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The Connection Between Spiritual Awakening and Mental Health

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“Don’t you DARE settle for fine” – quote from “Ted Lasso”

It’s the end of an era. The finale of “Ted Lasso” has just aired. Have you been watching it? I have to say it’s one of the best shows I’ve ever watched, because it is so funny, so sweet, and so uplifting (although it does also have lots of F-bombs, so it’s good to know that in advance!).

Now, I must confess that when I first heard about the premise—an American football coach taking charge of a premier soccer league in England—I was a bit skeptical.

I mean, why should I care, right? But oh boy, was I in for a delightful surprise!

With each episode, “Ted Lasso” managed to win our hearts…

The show’s charm, sweetness, and uplifting spirit left us wanting more. We’ve happily binged the entire first and second seasons twice and eagerly savored every moment of the third season, including that epic finale.

It’s so adorable, very often I will come into Richard’s office and if he’s on his laptop laughing or smiling, I know he’s watching a snippet of Ted Lasso. He’ll do that as much as once or twice a day because it’s just so inspiring and makes him feel so good.

In the second season there was a scene that struck me so deeply that I wanted to pass it along to you.

One of the main characters is a woman that I absolutely love, Rebecca, the owner of the soccer club which hires Ted. The series begins with her soon-to-be ex-husband (the co-owner of the team) having dumped her for a much younger woman. She’s scorned and depressed and is humiliated in the press. She starts out the series with some really negative aspects (which I won’t spoil for you) and during the course of the series we watch her as she navigates being a single woman who is “out there” dating again.

But here’s where it gets interesting—another character (Roy Kent) asks her how her new relationship is going and she says “Fine.”

He then steps in and delivers a powerful line that I can’t resist sharing with you.

Brace yourself for this gem:

“Don’t you dare settle for fine.”

And that’s not all, he follows it up with:

“You should feel like you’ve been struck by lightning.”

Boom! Mic drop!

These words hit me right in the soul. Because let’s face it, life is about choices. We can either settle and let joy, excitement, and bliss slip through our fingers, or we can embrace the thrill, the electrifying moments that make us feel alive!

So, let me ask you this: What does your life look like? Are there areas where you’re settling? And are you genuinely excited about the various aspects of your existence? These questions are worth pondering.

Look at the major areas of your life:

Work – Are you doing work you love? Does it align with your life purpose? Do you wake up each morning feeling energized and inspired?

Love Relationship – Are you experiencing a connection that makes you feel like you’ve been struck by lightning? Have you settled for less in any of your past or present relationships?

Friends & Family Relationships – Do you surround yourself with people who uplift and inspire you? Are your relationships harmonious and fulfilling, or do they drain your energy?

Health – How do you feel in your body? Are you taking care of yourself physically and emotionally? Do you love and appreciate your body? Or do you constantly wish it was different?

Money and Abundance – Do you feel abundant? Or do you constantly worry about money and not having enough?

By exploring these areas, we gain insights into what truly matters to us and uncover the areas where we may have settled for less. Remember, life is too short to settle for anything less than what you deserve.

With all the parts of our lives, we’re either living in connection or not. And all the parts of our lives add up to the sum total of our existence.

So if the total sum of your existence isn’t operating most of the time in happiness, joy, peace, abundance, and excitement, you need to do something about it.

First of all, I highly recommend watching “Ted Lasso” (even with the F-bombs) or something else that makes you feel happy and uplifted.

But typically watching a TV show doesn’t get underneath the real issues that are holding you back in life or causing trouble in your relationships. That’s where we come in. If you don’t know your life purpose (or even worse, if you know what it is, but you’re not living it) — we can help you with that. If the sizzle has gone out of your relationship — we can help you with that.

If you want to come back into the joy and happiness that I believe are your birthright, do a Soul Adventure. We’ll find what’s holding you back or causing the trouble, we’ll release it, heal it, and bring you back into connection.

Call us at (928) 204-5988 or request a call and one of our Soul Guides will call you. They’ll connect with you (or both of you if it’s a couple) and custom design a retreat that will take you from where you are to where you want to be.

Tammy says after her Soul Adventure, “I am full of JOY and purpose and excitement for the next phase of my beautiful life!”

Wouldn’t you love to be full of JOY, purpose, and excitement for the next phase of your beautiful life? You can. Call us.

Did you know Sedona Soul Adventures was named “Best of Sedona”
for Retreats for 2020, 2021 & 2022,
“Best Marriage Retreats in the US” 2015-2023 and
one of the “11 Best Couples Retreats Around the World”
by Bride’s Magazine in 2022? We were recently named one of Global Radiance Review’s “20 Most Trustworthy Companies of 2023”

It’s because what we do gets results – call us now, let us help. As I always say, if you knew what could happen, you’d be calling right now.

What area of your life do you need help with most right now…

Your relationship?
Finding your life purpose?
Loss of a loved one?
Healing & pampering?
Or is it something else?

Because we’re here for you – and we’re even open on Sunday!

Remember, there’s no cost or obligation to speak with a Soul Guide and have them custom-design the perfect retreat just for you in Sedona or At Home.

Call us at (928) 204-5988 or request a call from one of our
Soul Guides and they will call you.

Wishing you a week filled with joy and excitement!

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What is a Vortex Anyway?

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Cancer Linked to Unexpressed Anger (7 Different Studies)

My mother died of cancer at the age of 51. She passed away over 30 years ago and I still miss her everyday.

This week I read about 7 different studies that all come to the conclusion that (in the words of the report) “unexpressed anger causes cancer.”

I’ve always felt that the circumstances of my mother’s life and the pain it caused her are what actually caused her cancer. In the past, people would tell me that was just my New Age weirdo mentality, and not based in any kind of reality.

It’s heartbreaking to now have the validation from studies from Stanford University, Harvard School of Public Health, University of Rochester, King’s College in London, University of Michigan, University of Rochester, University of Tennessee, and the National Institutes of Health.

My father had an affair with another woman that went on for over 13 years before my mother’s death. My mother acted like she didn’t know that it was happening. This woman worked for my father and, bizarrely, was always referred to as our “good family friend.” If you can believe it, she even spent time with our family during holidays, including Christmas. My father married her 9 months after my mother died.

Although my mother always acted as if this wasn’t happening, I found out by accident 2 months after her death, that she not only did know, but that it (of course) shattered her. I had lunch with my aunt (her sister) who was a Catholic nun and had helped care for my mother during the last weeks of her life. My aunt started talking to me about it, assuming that I knew. I was so dumbfounded that I could barely speak, as my aunt went on to talk about how this had completely destroyed my mother.

As I looked back over those years, I saw the pattern emerge. My father started a new business in another town when I was 13. None of us wanted to move, but the business was a big success at first. My father moved in June, the family didn’t come until September when school started, because we wanted to stay in our old town just as long as we could. I found out later that this is when the affair started, when my dad was on his own in the new town.

In his feelings of guilt, my father started drinking heavily and within about one year, his business was in financial trouble. I can’t even imagine what my mother must have been going through with the combination of the affair, my father’s alcoholism, and now financial trouble. And worse, she kept “acting as if” everything was okay.

There’s a day I talk about in my book (“The Journey To Happy”) that was really what I see now as the watershed moment when I knew something was very wrong with my family. I had already felt on an emotional level that something was going on. There was a lot of tension between my mom and dad and my dad was constantly throwing up in the morning (from drinking). Mother would say, “Dad isn’t feeling well,” but I realized he wasn’t going to the doctor or doing anything to fix the problem.

I was 13 years old and it was summertime so we were just carefree and playing. Mom had gone down to my dad’s business and came home with him and locked us out of the house. We lived in a small town in Iowa and we never locked our door ever, not even when we would go to church, so this was completely unusual. I found out later that mother discovered the business was not open, my dad was drunk, and she found a pile of unpaid bills.

From that time on, everything changed. We had been a happy and successful family — we had a nice house in a great neighborhood, my father had a business that had been very successful, all of us kids did great in school, we were active in sports and dance, we belonged to the country club, and on the outside, it looked like we had it all. Suddenly, it felt like everything was in jeopardy and that never changed. All through high school and until I left for college, I lived in a home where everyone was walking on egg shells, my mother was in constant worry about money trouble and the prevailing energy was fear and frustration.

My mother lived through all of this and somehow putting up with my father having a relationship with another woman and acting as if it wasn’t happening and never talking to anyone about it (she only spoke about it at the very end to my aunt). All those years of it festering inside her, with her doing nothing about it and not even allowing herself to talk about it.

So a few years later, after all this anger, frustration, and fear had festered inside her, my mother was diagnosed with cancer of the cervix. She had an 11-hour operation where they removed everything they could and she then had a colostomy bag and a urostomy bag (for urine).

About 6 months after the operation, mother was doing surprisingly well. The doctors were giving her a clean bill of health. It looked like everything was fine. Then they found more.

I found out after her death that dad had come back and stopped the affair when she had the operation. After it looked like she was going to be okay again, he resumed the affair and my mother got sick again. Then he came back again and she got well again. He left again and she got sick again. This went on back and forth for 5 years.

By that time her children were handled – 2 of my brothers had graduated from college and had great jobs, one brother had just established his dental practice and my youngest brother was almost finished with medical school. I was in law school and my sister was about to graduate from college. My mother’s constant mantra as we were growing up was that we were all going to college. Once she felt like we were all taken care of, she could give herself permission to leave.

There isn’t any question in my mind about what caused my mother’s cancer. She drank coffee and ate red meat, but I don’t think any of those factors had anything to do with it. She was hurt and angry from the deep pain that resulted from all this and she was so focused on taking care of all of us that she placed no focus on herself. She told herself that there was nothing that she could do. And the worst part was, she believed that. She felt angry and stuck and that festered inside her for years until it showed up as cancer.

She had told me many years before when she was upset with my father that she could never divorce him. She was a strict Catholic, plus the financial realities would have been so difficult. So instead, I believe she left in the one way that she felt she could.

I wish I could have done something to have helped my mother. It makes me so sad that she felt like she couldn’t talk to me about what was really going on.

I became a family law attorney one year after her death. I know that in the 20 years that I was doing divorce work, I helped a lot of women who felt stuck and powerless and I saw many of them go on to lead really happy lives.

After I had practiced law for 20 years, I realized that I had become stuck in my own life and I was feeling angry and frustrated. I came to Sedona for the first time and the message that I was given in a vision was, “You either leave your law practice now, or you’re going to die like your mother did.” That was the wake up call I needed. That was 24 years ago.

We don’t have to stay stuck. We don’t have to simmer in our anger and we know now that if we do, it’s killing us!

If you aren’t living your best life or are having problems with your relationship, there are things you can do about it. Come to Sedona. We’ll custom design a retreat that will release the anger and frustration and we’ll give you tools for living your best life or having the relationship of your dreams.

My story has a happy ending. I hope that yours will too.

Contact us, connect with one of our Soul Guides. Request a call and one of our Soul Guides will call you. Or if you’d prefer, call us at (928) 204-5988. Our Soul Guides will connect with you (or both of you if it’s a couple) and custom design a retreat that will take you from where you are to where you want to be.

Martha says before her “life saving” Soul Adventure, she “was lost, depressed and angry at everything…SSA helped me find myself, helped me understand my life purpose and gave me the tools I needed.”

Did you know Sedona Soul Adventures was named “Best of Sedona”
for Retreats for 2020, 2021 & 2022,
“Best Marriage Retreats in the US” 2015-2023 and
one of the “11 Best Couples Retreats Around the World”
by Bride’s Magazine in 2022? We were recently named one of Global Radiance Review’s “20 Most Trustworthy Companies of 2023”

It’s because what we do gets results – call us now, let us help. As I always say, if you knew what could happen, you’d be calling right now.

What area of your life do you need help with most right now…

Your relationship?
Finding your life purpose?
Loss of a loved one?
Healing & pampering?
Or is it something else?

Because we’re here for you – and we’re even open on Sunday!

Remember, there’s no cost or obligation to speak with a Soul Guide and have them custom-design the perfect retreat just for you in Sedona or At Home.

Call us at (928) 204-5988 or request a call from one of our
Soul Guides and they will call you.

Wishing you a week filled with many blessings!

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My Wacky Workout, 1,000 Pound Leg Presses = Big Life Lesson

I have the craziest workout. I do it every 10 days and I can finish it in about 25 minutes! People are always stunned to discover that:

I can leg press 1,000 pounds!

I can dead lift 380 pounds!

My lat pull downs (pictured here) are 260 pounds!

Now here’s the real kicker – When I started (13 years ago!) I could only dead lift 110 pounds… now it’s 3 times that. My leg presses were only at 320 pounds and I could only do 90 pounds on the lat pull down.

Nobody is more surprised than me that this is what’s happened. And believe me, this isn’t about me being a weight lifting superstar, I’m certainly not. I only hold the lifts for 5 seconds, because the science has shown that’s all it takes. I don’t have giant muscles in my arms (I don’t want that) – if anything, I wish my arms were smaller!

So here’s the deal with this and why I’m talking to you about it. First of all, this is a special program I found out about 14 years ago. The idea is to build lean muscle mass and it’s based on very current science that says the best way to do that is to take the muscle to failure and then let the muscles completely recover, which takes a full 10 days. So every 10 days I do this weight training and the goal is to increase it by 5 pounds each time.

This week I realized I’ve done this now for exactly 13 years and as I looked back at where I started, I was struck by the fact that what this is REALLY about is:

• Getting Started
• Learning what to do
• Doing a little bit, but doing it consistently
• Never stopping

And I realized that this is such a metaphor for life and it’s certainly the same thing for people who come to us to do a Soul Adventure.

Getting started is so hard. It’s so silly, I actually had the information about this program for over one year (!) before I did anything with it. I had seen something online and ordered the information (I think it cost $27!). But it seemed like it would be so hard and so boring to move all those weights around, and I was actually a little afraid to try to move all that weight around by myself. I had done standard 3-times per week workouts with a trainer, but I was embarrassed to ask him about it… I was concerned he would be offended by a workout you do only every 10 days. When I finally called him (one year later), he suggested I bring in the information. He read it and said he thought it was brilliant. He said he would help me get started and then if I wanted to, I could do it on my own.

The next part was learning what to do. When I started, it wasn’t so critically important that I do the lifts perfectly, but I could tell that if I wanted to do heavier weights down the road, I had to do it right so that I wouldn’t hurt myself. My trainer is such an excellent trainer with incredible credentials and he taught me perfectly. And it was so effective, I wanted to keep on working out with him. Learning what to do from someone who knows their stuff makes all the difference.

But I know the biggest thing here is the consistency. Unless I’m out of town, I never miss my session, and I mean never. I always go, I never tell myself, “Oh I don’t feel like doing it today,” even though there are definitely days when I don’t feel like doing it and days where I’m so incredibly busy that I’m telling myself I shouldn’t take the time. But I go because I know if I don’t do it now, it’s going to be a little harder to do it next time. Plus, I’ve seen the incredible results from doing a little bit, but doing it consistently. I just have to do a little bit. I just need to increase by 5 pounds, I just need to hold the lift for 5 seconds. Just by doing that little bit over and over again, I’ve tripled what I was able to do before.

And I know that this is keeping me healthy, making me feel good in my body and helping to maintain my weight. It helps me feel strong.

And that’s just what it takes in every part of our lives, especially our spiritual life. Just doing a little bit, but doing the right things and doing it over and over and over can give us tremendous benefits. Doing a little bit of meditation each day, even 9 minutes can make a huge difference! Being just a little kinder to everyone you meet can make the difference between a good day or a bad day. Just being a little kinder to yourself can give you enormous benefits.

And, of course, it’s exactly the same thing with doing a Sedona Soul Adventure. For everyone, Getting Started is the biggest hurdle. I’ve said to so many of our people that 90% of this is just about showing up — getting here and getting started. We’ve had people who have waited 2, 3, 5, even 10 years from the time they first felt the nudge that they should do this. As with anything in life, getting started is the hardest part.

And then you need to be learning what to do. Working with our incredible practitioners, having someone who really knows what they’re doing, urging you on, helping you, holding you to a higher standard than you might even be holding yourself, can make all the difference when you’re trying to change something. When you come here, not only are we clearing out all the blocks and the gunk that’s holding you back, we’re bringing you back into connection and giving you tools to maintain and deepen that connection. You learn how to do it and you take it home with you.

And then it’s all about just doing a little bit, but doing it consistently. The last session that everyone does as part of their retreat is called Intuitive Integration. In that session, we review what’s happened during the retreat and then we talk about how you can best integrate this into your day to day life: What are the things that you can do that will fit into your life and that will maintain and deepen the connection and peace that you found here?

We put together an action plan for you, making sure that it’s doable, practical and effective. Plus all the ongoing support we provide makes sure that the transformations last. Just doing a little bit can keep you feeling centered, balanced, peaceful and strong.

So are you ready to get started? Getting started with us is not hard, it’s very, very easy, just contact us. We’re here for you. Click below:

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

They’ll connect with you (or both of you, if it’s a couples retreat) in deep conversation. Then they’ll custom design the perfect retreat for you, working with our Master Practitioners here in beautiful, mystical Sedona.

Lois says her Soul Adventure took her “from a dark, hopeless existence to a joyful, abundant and grateful life”

“Prior to my Soul Adventure, I had been struggling with depression, weight gain, addiction, smoking and anxiety for months. I had tried medication and therapy and neither of those worked, in fact the medications only made things worse; more weight gain, less energy and sluggish thoughts. Then my husband found Sedona Soul Adventures, how, I still don’t know, but I am so thankful! I called them the following day to learn more about their services and immediately knew this was for me. We left the following day on an 8 hour road trip to Sedona.

During the adventure, I could already feel blockages opening up and hope coming back into my mind. I was in such a sad and lonely place prior that I immediately felt changes occurring. It was so exciting learning new techniques and tools to help manage my moods. Each night I felt like I was just bursting with information and excitement with the ideas and perspective I was gaining.

After completion of the adventure, I went home and immediately put my new techniques into practice. Within a month, I effortlessly lost 9 pounds and started working out again as soon as we arrived back home. In the past, I didn’t even have enough energy to walk around the block. I ate better and made conscious decisions to remove negativity and old behaviors that no longer served me. I have taken a proactive approach towards my attitude, protecting it from negativity and situations that provoke anger and irritability. However, those situations and emotions are not always avoidable and I have learned to cope better in those cases. I live in the moment now and am able to see immediately when my emotions are turning and take responsibility for my wellbeing by either meditating or just sitting with the feeling and trying to figure out why I am experiencing them. In the past I would reach for anything to change that feeling, including alcohol, prescription drugs, or smoking. Soul Adventures provided me with healthy, positive tools to combat negative feelings. I am proud to say that I am 100% chemical free, no medications, no smoking and I am even eating organically! By living in the present, I can step back and be objective about a situation verses viewing everything subjectively and as a victim. I now see myself as the creator of my destiny, able to manifest pure joy and happiness, whatever I desire.

I was hopeful and optimistic about Soul Adventures, but I had no idea that in less than a month my life would go from a dark hopeless existence to a joyful, abundant and grateful life. Thank you Soul Adventures!“
~ Lois R., Buena Park, California

Did you know Sedona Soul Adventures was named “Best of Sedona”
for Retreats for 2020, 2021 & 2022,
“Best Marriage Retreats in the US” 2015-2023 and
one of the “11 Best Couples Retreats Around the World”
by Bride’s Magazine in 2022? We were recently named one of Global Radiance Review’s “20 Most Trustworthy Companies of 2023”

It’s because what we do gets results – call us now, let us help. As I always say, if you knew what could happen, you’d be calling right now.

What area of your life do you need help with most right now…

Your relationship?
Finding your life purpose?
Loss of a loved one?
Healing & pampering?
Or is it something else?

Because we’re here for you – and we’re even open on Sunday!

Remember, there’s no cost or obligation to speak with a Soul Guide and have them custom-design the perfect retreat just for you in Sedona or At Home.

Call us at (928) 204-5988 or request a call from one of our
Soul Guides and they will call you.

Last chance to join our new LIVE class “Thriving in the Growth Zone”
It starts June 1

“When you stop growing, you start dying.”

Growth is the natural order of things. Life wants to keep expanding.

As a fellow spiritual seeker, I’m willing to bet that rings true at a deep level for you. Spiritual souls like us hunger for growth like willow trees relentlessly seek water.

You pursue opportunities not only to achieve more, but also to become more.

And we’ve created a special new class specifically to give you the skills and mindset to thrive in your pursuit of continued expansion and growth…

“Thriving in the Growth Zone” is a LIVE 90-minute weekly online class. You’ll gain practical skills and learn to effortlessly shift your mindset. In just four weeks, you’ll step more easily and deliberately outside of your comfort zone into the “growth zone” where everything you want is waiting.

As a participant, you’ll meet with a small group of fellow seekers for a weekly lesson. Between classes, you’ll have opportunities to put your new skills to work, practicing coming out of your comfort zone and moving into the Growth Zone.

This exciting new program is taught by one of our most popular instructors, Master Certified Coach and Mentor Coach Komala Uta Rohde. A Master Practitioner with Sedona Soul Adventures since 2004, Komala has helped thousands of people with developing a proactive mindset and thriving in the growth zone.

The class starts June 1, so sign up now.

Wishing you a week filled with growth!

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“Therapy, workshops, treatment center” didn’t work, but her Soul Adventure did!

I was so touched by what Jill said in her review about her Sedona Soul Adventures retreat, especially when she said:

“It worked!”

I called her. We had such a great conversation, especially with her telling me that in all her years of searching (“therapy, retreats, workshops and a treatment center”) that she had never really had a real breakthrough — until she did her Sedona Soul Adventure.

Here are her words:

Again, the best words are: “It worked.”

She came to us feeling depression and long-time anxiety.

We utilized our Sedona Proven Process, which just keeps proving over and over again that it works!

• Her Soul Guide connected with her on a deep level.
• From that deep connection, he crafted a retreat that was completely custom designed for exactly what she needed.
• Our amazing Practitioners worked to uncover, heal and release the wounds that were holding her back.
• She was brought back into connection on all the levels – physical, mental and emotional.
• She received “valuable tools, practices, and learnings helping to continue my transformation.”
• She left transformed, feeling “relaxed, calm, happy and fulfilled.”
• She’s receiving ongoing support: “I am grateful and love them for the wise words, kind ears, and magical hands they shared throughout and after my journey. after each session as well as when I returned home.”

And then she said my second favorite statement – “I am enough!”

Isn’t that glorious? After years of anxiety and depression, to have that feeling all the way down to your bones of “I am enough!”

I don’t think it gets any better than that, that delicious feeling of wholeness.

Would you love to have that feeling of wholeness, that feeling of “I am enough!”? It is truly that feeling which brings you the peace and contentment you’re looking for.

Give us a call. Connect with one of our Soul Guides. They’re masters at digging deep and getting to the bottom of what’s holding you back in your life or your relationship. Then they’ll custom design the perfect retreat to take you from where you are to where you want to be.

Call us at (928) 204-5988 or request a call and one of our Soul Guides will call you. They’ll connect with you (or both of you if it’s a couple) and custom design a retreat that will take you from where you are to where you want to be.

Join us for our new LIVE class “Thriving in the Growth Zone” – starts June 1

You have dreams about what you want to achieve, what you want to experience, and who you want to be in this lifetime.

But to make those dreams a reality, you first must overcome a hidden obstacle that will try to block your success at every turn…

Your comfort zone.

Comfort zones are where we feel safe. It’s where our habits and routines live. Life is predictable, easy, and … well, comfortable.

But as Neale Donald Walsch so famously said, “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

The things you want to be, do and have are outside your comfort zone – in your GROWTH zone.

But to access and navigate your Growth Zone, you need to learn new skills – and a new way of being.

Discover how to do it – reliably and almost effortlessly – during our newest class, Thriving in the Growth Zone.

“Thriving in the Growth Zone” is a LIVE 90-minute weekly class taught online. Between classes, you’ll have opportunities to practice coming out of your comfort zone and moving into the Growth Zone.

When you learn how to thrive in your Growth Zone, you’ll:

• Meet challenges with greater courage and ease
• Feel more confident navigating new situations
• Break through barriers and advance in both your personal and professional life
• Give you insights on how to grow in any situation life presents you with
• Feel excited about trying something new

Learn more about this brand-new course here.

The life-expanding program will be taught by Master Certified Coach and Mentor Coach Komala Uta Rohde. A Master Practitioner with Sedona Soul Adventures since 2004, Komala has helped thousands of people with developing a proactive mindset and thriving in the growth zone.

Achieving your dreams requires more than visualizing success and working hard.

You must learn to recognize opportunities, overcome obstacles, build resilience, take risks, remain persistent, and so much more.

These are all skills you’ll develop in Thriving in the Growth Zone. May I tell you more about the program?

“Yes, Debra! I want to know more…”

Enrollment for Thriving in the Growth Zone closes on May 26. Learn more about the program and whether it’s right for you here.

Did you know Sedona Soul Adventures was named “Best of Sedona”
for Retreats for 2020, 2021 & 2022,
“Best Marriage Retreats in the US” 2015-2023 and
one of the “11 Best Couples Retreats Around the World”
by Bride’s Magazine in 2022? We were recently named one of Global Radiance Review’s “20 Most Trustworthy Companies of 2023”

It’s because what we do gets results – call us now, let us help. As I always say, if you knew what could happen, you’d be calling right now.

What area of your life do you need help with most right now…

Your relationship?
Finding your life purpose?
Loss of a loved one?
Healing & pampering?
Or is it something else?

Because we’re here for you – and we’re even open on Sunday!

Remember, there’s no cost or obligation to speak with a Soul Guide and have them custom-design the perfect retreat just for you in Sedona or At Home.

Call us at (928) 204-5988 or request a call from one of our
Soul Guides and they will call you.

Wishing you a week filled with peace, joy, and ease!

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Is Your Relationship Killing You?

Wow, can you believe that relationships are a bigger factor for what can make you sick than:

• Diet?
• Exercise?
• Smoking?

Dr. Ornish has also said:

Studies have shown that those who do not have a healthy relationship have a 3 – 5 times higher risk of cancer, heart disease, stroke, alcoholism and suicide than those who are in happy, nurturing relationships that make them feel loved and supported.

I was thinking just yesterday that I’ve been fascinated with relationships and what makes them work (or not) ever since I was a little kid. My mother subscribed to the “Ladies Home Journal” Magazine and they had a column each month entitled, “Can This Marriage Be Saved?”, which I devoured. Each month the woman would give her side of the story then the man would give his side of the story and then the marriage counselor would make his pronouncement of whether or not the marriage could be “saved.”

After that I became a divorce attorney for 20 years. Amazingly, during that 20-year period, I had some clients for whom I did 3 divorces. I could always see that each time they had married virtually the same person, they just had a different name. They kept making the same mistakes over and over again, never learning from their mistakes.

They never learned how to do relationships right.

Then my life changed when I came to Sedona for the first time and over the next few years I saw how lives and relationships could be transformed when people came back into connection. Back into connection with themselves, back into connection with their partner and the two of them coming back into connection with this third entity, which is the relationship.

If your relationship is making you feel angry, unhappy, depressed, hopeless, or stuck, you might be on the path to bigger problems down the road, as Dr. Ornish believes. You’ve got to do something. The good news is, there’s help.

Wouldn’t you just love to feel like you’re on fire in your relationship? Wouldn’t you love to have your needs met? Wouldn’t you love to see the endless possibilities?

Give us a call. We’ll connect with both of you in a deep way and we’ll start the process of bringing you out of where you are and into the relationship of your dreams.

Call us at (928) 204-5988 or request a call and one of our Soul Guides will call you. They’ll connect with you (or both of you if it’s a couple) and custom design a retreat that will take you from where you are to where you want to be.

Did you know Sedona Soul Adventures was named “Best of Sedona”
for Retreats for 2020, 2021 & 2022,
“Best Marriage Retreats in the US” 2015-2023 and
one of the “11 Best Couples Retreats Around the World”
by Bride’s Magazine in 2022? We were recently named one of Global Radiance Review’s “20 Most Trustworthy Companies of 2023”

It’s because what we do gets results – call us now, let us help. As I always say, if you knew what could happen, you’d be calling right now.

What area of your life do you need help with most right now…

Your relationship?
Finding your life purpose?
Loss of a loved one?
Healing & pampering?
Or is it something else?

Because we’re here for you – and we’re even open on Sunday!

Remember, there’s no cost or obligation to speak with a Soul Guide and have them custom-design the perfect retreat just for you in Sedona or At Home.

Call us at (928) 204-5988 or request a call from one of our
Soul Guides and they will call you.

Wishing you a week filled with feeling like you’re on fire!

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The Hidden Obstacle That Prevents You From Achieving Your Dreams

You have dreams about what you want to achieve, what you want to experience, and who you want to be in this lifetime.

But to make those dreams a reality, you first must overcome a hidden obstacle that will try to block your success at every turn…

Your comfort zone.

Comfort zones are where we feel safe. It’s where our habits and routines live. Life is predictable, easy, and … well, comfortable.

But as Neale Donald Walsch so famously said, “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

The things you want to be, do and have are outside your comfort zone – in your GROWTH zone.

But to access and navigate your Growth Zone, you need to learn new skills – and a new way of being.

Discover how to do it – reliably and almost effortlessly – during our newest class, Thriving in the Growth Zone.

“Thriving in the Growth Zone” is a LIVE 90-minute weekly class taught online. Between classes, you’ll have opportunities to practice coming out of your comfort zone and moving into the Growth Zone.

When you learn how to thrive in your Growth Zone, you’ll:

• Meet challenges with greater courage and ease
• Feel more confident navigating new situations
• Break through barriers and advance in both your personal and professional life
• Give you insights on how to grow in any situation life presents you with
• Feel excited about trying something new

Learn more about this brand-new course here.

The life-expanding program will be taught by Master Certified Coach and Mentor Coach Komala Uta Rohde. A Master Practitioner with Sedona Soul Adventures since 2004, Komala has helped thousands of people with developing a proactive mindset and thriving in the growth zone.

Achieving your dreams requires more than visualizing success and working hard.

You must learn to recognize opportunities, overcome obstacles, build resilience, take risks, remain persistent, and so much more.

These are all skills you’ll develop in Thriving in the Growth Zone. May I tell you more about the program?

“Yes, Debra! I want to know more…”

Enrollment for Thriving in the Growth Zone closes on May 26. Learn more about the program and whether it’s right for you here.

Jill says, “My soul has been guided to lead my best life now. There’s no turning back!”

Jill says her retreat was “life changing” and made her ready to live her best life. How about you? Are you ready?

Call us at (928) 204-5988 or request a call and one of our Soul Guides will call you. They’ll connect with you (or both of you if it’s a couple) and custom design a retreat that will take you from where you are to where you want to be.

Did you know Sedona Soul Adventures was named “Best of Sedona”
for Retreats for 2020, 2021 & 2022,
“Best Marriage Retreats in the US” 2015-2023 and
one of the “11 Best Couples Retreats Around the World”
by Bride’s Magazine in 2022? We were recently named one of Global Radiance Review’s “20 Most Trustworthy Companies of 2023”

It’s because what we do gets results – call us now, let us help. As I always say, if you knew what could happen, you’d be calling right now.

What area of your life do you need help with most right now…

Your relationship?
Finding your life purpose?
Loss of a loved one?
Healing & pampering?
Or is it something else?

Because we’re here for you – and we’re even open on Sunday!

Remember, there’s no cost or obligation to speak with a Soul Guide and have them custom-design the perfect retreat just for you in Sedona or At Home.

Call us at (928) 204-5988 or request a call from one of our
Soul Guides and they will call you.

Wishing you a week filled with fabulous growth!

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You can’t pour from an empty cup; the vicious cycle of not taking care of yourself

It’s so interesting to me, because we seem to have waves of people with the same kind of problems contacting us at the same time about doing a retreat. We’ll have a few weeks of getting nothing but couples who have suffered infidelity and then we’ll have a few weeks of people who have deep issues with not loving themselves, it’s so fascinating how it seems to happen in waves.

Right now the issue that seems to be coming up the most is people who do, do, do for everyone else and can’t give themselves permission to do things to take care of themselves.

They contact us about doing a retreat, they know they need to do something to change their pattern and then when it gets down to making the decision, they just simply cannot give themselves permission to spend the time or the money, but what it really comes down to, they can’t give themselves permission to do something for themselves.

And it’s really frightening to me, because some of these people are actually — quite literally — killing themselves.

They are overworked, overwhelmed and at the end of their rope. And even though they know that they’re killing themselves, they can’t let go of the pattern.

I recognize the pattern because that’s what I was doing to myself over 20 years ago before I came to Sedona.

We had one person who contacted us for the first time over 5 years ago and decided to not do the retreat. Last week she called and said “I finally have to do something.” She’s now much, much worse than she was 5 years ago, her health is suffering, her husband has left her (even after all her caretaking) and she’s so completely burned out at work that she could barely function. She realized “I have to come right now!” and that’s what she did.

This is the vicious cycle I’m talking about that happens when we don’t take care of ourselves. Things just get worse.

We think we’re helping the people around us, but we’re not. We have the thought, “I need to do something to change this” and we might even look into doing something, but then we won’t give ourselves permission to do it, telling ourselves we have to take care of everyone else.

But all that happens is that the problems just get deeper, the resentments get deeper and then the stress starts showing up in health problems, marital strife and just feeling awful most of the time. It just keeps going around and around.

Luckily, her Soul Adventure got at the underlying issues that were causing all this (especially around her belief that she has to do things for people in order for them to love her, which was all tangled up in her trying to please her father) and she really came back into connection.

I swear she looked twenty years younger when she came into the office at the end of her retreat to say goodbye and thank us. But the best part is that she feels in a completely different space than when she came, she knows that a fundamental shift and change has happened, she knows her life has changed and is going to continue to live the change.

And that’s the key — to do something about this, you actually have to do something to make a change. Something like a vacation doesn’t do it. I used to take vacations to try to relieve my stress and unhappiness and I would have a week of feeling a little better, but then I would come back to the same old stuff and the same old me.

It always reminds me of what they tell you when you fly. If the cabin pressure drops and you’re traveling with a child or an infirm person, put your air mask on first and THEN help them put on their mask.

The reasoning is very simple. The sooner you take care of yourself, the more you’re increasing your chances that you’re going to be able to help the other person.

In the time it takes to try to put the mask on the child (who may be kicking and screaming), air pressure in the cabin can drop so low that you’re not in a position to be able to help anyone, let alone your child.

Taking care of yourself first means you’re better able to take care of others.

So I was thinking about all this and out of nowhere I suddenly saw this image online.

What a perfect synchronicity!

I call it God winking at me – telling me I’m on the right track thinking and writing about this.

Are you feeling empty?
Are you running on fumes?
Do you know that you need to be doing something to take care of yourself, but you keep putting it off?

Stop! You aren’t doing anyone any favors (least of all yourself) by not doing something to take care of yourself.

Please contact us. I promise you there is something underneath this issue, something that goes deeper than not just taking care of yourself. Speak with one of our Soul Guides and they’ll get to the root of the issue that’s holding you back from living a life of joy and ease.

Call us at (928) 204-5988 or request a call and one of our Soul Guides will call you. They’ll connect with you (or both of you if it’s a couple) and custom design a retreat that will take you from where you are to where you want to be.

Kris says that after learning “the importance of taking care of me, I am truly happy for the first time in more than 40 years”

“I was truly blessed to have this Soul Adventure, and now that I am back at home the benefits of my experience have become obvious to all of those around me. I am truly happy for the first time in more than 40 years of living life! I had always been there to make sure everyone else was happy, and now I have learned that I can be there for others without denying myself. I love myself! I have learned the importance of taking care of me! I am now touching the lives of others in a most positive way. Friends and family both, have expressed a deep interest in my experiences. I feel loved!”
~ Kris A., Orting, Washington

Did you know Sedona Soul Adventures was named “Best of Sedona”
for Retreats for 2020, 2021 & 2022,
“Best Marriage Retreats in the US” 2015-2023 and
one of the “11 Best Couples Retreats Around the World”
by Bride’s Magazine in 2022? We were recently named one of Global Radiance Review’s “20 Most Trustworthy Companies of 2023”

It’s because what we do gets results – call us now, let us help. As I always say, if you knew what could happen, you’d be calling right now.

What area of your life do you need help with most right now…

Your relationship?
Finding your life purpose?
Loss of a loved one?
Healing & pampering?
Or is it something else?

Because we’re here for you – and we’re even open on Sunday!

Remember, there’s no cost or obligation to speak with a Soul Guide and have them custom-design the perfect retreat just for you in Sedona or At Home.

Call us at (928) 204-5988 or request a call from one of our
Soul Guides and they will call you.

Wishing you a week filled with radical self care!

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“This was the best day of my life”

A while back, I got an email from someone who had just been here doing their Sedona Soul Adventures retreat a few months before and she told me she wanted to tell me about her adventure. She said there had been all these incredible miracles that happened before she came and then during her retreat and since she had gone home.

I called her and we had so much fun talking about all the incredible things that had happened.

The one word that sums this up is “empowerment.” There were lots of things in Kelly’s past that were causing lots of problems. A father who had a lot of self-hatred and self-loathing, traits which she believes she also took on. Then when she was 19, her first sexual experience was a rape. You can imagine the kinds of problems all of that was causing for her.

She first told me about all these incredible things that were happening before she even came to Sedona, signs that were telling her that she was doing the right thing by doing a retreat with us in Sedona.

Then she started describing some of her sessions. 

She did a Karmic Clearing, a session which is designed to clear out karma from past lives that is no longer serving you. The information that came in was from a past life where she was a Mother Superior in a convent. She started doing her own teachings and when the Church found out about it, they executed her by hanging.

She told me, “I’ve always had a kink in my neck, it’s the strangest thing and now it’s gone!”

Another lifetime came in where there was a father figure and a brother who was abusing her sister. She felt a tremendous amount of guilt and took on aspects of personal self loathing, self hatred and shame, which also felt like a reflection on her dad’s personality in this lifetime. She said during the session, she felt all of these elements just lifted.

She said, “I really got it that I’ve been carrying around baggage that I just don’t need anymore.”

But the next session of Radiant Heart Healing really took the cake. She realized that her heart chakra had been closed since the rape had happened all those many years ago and that her 2nd chakra (the sacral chakra, the sexual chakra) was also closed. Not at all surprising considering everything that had happened to her.

In the session they both came open! She said, “It was the most amazing experience, I don’t even know how it happened.”

She told me, “This was the best day of my life!”

I asked her what happened next and she said, “The next day was also the best day of my life!”

She did her Breath Journey and she said, “I couldn’t believe what could happen just with using my breath and moving the energy.” From what she described to me, she effortlessly went into the altered state.

She said, “I started doing the breath and I thought, I can’t keep this up for an hour and then my legs started tingling, and suddenly I felt all this energy at the base of my spine. It started coming across my body, and it felt like a freight train combined with a lightning bolt, almost like I stuck my finger in an electrical socket. It was so exhilarating and powerful. Suddenly I saw a ball of energy 6 inches high. I’ve never felt anything like that before. It started moving up, then it went into my sacral chakra, maybe 10-15 minutes, then moved up again and stopped in my heart, then picks up speed, got stronger, vibrating, shaking, and it stayed a long time in my heart. Then it moved down to my hands, still in my heart, down to my hands, all areas are lit up, fire balls of energy, balls of energy in my hands, huge balls of energy, I’m crying and laughing and it went on for 20-30 minutes, laughing and crying, I can’t even talk, I can’t see anything. I got a clear message this was not a human energy, a clear message that the energy in my hands was significant going forward.”

She said, “This was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me. All the energy that went through my second chakra and my heart did so much healing.”

When I asked her what she meant by the energy in her hands was significant going forward, she said, “I know my work is going to change and I need to be doing work with this energy to help other people.”

The next day she had her final two sessions and in the first one she learned a new process to really help her stay grounded and to more completely ground in the experiences that had happened. The final session is Intuitive Integration (which we have everyone do), to go over what happened and to take steps to integrate everything into her life.

She went home and when I spoke with her (which was 2 months after she had completed her retreat), she said, “My life has completely changed.” She said she’s open and happy and connected. She knows she’s on a new path and it’s been exciting to watch that unfold.

I encouraged her to keep on doing the Breath Journey at home and to use the new tools she had received. She told me that when she did the Breath Journey, she felt the energy in her hands again. She knows she’s supposed to do work with this energy and that will be happening. It’s so exciting.

One of the people at her work noticed the changes in her and now she came to do a Soul Adventure and also had an incredible retreat. I love that!

Wow! It’s still so amazing to me what happens, even after all these years and thousands of people. It is so fantastic that someone can come here after years and years of being shut down and have their life completely open up.

Would you like to have your life completely open up? I’ll tell you, I don’t believe there’s anything worse than living a life of quiet desperation as most people are doing. I believe we come to this planet to live lives of joy, happiness, and connection and we can do that, but first we have to learn how.

We have to learn how to move through pain, trauma, and disappointments and move into the energy of love, peace, and empowerment.

Connect with us. Talk with one of our Soul Guides and they’ll custom design the retreat that’s perfect for you to come into the life (or the relationship) you’re craving.

Kelly did it – you can too.

Call us at (928) 204-5988 or request a call and one of our Soul Guides will call you.

Did you know Sedona Soul Adventures was named “Best of Sedona”
for Retreats for 2020, 2021 & 2022,
“Best Marriage Retreats in the US” 2015-2023 and
one of the “11 Best Couples Retreats Around the World”
by Bride’s Magazine in 2022? We were recently named one of Global Radiance Review’s “20 Most Trustworthy Companies of 2023”

It’s because what we do gets results – call us now, let us help. As I always say, if you knew what could happen, you’d be calling right now.

What area of your life do you need help with most right now…

Your relationship?
Finding your life purpose?
Loss of a loved one?
Healing & pampering?
Or is it something else?

Because we’re here for you – and we’re even open on Sunday!

Remember, there’s no cost or obligation to speak with a Soul Guide and have them custom-design the perfect retreat just for you in Sedona or At Home.

Call us at (928) 204-5988 or request a call from one of our
Soul Guides and they will call you.

Wishing you a week filled with energy and excitement!