F*ck the old story.
Choose like you mean it.

Learn to trust yourself again.

 

I work with people at the beginning of real inner work who are tired of self-betrayal — in relationships, decisions, and direction — and are ready to do something about it.

 

This is structured, accountable work designed to create real internal change, not insight without follow-through.

Stop repeating the same patterns.
Move Forward with Clarity and Purpose.

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You don’t need another breakthrough moment.

You need a grounded relationship with yourself that holds up under pressure.

 

If your life looks fine on the outside but feels consistently misaligned on the inside — this work is for you.

who this is for

This work is for you if:

  • You keep repeating the same relationship or life patterns despite “knowing better”

  • You struggle to trust your decisions and second-guess yourself constantly

  • You feel disconnected from what you actually want — not what you should want

  • You’re early in serious inner work and want structure, not spiritual bypassing

  • You’re willing to be honest, uncomfortable, and accountable

 

You aren’t be broken.

But you DO need to be willing.

Who this is not for

This work is not for you if:

  • You want motivation, affirmation, or an emotional boost

  • You’re looking for spiritual language to avoid uncomfortable truths

  • You expect results without sustained effort

  • You want someone to fix you or take responsibility for your choices

  • You’re more interested in insight than change

 

This is not feel-good coaching.

It’s pattern-breaking work.

What I do

I help people stop outsourcing their lives to circumstances and rebuild trust with themselves.

 

That looks like:

  • clearer decision-making

  • stronger boundaries

  • fewer repeated relationship dynamics

  • alignment between what you say you want and how you actually live

 

Not because you learned something new — but because you stopped avoiding what was already true.

What Makes Me Different

I don’t offer motivation, affirmation, or spiritual bypassing. I work with what’s actually driving your behavior.

 

My approach is structured and demanding. Clients move through a defined six-session arc supported by intensive emotional work, midweek coaching, daily check-ins, and real accountability. Effort and follow-through aren’t optional.

 

I don’t believe insight creates change. Willingness does — specifically, the willingness to face uncomfortable truths and stop outsourcing self-worth to relationships, achievements, or approval.

I will pause or discontinue work if someone isn’t meeting the standard. Not as punishment, but because transformation can’t be performed and progress can’t be faked.

 

I don’t see people as broken. I see people who’ve learned to live in quiet self-betrayal — and I help them rebuild trust with themselves so their choices stop being driven by avoidance.

The Journey

  • A 15–20 minute readiness and fit conversation

    This is the first step.

    The Calibration Call is not coaching.
    It is not a discovery call.
    And it is not designed to make you feel better.

    It is a short, focused conversation to determine whether the work I do is appropriate for you right now.

    During this call, we will:

    • Clarify why you’re reaching out at this moment

    • Assess your readiness for honest, responsibility-based work

    • Establish expectations and boundaries

    • Decide whether a Truth Audit is the correct next step

    This call exists to protect the integrity of the work — for both of us.

    Some people leave this call knowing they’re ready to go deeper.
    Others leave realizing they’re not yet willing to face what’s true.

    Both outcomes are successful.

    This call is for you if:

    • You’re stuck, dissatisfied, or quietly off-course

    • You’re willing to look at your own role in where you are

    • You want clarity more than comfort

    • You’re not looking for advice, hacks, or motivation

    This call is not for you if:

    • You want reassurance or solutions

    • You’re in acute emotional crisis

    • You’re shopping for coaches

    • You’re not willing to be challenged

    At the end of the call, one of three things will happen:

    1. We book a Truth Audit

    2. I tell you this isn’t the right time

    3. I refer you elsewhere

    No pressure. No selling. Just clarity.

  • A 60-minute diagnostic session for people who are done negotiating with themselves

    The Truth Audit is not coaching.
    It is not therapy.
    And it is not a feel-good conversation.

    It is a structured, confrontational inquiry into how you are actually living — versus how you say you want to live.

    This session exists for one purpose: to make the truth impossible to ignore.

    During the Truth Audit, we will examine:

    • Where your life is misaligned with your stated values

    • What it is costing you to stay the same

    • The stories you use to justify delay, avoidance, or compromise

    • The desire you’ve learned to downplay or postpone

    • The gap between who you know yourself to be and how you are currently living

    We do not solve problems in this session.
    We do not create breakthroughs.
    We do not design plans.

    We expose reality — cleanly, calmly, and without negotiation.

    Most people leave the Truth Audit feeling sharper, quieter, and more honest than they’ve felt in a long time.
    Some feel unsettled.
    None leave unchanged.

    This session is for you if:

    • You feel stuck, off-course, or quietly dissatisfied with your life

    • You sense you’re living a version of life that isn’t truly yours

    • You are willing to take responsibility for where you are

    • You want clarity more than comfort

    • You are ready to stop lying to yourself

    This session is not for you if:

    • You want advice, tools, or reassurance

    • You’re looking for motivation or mindset work

    • You want to be fixed or rescued

    • You are unwilling to feel discomfort

    • You are not prepared to hear the truth

    The Truth Audit does not tell you what to do next.
    It shows you what you can no longer pretend not to see.

    For some, that is enough.
    For others, it becomes the doorway to deeper work.

    Duration: 60 minutes
    Cost: Complimentary (by invitation only)
    Outcome: Clarity, orientation, and an honest reckoning with reality

  • A six-week transformational container for people who are ready to stop negotiating with themselves

    The Doorway Program is not ongoing coaching.
    It is not therapy.
    And it is not a motivational experience.

    It is a structured, high-containment process designed to dismantle the internal patterns that keep you living a life that works — but isn’t yours.

    This program exists for one purpose:
    to support real change that actually holds.

    During the Doorway Program, we work directly with:

    The adaptations that once kept you safe but now keep you stuck
    The ways you normalize self-betrayal as “just how things are”
    The gap between what you know is true and how you actually live
    Your relationship to responsibility, choice, and consequence
    What it would mean to stop negotiating with yourself

    This work is deliberate.
    Depth is not rushed.
    Intensity is not manufactured.

    A properly timed breakthrough experience lives inside the container and is held, integrated, and translated into real life.

    What you get

    Weekly primary sessions (60–90 minutes)
    One guided breakthrough experience
    Mid-week coaching check-ins
    Daily accountability
    Clear expectations and standards

    We do not rescue.
    We do not reassure.
    And we do not offer insight without consequence.

    Most people leave the Doorway Program with clearer internal authority, stronger self-trust, and fewer internal negotiations.
    They do not feel “fixed.”
    They feel aligned — and responsible.

    This program is for you if:

    You are functional, capable, and quietly dissatisfied
    You have done inner work and are done circling
    You want change more than comfort
    You are willing to tolerate discomfort
    You are ready to live with consequence

    This program is not for you if:

    You want advice, tools, or motivation
    You are looking to feel better temporarily
    You want reassurance or emotional soothing
    You are unwilling to disappoint anyone — including yourself

    The Doorway Program does not promise a new identity.
    It supports a return to what you already know is true.

    Duration: 6 weeks
    Outcome: Integrated change, internal authority, and the ability to live without self-betrayal

  • A private advisory session is a single, focused conversation designed to surface the truth quickly and force real decisions.

    This is not coaching.
    There is no ongoing support, no motivation, and no hand-holding.

    These sessions are for people who are externally successful but internally misaligned — people who already know something is off and are done negotiating with themselves.

    During the session, we cut through the story, identify the real problem beneath the presenting issue, and name the decisions that are being avoided. The work is direct, confrontational, and precise.

    Some people leave with clarity and a clear next move.
    Some leave realizing they are not ready to choose — and finally seeing that honestly.

    Either way, the session stands on its own.

    This work is not designed to be comfortable.
    It is designed to be effective.

    Duration: 60-90 minutes

    Sessions are by conversation only. Not everyone is a fit.

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What People Are Saying

“Working with Travis was profound and enlightening. His insights into what was holding me back and the source of my resistance were eye-opening. His coaching was supportive and effective leading me to multiple breakthroughs. By the end of our session, I was in tears of joy and felt freedom I had long forgotten. I would highly recommend this man to show you what is possible in your life to elevate you to the next level.”

— Stephen j.

“What I loved about Travis was his perceptiveness, his ability to cut to the heart of what i was saying and reflect back to me the Truth of what i was expressing. I came in longing for or desiring a sense of calm, peace, and love and that is exactly what I was feeling by the end of the session. I would recommend Travis to anyone looking for something more in their life but feeling stuck as how to get there.”

— Brian F.

“Travis has a rare ability to create a space that feels both safe and genuine. During our session, he guided me through a meditation that helped me find real peace with past memories—something I didn’t expect to access so quickly or honestly. His empathy is natural, not performative, and his guidance felt grounded, thoughtful, and deeply human. Travis listens in a way that allows you to open up at your own pace, and he meets you exactly where you are. I came away feeling clearer, calmer, and genuinely supported. I highly recommend him to anyone seeking meaningful inner work with a compassionate and skilled guide.

— Seth A.

Meet Travis—

creator of

The Doorway Program

Where the Sacred meets the Profane,transformation happens.

Travis Rutherford
  • Raw truth. Real depth. No spiritual theater.

  • Coaching for people who are ready to stop running from themselves.

  • Home of The Doorway Program — the 6-week identity-shifting journey.

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Who i am & why I do this work

I’m Travis — I’ve spent over 20 years in personal transformation work, studying across multiple modalities and co-creating deep change with dozens of people.

What experience has taught me is simple: people don’t change because they understand themselves. They change when they stop avoiding themselves. 

I do this work because people are not broken — but many have learned to live as if they don’t deserve the life they want. This work dismantles that belief through lived experience, not theory.

I built The Doorway Program for people who are done with polite self-help, spiritual posturing, and feel-good fluff.

I didn’t arrive here because I read a bunch of books.

I arrived here through fire.

Through reinvention, heartbreak, self-abandonment, rebuilding, waking up, falling back asleep, and waking up again. I learned that every human carries a wound that silently shapes their identity… until they finally stop and face it.

Now I guide clients through that same descent and return.

You’re ready to tell the truth about your life — the truth you’ve avoided because it would require an identity-level shift.

This work is made for you if you’re:

  • Feeling stuck, numb, or disconnected

  • Tired of performing a version of yourself that no longer fits

  • Hiding your power, intuition, voice, or story

  • Hungry for meaning, depth, and alignment

  • Ready to confront the patterns running your life

  • Wanting transformation that is spiritual AND grounded

  • Done negotiating with your potential

My job isn’t to fix you.
It’s to walk beside you as you reclaim the parts you abandoned — and step into the life that’s been waiting for you.

This works for you if…

6 Weeks.

One Identity Shift.

A Different Life on the Other Side.

When your old story no longer fits, you need a structured path that takes you deeper than mindset work — deeper than journaling — deeper than self-help.

That’s why I created The Doorway Program.

It’s a guided, 6-week journey into:

  • Your core wound

  • The identity it created

  • The patterns it shaped

  • The truth you’ve been avoiding

  • And the self waiting behind all of it

It’s called The Doorway because every breakthrough is an entrance — into truth, into self, into the life you’re meant for.

If Sacred as Hell is the home,
The Doorway Program is the path that leads you inside.

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You’re Here for a Reason

If you’re ready to stop circling the same patterns and actually meet the work this requires:

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