Shellee Zenteno, CGRS
Physical Office: Valencia, CA 91355
Programs Offered: 1/1 sessions, group sessions, coaching, workshops, and speaking events
“Shellee is the real deal. Her profound personal experience coupled with her brilliant and gifted way she communicates to the masses, makes her a rare and valuable commodity. Shellee’s compassion and promise of hope inspires and relates to all ages, genders and walks of life. In this hurting world, she delivers her story with a perfect blend of raw humanity, appropriate witty humor, and brutal honesty. I admire Shellee and her mission to embrace and celebrate life. She is an important example of incredible courage and powerfully unforgettable”. - Dilyse Diaz, MA., L.M.F.T.; Nationally Recognized Mental Health Expert.I share a transparent journey with work towards restoration. Growing up in an abusive narcissistic alcoholic home, I took on the caretaking role. The false narratives I developed of myself, directly formed my codependent path. At the age of twenty, I lost my Mother to breast cancer. Unfortunately, as life commonly does, it tossed out more heartbreaks with the one major catastrophe that led me to grief recovery.
March 2017, my world exploded when I discovered my husband's body and administered desperate lifesaving efforts with no success. In that moment, I experienced my own near life ending despair. Suddenly widowed with children, I had to start navigating a foreign world to create a 'new kind of beautiful'. In pursuit of resolve, I became a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist, through the only evidence based program, the Grief Recovery Method.
Your wound may not be your fault, but your healing is your responsibility. When we commit to go within our loss(es) and use our vulnerability, we gain our super power of emotional freedom.
No one knows how you feel, your broken heart is individual to you. I do know what its's like to be miserable with my own heartbreak and I will help guide you through healing with yours.
"Time doesn't determine healing, action does."
Is your heart: Broken? Lost? Stuck?
Your grieving feelings are normal and natural. The problem is that we have been socialized to believe that these feelings are abnormal and unnatural. I won’t tell you I know how you feel, because I don’t. Neither does anyone else. Loss is as individual as a fingerprint. The Grief Recovery Method, developed and refined over the past 40 years, teaches you how to recover from loss. I provide a safe environment where you will be given specific tools to help you recover from loss and ultimately lead a happier life. Below are only a few of the multiple losses we grieve.
Learn the actions that allow you to move forward from the pain following:
• Death
• Divorce or end of a relationship
• Pet Loss
• Loss of a job
• Loss of trust
• Loss of faith
• Loss of safety
• Loss of health
• Loss by addiction
• Loss of time
Myths About Grief:
• Time heals all wounds
• Replace the loss
• Grieve alone
• Be strong for others
• Bury your feelings
• Stay Busy
Move Beyond the Pain
Your next step is positively life changing! It's effort to recover, but it's even harder to remain suffering or repeating broken patterns. Through personal experience, coupled with warmth and compassion, I’ll create a confidential safe space needed for you to start breaking chains to take back your life.
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This program is for people who prefer to work one-on-one rather than in a group setting. The 7-session format utilizes the same proven materials as the group programs and can be completed in-person with a Grief Recovery Method Specialist specifically trained to help people move through loss with dignity and respect.