What Our Culture Fails to Teach Us

About Being in Relationship.

 

I am always excited when I hear from a couple requesting a private intensive with me because I know they will be astonished to discover why traditional talk therapy (while useful in many good ways) cannot bring about the revolutionary understanding: Relationship as a spiritual journey. Relationship, and particularly marriage as a pathway for sharing and supporting individual self-awareness and healing of old childhood patterns. Relationship is a sacred pathway for truth-serving clarity in life (whether staying and growing to the next level together, or parting ways from love and honor).

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The old sages called marriage: "The Way of The Householder". It is considered the most difficult of life paths... and many of us (myself included) can relate! Ram Das (a western philosopher) once said: "Think you're evolved or enlightened? Go spend a week with your parents"

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Couples who come to work with me, universally are astonished ...and then intrigued, and then afraid, and then delighted, and then empowered by rediscovery of one's own subconscious blocks and early conditioning that have been stirring up, facilitating, and colliding with their partner and those with whom they are most close. 

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The SoulArts one-on-one private retreat intensives for couples have become highly requested. This gives me hope. Hope that more couples will reach out, step in, and reclaim the inner heart of relationship as a journey of personal-growth, integrity, and life purpose fulfilled.  It gives me hope that more people will find the lost art which culture fails to teach us: The art of true intimacy and the challenges of opening self-awareness, wisdom, peace and generosity as we naturally and consciously grow in relationship with ourselves first - and so, more authentically with others.

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Haven't you heard (or even asked) this question:

 

"Why is it that those with whom I am most close and intimate are the ones that I often most hurt, argue with, deceive or who just plain press my hot buttons?"

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And boy, when that question-code is cracked during this retreat, and a new self-dawning emerges, you will be amazed that the maze of conflict negotiating and psycho-cross analysis over just who's more at fault - STOPS. 

 

There is inner stillness.

 

And then comes hope (and a huge relief for most) while experiencing a new tool of communication that My husband and life partner call  Couples Soul Counsel & Meditation Practice TM). 

 

This communication protocol we share, demonstrate, and guide starts from a clean slate of soulful self-reflection, personal truth and responsibility; it stops the circular cycles of finger-pointing, pouting, and positioning; it "cuts to the chase"; and re-establishes a pathway for clarity, personal character and the courage to follow your deepest truth while honoring and respecting the deepest truth of your partner.

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My husband Matt and I have used this protocol since the beginning of our relationship. We have developed and refined this, which I first learned the roots of when studying with a wise master-teacher - an elder, highly studied and respected older Jewish man of deep wisdom and no nonsense wizardry who is now in his very late 90's!  He not only guided me through my own deep psychology, spirituality, and mental-mind chatter, but he saved me decades of mistakes in relationship and in life during my 30's, 40's, 50's... and still counting...

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My work with individuals and couples comes in large part from the mentoring style and impact this elder mentor had on my life. 

 

I am always tenderly touched when couples working and staying with us marvel in awe, that they had "no idea that this sort of understanding was available, and are stunned to have accomplished more in 48 hours than years of counseling and other workshops".  

 

...If my life (now in my 60's) can save you a few decades (or a lifetime) of lost self-truth and old dysfunctional patterns of thought, then my life is of meaningful purpose.

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ronda larue

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Ronda LaRue offers a very novel approach to couples counseling, marriage relationship healing, personal growth and awakening. Beyond “talk therapy”,  her couples work is revolutionary in its life-changing individual healing approaches, with specific and individually-tailored take home tools.  Today people contact Ronda from all over the world to experience individual clarity, healing, new direction and communication together in marriages facing crisis, loss, infidelity, or other crossroads of stagnation. 

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SEE:   YOUTUBE PLAYLIST:  Marriage Crossroads, Relationship Healing, Retreat Experiences

Series of informational videos, interviews, and testimonials from couples who have worked with Ronda.​