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It was very helpful — helps me feel more connected and understood, supported

Reminds me that being present is enough. It was very helpful to have this extra time to discuss with my colleague our experience of feeling helpless at times and how we deal with it.

We don’t often get the opportunity or have the space at work to relate on this level, and it helps me feel more connected and understood, supported.

Michelle’s work is a gift to the world.

Michelle Peticolas came into my life at the exact moment it was falling apart. My mother was dying, my brother was wrecking havoc with his alcoholism, and I was having a recurrence of a medical condition attributable to stress. Michelle was constant and unwavering in her conviction that I had the tools to handle the obstacles in my path. She was able to reframe difficulties into spiritual challenges. So total is her groundedness in ecstatic tradition that she was able to lift me up beside her to soar. Michelle’s work is a gift to the world.

I really enjoyed being in Michelle’s group.

I really enjoyed being in Michelle’s group. Even though the other members were much older and no one had young children like me, I found common ground with everyone and I got a lot from it. I especially appreciated Michelle — her comfort, insights, connections, the opportunity she gave me to go deep and explore the spiritual side. I think she’s wonderful.

I thank Michelle so much and would recommend her to move through grief in a positive, healthy and compassionate way

I was in a grief group for people who lost their spouses with Michelle Peticolas. I loved the way she facilitated the group with compassion, love, and kindness. She didn’t use the old paradigm of control to facilitate the group. Everyone had time to share and everyone felt heard and cared for. She is a deep and awakened person, which I appreciated.

I felt this was the reason that I was able to move through my grief in a healthy and compassionate way and I was able to find another person to love me in a way that I have never been loved before because I learned to allow them to love, nurture and care for me in a way that I couldn’t before this group.

I thank Michelle so much for this wonderful experience and I would recommend her either for group or individual consulting to move through grief in a positive, healthy and compassionate way.

Excellent.

Excellent class! Excellent Moderator! Got lots of information that’s usable. Thank you.

Our connection was immediate. Her greatest strengths are her compassion, understanding and genuine care.

I was going through a very traumatic life experience when I met Michelle. I had just gone through four therapists and was in despair of finding someone who could help me. I met her through the recommendation of a mutual friend. Our connection was immediate. She completely understood my pain, fear and anxiety. Slowly and with the baby steps I required, she patiently helped me overcome these challenges.

Her greatest strengths are her compassion, understanding and genuine care. She provided insightful coaching, practical exercises, relevant readings, uplifting music, spiritual texts, phone calls, group support and whatever else was needed. I have progressed a great deal and am a happier, more confidant and more complete person today.

This has put things in perspective. It made me realize how vulnerable the patients are and how my interactions with them can affect them.

Speaking so openly to strangers was really healing

“The Heart of Grieving” was a wonderful way to access many of the areas of grief. Speaking so openly to strangers was really healing. I was able to see my suffering in others.

Michelle has integrity like no other person in my entire 40+ years of experience working with other life coaches, therapists, spiritual teachers, etc.

While working with Michelle, I discovered she has the integrity like no other person in my entire 40+ years of experience working with other life coaches, therapists, spiritual teachers, etc. She does what she says and sticks to her word like no other. Her boundaries are firm and straightforward, yet she bends “softly” at the right moment when I need her to hear me at a deep humane and spiritual level. After my feeling betrayed by other coaches, therapists, and yoga teachers throughout my life, Michelle has restored my faith in her as a conscientious, aware, and human healer. That is a good start for me.

Very effective in conveying the experience of cancer families and sensitizing our volunteers

We have had difficulty in the past finding an impactful way of addressing these important issues.

Michelle’s film, with its very personal, heart-felt stories, has been very effective in conveying the experience of cancer families and sensitizing our volunteers to the importance of openness, compassion, empathy and respect.