Awakening Through Adversity

Today’s episode features Dori Olds, founder of Beyond Creation Institute. Dori shares her very public journey through adversity, growth, and transformation—and how those experiences led her to years of deep learning around survival, healing, and self-discovery.In this conversation, we explore what it means to trust Divine Guidance and your Soul when making decisions that align with your true life purpose. Dori explains how her training across multiple healing modalities has empowered her to guide clients toward understanding that every life experience—especially the difficult ones—carries meaning.She introduces the idea of “maximizing the ticket price of life,” encouraging us to reflect on the lessons embedded in our struggles and tragedies. She also emphasizes the importance of choosing to be the main character in your own movie instead of living in someone else’s story—stepping into ownership of your path, your voice, and your purpose.According to Dori, true peace comes from honoring your soul’s path and recognizing that every challenge is part of the curriculum you came here to experience and learn from.Dorie was born and raised in Sugarhouse, attended Highland High school, Dixie College and Utah State, her major was nutrition and food science.Married in 1979 to Mark Hofmann, quit school to support family while Mark was in School. Her husband was incarcerated in 1987, (Netflix documentary: Murder Among The Mormons) for murder and forgery. She was left with 4 young Children, 5, 3, 2, 6 weeks. She started a daycare in her home, sold cakes, did sewing & ironing to support her self, and her family. She divorced in 1988.She was always interested in holistic health and began to pursue her interests and educate herself. Just like certain pine trees that need to experience a forest fire to germinate its seeds. The tragedy of her husband’s choices have helped her to become the person she was intended to be, helping other people to overcome the trauma and tragedies in their life, find their purpose/passion and create the life they were born to live.As a hypnotist, Reiki Master, Lymphatic Massage Therapist for over 25 years, and an International Global Certified Coach with The Napoleon Hill Institute, her passion is to assist her clients and students in healing themselves from inaccurate thoughts, feelings, ideas, and labels about themselves and create a healing experience of body, mind and spirit; assist them in changing unconscious habitual thinking into intentional truths, realizations, actions and manifestations of who they are, able to answer these questions:“Who am I?”, “Why am I here?”, “Where am I going?”, and then answer for themselves, “Where do I want to go?”," “Who & what do I want to Be, Do and Have?”.Trained in Reiki in 1997, Aesthetics in 1998, Lymphatic Massage in 1998, Certified Consulting Hypnotist 2000, Palmtherapy (an emotional release technique) in 2000, Engage MicroDaily distributors 2021, Avacen Medical Device distributor 2022, Napoleon Hill Institute Ambassador Coach In Training 2023, Global Certified Coach with The Napoleon Hill Institute 2024,She has integrated her Palmtherapy, hypnosis and Reiki training to create a unique process that assists her clients in quickly releasing and clearing emotional barriers, now combined with Napoleon Hill Institute training her clients can create and have the experience they want in life. She works with individuals, Small Businesses & Corporations.If you’d like to learn more about Dorie, schedule a session or attend one of her classes, you can visit her website, The Beyond Creation Institute. You can also contact her here: 801-674-7329.To learn more about working with Cori for Lifestyle Alignment, visit The Aligned Lifestylist. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thealignedlifestylist.substack.com/subscribe