There’s a lot in today’s edition, so choose a topic then scroll down to read about:
- My Spring and Summer Journey of Highs and Lows 😨
- The upcoming Dark Night of the Ego, Dawn of the Soul guidebook 📖
- My chapter in a new book on “How Do You Live In A World Of Crisis: Ideas For Finding Joy, Clarity & Connection” 📕
- 3rd Annual Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Global Summit 🍄
- A NEW Call for Author Stories for 2 books in 2025 📖📕
- Partial Eclipse Full Moon Ritual insights & PDF guide 🌚
- Invitations to 2025 retreats in the USA and Netherlands 🧘🏽♀️🧘🏽
My Spring and Summer Journey
It has been a summer full of highs, lows, twists and turns— some of which caught me totally off guard! (For example, from March to August there have been 10 sudden deaths in the lives of people close to me!) 🥹
After visiting my dad in America and returning home to prepare for a Sacred Feminine retreat unexpected dramas popped up. I found myself leaning heavily on all of my tools and resources to stay grounded and available for my clients, students, and family. And I’m not gonna lie, there were some moments of utter confusion and despair! 🤯
Dark Night of the Ego, Dawn of the Soul Guidebook
The funny thing is that I’m writing a new guidebook to support people going through the Dark Nights of the Ego, Dawn of the Soul TM. Whether due to life transitions, breakups and burnout, or a variety of other catalysts such as a new diagnosis, a personal loss, or world events, we will go through a 5-stage process of evolution.
You’ll see in my Dark Night to Dawn blog series, the forthcoming guidebook and anthology (2025) that the stages are:
- Descent into the Abyss
- The Crucible
- The Labyrinth
- Ascent Toward the Light, and
- Emergence/Rebirth
At times this year I’ve found myself feeling the joy and expansion of the Ascent, excitedly preparing for my Emergence as the artist…only to be slammed back into the Abyss with a ego-shaking, turmoil-infused challenge.
When you read through my description of the stages from Dark Night to Dawn, you may recognize that you have been in one of many of them several times in life. You may remember feeling like the rug of the world was being pulled from under you suddenly when Covid hit. You had to adapt, and likely with very little past experience to guide you. That could have felt like falling into the Abyss, or burning in the Crucible.
You may have felt the elation of seeing the bright lights of a new career after completing your degree or the blissful glow of a new family with a marriage ceremony sealed with a kiss. The Ascent toward a new life, and a new you, the Rebirth, comes with many positive transformations.
I don’t see the journey through the Dark Night to Dawn as reserved for ‘bad circumstances’ such as the death of a loved one or loss of an identity-defining job. It can also be initiated by a life transition— such as becoming a parent, or entering menopause.
The Dark Night of the Ego is so called because it involves a transition, a point where the ego with all of it’s false certainty and illusion of control must die. The ego doesn’t usually do this willingly! We have so many ego-driven parts that feel they are the Real You that they will resist, cling and grasp at the familiar— which is why the process feels to frightening and dismal.
But with every death there is the potential for a rebirth. This, as you could probably guess, requires surrender. And surrender doesn’t come easily to those of us who’ve relied on control, keeping our sh*t together, and being near-perfect in our work as a coping strategy created in childhood due to unpredictable or dysfunctional family life.
Our best adaptations from early life quite often become toxic in and of themselves later in life. And the clever, wonderful, intentional parts of our psyche that took on those very important roles, still believe their work is needed. It can be scary as heck to think you need to ‘surrender’ while you’re in the midst of a tempest in your personal or professional life.
But when the very strategies that you relied on are not working (and maybe never really worked at all) you will be faced with a choice — evolve or suffer.
So, I’ve been back on my meditation cushion, deep in journaling, and self-reflecting on my own tendencies to try to control or predict my next move. It’s been humbling— for real! 🫣
I’ve been feeling so inspired to write more because as I heal or overcome a challenge I find that I almost always get a new client who is going through something similar. This means I’m able to compassionately guide, support and accompany them through their transition using the Cornerstone Process.
So writing this new guidebook has been a blessing for me personally and I pray it will be useful for many others. 🦋
The cool thing is that my wobbles through the Dark Night inspired me to put myself through a conscious evolution process with:
- step-by-step guidance on specific topics
- explorations of programmed limiting beliefs
- journaling prompts
- guided meditations, and even
- Soul Alchemy Lab experiments to keep me moving toward my leveled-up vision of myself.
With the assistance of an AI chatbot that I’m programming with my books, articles and teachings, I’ve been amazed how useful it is to have my own guidance reflected back to ME in the uplifting and encouraging tone I offer my students and clients! 🤓🫶🏽
Next month I’m hosting a small beta group through the 5-steps and 5-stages. I’ll be offering a 12-week Conscious Evolution group coaching journey to facilitate a gentle and hopefully graceful emergence through the Dark Night to Dawn transformation. Stay tuned on enrollment in the first quarter of 2025.
I’m sharing this with you now because I’ve been quiet on social media and haven’t written much lately. Now you know why. I’m also sharing this because though I’ve done a ton to heal my past trauma, I don’t pretend that I’m perfect— nor do I think I’ll ever be ‘perfect’.
I’m a work in progress. And I am uncovering more ways that I can grow and expand almost every day! I reach out for help when I get stuck. I allow myself to have crying spells when I’m overwhelmed. And I’m relieved to say that I haven’t lost my ability to hold space or support others on their healing journeys. So you, my friend, can make it through whatever life throws your way, with kicking, crying, snotting and sometimes laughing along the way.
And you don’t have to go it alone! 🫶🏽💕
My Chapter in a New Book
I’m honored to contribute to the book How Do You Live In A World Of Crisis: Ideas For Finding Joy, Clarity & Connection, a collection of essays from inspiring authors. In my chapter, I share how the 5 steps of the Cornerstone Process helped me navigate grief and despair.
Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Global Summit
New discoveries and breakthroughs in the field of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Medicine are providing a ray of hope for millions of people suffering from the effects of trauma, addiction, anxiety, and depression. As this field rapidly evolves, staying informed about the latest advancements is crucial to accessing cutting-edge developments that transform lives and reshape therapeutic practices.
I’m quite proud to be a co-host for this year’s summit, and as in the past 2 years, we’ve got a stellar lineup! In addition to my interview with the amazing Sunny Strasburg, I hosted 9 interviews with some trailblazers and heart-centered experts including:
Ayize Jama-Everett, Simon Ruffell, Dr. Joe Tafur, Shannon Myers, Katherine MacLean, Dr. Darron Smith, Carlos Tanner, Sergio Rodriguez-Castillo, Deran Young, and Lorna Liana
This new, 7-Day Summit will be presented online from October 8–14, 2024
There is no registration fee for this important event, you can register here now for FREE and you’ll receive immediate LIFETIME ACCESS to:
- 4 powerful video interviews with Gabor Maté, Belinda Eriacho, Paul Stamets, & Robin Carhart-Harris, plus three transformative eBooks!
- 10 CE’s from the American Psychological Association are available for purchase for licensed clinicians.
- Join me and a trulyextraordinary group of 45 of the most prominent pioneers, clinicians, researchers and thought leaders in this emerging field for an event like no other.
There is such enormous potential for this psychedelic renaissance and the emergence of evidence-based psychedelic-assisted therapies and medicine… not only for individuals suffering from difficult-to-treat mental health challenges, but for all of us and for human society altogether.
PRESENTERS INCLUDE:
Rick Doblin PhD, Rosalind Watts PhD, Sunny Strasburg LMFT, Gita Vaid MD, Bessel van der Kolk MD, Richard Schwartz PhD, Christopher Germer PhD, Ayize Jama-Everett MDiv, Ingmar Gorman PhD, Anja Loizaga-Velder PhD, Ronald Siegel PsyD, Licia Sky, Michael Mithoefer MD & Annie Mithoefer BSN, and many more……
I’m proud to be a co-host for this year’s summit, and as in the past 2 years, we’ve got a stellar lineup!…
SEE MORE INFO AND REGISTER HERE 🔗
This 7-day FREE online event is for EVERYONE interested in the psychedelic renaissance and the emerging field of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Medicine, including the General Public, Clinicians, Researchers, Clients, Policymakers, and Entrepreneurs.
Summit sessions will address many important topics including:
- Learning about new advances that are providing hope for people suffering from trauma, addiction, anxiety, and depression
- How psychedelic experiences impact our evolving understanding of mind and consciousness within the larger matrix of interconnectedness and inter-being
- How the field is progressing with research, clinical trials, and efforts to reschedule psychedelic medicines for clinical use
- How to facilitate the ideal set & setting for session facilitation with cultural competency and the latest developments in dosing and protocols with different psychedelic medicines
- How to implement best practices for pre-session preparation & post-session integration
- How to ensure standards, ethics, and best practices for P.A.T. delivery and therapist and/or facilitator training
- Strategies for creating an accessible treatment infrastructure and business models that assure diversity, equity, and inclusion
Register here now for FREE.
This is going to be a powerful event, and I hope you won’t miss it…
Call for Author Stories: 2025 Anthologies
In 2025, Make Your Mark Global will publish two new anthologies: Manifesting Love: 2nd Edition and The Dark Night of the Ego, Dawn of the SoulTM. I’m inviting submissions from writers to share their stories in these books. No writing experience is required! If you’re interested, feel free to email me.
I’m happy to release the 2nd edition of Manifesting Love to include my own story of how I met and married my soul mate, Serge.
And in the group book on the Dark Night to Dawn process, I’ll share my own stories of death and rebirth, plus I’ll interview selected authors alongside chapters written by others.
There’s no cost to submit a story to be considered for publication. And for those who want to use this as a branding opportunity, there will be a limited number of paid options for personal author training, mentoring, and front cover placements. Stay tuned and feel free to email me if you want me to let you know when submissions are open!
Partial Eclipse Full Moon Ritual Insights & PDF Guide
If you missed my Instagram video on the Partial Eclipse Full Moon Ritual, don’t worry—you can still access the PDF guide and use it on the next full moon!
Even though you won’t have the eclipse effects, per se, you can still benefit from getting clear on what you want to release — fears, limiting beliefs, worries, etc — and define what you’d like to welcome into your life.
The guide will help you release limiting beliefs and welcome new energy into your life. Download the PDF here and watch the masterclass replay for bonus rituals and journaling prompts!
2025 Cornerstone Psilocybin Truffle Retreats in the Netherlands
We offer 2 sacred psilocybin truffle retreats in the Netherlands in 2025.
Stay tuned to 1Drea.com/retreats for more details. These retreats are designed to offer deep healing and transformation in a safe, supportive environment.
Whew— I know this is a lot to digest!
I’d love to hear from you 💬.
Feel free to email me to let me know how you’re doing, what you’d like support on, and any topics you’d like me to explore in my videos or blogs.
Sending you much love and blessings as we step into this new season together.
With love and gratitude,
Dr. DaeEss 1Drea
PS: 👉🏽 Should I start a Substack? Let me know if you’d like to read more long-form content outside of the blog and newsletter!
P.P.S. 🎤I’ve just completed one of the first songs for my forthcoming LP of conscious chill hop music. The track, “Trust the Process,” is set to be released on my birthday, but please, pre-save it now! And read about my writing process here.
You’ll get to hear snippets of the song in the coming weeks as I shoot more behind the scenes videos about my music. 🎤🎵
Pre-save it to your Apple Music, Spotify or Deezer accounts here.
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