Costa Rica Retreat • March 2026
The Retreat Has Closed. Your Opportunity Has Not.
Our recent retreat has come to completion.
And if you’re here, something in you already knows that continuing the same approach won’t create a different outcome.
Be the First to Know When We Open Again
Future retreats will open for parents who are ready to step out of the patterns that keep the cycle in place, and begin showing up in a way that is grounded, clear, and self-led.
This is not about doing more.
It’s about doing something different.
The kind of work we do inside these retreats asks for honesty, willingness, and a decision to no longer participate in what isn’t working, even when it’s familiar.
If you feel that pull, you don’t need to act on it today.
You can simply stay connected.
Join the waitlist to be notified when the next retreat becomes available.
Imagine Being Free From the Weight
Close your eyes for a moment. Imagine waking up and your first thought isn’t about the alienation.
Imagine going an entire day without the obsessive replay of what happened.
Imagine feeling peace, real peace, even though nothing external has changed.
Imagine having energy again. Focus. Presence. Imagine being able to laugh. To feel joy. To remember who you were before this nightmare started.
Imagine your other relationships healing because you’re no longer drowning.
Imagine your children coming back to a parent who is whole, grounded, and at peace, not broken by what was done.
This isn’t fantasy.
This is what’s possible when you release the trauma instead of carrying it. When you take back the parts of yourself that the alienation stole.
When you refuse to let a narcissist define the rest of your life.
This is what happens at our retreats.
You Don’t Have to Keep Navigating This Alone
If you’re in the middle of this dynamic, waiting for the next retreat may not feel like enough. And trying to figure it out on your own can keep you caught in the same patterns.
There are different ways to step into this work including monthly in-person opportunities in Los Angeles, as well as deeper retreat experiences.
You don’t have to decide on your own what’s right for you.
On this call, you’ll speak with a strategist who can:
- Help you see your situation more clearly
- Identify what may be keeping the cycle in place
- Walk you through what level of support would actually move you forward
This isn’t a pressure call. It’s a grounded conversation focused on what’s real, and what’s possible from here.
"I've Spent 20 Years Fighting Alongside Parents Like You"
Dorcy Pruter is a transgenerational trauma specialist, medicine woman, and the creator of the D.O.R.C.Y. Method™ – a five-step framework for breaking inherited family wounds at the source. With over 20 years of experience in family systems and 6+ years facilitating plant medicine ceremonies, Dorcy brings a rare combination: lived wisdom from both sides of the family wound – as a formerly alienated child and a reunification expert – and direct ceremonial experience in helping people release what understanding alone cannot reach.
Dorcy’s path to this work is personal. She grew up as the scapegoat in a narcissistic family system, left home at 18, and spent years trying to think her way out of patterns she could name but couldn’t shake. It wasn’t until she discovered plant medicine that she accessed the body-level release that decades of self-work and understanding couldn’t provide. That experience became the foundation of everything she teaches.
As the Founder and CEO of the Conscious Co-Parenting Institute, Dorcy has spent two decades reuniting alienated parents with their children – coaching thousands of families and training judges, attorneys, therapists, and Guardian ad Litems across the U.S., Canada, and internationally. A court-approved expert witness in multiple jurisdictions, she is widely recognized as one of the foremost reunification coaches in the world. Clinical psychologist Dr. Craig Childress has called her “the best trauma recovery specialist on the planet for complex trauma and child psychological abuse.”
Through her own healing journey – as a formerly alienated child, a divorced co-parent, and a woman who broke the cycle in her own lineage – Dorcy discovered that the wound behind alienation, estrangement, and narcissistic family dynamics is the same wound: childhood programming installed during moments of pain, loss, and unconsciousness that runs silently across generations until someone is brave enough to go to the source.
Breaking the Cycle is that journey.
Your Ex Already Took Your Children. Don't Let Them Take You.
You’ve been fighting for years. Fighting in courts. Fighting for time with your kids. Fighting against a system that doesn’t see what’s happening. Fighting just to survive.
You’re exhausted. Depleted. Running on fumes. And somewhere in all that fighting, you lost yourself.
The person you were before this nightmare started – they’re still in there. Buried under the trauma, the grief, the rage, the injustice.
It’s time to bring them back.
Not by fighting harder. Not by winning the next battle. By healing.
By releasing the trauma that’s consuming you.
By refusing to let a narcissist define the rest of your life.
The Sacred Return is your doorway back to yourself.
A container that understands exactly what you’re carrying. And on the other side: freedom.
Not because your children came back. Not because your ex was held accountable. Not because anything external changed.
Because YOU changed.
Because you took back the parts of yourself that were stolen.
Because you became whole again, and whole is who your children need you to be.