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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guests are David and Lila Sophia Tressamer.

David has a doctorate in psychology and is associate professor of psychology Rudolf Steiner College.

Lila Sophie Atresimer is a group facilitator, author, photographer, ceremonialist, and trans-den denominational minister.

Together with sounds true, David and Lila have written a new book,

The Conscious Wedding Handbook,

How to Create Authentic Ceremonies that Express Your Love

In this new handbook, David and Lila support couples

who are beginning their adventure together

or deepening and existing relationship,

empowering readers with practical exercises for sustaining conscious partnership.

In this episode of Insights at the Edge,

David Lila and I spoke about the most important building blocks

of a conscious wedding ceremony. We also talked about the importance of a couple

reflecting on their purpose for being in relationship and how for David and Lila that purpose is not primarily about being quote-unquote happy ever after.

We also talked about the role of the witness in a conscious wedding and what we can each do when we're participants to be a source of blessing power.

And finally we talked about how conscious weddings can be portals to conscious

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