The Process

The Process, originally known as The Key to Life Process, is a practical and spiritual journey that supports the heart and mind in meeting with one’s soul. It is an inner journey grounded in lived experience, where consciousness and life integration deepen step by step.

The process supports emotional intelligence and cognitive resilience, offering practical skills for meeting trauma, loss, and life’s challenges. It also focuses on energy, frequency, and vibration as lived experiences—how shifts in awareness and presence can support healing, integration, and a more holistic way of living.

Over time, the process name evolved to The Key to Life Discovery Process—a name that more clearly reflects how insight unfolds through lived experience rather than timelines or outcomes. This process can be entered through the book, coaching, or deeper immersion in retreat.

The origins of this process were first shared through the book Empower Your Life: Secrets from a Life Coach.

Secrets from a Life Coach

Empower Your Light

Out of print · Foundational work

This book is the original foundation of The Key to Life Process that now underpins the Retreat of Dreams experience.

First published in 2010, Empower Your Life, Secrets from a Life Coach is a self-help coaching workbook and healing guide that offers a step-by-step journey toward happiness, clarity, and life mastery. Written from lived experience, it weaves personal story with practical tools developed through profound loss, physical trauma, and deep inner inquiry.

Readers describe this book as honest, grounding, and quietly transformative—a guide that meets them in real life rather than theory. Through structured exercises, reflection, and journaling, it helps uncover limiting perceptions, release fear and anxiety, and restore direction during times of grief, illness, injury, or emotional overwhelm.

This work introduced many to Deborah’s approach: combining psychology, philosophy, heart–mind awareness, and practical healing methods to support meaningful, lasting change. It remains the blueprint from which the retreat’s teachings evolved.

2ND Edition Coming 2026

The reflections below span more than a decade of lived experience with this process.

Voices Over Time

Karissa, Kris and Karen

Karissa 2025

Professional Reflection

Deborah is a powerhouse of creativity and compassion. I had the joy of working with her in radio, where she wore many hats — teacher, producer, director, and mentor.

She has a rare ability to connect with people, whether it’s guiding a team, uplifting a community, or helping individuals through deeply meaningful coaching.

Her heart is huge, her energy is contagious, and she’s always driven by a desire to make a real difference. Anyone who works with her is better for it.

Karissa 2010

Reader Experience

“Your book will always be a reference for my questions, ease my constant anxiety, and be a comfort to my soul.”

I am blown away by your book. You have given me a gift. It took years and years of tragedy and life experience to create this one book that will help change so many lives. I sometimes feel I am a new soul because of being so naive to everything, and I must look to old souls, like yourself, for guidance in this world. Your book will always be a reference for my questions, ease my constant anxiety, and be a comfort to my soul. You know the saying, "what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger"? I never understood that. I never believed it. As a child, I was strong and fearless. As I got older and experienced tragedy and bad experiences, I became weaker. I suffered from anxiety and panic attacks to the point where it affected my social life and school. I then had panic attacks about having panic attacks. It just got worse. I didn't understand how emotionally and spiritually I was getting weaker, instead of stronger, like they say you should. But you are proof of that strength.

Some of my favorite quotes of yours: "Life is about lessons, not punishments." "I have traveled out of the twilight zone and into an aligned soul.”

Professional Coaching Reflection — 2013

Retired Special Education Administrator
Las Vegas

“Deborah’s abilities are rare.”

Deborah was highly recommended to me after my older brother died in early 2013. I really didn’t believe I needed any help with this loss, or with the loss of my mother a few years prior. I thought I had everything under control.

I am an independent single woman with a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration. I taught special education for 25 years, and for six years I worked as an administrator and consultant in special education for LAUSD.

One day I had the opportunity to speak with Deborah about life and love, and she sparked my curiosity. I am not new to professional counseling or a variety of therapies for personal development, but Deborah seemed very astute to the feelings I was encountering.

Deborah’s abilities are rare, and she is an amazing life coach. Her personal experience, combined with her years of study and education, has proven valuable in her ability to guide others. I found her compassionate and sensitive through my sessions relating to grief and loss in my life.

Her process and the system she developed are deliberate yet flexible, supporting my personal development. She guided me through a process of self-investigation that was sensitive to my pain, yet comforting and positive in a proactive way.

Through this process, I was able to identify hidden fears and anxiety and acquire new skills to manage my life. I am better prepared for future life challenges and have learned practical ways to manage stress, anxiety, and loss.

Deborah has shown me how to become conscious of my feelings and unproductive habits and behaviors. She guided me to dig deep to reveal my fears, which enabled me to become free from anxiety and gain a new perspective on life and love.

I have also had the pleasure of seeing Deborah speak to an audience and hearing her on the radio. Her passion, experience, and knowledge are extensive. She has a gift for communicating with compassion and kindness while remaining strong, presenting information that is practical, inspiring, and deeply relevant.

I have much admiration for Deborah’s ability and highly recommend her for growth and healing.

— Karen Ehrlich
Retired Special Education Administrator
Las Vegas · 2013