Testimonials For One-on-One Online Support
My mother passed away and even though I knew her death would eventually come I still wasn't prepared. I kept thinking she would make it through her illness and give us a few more months or another year. So when she passed away in her sleep it was still sudden and I wasn't at her bedside. The Grief Recovery Method helped me take the pain off my shoulders that there were still some things I regretted that I should have done and that I should have said to her. I believe going through this process and writing the good bye letter has helped me get through this loss progressively so that I don't feel a heavy burden on me. It probably would have taken me longer to recover from her death if I were able to ever to. The Grief Recovery Method helped ease the heavy pain of losing a loved one. I am glad I was brave enough to complete the program and feel I can move on with my life without feeling I still had some unresolved matters with my mom.
One-on-One Online Support05/13/2020Participant in Culver City, CA
The program afforded me significant personal growth. I have already referred several people and will continue to do so. As in AA, getting "it" OUT there, both verbally and on paper assists with the healing process and it is amazing how society still is so uncomfortable with feelings. All I can do is continue to feel my feelings and encourage my children to do so to promote our healthy living.
One-on-One Online Support05/12/2020Participant in Thousand Oaks, CA
A friend told me about this program and how they believed it would help my depression. I was puzzled by the thought but after months of struggling I decided it was in my best interest to learn more. The program was amazing and I am forever changed by the concepts I learned and the relief from the darkness I was experiencing.
One-on-One Online Support05/08/2020
One-on-One Online Support04/23/2020Participant in Ottawa, Ontario
The Grief Recovery Method is extremely helpful. I truly believe that EVERYONE would benefit from it.
One-on-One Online Support04/18/2020Participant in Bend, OR
Joe D was my grief counselor and I don’t think I could have picked someone more perfectly suited for me. In this program, I learned more about what grief really is and the education was priceless. Learning how to open up and understanding my feelings was a life changing discovery. Thank you, I will forever be grateful.
One-on-One Online Support04/14/2020Participant in Schaumburg, IL
I was able to define my losses more easily or for the first time. I was able to decrease the pain of loss, not the memory. I was able to find resolution in relationships that I did not have before. I was able to see myself through more truthful eyes. I understood how as a child, I had no power or effectiveness in outcomes and developed inappropriate emotional responses to adult/child situations. I liked myself better and stopped blaming me for things I had no control over.
One-on-One Online Support04/02/2020Participant in Tucson, Arizona
Highly recommended for anyone who has gone through general counseling (or even if you haven’t ) yet still feels deeper healing needs to be done. This is a program like none other. It reaches down and searches the innermost parts of our souls to find the hidden areas that need final healing once and for all. I’m ready to do even more work in other relationships and bring about more freedom to walk this life.
One-on-One Online Support03/25/2020Participant in Austin, Texas
I needed help with a loss in a relationship. The program helped me realize this. I will be forever grateful!
One-on-One Online Support03/24/2020Participant in louisville, Ky
Когда мне было 8 лет у меня умерла бабушка. На протяжении жизни, особенно в подростковом возрасте, иногда она мне снилась, как-будто она живая и где-то живёт, хотя я не знаю где. Примерно в 35 лет у меня ночью воры угнали автомобиль. И после этого меня часто беспокоили сны, где я видел, как у меня угоняют автомобиль и я в страхе просыпался. В итоге мне стало тягостно иметь автомобиль и я его продал. До сих пор у меня нет автомобиля. Такие сны беспокоили меня и в итоге привели на программу по Методике Восстановления скорбящего. Когда я начал проходить программу, то обнаружил, что пережитая мною смерть моего отца (спустя 7 лет), от боли из-за которой, как я считал, я к тому времени уже исцелился, продолжает влиять на меня и забирает мою способность радоваться. Также я обнаружил множество утрат, которые накопились эмоциональным грузом и лишили мою жизнь счастья и радости, а наполнили ее тревогой, страхами, гневом на близких, вредными привычками (например, "заедать" негативные переживания, от чего я приобрёл лишних более 30 кг), стало ухудшаться здоровье и перспектива жизни выглядела удручающе. Утешающей мыслью стала мысль о том, что "мы все рано или поздно умрем и мучения закончатся". Когда в результате прохождения программы я осознал свою ответственность за реакцию на утраты и освоил практичные инструменты, которые помогли завершить боль и избавиться от нее, в мою жизнь вернулись силы и энергия созидать, добиваться, мечтать и воплощать мечты, переживать радость и счастье, и, в целом, жить, а не влачить существование и ждать неминуемого конца. Огромная благодарность переполняет меня. Появилось желание пройти подготовку в качестве Специалиста по Методике восстановления скорбящих, чтобы помочь другим людям также восстановиться и вернуться к полной жизни.
One-on-One Online Support03/21/2020
As a person with chronic illness, I was grateful that i could meet with Francine via Skype. I have done a good bit of grief & loss work before but wanted to dig deeper for more healing. Her commitment to listen without any interruptions of insights or judgements was very helpful. I appreciate the histograph and relationship graph. It was good to acknowledge all the areas that worked and didn't work in each relationship. I feel the activity section of the book that has you write out recovery components - apologies, forgiveness and unspoken feelings is duplicated in the completion letter. This redundancy made me feel bored and frustrated with the process. I did it for my first person but skipped to the letter for my second one since it contained exactly the same material as the recovery component list. I would urge you to make the process less tedious by having the person write the recovery components straight into the completion letter - since the material is exactly the same! My greatest current grief is loss of ability due to a chronic illness. There is nothing that helps me process this grief. I wish the book was broader in scope. Instead it gives a process to deal with relational grief. In future printings, I hope it expands to include all types of grief. And also eliminate the redundant 2nd step of writing out a recovery component list.
One-on-One Online Support03/09/2020Participant in Phoenix, AZ
For me, relief came.
One-on-One Online Support03/03/2020Participant in Rostov-on-Don, Rostovskaya oblast
I discovered a set of my mistakes in my relationship with my sister. Liberation has come.
One-on-One Online Support03/02/2020Participant in Rostov-on-Don, Rostovskaya oblast
Great learning experience but more importantly highly effective in helping with grief. Very powerful process
One-on-One Online Support03/01/2020Participant in Online, Online
I went in skeptical and didn't think that I could be helped but at that point I thought to myself "what do I have to lose" coming out of it I'm a different person I face my problems with a different attitude, deal with loss and my emotions. I feel like I can live again.
One-on-One Online Support02/22/2020Participant in Toronto, Ontario
liberation and relief came, a sense of peace and tranquility came, as well as joy
One-on-One Online Support02/13/2020Participant in Tallinn, Harjumaa
One-on-One Online Support02/01/2020Participant in San Francisco, CA
I have experienced grief in many forms in my life that I didn't even know were considered grief. Learning this helped me to understand myself and certain responses I have in life. I have a new set of tools in my life's toolbox to work with as I move forward now that I know what grief is and it looks like for me. I now see the benefits and freedom of letting go of undealt with grief in relationships gone by. I am in the process of working through the list of those I desperately need closure for, to move on and live in the present. I went in to the grief class with one thing in mind, but came out working on a relationship having no idea how my thinking, and heart, would change in the way that it did. Now I can talk about this person freely and with great positivity. AND, I see their value in my life. I couldn't have even imagined this!! I am ever grateful for this class, what I have learned, and will continue to learn!!!
One-on-One Online Support01/31/2020Participant in Palatine, Illinois
This program far exceeded my expectations in healing from my divorce! It’s easy to blame a failed marriage on your partner. This program facilitated an honest recounting of my contributing behaviors. It’s hard work, but I’m so thankful I made this investment in myself and my future.
One-on-One Online Support01/31/2020Participant in Las Vegas, NV
The program helped me gain greater insight into my relationship with my father. It was healing to talk about the positive and negative memories on my relationship graph. Ronda was very empathic, encouraging and compassionate. She helped me explore and process feelings and life events. This program was very impactful and healing.
One-on-One Online Support01/03/2020Participant in Alpharetta, GA
This program supported me in working through painful losses I have experienced. The course material was easy to digest and understand and my coach was super supportive and empathetic.
One-on-One Online Support12/16/2019Participant in Toronto, Ontario
This was unlike any other program I have gone thru. When I started I was so broken, overwhelmed with life and felt so trapped in an unhappy relationship. I wanted to cry all the time. The pain was so intense in my chest. I felt like I was carrying all the hurts in my life and unable to let them go. I felt that I had no joy and nothing to look forward to even though I have 3 wonderful daughters and 5 darling grandchildren. I couldn’t understand why I felt this way. I wanted to leave all those hurts behind but didn’t know how. As I read thru the book and completed all the exercises I began to see how I was carrying all this hurt. As I completed the relationship and grief history graph I saw how all the old hurts affected me in my past and current relationships. I was able to use this for a number of relationships to help start the healing process. I also bought the book for a dear friend who had suffered loss and grief. I continue to use these tools and am excited to continue growing and learning and finding joy in my life! Thank you Colleen
One-on-One Online Support12/15/2019Participant in Maple Ridge, Bc
As you all know, people are extremely misinformed about how to deal with grief. The last 5 years of my life have been nothing but traumatic, and once my dad died I knew that if this level of trauma keeps occurring, I'll be nothing but a shell of a person if I don't deal with this loss effectively and quickly. I knew it was going to be now or never... I've been to counselors and therapists and group grief sessions before, but none of them seemed to be as specific and focused on my recovery as much as this method. I was angry (at my dad and God), sad, confused, bitter, happy, in denial, lethargic and apathetic all at the same time but the main emotions that I felt were anger and apathy. I really didn't believe I would ever heal from the hole that my dad left in not only my life but my mother's and my sisters'. But this method really did give me the tools to hope again. There were so many things left unsaid to my dad that it started to form a bitterness in my heart that consumed my thought patterns for months. But when I wrote that letter...apologized for the things I needed to apologize for, forgave the things I needed to forgive, and just said the things that needed to be said, it freed me from the burdens of being resentful and gave me the room in my heart again to be hopeful and energized about my life. I am now more hopeful and energized about not only recovering from the other broken relationships that I need to work on but also about what God is going to be able to do now that my heart was more open to his words. I would not have been able to go on this journey had it not been for Susan's grace and patience with me. She went above and beyond to make sure I knew how to do the homeworks and even stopped to just absorb everything that, I believe Satan, was trying to throw at me to distract me from this process of healing and recovery. I even want to give this resource to the Greater Nashville Church and want help others heal from their losses too. I am in the process of becoming a wounded healer...and I can't tell you how much joy that gives my heart, to know that I feel empowered enough to help others despite my scars. Thank you so much for continuing this amazing work and giving me the opportunity to learn from all of your amazing minds and soft hearts. Thank you 1000 times infinity! Sincerely, Aziza Hart
One-on-One Online Support11/27/2019Participant in Nashville, TN
I began the program because of the hurt I was going through with my husband's mental illness and other family losses due to the situation. Reading the grief recovery book and taking the process step by step, knowing my counselor was LISTENING WITHOUT JUDGEMENT, allowed me to be 100% honest about how I felt, because my feelings and losses are UNIQUE. I ended up working in the grief of my dad who died at age 50 yr because at age 24 yr I was expected to be there for my family, be strong, don't cry, do what needed to be done, I became an "academy award winning" griever which led to me in the years to come to see myself as the victim in all my relationships. This process gave me the ability to be vulnerable and accept my past and my present. I now am trying to live happily for myself and not because I need the approval of others. I still have many losses to deal with and knowing the appropriate steps to take will make the grief process a bit more inviting.
One-on-One Online Support11/20/2019Participant in greensboro, nc