March 27 – April 1, 2026 | Costa Rica

Break Free From the Narcissistic Abuse That's Been Running Your Family Whether You're the Child, Now Adult Who Was Wounded or the Parent Being Erased

A 6-day plant medicine immersion for those healing from narcissistic family trauma – adult children breaking free from toxic parents AND alienated parents fighting to stay connected to their kids.

Two Paths Into the Same Wound

Narcissistic abuse doesn’t just hurt one person. It fractures entire family systems.
And it creates two kinds of thrivers:

Path One: The Adult Child

You grew up with a narcissistic, emotionally unavailable, or wounded parent. Maybe it was your mother – controlling, critical, incapable of seeing you as a separate person. Maybe it was your father – absent, rageful, or so wrapped up in himself that you became invisible.
 
Either way, you’ve spent decades carrying what they put in you:
You’ve done the therapy. You understand the dynamics. But understanding hasn’t set you free. You might be estranged from your parent – by choice or by circumstance. Or you might still be in contact, managing the relationship while the wound festers underneath.
 
Either way, you’re ready to release what was never yours to carry.

Path Two: The Rejected Parent

Your narcissistic ex has weaponized your children against you.
 
Through manipulation, lies, and a relentless campaign of erasure, they’ve turned your kids into weapons, and you into a ghost in your own family.
 
You’re not estranged because of anything you did. You’re estranged because a narcissist needed to win. And your children are the battlefield.
 
The trauma you’re carrying isn’t just grief, it’s injustice. It’s rage. It’s the particular hell of losing someone who’s still alive.
 
You’ve fought in courts. You’ve tried to stay connected. You’ve done everything “right.” But the wound is still there. And it’s eating you alive.

The Common Ground

Whether you’re the child or the parent, you’re carrying trauma that was inflicted by narcissistic abuse in a family system.
Whether you’re healing FROM a toxic parent or healing from what a toxic ex did to your relationship with your children, the wound lives in the same place.
In your nervous system.
In your body.
In the patterns you can’t seem to break no matter how hard you try.
The Sacred Return holds space for both paths.
Because in ceremony, there are no sides. There is only truth. There is only the release of what was never yours. There is only the breaking of cycles that should have ended generations ago.
Your path into this room might be different.
But the healing is the same.

Why 6 Days Can Do What 10 Years of Therapy Couldn't

Let me be direct: Talk therapy is valuable. I’m not against it. But talk therapy has a limitation: it works with the conscious mind.
 
And trauma doesn’t live in your conscious mind. It lives in your body. Your nervous system. Your cellular memory. You can talk about the wound for decades. But the wound isn’t listening. Plant medicine is different.
 
Plant medicine doesn’t talk TO your trauma. It talks WITH it. It bypasses the thinking mind – the part that analyzes, rationalizes, protects – and goes directly to where the wound actually lives.
 
In ceremony, people access memories their conscious mind had locked away. They feel emotions their body had been storing for decades. They see patterns they couldn’t see from inside them. And they release.
 
Not intellectually. Somatically.
 
They shake. They cry. They scream. They laugh. They move the energy that’s been stuck for 20, 30, 40 years. And they come out different. Not because they “learned something.” Because they let go of something.
 
That’s what’s possible in 6 days. But only in the right container.

Imagine Waking Up Without the Weight

Close your eyes for a moment. Imagine waking up tomorrow and the first thought isn’t self-criticism.
Imagine getting a text from your mother and feeling… nothing. Not rage. Not guilt. Not anxiety. Just peace.
Imagine setting a boundary and feeling proud instead of terrified.
Imagine looking in the mirror and actually liking the person looking back.
Imagine going through an entire holiday season without needing a week to recover.
Imagine your kids growing up without the invisible weight you’ve been carrying.
Imagine being free.
Not “working on it” free. Not “managing it” free.
Actually free.
Free from the shame that was never yours.
Free from the guilt that was installed in you before you could speak.
Free from the voice in your head that sounds like her.
Free to be yourself – fully, unapologetically, without performing or shrinking or apologizing for your existence.
This isn’t fantasy.
This is what’s possible when you stop trying to think your way out of trauma, and finally let your body release what it’s been holding.
This is what happens at Breaking the Cycle and Embracing Your Sacred Return.

I've Lived Both Sides of This Wound

My name is Dorcy Pruter. I’ve spent 20+ years in the trenches of family trauma, and I’ve seen it from every angle.
I was the alienated child.
 
At 18, I left home and cut off contact with my mother for nearly three years. I was the scapegoat – blamed for everything, exiled for telling the truth. I carried shame that wasn’t mine for decades before I finally released it.
 
I’ve worked with thousands of alienated parents. Through the Conscious Co-Parenting Institute, I’ve helped parents navigate the nightmare of narcissistic co-parents, parental alienation, and family court. I’ve developed reunification protocols. I’ve trained professionals. I’ve seen families torn apart, and I’ve seen them come back together.
 
I understand the wound from both sides. The adult child who needs to heal from what their parent did. The alienated parent who needs to heal from what their ex is doing. These aren’t opposing stories. They’re two chapters of the same book – a book about what narcissistic abuse does to families.
 
And I’ve dedicated my life to helping people close that book and start a new one.
 
Plant medicine was part of my own healing. It took me places that 20 years of other work couldn’t reach. And now I guide others through that same doorway.
 
I’m not asking you to trust a theory. I’m asking you to trust someone who’s lived this, from both sides, and found the way through.

Everything You Need to Break the Chain — In One Immersive Week

The 6-Day Sacred Return Immersion
Value: $15,000

The complete retreat experience: opening ceremony, multiple plant medicine ceremonies, daily integration circles, closing ritual. You’ll be guided by Dorcy and a team of experienced facilitators who understand trauma-informed care – and who understand alienation.

UPON ENROLLMENT – Path-Specific Prep Call
Value: $297
During your pre-retreat preparation, you’ll have a 1:1 call focused on YOUR specific path:
  • Adult children: We’ll map your inherited role, identify the patterns you’re ready to release, and set intentions specific to the parent wound.
  • Alienated parents: We’ll process the grief and rage you’re carrying, set intentions around what you’re ready to release, and prepare you to heal without needing anything from your ex or children to change.
This isn’t one-size-fits-all. Your preparation is tailored to your path.

Pre-Retreat Preparation Protocol
Value: $997

Your transformation begins before you arrive. 30 days of preparation including: Medical screening and intake, 1:1 prep call focused on YOUR specific situation, dietary guidelines and physical preparation, intention-setting exercises, nervous system regulation practices, processing exercises to prepare you for ceremony

Private Charter Flight
Value: $1,500

No buses. No long drives after an international flight. You'll fly by private charter from San José directly to the retreat campus. Arrive rested and ready.

Luxury Accomodations
Value: $3,000 - $7,000 (based on selection)

6 nights in Costa Rica's most beautiful healing sanctuary. Choose from river domes, jungle bungalows, private suites, or exclusive villas.

Gourmet Plant-Based Cuisine
Value: $1,800

Every meal prepared by a private chef - nourishing your body for ceremony and integration.

Daily Somatic Integration
Value: $1,500

The medicine is just the beginning. Each day includes: Morning breathwork and movement, integration circles, embodiment practices to anchor what's releasing, rest and reflection time.

The Integration Vault
Value: $497

90 days of post-retreat support: Audio meditations for continued healing, journaling prompts for integration, somatic practices you can do at home, resources for when old patterns resurface.

2 Post-Retreat Integration Calls
Value: $500

At 2 weeks and 6 weeks post-retreat, you'll join a live group call with Dorcy. These calls are where breakthroughs become permanent shifts.

6 Months Sovereign Soul Collective Access
Value: $600

Ongoing community and monthly calls with Dorcy. You're not alone after the retreat ends.

Emergency Integration Support
Value: $1,000

Private Community Access to Our Team for Retreat attendees.

The Cycle Breaker Bonus

For those who apply by January 25th, 2026
Value: $1,500

A private 1:1 session BEFORE the retreat to map your specific healing journey. We’ll identify your inherited role, your healing archetype, and the exact patterns you’re ready to release. You’ll arrive at the retreat with crystal clarity.

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Your Investment: Starting at $7,997

The "Breakthrough" Guarantee

I’ve been doing this work for over 20 years.
I’ve facilitated hundreds of transformations. I’ve watched people release decades of pain in a single ceremony. I’ve seen the “impossible” happen over and over again.
 
If you show up fully – complete the prep work, participate in ceremony, engage with the integration – and you don’t experience a genuine breakthrough by Day 5, you can schedule a one-on-one healing session where we will dive deeper into where you’re blocked.
I’ll personally work with you until something shifts.
I can make this guarantee because I’ve never had to use it.
This work works.
Your only job is to show up, receive, and do the work. 

This Is For You If...

You're an Adult Child and...

You're an Alienated Parent and...

OR For Both Paths...

You feel called to plant medicine – not as escapism, but as genuine healing
You’re ready to stop managing your trauma and start releasing it
You want to be held in a container that understands narcissistic family abuse
You’re ready to become a Cycle Breaker, ending the pattern for your lineage

Meet Our Facilitators

Taylor Toepke

Gifted Medicine Woman and Co-Facilitator

Taylor brings the perspective of someone who grew up within prolonged family disconnection and emotional rupture, and who has spent years engaged in deep ceremonial and integrative healing work.

Her path includes working closely with Dorcy to unwind trauma patterns, reclaim agency, and translate insight into embodied, day‑to‑day life. This lived experience allows her to attune deeply to participants who are navigating grief, confusion, or identity disruption rooted in family dynamics.

Taylor’s presence in the container reflects grounded empathy, nervous‑system awareness, and calm attunement. Her role is centered on participant care, emotional regulation, and integration support before, during, and after ceremony.

Dorcy Pruter

Intuitive Shaman, Modern Day Medicine Woman/Head Facilitator

Dorcy is the founder of the Church of Soul Illumination and the lead facilitator of this work. For over a decade, her professional focus has been on trauma, identity repair, family systems, and high-conflict relational healing, supporting parents, adult children, and professionals navigating profound family rupture and recovery.

Her work bridges structured psychological insight, nervous-system awareness, and ceremonial practice. Dorcy is known for her emphasis on preparation, containment, and long-term integration rather than peak experiences or spiritual bypassing. She does not approach ceremony as an isolated intervention, but as part of a broader healing arc that requires responsibility, maturity, and real-world application.

Dorcy’s facilitation style is clear, grounded, and relationally attuned. She holds firm boundaries, prioritizes participant safety, and centers agency and consent at every stage of the process. This work is an extension of her long-standing commitment to helping individuals repair internal and relational fractures, rather than escape them.

Rob Pruter

Gifted Medicine Man and Co-Facilitator

Rob brings lived experience, steadiness, and relational maturity to the ceremonial container. He was raised in a family system marked by deep dysfunction and chronic relational rupture, and later found himself navigating profound breakdowns in his own family relationships.

Through years of intentional healing work, Rob restored trust and connection with his children and undertook the deeper, often overlooked work of repairing the co‑parenting relationship itself. In the final chapter of his former partner’s life, he showed up with presence, compassion, and responsibility, supporting both her and their children with care and integrity as she transitioned.

Rob’s facilitation is grounded, non-performative, and relationally attuned. His role centers on safety, containment, and modeling what repaired attachment, accountability, and emotional presence look like in real life - not theory.

Choose Your Container

Every accommodation includes the identical Sacred Return experience. The only difference is where you rest. Click through the galleries to experience the beauty of these unique spaces.

Bali Suites

Perched at the top of the mountain in a Bali Village, three Bali Suites offer a refined blend of comfort and culture. Just steps from a shared infinity plunge pool, each suite opens to sweeping views of the rainforest and the Pacific Ocean. All Bali Suites are single occupancy!

Jogolo House

At the far edge of the property, perched dramatically on the cliffside, rests Jogolo — a 170-year-old home from the Java Islands. Rich in history and artistry, this one-of-a-kind sanctuary features intricate hand-carved architecture, a writer’s desk for reflection, and an open-air Balinese shower. Jogolo offers both soul and comfort, surrounded by the beauty of the rainforest and ocean. The Jogolo House is ideal for couples or close friends, as it offers access to the entire villa. Two people max!

SOLD OUT

Potoo House

An architectural treasure imported from Bali, the 180-year-old Potoo House spans two levels of open-air jungle luxury. Upstairs, a King bed and cozy twin invite restful nights with sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean and rainforest canopy. Downstairs, enjoy your own plunge pool and a private space ideal for spa treatments or quiet reflection. The Potoo House is best for couples or close friends as you get access to the whole villa. Two people max!

Geodesic River Domes

Nestled along the edge of a private river, these six Geodesic River Domes draw inspiration from sacred geometry. Each dome offers a unique blend of modern comfort and natural immersion, where the gentle rhythm of flowing water harmonizes with the vibrant sounds of the rainforest. All domes are double occupancy!

Jungle Bungalows

Tucked along the jungle pathway leading to a private waterfall, these six Jungle Bungalows offer the perfect balance of comfort and nature. Bali-inspired interiors showcase natural finishes and thoughtful details, while the spacious bathrooms feature rainforest-view showers and a soaking tub for deep relaxation. All bungalows are double occupancy!

Travel Information

Your high-class retreat experience begins the moment you land in San José, Costa Rica. From there, you’ll be escorted to a private aircraft, reserved exclusively for you and fellow retreat participants. 

Enjoy a scenic 15-minute flight to Quepos, where our friendly team will greet you. From the landing strip, you’ll be transported in SUVs for a 30-minute drive up the mountain to our retreat campus. Your baggage will be delivered directly to your accommodation – no stress, no hassle.

 

Before You Go

Arrival & Departure

How to Join Us in Costa Rica

The Sacred Return is not open enrollment. Because of the depth of this work, and the intimacy of our container, we carefully select every participant. Here’s how it works:

Step 1: Choose a Time to Connect

Select a time for an initial connection call. This opens the door to the application process and ensures we can properly support you.

Step 2: Complete the Application

After choosing your time, you’ll complete a brief application sharing your journey, what you’re ready to release, and why you feel called to this retreat.

Step 3: Connect

We’ll meet for your scheduled call to answer questions, confirm alignment, and walk through logistics together.

Step 4: Secure Your Spot

If accepted, you’ll choose your accommodation and complete your registration. A deposit holds your place; payment plans are available.

Step 5: Prepare & Arrive

Thirty days before the retreat, you’ll begin the Preparation Protocol. March 27, 2026: Your Sacred Return begins.

Book Your Sacred Return Application Call Today!


Frequently Asked Questions

Your Common Questions… Answered

Yes – when done properly. Safety is our highest priority. Every applicant goes through medical screening. Certain medications and conditions are contraindicated, and we take this seriously. Our facilitators are experienced in trauma-informed care, and we have medical support available. The preparation protocol exists specifically to ensure you’re ready. That said, plant medicine is powerful. We don’t take this lightly, and neither should you.

We work with psilocybin in traditional ceremony. This is a sacred practice with thousands of years of history. We approach it with deep reverence, proper preparation, and thorough integration.

Certain medications, particularly SSRIs, MAOIs, and some others, are contraindicated with plant medicine and require a careful tapering process under medical supervision. This must be done BEFORE the retreat and in consultation with your prescribing physician. We’ll discuss this during your application call. In some cases, it may mean this particular retreat isn’t the right timing. Your safety comes first.

Good. That means you’re taking this seriously. Fear is normal. It’s actually a sign that you know this is real, not a spa weekend. The fear usually isn’t about the medicine itself; it’s about what you might have to feel. And that’s exactly why you’re coming. You’ve been avoiding those feelings your whole life. This is where you finally face them – held, supported, and safe.

Plant medicine ceremonies are conducted legally in Costa Rica within our spiritual and ceremonial context. All activities comply with local regulations.

This is a valid concern, and I want to address it directly. Every person at this retreat goes through an application and screening process. We are not accepting narcissists into this container. We’re accepting people who have been WOUNDED by narcissists, whether as children or as co-parents.
 
The alienated parents at this retreat are not the abusers. They’re the abused. They’re carrying grief, not entitlement. They’re seeking healing, not validation for harmful behavior.
 
If at any point you feel unsafe, you’ll have support. Our facilitation team is trauma-informed and understands the complexity of these dynamics.
 
But in my experience, when adult children and alienated parents share space, there’s more compassion than conflict. Both understand the devastation of narcissistic abuse. Both are here to break the cycle.
I understand this fear. Society often assumes that if your kids don’t want to see you, you must have done something wrong.
 
That’s not the assumption in this room. Everyone at this retreat understands narcissistic abuse. The adult children here KNOW that alienation is real. They know that narcissistic parents manipulate children. They know that sometimes the targeted parent is the healthy one.
 
You won’t have to prove yourself. You won’t have to defend your story. You’re among people who get it.
Yes. And this is intentional. Here’s what we’ve found: when adult children witness alienated parents’ pain, something shifts. They see their own parent’s potential wound. When alienated parents witness adult children’s pain, they understand what their children might be carrying.
 
There’s no “taking sides” in ceremony. There’s only truth. And often, the healing that happens when these two paths meet is more profound than either would experience alone.
 
That said, we’re trauma-informed. We create safety for everyone. And there are times in the retreat when we do path-specific work in smaller groups.
I need to be honest with you: this retreat is about YOUR healing, not about changing your children or your ex.
 
We won’t be strategizing custody cases. We won’t be planning reunification tactics. We won’t be focusing on what your ex did or what your children believe. We’ll be releasing the trauma YOU are carrying so it stops running your life.
 
Here’s what I know from 20 years of reunification work: the most powerful thing you can do for your relationship with your children is heal yourself. When you show up healed – not reactive, not desperate, not consumed by the wound, everything changes. Including, often, the relationship.
But that’s a byproduct, not the goal. The goal is YOUR freedom.
Both. And you’re not alone. This is more common than you’d think.
 
Sometimes the patterns repeat across generations. Sometimes the child of a narcissist ends up in a relationship with a narcissist and experiences alienation from the other side.
 
Your application will help us understand your full picture. Your prep call will address both layers. And in ceremony, the medicine will take you where you need to go which might be one, the other, or both.
Yes. The Potoo House villa accommodates 2 guests, and double-occupancy rooms can be shared with someone you know (if you both apply and are accepted). However, each person must complete their own application and be accepted individually.

Integration is everything. You’ll receive the Integration Vault (90 days of resources), two live integration calls with Dorcy and your cohort, and 6 months of our Sovereign Soul Collective membership. You won’t be abandoned after your transformation. We’ll be with you as you anchor it into your daily life.

If you’re asking this question, you’re probably ready. The people who aren’t ready don’t even consider applying. They scroll past. The fact that you’re still reading means something in you knows this is your time. Trust that.

Deposits are non-refundable but are transferable to a future retreat within 12 months. Full payment refunds (minus deposit) are available until 60 days before the retreat. Within 60 days, no refunds are available, but you may transfer your spot to another participant.

The Chain Ends With You

You’ve spent your whole life carrying something that was never yours.
Shame your mother put in you before you could speak.
Guilt that was installed so deep you thought it was your personality.
A voice in your head that sounds like her – criticizing, judging, never satisfied.
You didn’t choose this. But you CAN choose to end it.
You can be the one.
The one who finally breaks the chain.
The one who heals instead of passes down.
The one your children thank. The one your grandchildren never have to recover from.
The one who looks in the mirror and sees someone free.
This is your Sacred Return.
Not someday. Not when you’re “ready enough.”
Now.

March 27 – April 1, 2026 | Costa Rica | 30 Spots | Only 20 Remaining

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