TranceBreakers Newsletter

 I've been on the phone with hundreds of people over the past fifteen years who all made the same call. They wanted to come to Sedona to save their marriage. They'd done the research. They were ready to invest the time, the money, the emotional energy. They had hope. And then, near the end of the call, their voice would drop. And they'd tell me the truth. Their partner wouldn't come. Wouldn't read the book. Wouldn't try the counselor. Wouldn't take the call. Wouldn't even talk about it. And I would hear this question, sometimes spoken, sometimes just hanging in the silence between us: What do I do when I'm the only one trying? That question haunted me for years. Because I didn't have a good answer. Everything I knew about couples work assumed two willing people. Two people in the room. Two people holding the rope. And then one day I realized the rope was the whole problem. Picture a tug of war. Two people, pulling hard, leaning back, gri...

There's a kind of heartbreak that doesn't get talked about much. You're with someone you love. Someone who is genuinely good. Someone who shows up in real ways. And yet you keep walking away from conversations feeling unseen, unheard, and a little crazy. You start to wonder if you're asking too much. You're not. You're just shopping at the wrong store. Here's the picture I keep returning to. Imagine you walk into a hardware store hungry. You ask for a ham sandwich. The clerk looks at you like you've lost your mind. They don't sell sandwiches. They never have. But you keep going back, week after week, ordering the sandwich, getting more upset each time it doesn't arrive. That's what some relationships feel like. Not because the partner is bad. The hardware store is a good hardware store. He provides real things. Steadiness. Partnership. Logic. Reliability. Care expressed through fixing the leak and balancing the checkbook and showing up at eve...

  There is a question I've been sitting with lately: How do we know when we're facing a mindset challenge... and how do we know when something deeper is asking for our attention? As coaches, healers, and growth-minded people, we're trained to look inward. We ask: What belief is creating this? What fear is driving this? What story am I telling myself? What lesson is trying to emerge? These are powerful questions. But every now and then life offers a different answer. Sometimes the issue isn't a belief. Sometimes the issue isn't emotional. Sometimes the body is trying to get our attention. The Slow Fade Rarely does a person wake up one morning and announce: "Something is wrong." More often it begins quietly. The patience gets shorter. The joy feels harder to access. Small frustrations seem bigger than they used to. Things that once felt exciting now feel like obligations. Relationships become more difficult. Life starts to feel heavier. Most people assume th...

A simple practice for letting your feelings actually land. Most people don't pause long enough to let their own feelings land. We tell the story. We explain the situation. We give the context. We move quickly through the what happened and the why I'm upset and the what I should do about it . And the whole time, the feeling itself, the actual experience in the body, never gets a chance to be felt. So I've started using a phrase with my clients lately. Pause that for a second. Where do you feel that in your body? It's not stop . Stop sounds like put it away, we're done with that . Pause is different. Pause says we'll come back to the story in a minute. Right now, let's actually feel what's there. A Story About Grief That Wasn't About Death I did this with a long-term client recently. He'd been telling me about something that had been quietly bothering him for weeks. Surface story. Work frustration. Family logistics. I asked him to pause, dr...

 By Rick Reynolds | TranceBreakers  A client reached out to me recently. She's an intuitive, deeply self-aware woman who has done years of serious inner work. She had a question before booking a session. "I've already done many of these things. Is receiving it all in one document more powerful than what I've received separately over the years?" And then the real question underneath: "I'm having an internal struggle with some of the personality profiler things. I want it to be helpful, but I don't want it to put me in a box. I find some people use their behavior as an excuse — 'That's because I'm a Cancer.' Or 'I'm a Manifesting Generator so that's why I behave this way.' Do you think this is a good investment for me knowing I've done so much already?" She was right to ask. And her concern is one I hear often from the people who are most ready for this work. So let me answer it honestly — for her and for anyone ...

 By Rick Reynolds By Rick Reynolds After more than two decades working in hypnosis, transformational coaching, energy work, and spiritual healing, I’ve noticed something fascinating: People approach spirituality in wildly different ways. Some people experience spirituality through intuition. Some through psychology. Some through energy. Some through meditation, prayer, synchronicity, or mystical experiences. Some want structure and certainty. Others want freedom and exploration. And honestly? I’ve had personal experiences I cannot fully explain through logic alone. Moments that felt deeply meaningful. Profound. Even life changing. But over the years, something has become more important to me than trying to prove whether every spiritual experience is objectively “real.” What matters most to me now is this: Does the experience help someone reconnect with themselves in a healthy, grounded, empowering way? Or does it create more fear, dependency, confusion, or disconnection from their ...

  I first came to Sedona in 1990, long before it became a spiritual buzzword. Back then, the red rocks called to me the way a waterfall does—something bigger, older, and wiser than words. Locals spoke about “vortexes” the way you’d talk about the wind. Not to impress anyone. Just to point toward something you could feel . They told me the shape and mineral makeup of the land caused the Earth’s natural magnetic and electric energy to swirl in these places. Not in a spooky way—just like tuning forks or resonant chambers. If you were out of alignment, you might feel it like a jolt or a rush. But if you were in tune with the frequency? You’d just feel still. Like peace had pulled up a chair. Over the years, I’ve seen thousands come here searching for clarity, healing, release, or just a reason to breathe deeper. And while science has yet to “prove” vortexes are real, I’ve also never seen a peer-reviewed study on love. Doesn’t mean it’s not real. I’m not here to convince anyone. I’m...

If you’ve started down the road of self improvement, read any books, spent any time in therapy or done just about any work on yourself then you likely already know the importance of loving one’s self.   You’ve likely already heard, that you can’t truly love another until you fully love yourself.   That the emptiness you’re seeking to fill with the love of another first needs to be filled with your own love. If you’ve never read or been told this before, well now you know. If you already know this, are you really doing this?   Most of the clients I work with know full well the value and importance of self love.   They could likely write a blog post all about it.   But many have yet to fully believe they are lovable and as a result are not actually loving themselves or in most cases fear that they don’t truly love themselves. A part of this comes from having two brains,   the Intellectual and the emotional, the left and the righ...

What do you want to create in your life over the next 10 years?   Are you in search of more love, more abundance, more fun, more adventure, enlightenment?   What holds you back?   Have you chosen your theme for 2020 yet?   "2020 is my year of _____" .   It all begins with setting intentions.Here in Sedona we start every Soul Adventure with a Powerful Intention and light a candle.   When our clients get real about what they’re intending to create by their experience in Sedona the magic begins.   By the time we see them on their last day most have not only achieved their intended goals but surpassed them and surprised themselves along the way. Now is the time to set your intentions for 2020 or the entire decade if you wish.   You may want to actually write them down. Studies have shown that written goals are far more likely to be met than the ones we just think to ourselves.   Take a moment before the new year arrives ...

I was just looking at my stats for the year and so far I’ve done 493 coaching sessions.   Most of those calls have been so powerful that  I have  wished you all could hear them.   We’ve had amazing breakthroughs, aha moments, realizations, and healing insights.   I’ve shared techniques and resources again and again that are improving lives.   My coaching slots are nearly full each week and I know my clients could all use more time and there are many that just can’t afford one on one coaching.   I’ve decided to start offering group coaching calls .   Click here to sign up. When one person heals, we all heal.   When you listen to someone else working through their issues you can’t help but apply the lesson to your own life.   I’ve decided to give up two Saturday mornings (Sedona Time) a month to offer an affordable group coaching experience. Click here to see the time in your time zone and sign up. For just $20 you ca...

Tired of waiting to be happy? The search for perfection and the drive to get things right and the fear of making mistakes are all a part of the toxic thinking that sabotages my clients ability to just enjoy their lives exactly as they are.   Many of us have been taught that if we like our lives   or ourselves as we are then we are settling or compromising.   We have come to believe that being unhappy with the way things are is essential to creating and getting what we want. We are waiting for a time when things are better in order to be happy.   The problem is things rarely improve enough to stop the waiting and we’re postponing our happiness indefinitely.   What if you were to just find life perfect just as it is right here right now?   What if instead of waiting for things to get better you allowed yourself to just be happy now?   Wouldn’t it be easier to make the changes you desire in your life if you were happy?   ...

Is your soul nudging you to explore your past lives?   Is there a lesson you learned in a previous life that you need to remember right now?   Do you have a connection to a person or place or culture that feels deep and profound like it goes beyond this life? Perhaps it’s time to explore your past lives.   You may have heard the often quoted phrase that “those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it”   What if that is true for our own past lives? I’ve put together a little just for fun test to see if you’re being called to explore your past lives. These are simple yes or no questions.   Circle the ones that are a yes then add them up and we’ll see what that means. 1. Have you ever visited a place for the first time, yet felt like you had been there before? 2. Do you have a strong draw to a culture, religion, ethnicity that is not your own? 3. Are there certain foods that absolutely repulse you without any logical reason? ...