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Powerful Resources from 10 Years of Retreat-Leading Experience
About Darla
There are two things that have made a difference for me more than anything else on my journey to right here.
- Alignment. Aligning with my spiritual Truth has created a priceless internal freedom.
- Retreats. Connection heals and healing frees. To risk being truly seen, in a retreat community, creates permanent transformation.
Kurt Wright said, “We can only trust that part of ourselves that we have revealed to another person and had validated instead of violated.” This simple statement demonstrates why small, safe-space, truth-based retreats are such powerful tools for empowerment. Once we experience ourselves in a new way, we can’t un-know who we now are. And live retreats create experiences in a way no self-help book (or virtual program, or information-packed big event) ever could.
If you are someone who creates a safe space of non-judgement in which people can share their Truth (or people just tend to tell you stuff), or if you love to dig into the root cause of an issue to shift it at its core, you might a transformational entrepreneur and a powerful retreat leader. Join us!
Recent Posts
Toss the plans and burn the strategies!
I am uncomfortable even writing this. (Toss the plans and burn the strategies). I don’t know if you know this or not but I am a ‘recovering engineer.’ As an engineer, if you can’t recreate a result, it’s not real! So imagine my surprise in recent years as everything...
Easy there, shadow
Have you ever done “shadow work”? I first learned about shadow work through the writings of Debbie Ford. Her book “The Dark Side of the Light Chasers” crossed my path several times and I couldn’t bring myself to read it because I thought the title was so dumb....
Save Me From My Tears
So many people talk about living life differently. About ‘transformation’ and ‘empowerment’ and ‘consciousness’ and ‘healing’ and the like. I love this kind of talk because it changes the world. However many simply give lip service to the idea, yet ‘go unconscious’...
Upper limit problem & the cycle of proving
Years ago I developed a teaching that has impacted my own life and my clients lives called the Cycle of Proving. This happened right after I had relocated from Cincinnati to Denver, allowing myself to rent a big, beautiful house that felt beyond my budget, just for...
Honor Your Rhythm: how to harness your innate pace, even when it pisses people off, including yourself!
I woke up feeling just fine in the morning… until I didn’t. We’ve been busy moving and unpacking, which has been much more challenging on me this time than I’d anticipated. I had my morning coffee, and an unusual morning meeting with a vendor I’ve been collaborating...
How We Heal. #VegasStrong
We were staying on the 7th floor of the Mandalay Bay. For the first time I was grateful for a room without a view. My wife’s video client had a speaking engagement and she was filming at the hotel who’s shot out windows have haunted our televisions since the shooting...
Hurry Up and Heal and Riding the Wave of Alignment
Alignment comes in waves. I sure have ridden enough of them. You get clear, you take action, you expand. Flow happens. (Enjoying the flow is the final step in the Anatomy of a Transformation that I teach). And then you ride that wave for as long as you can before the...
Your Spiritual Side is Showing: How to integrate spirituality in business – Part III
I was in a training for people who suspected they may be 'healers.' I knew I was a 'healer,' I'd known it for years. In fact I'd gone from talking about the 'higher self' to talking about 'intuition,' to talking about Spirit directly (per Parts I and II...
Your Spiritual Side is Showing: How to integrate spirituality in business – Part II
I was in coaching school in Chicago, IL. I was so proud of myself because I'd made the decision to fly myself in for my training weekends, rather than driving the 4 or so hours from Cincinnati, OH where I was living at the time. I hadn't done much studying in the...
Your Spiritual Side is Showing: How to integrate spirituality in business – Part I
I remember like it was yesterday my work with Judi. She was a former Catholic who considered herself agnostic at best, bordering on atheist. I was almost two years into leaving my corporate job in favor of creating a coaching business. With a couple of certifications...
Conscious Relationship for Spiritual Entrepreneurs: Being Fully Yourself With a Partner Who May or May Not Like It
Four years ago my wife and I (then partners) went on our first retreat together as a couple. We dove deep into our patterns and projections and the things that were true about ourselves that we were trying to hide from the world. Were it not for this experience I am...
Charlottesville, Retreats, and Healing Hearts
When I was in high school I found an ad in a magazine for an all-girls engineering camp in Hoboken, New Jersey. I was instantly drawn to it. I was a kid who was good at math and science and my math teacher has suggested I become an engineer. I grew up in a town of 500...