compassion Cultivation Training” 8-week online class – starting September 14, 2021.

Compassion is perhaps the most powerful and effective tool you can use to care for yourself and improve your relationships. Compassion Training builds mental habits that, over time, are demonstrated to open the heart and promote personal well-being, resilience, and meaningful connections, even in challenging circumstances.

Existing research shows that mindfulness and compassion training can meaningfully reduce the symptoms of stress and burnout and improve health outcomes.

We all face difficult situations, challenging relationships, and internal thoughts and beliefs that prevent us from experiencing the best life has to offer. When we become more aware, open, and curious about the world and people around us, we learn to use our natural compassion in practical ways to navigate life’s toughest personal challenges and begin to move through life’s ups and downs with greater confidence and ease.

Practicing compassion can alleviate our worries and fears so we can become powerful forces for good – in our relationships, families, workplaces, and communities.

The Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) is an 8-week online course developed in 2009 at Stanford University (CCARE — Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education) by experts in contemplative studies, psychology, neuroscience, and adult education. The Compassion Cultivation Training© (CCT™) is backed by scientific research and 10,000+ alumni worldwide.

Throughout the training, we help you lean into challenges, build the courage to take compassionate action, manage your emotions, and develop your resilience to prevent empathy fatigue.

The course includes:

Weekly 2-hour online classes including lecture, discussion, and in-class exercises
Daily meditation practices
Real-world assignments for practicing compassionate thoughts and actions
Each class will be recorded (but live participation is highly recommended for the biggest benefit.

I hope you can join us – you’ll be glad you did.

Komala Rohde is a certified instructor of the Compassion Cultivation Training. She is a certified professional coach (PCC, CPCC, CNTC).

Born in Germany, she began her career as a nurse before receiving her degree in Naturopathic Medicine / Psychology. Komala works internationally as a mentor, coach, and teacher.

She has been practicing meditation for over 40 years and has practiced and taught various traditions including Mindfulness for Stress Reduction, Vipassana, active meditation techniques and compassion meditation. Komala lives with her husband in Sedona, Arizona for the past 25 years.

Wishing you a week filled with loving yourself!

A Scientifically Proven Way to Give You a Happier, Healthier Life

Would you like to learn about a way to give yourself a happier, healthier life? I want to tell you today about a powerful new way to do that and it’s scientifically proven to work!

It’s called Compassion Cultivation Training.

Existing research shows that mindfulness and compassion training can meaningfully reduce the symptoms of stress, burnout and improve health outcomes.

Practicing compassion can alleviate our worries and fears so we can become powerful forces for good – in our relationships, families, workplaces, and communities.

Throughout the training, we help you lean into challenges, build the courage to take compassionate action, manage your emotions, and develop your resilience to prevent empathy fatigue.

The course includes:

Weekly 2-hour online classes including lecture, discussion, and in-class exercises
Daily meditation practices
Real-world assignments for practicing compassionate thoughts and actions
Each class will be recorded (but live participation is highly recommended for the biggest benefit.

I hope you can join us – you’ll be glad you did.

Lisa says, “I found myself during my absolutely fantastic Soul Adventure. Worth every dime.”

I just love what Lisa says about her Soul Adventure:

It was absolutely fantastic
She found herself
She has a “bag full of tools” that will help her now and in the future
Her Angel Guide was great and designed a Soul Adventure that was uniquely designed just for her
It was worth every dime

How often in our lives do we do something for ourselves that turns out to be absolutely fantastic? Where you can not only find yourself but know that you have tools that will continue to help you now and into the future?

That’s what happens here. Won’t you come and be part of it?

Give us a call. Speak with one of our Angel Guides. They’ll start the process of bringing you from where you are to where you want to be. Call us today at (928) 204-5988 or click here and we’ll call you.

Would you like to speak to someone today about doing a retreat?
We’re even open on Sunday, because we’re here for you!
And remember, there’s no cost or obligation.

Wishing you a week filled with love and compassion!

Dead at 20, Buried at 80

“Dead at 20, Buried at 80”

Have you heard this before? I read it somewhere a number of years ago and it really struck me.

What they’re talking about is that for so many people, at around 20 years old they decide to take a job because they need money and it’s not what they really wanted to do, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

They never thought that they would stay doing the same thing for the rest of their lives and then suddenly they found themselves married. And then the kids came and they needed the health insurance and the security of the job, and it just wasn’t practical to even think about doing something else.

And then suddenly they’re retired and getting social security… and next, they’re DEAD.

Sorry to be so depressing, but this turns out to be true for so many people. Their lives literally get buried by age 20 – meaning they’re not doing what excites them or makes them happy, they’re doing work for a paycheck and suddenly find themselves buried under the weight and responsibility of being an adult – and then they’re stuck for the rest of their lives.

They never give themselves permission to Stop and ask, “Is this what I really want to be doing with my precious life?”

This past year has had many difficulties but there’s been one thing that’s come out of it that we’ve seen that is very dramatic and wonderful. More and more people are asking themselves this question for the first time in their lives.

This past year has made many of us realize:

Life is short
I don’t know how long I have
Everything can be over in an instant
I want to live a happy life
What would it take to live a happy life?

For most people, evaluating their lives like that leads to making some new, big decisions about their work and their relationships.

A lot of people don’t want to go back to the same old grind.

They want to feel like their life has purpose. And for many of us, that means doing work that is meaningful and really feeds our souls.

They want to live their life purpose or they want to find their life purpose and start living it.

I really relate to this because in my own life, I had so many fits and starts, and I also fell into the trap. I ended up being a divorce attorney for 20 years. Pretty much hating it the whole time.

I loved the part where I felt like I was helping my clients, but that only felt like about 10% of it. The rest was arguing with the other attorneys and the judges and trying to help people who were in a very unhappy part of their life.

Hating what you’re doing 90% of the time really sucks.

Even worse, I was on my spiritual path and reading lots of books about living a life of joy and happiness and I believed that somehow that was possible. I read books like “Do What You Love And The Money Will Follow,” but I could never make that work for me.

Everything changed for me when I came to Sedona for the first time in 1999. I was at one of the lowest points in my life and every part of my life was a mess. In one session my Higher Self came to me in a vision and said, “You either leave your law practice now, or you’re going to die like your mother did.” I was exactly the age my mother was when she got sick with cancer and died 5 years later. I could see that I was on the same trajectory as she had been – I was unhappy, frustrated and I felt totally stuck.

That started the journey that led to founding Sedona Soul Adventures three years later.

So I spent 20 years of my life doing work I hated. I’ve spent 19 years doing work I love. I can tell you, doing work you love makes all the difference. Especially because it affects every other part of your life – relationships, abundance, and just overall quality of life.

Every day I get to see people transform their lives and relationships. Just this past week a couple who came to us on the brink of divorce, left us happy and in love.

We always ask people to write a before and after at the end and the husband said, “Before my Soul Adventure I was angry, resentful, not trusting and blaming my wife. I was blaming her for my issues and waiting for her to fix them instead of fixing myself. After my Soul Adventure, I am grateful, feeling joy, feeling free, understanding my wife better and myself better, forgiving myself and peaceful.”

And his wife realized how she was blaming him and not feeling supported by him. By the end, she told us, “I value myself and realize I’m worth a lot. I really feel the support from my husband.” Wow!

I spent 20 years divorcing people, now I’ve spent 19 years helping them stay together – it’s so much better!

Have you been re-examining your life over the past year? Have you yearned to live your life purpose? Or do you ache to find your life purpose?

I ached for years to find my life purpose and start living it. It finally happened when I came to Sedona.

If you want to find and start living your life purpose, give us a call, we can help. Speak with one of our Angel Guides and we’ll start the process of custom designing a Sedona Soul Adventures retreat for you. We’ll uncover what’s holding you back from your dreams and help you blast through that and into a life of purpose and meaning.

Don’t wait! The clock is ticking on your precious life.

Or if you’d prefer, call us at (928) 204-5988 or click here and one of our Retreat Guides will call you.

Would you like to speak to someone today about doing a retreat?
We’re even open on Sunday, because we’re here for you!
And remember, there’s no cost or obligation.

Register now for our 10-week “Opening To Your Intuition” Masterclass, starting August 14 – enroll now, space is limited

I’m so excited to announce another “Opening To Your Intuition,” a 10-week personal and professional development training program created and taught by one of our fabulous Practitioners, Komala Rohde.

Komala is an internationally known teacher of intuitive work and meditation and we are so excited to offer this fantastic program to you.

The 10-week class starts Saturday, August 14. We will meet on Zoom each Saturday from 9:00-11:00 am Pacific time. Each class will be recorded, so if there are any classes you can’t attend, you’ll always have the recording.

Would you like to:

Learn how to reliably connect with your Intuition?
Receive the answers to questions through your Intuition?
Have tools to continue to deepen your connection with your Intuition on an ongoing basis?
Utilize your Intuition to enhance your personal and professional life?

The program includes extensive instruction, practical tools, mindfulness techniques, meditation practices and exercises that will enhance your understanding and application of Intuition in your personal life and professional expression.

You’ll walk away from the program with a solid understanding of what Intuition is. You will be in deeper connection with your own Intuition and you will have tools to continue to practice your intuitive skills.

If you’ve always wanted to explore your intuitive abilities, this is the perfect opportunity!

Wishing you a week filled with joy and excitement!

Happy Half-Way Through The Year! How Are Your Resolutions Coming Along?

Last week my husband, Richard, took me out for a beautiful dinner to celebrate my Half-Birthday! My birthday is in January, so it got me thinking about how I’m doing on my Resolutions for the New Year that I made back then.

I have to admit that the biggest resolution I made has not come through at all. I got so busy and unfocused with other things that the big thing I had set for myself hasn’t been happening.

It’s the age-old problem with resolutions, isn’t it? If we don’t really incorporate them into our lives, they don’t happen.

So I don’t want you to get down on yourself, instead let’s revisit those resolutions or even better, do what I’m doing and make a decision to revamp what you want to accomplish for the rest of the year.

I’m including here my video on “How To Have A Kick-Ass New Year!” It’s very do-able and practical, and it might just be that extra oomph you need to really have something magical happen by the end of the year. Wouldn’t that be fantastic?

For me, I’ve reset my big goal and I’ll keep you posted on how that turns out! I already know that one of the things I need to do to help myself is to do a session with one of my Practitioners. It will be a session on Core Beliefs.

I can tell that I have some resistance to this really big goal and one of the ways I can tell that is that I’ve only taken a very small amount of action on this over the past 6 months. I think I must have some beliefs buried deep in there somewhere that I can’t do this, or I don’t deserve it or some other nonsense. I’m not sure what it is, but by doing this session we’ll uncover it, move it out and replace it with some empowering beliefs along the line of “I can do this!” or “I deserve this!”

I always love that exhilarated feeling.

If you have a big goal that’s not happening or you’re not feeling those feelings of exhilaration, joy and excitement in your life and relationship, maybe you need to do some sessions too.

This is what we do here at Sedona Soul Adventures – we uncover the blocks, wounds and negative beliefs that are holding you back from having the life or relationship you’re craving. It’s so incredible what happens when those blocks are gone. Then you’re operating on all the levels – physical, mental, emotional, spiritual – and life is amazing.

As promised, here’s the video. Happy Half-Year!

Christel says her Soul Adventure “healed old woundings in a way I didn’t realize was possible.” And she now has “clarity, direction, increase self love and self respect.”

That’s the key of what we do. Healing the old woundings and helping people find clarity, direction and self love. I love it so much that Christel is giddy and feeling “profound peace mixed with genuine enthusiasm for this next stage of my life.” Isn’t that fabulous? I’m so happy for you, Christel!

And you can have that too! Give us a call right now (we’re even open on Sundays because we’re here for you). We’ll connect with you (or both of you (separately) for a Couples Retreat) in deep conversation, really getting under what’s blocking you, what’s holding you back, or what’s causing the problem. And then we’ll custom design a retreat that’s perfect for exactly what you need to bring you into the joy, love and excitement that life is supposed to be about. Click below and we’ll call you.

Or if you’d prefer, call us at (928) 204-5988 or click here and one of our Retreat Guides will call you.

As I always say – you can have the life or relationship you want – I know it!

Would you like to speak to someone today about doing a retreat?
We’re even open on Sunday, because we’re here for you!
And remember, there’s no cost or obligation.

Register now for our 10-week “Opening To Your Intuition” Masterclass, starting August 14 – enroll now, space is limited

Komala is an internationally known teacher of intuitive work and meditation and we are so excited to offer this fantastic program to you.

Would you like to:

Learn how to reliably connect with your Intuition?
Receive the answers to questions through your Intuition?
Have tools to continue to deepen your connection with your Intuition on an ongoing basis?
Utilize your Intuition to enhance your personal and professional life?

If you’ve always wanted to explore your intuitive abilities, this is the perfect opportunity!

Wishing you a week filled with excitement and new discoveries!

Announcing our 10-week “Opening To Your Intuition” Masterclass, starting August 14

Our first Opening to Your Intuition class was such a resounding success! Plus we had so many people who couldn’t do it in March who asked us to do it again, so that’s exactly what we’re doing!

Komala is an internationally known teacher of intuitive work and meditation and we are so excited to offer this fantastic program to you.

Would you like to:

Learn how to reliably connect with your Intuition?
Receive the answers to questions through your Intuition?
Have tools to continue to deepen your connection with your Intuition on an ongoing basis?
Utilize your Intuition to enhance your personal and professional life?

Over the millennia, Intuition has been defined as an inner sensing, as a gut feeling or instinctive knowing. In recent years, science has begun to map the human Intuition system. We will begin with reviewing some modern insights about Intuition.

All of us have the ability to connect with the Highest part of ourselves and tune into our intuitive abilities. It just takes a willingness, a belief that it’s possible and trust that the information you’re getting is coming from your Highest Self. It’s simple (but not necessarily easy), so I hope you’ll join us.

Komala is such an amazing person. She is originally from Germany and first trained as a naturopathic doctor. She has been practicing meditation for over 40 years. For the past 10 years, she has been involved with researching and practicing principles of neuroscience in connection with mindfulness, consciousness and creating a resilient brain. She has been a Master Practitioner with Sedona Soul Adventures since 2004 and is a Certified Professional Coach and Neuro-Transformational Coach, so the depth of knowledge and wisdom she brings to this is really phenomenal. She is well known in the United States and also internationally.

If you’ve always wanted to explore your intuitive abilities, this is the perfect opportunity!

Trisha says before her Soul Adventure, “I was an emotional wreck”; after her “unforgettable adventure of a lifetime…I am recharged, rejuvenated and on my path”

This is such a perfect example of the before and after that we are so great at doing. When Trisha came to us, here’s what was going on:

She was an emotional wreck
She felt her light was burning out
She was sick and tired of doing the same thing over and over again, especially in her relationships
Her old patterns were running her
She felt like she was just surviving her life and definitely not thriving

She experienced the amazing thing we do – we connect with you deeply before you start your retreat (whether it’s here in Sedona or At Home) and we really get a feel for what’s going on with you, or what’s going on in your relationship and what it is going to take to blast through the blocks and wounds and gunk that are holding you back and making you live out the same patterns over and over again. As she said, we did a perfect job of custom designing her retreat for exactly what she needed.

Now she’s feeling:

That her life has been altered
She’s blasted through her patterns
Recharged
Rejuvenated
On her path

As she says, she went from just “surviving” to really “living my life now.”

Could you use some recharging?
Could your relationship use some rejuvenation?
Would you like to find your path and start living it?

If so, you’ve come to the perfect place. Right here, right now. If you’re reading this, I’m guessing you’d love to go from just surviving to really living.

Did you know we were named Best in Sedona for 2020 and 2021 for Retreats?

Did you know that we were named Best Marriage Retreats in the US five years in a row?

It’s because we’re the best.

Give us a call. Speak with one of our Angel Guides. They’ll start the process of bringing you from where you are to where you want to be. And remember, there’s no cost or obligation and you can do the retreat either here in-Sedona or At Home.

Call us today at (928) 204-5988 or Click here and we’ll call you.

Would you like to speak to someone today about doing a retreat?
We’re even open on Sunday, because we’re here for you!
And remember, there’s no cost or obligation.

Wishing you a week filled with joy and gratitude!

We’ve hit over 500 verified 5-star reviews on Trustpilot

Just in the past few weeks, we hit over 500 reviews on Trustpilot. What’s even better, is that out of 516 reviews, over 500 are 5 stars!

When we started Sedona Soul Adventures over 19 years ago(!), we asked people for reviews and I have thousands of these beautiful testimonials that people wrote over the years. Then starting a few years ago, many people on the internet started figuring out that many businesses were writing phony testimonials and putting them on their websites. Pretty low, right?

Thus was born services like Trustpilot, who do 3rd party reviews. Meaning, they verify that the people writing these testimonials are actually real customers who really did a Soul Adventure. We’ve been using Trustpilot since June 2016 and now we have over 500 fabulous reviews!

What I love the most is that each and every one of these reviews represents the beautiful story of what happened with this particular person (or couple) when they came to us to do a Soul Adventure. To read about people saying:

“My life was transformed”

“Our marriage was saved”

“I have healed old woundings in a way I didn’t realize was possible.”

“Best money I ever spent”

“I’m a better person”

“This was just what my wife and I needed”

“Sedona Soul Adventures helped me get my Life back on track!”

“Sedona Soul Adventures was the best thing I ever did for myself”

“This is the most life changing experience I’ve ever had!”

It’s just so incredible. We feel so honored and grateful to be such a huge part of so many people’s lives. We are grateful each and every day.

Have you been thinking about doing a Soul Adventure? If so, what’s holding you back? Have you wondered if it will really work for you? That’s a very understandable question to have.

I would invite you to read these reviews from real people who came here and had their lives (and relationships) transformed. Don’t take it from me – take it from these over 500 souls!

If you’d like to read some of our 500 plus 5-star reviews Click here.

If you’d like to have your life or your relationship transformed, connect with us and speak with one of our Angel Guides. They’ll connect with you in deep conversation and begin the process of taking you from where you are to where you want to be, by custom designing a retreat for exactly what you need and want.

Click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you. Or if you’d prefer, call us at (928) 204-5988.

Would you like to speak to someone today about doing a Soul Adventure?
We’re even open on Sunday, because we’re here for you!
Remember, there’s no cost or obligation
and you can do it in-Sedona or At Home.

Wishing you a week filled with transformation!

Thank You For Helping the People of Peru

I’m writing this on Wednesday, the last day of our Peru trip. It’s been such a fantastic trip, the group was so incredibly wonderful (and as usual, fell in love with each other within 48 hours), the weather was absolutely perfect, the ceremonies were moving and it was just a fantastic time.

We ended the last full day of the trip on a beautiful note. Many of you will remember that back in April, we did a very special teleconference with Jorge Luis Delgado, our amazing shaman and guide, about special new teachings about Machu Picchu. We asked for a small donation (just $13) for a project that Jorge has started for the people of Peru.

As you may know, Peru has been hit very hard by the economic effects of COVID, especially people who live in the Highlands. Jorge’s project is to build greenhouses for the planting and nurturing of fruit trees, which will then be given to different communities in Peru. This helps with their agriculture and will feed many people.

So many of you joined us on the teleconference and then many of you donated even more than the suggested $13. In the 2 weeks before the teleconference, we raised over $2,000, which I thought was really wonderful with all these small donations. I was so full of gratitude that I decided that Sedona Soul Adventures would double what was donated.

Then the very generous souls on this trip decided to donate and yesterday I gave Jorge our total donation of $4,600! That’s going to go a long way toward helping the people of Peru.

Jorge has started two other projects now. One is to collect funds for Christmas presents for the children of the Highlands, which I love. The other is a weaving project – gathering funds to purchase materials so that people who do weaving can make shawls, capes, socks, etc. and then sell them.

As Jorge was explaining to us yesterday, it is twice blessed. It gives people work to do and then these beautiful items can be sold.

Thank you so much to all of you who donated and if you would like to donate (or make another donation), that would be so good of you. We have so much here in the US and Canada, it’s hard to imagine how difficult life is for these people. You can donate here:

100% of these funds will be sent directly to Jorge in Peru.

Thank you for your generous heart.

Our next Peru trip will be June 17-30, 2022. Would you like to get on the waitlist so we will send you all the information as soon as it’s ready? Click here.

Paul says his Soul Adventure was “one of the greatest experiences of his life” and helped him “discover my life purpose, self confidence, self love…I am transformed for the rest of my life”

I mean, wow! Paul was just in Sedona for his Soul Adventure and because I was in Peru, I didn’t get to meet him, but I’m going to call him as soon as I get home. What an incredible transformation he had.

I love it so much that Sedona Soul Adventures is set up in such a way that I can be gone for two weeks in Peru and the transformations just continue to happen. Shout out to everyone in the office and all my amazing Practitioners who make this happen!

Isn’t it so incredible what can happen in just a few short days? Look what happened to Paul – through his Soul Adventure he…

found his life purpose
stepped into the light of truth
gained self confidence
gained understanding
gained self worth
gained self love
he feels transformed for the rest of his life
has a clear path of certainty
has the calling and the full capacity to help and serve others

I mean wow! That’s a lot to accomplish in a few short days, but that’s exactly what happens when you do a Soul Adventure. I’m so happy for Paul and so excited knowing that he’s right when he says this transformation will last a lifetime.

It’s been so gratifying to be here in Peru where so many of the people on this trip had their lives or relationships transformed by a Soul Adventure. And for many of them, their Soul Adventure was many years ago – the effects just keep on happening.

So what about you? Are you looking for your life purpose? Are you looking for self love? Do you want to feel certainty? Are you wanting to transform your life? If so, please call us at (928) 204-5988 or click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you.

Our Angel Guides will connect with you (or both of you if it’s a couple) and custom design a retreat that will allow you to live the life you want, have the relationship you’re craving and bring you into connection on all the levels.

Wishing you a week filled with love and generosity!

Such a Sacred Time in Peru

What a fabulous time we are having on our Peru trip. The weather has been absolutely spectacular. We are below the equator, so it’s technically winter here, but you’d never know it from all the flowers everywhere and the warm temperatures (into the 70’s).

We have a wonderful group, people from all over the world (but mainly from the US), all ages, shapes, sizes and colors. And as usual, we were all in love with each other within 48 hours. That’s one of the things I love so much about our trips.

Machu Picchu has been even more spectacular this year than usual. We’ve had 3 days of just fabulous weather. And because so many people around the world aren’t traveling, there is virtually no one here! So spectacular!

We always go to Machu Picchu on the Solstice and here we are doing ceremony at first light. It’s always otherworldly. Can you see the orb in this photo? Wow! At dinner that night, we had a wonderful discussion about just exactly what orbs are.

And after our sunrise ceremony, a few of us had an adorable encounter for about a ½ hour with this family of llamas.

They wanted to be with us and we wanted to be with them, it was so cool.

We’re in the process of putting together our trip for next year. It will be June 17-30, 2022 and we’ll be in Machu Picchu for the Solstice. Click here to get on our waitlist and we’ll give you first notice when we have all the details.

Another thing that’s been so gratifying for me on this trip is that many of the people on the trip are Sedona Soul Adventures “grads” and they’ve been talking about how their Soul Adventure completely changed their lives.

For many of them, the Soul Adventure was many years ago, so I just love to hear about that and how even after all these years, it’s still such a powerful force in their lives.

This couple told me their Soul Adventure completely transformed their relationship and I love that so much. They even sent their daughter on a Soul Adventure!

So if you’d like to have your life or your relationship transformed, connect with us and speak with one of our Angel Guides. They’ll connect with you in deep conversation and begin the process of taking you from where you are to where you want to be, by custom designing a retreat for exactly what you need and want.

Click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you. Or if you’d prefer, call us at (928) 204-5988. And remember, there’s no cost or obligation, you can do the retreat either in Sedona or At Home and we even work on Sunday, we’re here for you.

Sending you lots of love from Peru!

Daddy Issues/How Forgiving our Fathers Leads to Peace and Happiness

After being a Family Law attorney for 20 years and now doing my work with Sedona Soul Adventures for almost 20 years, I am still continually amazed at how almost everyone I come into contact with still has wounds from the past – and in most situations, it’s from things that happened with their parents.

I was thinking about it this week (since it’s Father’s Day), but especially because one of our couples who were here doing a retreat had a huge breakthrough and it all came down to their relationships with their fathers.

In my own life, I spent many years grappling with my relationship with my own father. My dad was a hardworking man and I know in my head that he loved us, but I never felt that in my heart. He grew up in a large German Catholic family (his parents had 20 children – he was number 19!) and in our stoic household, no one ever said “I love you” and I have no memory of being hugged or held.

Worse, when I was 12 years old, my father started an affair with another woman which lasted until my mother’s death 11 years later. He became an alcoholic, had severe financial problems and almost lost his business and our home. My teenage years were ones of turmoil and trauma.

I couldn’t wait to get out of all that craziness and I got married when I was 19. Of course, the marriage failed because I got married for all the wrong reasons. I got married to get away from my family situation, not because I was in love and capable of having a stable, loving relationship. In fact, having a stable and loving relationship was something that I was completely incapable of having.

I started what would become 15 years of therapy when my first marriage ended and in therapy, I made the mental correlation between my upbringing and my failed marriage. But that never healed the ache in my heart. It wasn’t until I was able (through sessions) to go into compassion for my dad and to finally forgive him that the real healing occurred – and that’s what happened with the couple this past week.

Like me, this couple had done many years of therapy.

Like me, they each mentally understood the correlation between their upbringing and problems in their marriage (but having that understanding wasn’t enough to cause anything to be better).

Like me, they thought they had “dealt with” their daddy issues completely.

In their retreat, their initial session as a couple brought some of these issues to the forefront. They had some resistance to even looking at this because they thought they had “dealt with it” already. But it was obviously still there.

In Jane’s Emotional Clearing session (they’ve asked that we change their names for privacy) that she did on her own, she cleared out the energy that her father had wanted a boy and that she was always competing for his love with her younger brother. Her energy had become hyper-masculine and it was showing up not only in her relationship with her husband, but in her work and in her relationships with her friends.

For her husband Ted, in his initial clearing session that he did individually, he cleared out the energy that he was unloveable, that his father didn’t love him, that he was never good enough. He said he felt like he cleared tons of pain away that was just lifted up and out.

And then the big breakthrough happened. In their breath sessions (which they each did separately), it was absolutely amazing that both their fathers (both of whom are deceased) came into their sessions. They each said they felt the presence of their dads, but it was different for each one of them.

For Jane, she literally saw her father. He came to her and spoke to her. He told her that he truly loved her, he showed her images of times when she was growing up that he felt especially close to her. She said she truly felt his love. He told her he was proud of her.

For Ted, it was even more profound. He felt his father’s presence, although he didn’t actually “see” him. He said he felt like his father had somehow connected with him on a cellular level and he felt “almost overwhelmed” by all the love he felt from his father. He said he cried and cried, but they were really tears of joy and of deeply letting go.

They both felt the healing in an instant. Knowing and feeling that they were truly loved by their fathers, healed everything. In an instant, they both felt that the issues between them had been healed.

In their next couples session, they saw how their issues had sprung from their feelings of not being lovable. Now that this was healed, they were able to revel in their newfound love for each other.

Like Jane and Ted, I also had a huge breakthrough with my father during a breath session. In my 15 years of therapy, I had been able to analyze his problems and my problems and I had come to a place of understanding him. But in this breath session, his energy came into my presence and I was able to really see him for the first time.

I saw that he truly loved both my mother and Mary. He was in love with 2 different women and had absolutely no idea how to deal with it. So he dealt with it by self medicating with alcohol. He was in so much pain and so much confusion. I truly felt how much he loved all of us (my mother, my brothers and my sister), but he was in so much pain he could barely function. My heart was full of compassion for him.

Luckily, this happened while he was still alive. I was able to finally have the close relationship I wanted to have with him my entire life. My dad passed away in 2004 and I was with him during the final 2 weeks of his life. One morning in the hospital, a few days before he passed, I was sitting next to him while he was sleeping. He woke up and said to me, “I couldn’t love you anymore than I do.” I’m weeping as I write those words, but they are tears of deeply feeling the love I have for him.

Forgiving my father and coming into love and compassion for him was part of a huge transformation in my life.

Jane and Ted felt like this experience saved their marriage.

For so many others who come to us, healing these wounds moves them into a peace and happiness they’ve never known before.

Almost all of us are grappling with some form of the question of, “Do I truly deserve to be loved?” It shows up in a lot of different ways:

Sometimes our love relationships don’t work.
Sometimes it shows up in dissatisfaction in our work.
Sometimes we do too much for everyone else and don’t take care of ourselves.
Sometimes it feels like we’re never good enough or we’ll never be happy.

How is it showing up for you?

Do you have any doubt that you are completely 100% lovable and deserving to be loved?

If you’re not at 100%, it’s affecting your life in some way. And if it’s affecting your life in some way, you need to do something about it. Contact us. Connect with one of our Angel Guides and let them design a retreat that can bring you into 100%.

Vicki says “negative feelings I had bottled up for almost half a century” are healed and “it was worth every penny”

“All the practitioners were very professional. I originally thought the price was very high, but after I completed the retreat, I felt that it was worth every penny. Some of the negative feelings I had bottled up for almost half a century had been driven me to the wall. After I went through the healing from all the healers, I was able to know the causes of my problems, they have been healed and I learned skills of how to deal with them. Now two of my girlfriends have also done retreats. Thank you!”

Vicki C., Los Angeles, CA

Wishing you a week filled with loving and appreciating your dad!

The #1 Way to Have Peace in Your Life

For most people, having peace in their lives seems like an impossible dream. Most people are stressed out and burned out, especially after this crazy year. Ironically, even though they’re doing too much, they don’t feel like they’re accomplishing anything.

Most people are worried about something that gnaws at them all the time. What is that for you? Do you worry about your job, your kids, your health, your spouse, your relationship, your money situation? Do you worry about the pandemic? Do you worry about other people liking you or loving you? Do you worry about your future? Do you worry about how your life is going to end up?

What’s your general state of mind during a typical day? Are you happy and excited? Or are you upset and frustrated? How do you react to things when something happens? Do you take it in stride or go into worry and upset?

Most people live in a general state of worry, upset or (even worse) hopelessness. It’s not hard to understand why that happens with everything that is going on in the world and in our day to day lives.

But the interesting thing is, it’s not all that stuff on the outside that is causing your sense of peace or lack of it. It’s how you’re reacting to all the stuff that’s happening…

And how you’re reacting to it is based on how you’re thinking and feeling about it…

And the way you’re thinking and feeling about it is probably rooted in something that happened to you a long time ago, in your formative years.

We had a woman who came for a Soul Adventure retreat awhile ago who first contacted us saying that she wanted to come to heal her pain around her marriage ending. Her husband had left her and she was (of course) brokenhearted.

When she spoke with her Angel Guide, he knew this had deep roots. He designed her Soul Adventure in such a way to bring those out. During her time here, she discovered things around her relationship with her mother that had left her feeling unloved and unworthy of love. She saw how she had (unconsciously) created an unhappy relationship to bring this up for healing.

Once she had that awareness, everything shifted. She did forgiveness work around her relationship with her mother and she said she felt the energy of that situation completely heal. The next sessions brought her into a sense of loving herself on all the levels — physically (loving her body), mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

At the end of her retreat she said, “I had no idea all of this was impacting every area of my life in all of these ways. I feel like a huge weight has come off my shoulders. I feel light and free for the first time in my life”.

Last year we had a couple who first contacted us saying that there were no problems in their relationship, they simply wanted to become closer on a spiritual level. But when their Angel Guide spoke with each of them separately, she felt some undercurrents of resentment and fear.

With a Couples Retreat, we always design the retreat to include sessions for the couple together, but also individual sessions for each person to heal issues that the individual might be bringing to the relationship and that’s how their retreat was designed.

During the first session, the cracks in their relationship came out and in their individual sessions, they both got real eye openers. The wife’s father left her mother when she was a young child and the messages she got was “men leave” and “I must have done something wrong that daddy left.” Her father had been very emotionally abusive and she realized that she sometimes felt “bullied” by her husband. Not in a harsh and abusive way, but in subtle ways that were controlling.

She was amazed when she discovered another link: her husband is very attractive and her father was very attractive. Even though they have been married for over 20 years and he has always been faithful, she realized that she had always been afraid of losing him and put up with the subtle bullying because she was afraid that he would leave her like her father had.

In her subsequent sessions, this place of fear (that had been with her since childhood) was healed. She was completely blown away.

In his sessions, the husband disclosed for the first time that he had been bullied as a child. He saw how this was affecting not only his relationship, but every area of his life. In his individual sessions, the shame from this was healed and he said he felt all the anger just flowing out of his body and his heart.

Needless to say, they were both shocked to discover how this “bullying” issue (which they had never defined as an issue) had been impacting their relationship. And you can imagine how wonderful their final couples sessions were…

Both of them came together healed and more in love than ever. Her fear was gone, his shame and anger were gone, and they had a new and deep appreciation for each other that hadn’t been there for a long time. Plus, they received tools that they took home to help them continue to communicate and connect more deeply.

As both of these stories illustrate, if you want to have peace in your life, you have to get at the things that are causing you to not have peace. You might know what those issues are, you might not. Most often, people who come to us to do a retreat discover that the thing that is causing their pain, their anxiety and all their problems is actually something different from what they thought it was.

So here is my bold statement – The #1 way that I know to have peace in your life or your relationship is to do a Sedona Soul Adventures retreat. We will find the blocks and move them out. We’ll move you back into a sense of connection and peace that you didn’t think was possible.

Contact us to speak to an Angel Guide about doing a retreat. It’s amazing how many people say that after one phone call with their Angel Guide they already feel better. Your Angel Guide will speak with you (or both of you if it’s a couples retreat) on a deep level. Then they’ll custom design a retreat that will bring you into the life or relationship you’re craving.

There’s no cost or obligation and you can do the retreat here in Sedona or At Home. We are so happy that our At Home retreats are just as powerful as those in Sedona.

Click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you. Or if you’d prefer, call us (928) 204-5988.

Rose says “before my Soul Adventure I was a mess” after my Soul Adventure, I feel “peace…and I’m so happy I did it”

You are so welcome, Rose! I’m so happy you went from being a mess to finding peace! That’s what this is all about!!

If you’d like to finally find some peace, please call us. Speak with an Angel Guide and they’ll start the process of figuring out the blocks that are holding you back from the peace you crave in your life and your relationship. There’s no cost or obligation to speak with them and it might be the first step towards turning everything around! And remember, you can do your retreat either in Sedona or from the comfort of your own home.

Can you believe it? We just announced the Egypt trip last week and only 5 spots are left!
I’m so excited about the energy for this trip!

The trip is just so extraordinary. It’s such a beautiful combination of all the places you absolutely have to go to, combined with the spiritual aspects of connecting with Egypt’s powerful energy.

I am so incredibly excited that the new Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is finally opening in October, just in time for our trip!

We’ve been watching it being built over the past 10 years and it is absolutely massive! It will house all the treasures of King Tut, the huge Solar Boat, and hundreds and hundreds of statues, sarcophogi (decorated caskets), obelisks, stelas, sculpture, jewelry and other treasures that the public has never seen before.

We go to all the must-see places:

The Great Pyramid (where we’ll have 2 hours of private time for ceremony just for our group)
The Sphinx
Karnak
Luxor
Abu Simbel

But we’ll also be going to places the average tourist doesn’t always see:

Isis Temple at Philae
Temple of Abydos
Hathor Temple at Dendera
Horus Temple at Edfu
The Osirion

And this year we have special tickets to see:

The Tomb of King Tut in the Valley of the Kings
The Tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings
The Tomb of Queen Nefertari in the Valley of the Queens!

To see the actual tomb and the mummy of King Tutankamun is so amazing. We will also see the treasures of his tomb in the new Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The Tomb of King Seti I is absolutely spectacular and Queen Nefertari’s tomb (she was the favorite wife of Ramses II) has been called “The Sistine Chapel of Egypt.” Very few people are allowed to see these tombs, so this is a very special part of our trip this year.

Plus, we’ll be doing ceremonies and meditations, and discussing the alternative theories of who built the Pyramids, who built the Sphinx (and when) and why are there carvings of a helicopter, a tank and a submarine in the walls of the Temple of Abydos?

Having two hours of private time just for our group inside the Great Pyramid for meditation and ceremonies is beyond belief!

Plus, we just have fun. Here we are dressing up like Egyptians for Galabaya Night.

I love this photo, it so demonstrates what happens on this trip – having breakfast at the fabulous 5 star Mena House right next to the Pyramids, three people who didn’t know each other before this trip connecting and having an amazing time, about to start another incredible day of exploration, wonder and awe.

And to go on a journey like this with other like-minded travelers – it’s just the icing on the cake. Don’t be concerned if you don’t have a companion to travel with – our groups are typically in love with each other within 48 hours, making friends that last a lifetime.

For information on the Day to Day Itinerary – Click Here

For all the details on Pricing – Click Here

If you have any questions about our trip, send me an email at Debra@SedonaSoulAdventures.com.

Or feel free to give me a call. Here’s how:

Cell: 1-928-301-2896
Office toll-free: 1-877-204-3664 (US and Canada)
Outside the US and Canada: 001 928-204-5988

Or Click here and I’ll call you – I love talking about Egypt!

If you already know you want to go, Click here to place your Risk Free Deposit. What is a Risk Free Deposit? Your deposit is 100% refundable for any reason, no questions asked, through November 1, 2021.

Wishing you a week filled with peace!

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