There comes a moment when insight alone is no longer enough, and a life must begin to reorganize itself around a deeper truth.

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My work has been shaped by a long devotion to these moments—the inner crossings where mind, body, and spirit are asked to come into alignment so that what is known can finally be lived. Much of what you’ll find here grew from staying present to these passages, allowing meaning to emerge through expression rather than force. My hope is that something here meets you where you are and supports what is ready to take form.

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By way of background: After graduate school and earning a Master’s of Science degree in Applied Social Research, I founded and spent three decades running a strategic planning company serving governments, non-profits, and corporations. It was meaningful work, and it suited my analytic mind — right up until the day something far more potent rose to the surface and altered the course of my life.

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That change came through a personal breakdown and breakthrough in my mid-40s — an experience that opened a way of seeing and listening that I could never have anticipated. What it revealed was a perceptual gift that rearranged my direction entirely. The early years of this awakening are chronicled in my unintended book Remembering Who You Really Are, from my work to simply try and understand what was happening in my life, and long before I imagined it might become of help to others. ...Only later did I realize it was the beginning of a path that would allow others to step into their own inner knowing as well.

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Not long after that book was published, people began contacting me, and an unexpected soul-work began to unfold in Ojai, California. And for the next twenty five years, hundreds of people from around the world came to sit with me during some of the most pivotal seasons of their lives — times of grief and loss, reinvention, creative emergence, spiritual awakening, and profound inner reckoning. We worked privately, soul-to-soul, in my informal home setting shaped by symbol, presence, and the receptive inner-listening artistry I came to call SoulArts.

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One truth became unmistakable in those years: the wisdom people seek is already alive within them. It becomes visible through symbol, art, and the willingness to engage the unknown — to converse with the deeper language of soul. Many — if not most — who came to me had tried everything: therapy, role play, deep analysis, journaling, meditation, ashrams, pills — only to discover that the clarity they longed for had been waiting within them all along, accessible the moment they entered this symbolic dialogue with psyche and soul.

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Now, in Ashland, Oregon, that same spirit of work lives on at The Vista House, where Matt and I feel ever-blessed to make our home. It is not a retreat center — it is a lived-in, art-filled, light-laced space that has naturally become a gathering place for artists, thinkers, musicians, seekers, neighbors, and those drawn to meaningful conversation or a moment of reflection. What began in Ojai continues here in a new form: intimate, grounded, creative, and carried by the same soul-engaging presence that has always led the way.

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I invite you to meander this site. There is a lot here that I hope and trust may serve your own inner dialogue and next healing/opening pathway. 

 

And should think you might like to participate in my forthcoming online SoulArts Studio where we will be engaging in SoulArts, please do sign up for my new mailing list. I never share or over email!  

 

Blessings on deeply meeting and coming to know the unique genius that is your true self and path…

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-rondalarue

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