Duo Relationship Retreat
Increase Your Capacity to Receive Love and Create Harmonious Relationships
Participating in this private retreat allows you to embark on a profound journey of healing and transformation, both individually and for those cherished relationships in your life you deeply wish to transform such as mother-daughter, sister, soul friends or family.
By addressing and resolving deep-seated issues, you open up the possibility for a more harmonious, loving, and fulfilling relationship. This retreat is not just about healing the past; it's about creating a brighter future together.
Join us for a transformative experience that will help you expand your capacity to receive love and create harmonious relationships with those who matter most.
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” – Thomas Merton
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Personalized assessment with Elizabeth.
The journey begins with a comprehensive assessment conducted by Elizabeth Alanis, LCSW experienced licensed psychotherapist, shamanic healer and founder of Love into Wholeness™. This initial consultation allows Elizabeth to understand your unique relationship dynamics, personal histories, and specific challenges you and your loved one are facing. This in-depth exploration is crucial for tailoring the retreat to your needs, ensuring a personalized and impactful experience.
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Customized program for your private 3-5 day retreat.
Based on the insights gained from the assessment, Elizabeth will design a customized program for your private retreat. This program will focus on the key areas that need healing and growth, such as personal history wounds, attachment patterns, ancestral healing, and past life relational karma. The retreat schedule will include a mix of therapeutic and shamanic healing sessions, and experiential exercises in the wisdom of the Medicine Wheel, tailored to your unique situation and goals.
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Location for the retreat will be decided upon together.
Main Benefits of the
Duo Retreat Journey
​Healing Deep Relationship Wounds
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Address Personal History Wounds: Work through past traumas and emotional blocks that may be affecting your relationship.
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Understand Attachment Patterns: Learn about or deepen your understanding of attachment styles. Learn how your attachment styles influence your interactions, and develop healthier ways of connecting.
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Ancestral Healing: Explore and heal patterns of relating to others passed down through generations, releasing burdens that may not be your own.
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Personal Growth and Transformation
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Reconnect with True Self: A dual retreat offers both of you the opportunity to rediscover and reconnect with your authentic selves, allowing you to bring your full essence into your relationships.
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Increase Self-Awareness: The retreat promotes self-awareness, helping you understand your desires, needs, and feelings, leading to a more balanced and satisfying life and connections.
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Release Limiting Beliefs: By addressing and releasing fears, doubts, and limiting beliefs, you create space for more authentic and meaningful interactions.
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Set and Maintain Healthy Boundaries: Feeling grounded in your authentic selves, you will learn and practice how to set and maintain healthy boundaries, ensuring that you can both express needs and desires without fear or resentment.
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Empower Yourself for Positive Change: Gain the confidence and tools to make changes that will transform your lives and relationships.
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Strengthen Emotional Bonds
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Improve Communication: Grow your ability to communicate openly and honestly, to enhance clarity and mutual understanding. Learn powerful practices to express yourselves clearly and listen deeply, increasing your capacity for empathy and connection.
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Build Trust and Intimacy: Develop strategies to build and maintain trust with each other, creating a solid foundation for your relationship.
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Enhance Emotional Intimacy: Deepen the emotional connection in your relationship, allowing for greater openness and vulnerability.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Why do you offer intensive retreats instead of weekly sessions?
Because you make more progress, sooner:
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Accelerated Transformation:
A private intensive retreat provides healing, connection, and meaningful change within days—something that often takes months or even years to achieve with weekly, one-hour sessions.
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Focused, Continuous Work:
Each day is dedicated entirely to your intention, with sessions running from 9 AM to 5 PM, including a lunch break and other necessary pauses throughout the day. There's no time lost and your healing journey flows seamlessly.
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Immediate Engagement:
We begin with an in-depth review of your background, goals, and current challenges, diving straight into intentional work to help you address the areas most in need of transformation.
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Targeting Root Issues:
Trauma, along with the unconscious survival strategies we develop—such as attachment styles and relationship patterns—often lies at the root of recurring challenges. Working through these core issues in an immersive setting allows for deeper, more transformative shifts to occur more quickly than with traditional therapy over an extended period
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Practical Integration in Real Time:
Throughout the retreat, powerful tools and healing practices are woven into the experience, helping you gain new perspectives and approach challenges with fresh, innovative solutions. Stabilization and practical strategies are integrated in real time, becoming part of your present-moment experience and enabling lasting change you can implement immediately.
How do I book a retreat?
Booking a retreat is simple! Complete the contact form below and I will schedule a free Zoom consultation to discuss your needs, retreat length, and ideal dates. During the call, I’ll answer your questions and help you book your retreat.
What kind of issues can be addressed in a duo retreat?
A dual retreat is designed to help any two individuals—whether spouses, parent and child, siblings, or soul friends—heal and strengthen their relationship. It provides a safe and supportive environment to work through challenges, including:
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Unhealthy Interaction Patterns and Roles: Identify and shift recurring behaviors that create tension, imbalance, or frustration.
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Unrealistic Expectations: Clarify and align expectations to foster mutual understanding and respect.
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Attachment Patterns: Explore how attachment styles influence your relationship dynamics and develop healthier ways of connecting.
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Communication Problems: Improve how you express needs, listen, and resolve conflicts effectively.
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Unhealed Wounds and Past Hurts: Address emotional wounds that impact trust, connection, and growth.
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Trust Issues: Rebuild or strengthen trust, creating a foundation for a more secure and supportive relationship.
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Boundary Issues: Establish clear, healthy to enhance personal responsibility, growth and sense of freedom.
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Power Struggles and Control Dynamics: Identify and resolve conflicts around control, dominance, or decision-making.
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Emotional Regulation: Learn tools to manage emotions more effectively, minimizing outbursts or withdrawal in the relationship.
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Co-dependency and Enmeshment: Recognize patterns of over-reliance or emotional fusion and cultivate healthy independence.
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Cultural or Value Differences: Navigate differences in beliefs, values, or traditions that may cause friction.
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Life Transitions: Adjust to major life changes, such as marriage, parenting, loss, or relocation, with shared understanding and support.
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Shared Vision and Goals: Align on what you want to build together, enhancing connection through purpose and collaboration.
What challenges cannot be addressed in a duo retreat?
While dual retreats offer profound opportunities for healing and connection, some situations require a different approach before meaningful progress can be made. These include:
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Abuse (Emotional, Physical, or Verbal):
The foundation of this work is built on trust, safety, and mutual respect. Abuse undermines trust and creates an environment of fear, making it unsafe for open and honest communication. If abuse is present, immediate intervention and specialized support are needed before engaging in a dual retreat.
Active Addiction (Substance or Behavioral):
Active addiction interferes with emotional availability and trust, disrupting the foundation necessary for relationship repair. The focus must first be on addressing the addiction and achieving stability before meaningful relational work can occur.
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An Active Affair (or Severe Betrayal):
The therapeutic process requires both participants to be fully committed to rebuilding trust and deepening their bond. When an affair or significant betrayal is ongoing, the emotional connection and loyalty necessary for this work are compromised, making it difficult to move forward until the affair has ended or the betrayal is addressed.
Severe Mental Health Issues in Crisis:
If one or both individuals are experiencing a mental health crisis (e.g., severe depression, psychosis, or suicidal ideation), the primary focus should be on stabilization and individual care. A dual retreat may be appropriate later, once both individuals are emotionally stable and ready for relational work.
Unwillingness to Participate Fully:
For this process to be effective, both participants must be willing to engage openly and take responsibility for their part in the relationship dynamic. If one person is not ready to participate or resistant to the process, progress becomes limited, and other forms of intervention may be needed first.
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Ongoing Legal Conflicts or Court Proceedings:
If the relationship is entangled in legal disputes (e.g., custody battles or restraining orders), these external pressures can hinder the therapeutic work. It may be necessary to resolve or stabilize these conflicts before engaging in a dual retreat.
What results can I expect from a duo retreat?
While every relationship is unique, a dual retreat offers the opportunity to transform and heal relationships of all kinds—whether between partners, family members, siblings, or soul friends. Here’s what you can expect:​
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Eliminate Unhealthy Patterns of Behavior and Interaction:
Understand the roots of recurring conflict and resentment. Explore how your personalities interact and identify key challenges that derail your relationship. You’ll learn to replace ineffective patterns with healthier ways of engaging that foster harmony.
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Identify and Break Free from Negative Cycles:
Relationships often get stuck in unconscious cycles driven by attachment styles, making it difficult to stay connected. These cycles can trigger personal attacks, blaming, emotional withdrawal, or shutting down. You’ll discover how to recognize these dynamics, shift your responses, and treat the cycle—not each other—as the shared challenge.
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Develop Positive Communication Skills:
Learn tools to express yourself openly, even when discussing difficult topics, without triggering disconnection. These skills will help you set healthy boundaries, make respectful requests, and feel heard and validated, fostering mutual understanding.
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Learn to Manage Negative Emotions Effectively:
Emotions lie at the core of most relationship challenges. Through the retreat, you’ll acquire tools to communicate emotions constructively, build self-confidence, and soothe yourself during tough moments. You’ll also develop skills to better support your partner, friend, or family member as they navigate their own emotional experiences.
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Build a Foundation of Trust:
Trust is essential for any relationship to flourish. The retreat helps you rebuild or strengthen trust by deepening your understanding of each other and developing consistent practices to maintain connection. With these tools, you’ll experience more trust, stability and joy in your relationship.
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Learn to Stay Connected, Even During Challenges:
When conflict arises, the tools you gain will help you maintain connection rather than withdraw or escalate tension. You’ll learn to approach challenges as a team and support one another through difficulties with empathy and care.
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Create a Shared Vision for the Future:
Gain clarity on your individual and shared goals, values, and aspirations. Whether you are a couple, parent and child, or friends, aligning on a vision for your relationship will give you a sense of purpose and direction moving forward.
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Practical Tools for Long-Term Growth:
The retreat equips you with strategies and daily practices to sustain the progress you make. You’ll leave with the tools and confidence to continue building a healthy, fulfilling relationship well beyond the retreat.
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This immersive experience offers a powerful way to uncover and resolve challenges quickly, promoting meaningful and lasting change across all areas of your relationship.
Is followup support recommended after a dual retreat?
Yes, I recommend ongoing support for at least six months following the retreat. Integration is a process, and continued guidance can help you maintain the tools and changes you’ve acquired. I’ll be happy to provide online follow-up sessions to support your progress, address any challenges that arise, and help you stay on track.
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We can arrange these sessions after your retreat, ensuring you have the right structure to reinforce your growth and maintain a positive trajectory moving forward.
Duo Relationship Retreat Pricing:
$3,200 / day
Simply contact me using the form below, and we will schedule a free consultation call to discuss the next steps and answer any questions you may have.
Pricing Details: The pricing listed covers my services only, and does not include additional expenses such as meals, accommodation or travel expenses (for both parties).
Scheduling: Retreats are available year-round and last 3-5 days depending on your unique needs determined during our personalized assessment.
Timing: Each day will include up to 6 hours of focused work, but the schedule is designed with plenty of spaciousness for reflection and integration. In addition to our structured activities, you’ll have time to absorb and process the experience through integrative healing practices woven throughout the day. We’ll also enjoy a 60-minute lunch break creating a balanced and supportive rhythm that nurtures your well-being throughout the retreat.