Dear Common Awakening Community,

I’ve always had a sense of not belonging or of standing slightly outside in some way. This feeling was about my own personal experiences and was also a larger sense of the meaning of life and why we are here. Do I really belong?

This sense of longing to belong is a 1 Thing and it led me into healing work, where I trained as a psychotherapist almost 30 years ago and developed extensive expertise in many therapeutic models as well as training new therapists as a Professor of Counseling. These models were wonderful and very helpful, but they didn’t address the larger questions about my belonging and purpose. I felt like I was hitting an edge I couldn’t get past. I couldn’t figure out how to transcend into the more that my heart most wanted. 

It was my first unexpected experience of an Expanded Event that dramatically shifted me. I felt an immediacy of connection and belonging and a re-ordering of my inner narrative completely apart from my thoughts. I had no idea what was happening. I was in an expanded space where I knew beyond the mind and felt directly connected to a source of love that was abiding. I was home.

I felt “changed” after the encounter, and I set off on the risky path of learning more about expansion and how to work with energy. I became trained in Integrative Energetic Medicine and learned to work directly with intuition and subtle knowing. I was gifted with opportunities to meet sacred plant medicines and began exploring ways to expand using various modalities in my own life and in my work with others.

My deep questions about Belonging were answered through Expansion experiences that allowed me to come home to who I truly am and to feel my life, my very existence, in a new, transformative way. You can also come home and find your belonging by learning to Position in a new way (one that is expanded) that will change your Perception (what you see, feel, know, hear from a larger space) that will shift your Perspective on your life making you feel better and live with greater purpose and ease.

We offer opportunities to have your own Expansion Event at our in-person Expanded Statework Retreats. In these retreats, we provide the research behind expansion and walk you through what happens when the mind quiets, making space for a larger wisdom to come forth. We highlight research on breathwork and give you opportunities to experience guided expansion experiences in our experiential sessions.

Annie and I have years of training, and we provide a safe, supportive container for you to bring your own 1 Thing into our space and feel the purposeful potentials that help you transcend your own boundaries and come home for good. Expansion is the key to transcending our circumstances.

Are you ready to get beyond your 1 Thing?

With love,

Annmarie

P.S. If you aren’t sure if an in-person retreat is for you or if you don’t know what your 1 Thing is, book a Free Discovery Call with either Annie or me, and we will listen with you and answer any questions to help you decide if having an Expansion experience is for you.