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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
Team Truth Series Part 3 (Of 5): How To Make The Right Decisions When Hiring And Managing Your Team
One of the greatest gifts 2016 brought me was the growth of the team supporting me in my big mission and helping me develop Aligned Entrepreneurs in line with my vision to help even more entrepreneurs discover the power of small retreats. Today it’s time for Part...
The Flow Paradox
This week my book went into the final stage of the editing process. We’re starting to make plans for the big launch happening in Spring next year, and I’m feeling so excited about the ripple effect it’s going to have once it’s out in the world. Putting what I’ve...
Team Truth Series Part 2 (Of 5): How To Find The Right Support With Marketing
Growing a team is one of the most rewarding parts of owning a business that thrives. There’s nothing like the feeling of connecting with awesome people who share your vision and can bring their own unique talents to contribute to the change you’re making in the world....
The Most Powerful Healing There Is
One thing that is very clear is that now is not the time for sitting back behind our laptops and hoping things will work out how we want them to. In order to move forward, we need to take action. We need to commit to moving past our fears and resistance, stepping out...
Team Truth Series Part 1 (Of 5): Do You Embrace Support?
Today I’d like to share another kind of gratitude – a gratitude for the people who support us in doing our transformational work in the world. Our teams! Introducing Part One of our Team Truth interview series with my team, with my Retreats Manager Jana Rezucha. In it...
How will you respond? (4 Suggested Steps)
How will you respond today? And tomorrow and the next? I’m writing you here from Mexico – I am on retreat with my team. We are diligently working (and some play) on our 2017 plan for how we can support retreat leaders at the next level in the coming year. Today in the...
The Success Shake Up
I’m Darla Recovering engineer, Type A control freak at your service. If i can do this you can too! I could give you all of my credentials but that would defeat the purpose here, because the truth is… I filed for divorce and lost my stepdad to cancer in one helluva...
How to Create a Powerful Shift In Your Retreat: The 4 Key Pillars Every Retreat Leader Must Know
I just completed leading my sixth retreat helping retreat leaders to develop their Signature Transformational Retreat. (Learn more about it here). I’d like to share with you one of my favorite pieces of content from the retreat that creates a profound shift for the...
The world’s best decision-making tool
This week I’ve been spending any free time I have working on editing my book – due to launch in Feb-Mar! At the request of my editor I have included in the first chapter a tool that I recommend for guiding decision-making called The Decision Grid. As with everything I...
Are you in your body?
I was a fat kid. It happened almost overnight that I put on weight and suddenly became that kid. My grandparents passed an appreciation for polka on to my mom, and one of her favorites she used to sing was "The Too Fat Polka." Do you know it? (The tame version:...
I hid in the bathroom (how to captivate)
As you may know I just recently submitted my new book manuscript for review. I’m now preparing to busily work on the edits. What fun! In the book I share the story of my very first networking event I attended. Well, I use the word attended lightly as it went more like...
Give It To Me I’m Worth It…
I’ve had a strange relationship to self-esteem in my life. If you’d met me in my twenties I would have told you that I was smart and confident and thought I could do anything. And I would have believed it. I’d always gotten good grades. I worked for one of the top...