The Ground Floor. Where the Work Begins.
Saturday, December 5 · Live online · 9:30–4:30 CT · $222
The only time this class will be taught live.
You know the weekend. The one that changed everything... for about three weeks.
Then it faded. And somewhere in the fading, you quietly decided something was wrong with you.
Nothing was wrong with you.
You visited a floor you hadn't built to yet.
Most growth is horizontal. This work is vertical.
More skills, better strategies, a new system for managing the same life. You get more capable on the floor you're already on. You don't get better at the floor you're on. You leave it.
The basement is fear and reactivity. There are no windows down there, so there's no perspective. Which is why most people experience the basement as their personality. (I'm just an anxious person. I've always had a temper.)
That is not who you are. That is where you are standing.
The ground floor is the first floor with windows. It's where recognition starts, and with it, choice. You can't skip floors. You can't live on a floor you only visited. And you can't build a penthouse on a cracked foundation.
What we don't do with a refrigerator is grab the Febreze.
Anytime we go through an experience in our life, and definitely if it is a moment of trauma, we have leftovers from that experience. Emotions that are unresolved. Thoughts that are now outdated. Decisions that were once protective but now become weapons.
And that one container gets shoved to the back of the fridge. It goes into the unconscious. Just because we don't remember it's back there doesn't mean it goes away.
It begins to smell. And that smell permeates other things in the fridge. If you don't know that, just put a watermelon next to an onion and then cut the watermelon. It'll taste just like an onion.
We don't kick it and decide it's broken. We open the milk and take a sniff. We look in this container and that container until we find the one causing the disruption.
We clean it. We save the container if it's something of value. That's the Ground Floor.
Every room I teach in stands on this one.
The Soul Work Intensives. The Work. The retreats. The Circle. Without it, hours of our time together go to teaching the map. What the ego is. Where emotions get stored. What shock does to the nervous system.
Those hours matter. And they're hours we could spend doing the work. The Ground Floor is the map. You arrive already knowing the building, so when we're in the room, the room goes to the work.
That's why it's required before The Shadow Intensive and The Energy Intensive. And it's the foundation for the work at every level, whatever room you walk into next.
- The three layers of self (Ego, Soul, Personality) and where each lives in the body
- What gets stored, and the seven core emotions underneath it
- Shock and the nervous system
- The chakra system, as a basic working map of energy
- The Codependency Triangle and how to free yourself from it
- Projection cleared through guided hypnotherapy, all the way to the child underneath
- The Anchor, your cornerstone, built and installed
The afternoon process is experiential.
Leaders, not of title, but of nature. The ones other people bring things to.
New to this work? Start where it actually starts. Done a great deal of it, and suspect something underneath never got laid? You're right. This is that.
No diagnosis, spiritual background, or hypnotherapy experience needed. What you need is a willingness to feel something.
This isn't for someone who wants techniques without contact, or wants to understand the material without moving it. And if you're in acute crisis, individual care comes first.
Two ways in.
Saturday, December 5
$222 · Live online · 9:30–4:30 CT- Before the day: two recorded chapters, The Building and Shock and the Nervous System, in the two weeks before class
- The day: six teaching hours, live
- After: five more chapters, plus the recording of the day
- 30 days in The Circle, starting Monday, December 7, including the January 5 group coaching call
- A $111 credit toward one Soul Work Intensive, good through March 5, 2027
The Ground Floor, recorded
$111- The seven chapters and the recording of the December 5 class
- A $111 coupon toward your next Soul Work Intensive or toward The Work (1:1), good for 90 days
- No Circle access
I know every floor of this building from the inside.
I'm Melissa Ratliff-Sorrell. Twenty years as a licensed therapist. A National Board Certified Fellow in Clinical Hypnotherapy. Twenty-five years in this work, under four teachers.
That's not a credential. That's just the truth.
Questions I didn't answer? Text me at 662-321-1583.
