Costa Rica Retreat • March 2026
The Retreat Has Closed. The Door Is Still Open.
Our March retreat has come to completion.
If you’re here, you’ve likely done the therapy, read the books, and made sense of your family, and it still hasn’t resolved what you’re carrying.
Be Notified When the Next Retreat Opens
We will be opening future retreat experiences for adult children who have already done the work to understand their family, and are realizing that understanding it hasn’t actually changed how it feels to live with it.
This isn’t about going back through your story again.
It’s about no longer relating to yourself from it in the same way.
The retreat is a space where that changes – not just in what you see, but in how you actually experience yourself.
Join the waitlist to be notified when the next retreat becomes available.
If you’re looking for something sooner, we also offer monthly in-person experiences in Los Angeles.
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 our retreats.
You Don’t Have to Keep Navigating This Alone
You already understand your family.
You can explain the patterns.
You know what happened.
You’ve made sense of it.
And it’s still affecting you.
That’s usually the point where people realize understanding hasn’t actually changed anything.
There are different ways to address it, including monthly in-person experiences in Los Angeles, as well as retreat work.
On this call, a strategist will look at your situation and walk you through what actually makes sense from here.
"I Didn't Learn This From Books. I Lived It."
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.
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.
You were never the role. You were the light that survived inside it. Now it's time to let that light lead you home.
Dorcy Pruter
HOST | GUIDE | FAMILY SCAPEGOAT