Debra Stangl and Richard Kepple created the High-Vibe System™ to help couples heal their relationships.

Relationships don’t fail because the love is gone, but because unresolved emotional wounds sabotage it. Many couples struggle in their relationships at some point.   They feel disconnected from their partner emotionally and struggle to find the connection they once shared. It can be an overwhelming experience, one that people don’t know how to navigate, especially when there is deeper emotional pain at play on both sides.

Debra Stangl is a former divorce attorney and relationship expert responsible for founding Sedona Soul Adventures. Richard Kepple is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who met and married Debra in 2017 and then joined her in her work. Together, they co-created the High-Vibe System™ and have co-authored a new book, High-Vibe Relationship, centered on creating a High-Vibe Relationship™.

“We don’t teach perfection. We teach transformation,” the couple says.

Personal Journeys of Discovery and Healing

Stangl had a respected 20-year career as a divorce attorney. She’d witnessed the same painful patterns in the divorce cases she handled and experienced in her own three marriages. It was that hurt and emotional pain that disrupted relationships. People didn’t really want a divorce, but an end to the pain.

Stangl’s transformation began after a trip to Sedona, Arizona, in 1999. This trip marked the beginning of a 3-year journey of personal healing and transformation, culminating in the founding of Sedona Soul Adventures in 2002. Sedona Soul Adventures was founded to help individuals and couples “heal emotionally, reconnect spiritually, and create lives and relationships” that are joyful and conscious.

Kepple had his own awakening after years of success in technology and Silicon Valley startups. After a stroke, his life was completely altered as his “understanding of life, love, purpose, and healing” was changed. He recognized that “fulfillment wasn’t just about achievement.” Through the lens of spirituality and human consciousness, he understood that it was about “connection, growth, contribution, and helping people heal.”

Stangl and Kepple married in 2017 and partnered to help others through their High-Vibe

System™.

Bridging Neuroscience and Spirituality

The couple points out that many relationship books take either a psychological or a spiritual approach. In the book High-Vibe Relationship, they combine both. Their work is rooted in energy dynamics, intuition, nervous system regulation, neuroscience, and somatic work. The purpose is to bring about healing and spiritual transformation.

“Lasting love isn’t just about communication skills. It’s about healing the nervous system, the emotional wounds, and the energetic patterns that shape how couples connect,” the co-authors explain.

The couple explains that many couples believe their problems center on communication, intimacy, trust, or compatibility, or even things like the “right way” to load the dishwasher. The reality is that there are underlying unresolved core wounds that affect the nervous system’s survival patterns. ” Through their modalities, people can heal and remove this gunk that is mucking up their lives and relationships.

Loving in a New Way

In their book, they share methods that will bring about real change. Through their Nurturing Needs™ framework, couples learn how people have unique ways of experiencing love and how to build a structure that makes them feel appreciated, loved, and emotionally safe.

“In the next few years, I see Sedona Soul Adventures and the High-Vibe Relationship movement becoming a global force for healing, transformation, and conscious relationships. Our dream is to help redefine the way people think about love and relationships: not as something you simply “manage” or survive, but as sacred partnerships that can become catalysts for healing, growth, joy, intimacy, and awakening,” says Stangl.