WHAT LED ME TO CREATE RESPLENDENT BECOMING

THE RESPLENDENT QUETZAL

Hello everyone!

I want to tell you something more personal today.

When I said in my last post here that I’d been through my own passage, I meant it. And I want to be more honest about what that actually looked like.

In August 2022, I had a sudden, disorienting sense that I was meant for more — or perhaps for a different version of myself entirely. I couldn’t explain it. I didn’t know what it meant. I just knew that something in me had outgrown the way I was working, creating and expressing myself and I had no idea what came next.

So I did what most of us do. I tried to build the answer. I took certifications. I created new offerings. I promoted them for months. I spent money I didn’t really have on support I believed would help.

And after more than a year of effort with very little movement, I hit a wall. Not a dramatic collapse. Just a quiet, exhausting recognition that nothing I was doing was working — and I couldn’t understand why.

That was one of the hardest parts: not knowing how long the not-seeing would last.

Eventually, I stopped trying to force clarity. Instead, I went deeper into my meditation practice — not as a technique, but as a genuine excavation of what was happening inside me. I became more devoted to healing, to understanding the connection between emotional and physical health and to continuing to help people in whatever ways I could. I started my Alchemy group. I kept showing up for my podcast every week.

I wasn’t building toward anything I could name. I was simply staying present and trusting that if I kept going, something would eventually shift — even when I had no evidence that it would.

And then one day, quietly, it did.

At the second eclipse in March of this year, Resplendent Becoming arrived. Not as a strategy. Not as a business plan. As something that had been forming beneath the surface the entire time.

Looking back now, I understand that period differently. I wasn’t failing. I was in a real process of transformation — one that very few people are ever guided through consciously.

That’s why this program exists.

Resplendent Becoming begins June 10.

This is an intimate 8-week guided journey for people navigating deep personal transition, identity change, uncertainty, reinvention and the strange in-between season where the old self no longer fits but the new self has not fully arrived yet.

The work combines conversation, reflection, energetic awareness, nervous system understanding and practical integration. It’s not about “fixing yourself.” It’s about learning how to consciously move through a profound period of becoming.

Resplendent Becoming was created for people who know they can’t go back to who they were, but can’t yet fully see who they’re becoming either.

And if you’ve been trying to force clarity in a season that may actually be asking for trust, patience and deeper transformation, then this work may speak to you in a very real way.

If you’re feeling called toward this work, or you’d like details about joining the first group, you can write to me deb@debmcbride.com and I’ll send you more information.

You do not have to navigate this passage alone. I would be honored to walk through it with you.

With much love and gratitude, 

Deb