Testimonials For Support Groups
Empathic, patient. Felt completely safe w her
Support Groups05/06/2023Participant in Cleveland, Oh
She’s very understanding and helpful.
Support Groups05/04/2023Participant in Stephen City, Va
It really helped me feel better. I found the homework very rewarding and insightful. I enjoyed the process
Support Groups05/04/2023Participant in St Louis, MO
I started to work on the death of my husband but then transitioned to the death of my mother which I never resolved. Filly Mazzone helped me work through all those details regarding my mothers death and I finished right before Mothers Day and it was a more peaceful mothers day for me. I was finally able to say good bye to her. Now we will continue to work on the death of my husband.
Support Groups05/03/2023Participant in River Edge, New Jersey
Support Groups05/02/2023Participant in Lasqueti, BC
The program helped me discover what was really bothering me for most of my life after the death of my wife. I discovered from reading the book and completing the loss graph, the majority of the grief I was carrying around from the way I was treated by my father in childhood. I first did the relationship graph and completion on my father. I felt a huge relief after that. Then I had a chance to do a relationship graph and completion letter to my wife. With that , I have felt better than I have since she died. I used to have to force myself to do things. Now I feel like I have started another chapter in my life. I have closure. A burden is off my shoulders.
Support Groups05/02/2023Participant in westerville, ohio
The program has given me tools to cope with grief that come from un-met expectations, whether the areas get better or remain the same. I've learned how to give voice to my feelings and know my truth matters. I'm committed to taking better care of myself and my emotions, without being overtaken by my emotions. If by chance an emotion overtakes me, and I now quickly revisit tools and releasing the weight from my backup of unmet expectations!
Support Groups05/02/2023Participant in Westerville, Ohio
Very helpful in dealing with regret. Helpful to make the relationship graph and to make statements that are focused on growth but also healing.
Support Groups05/02/2023Participant in Westerville, OH
Support Groups05/02/2023Participant in Greensboro, NC, State
I was not only able to work through my grief, but I found a community of people who lovingly supported me through the process.
Support Groups05/01/2023Participant in Findlay, OH
Support Groups05/01/2023Participant in Findlay, Ohio
Before going to the recovery program I was really lost. I was dealing with my grief completely wrong and listening to the wrong crowd. After meeting Dr. Mobley and opening up to her, she really helped me deal with it and not judge me. She was a heart with ears the entire time and gave me the necessary feedback I needed and continue on and be a better mother for my kids.
Support Groups05/01/2023Participant in Akron, Ohio
The Grief Recovery Method helped me understand the warped view of loss that I had learned from society and that helped me understand why I was having such a hard time. Furthermore, the program helped me understand my specific loss better and provided me with a path to healing.
Support Groups05/01/2023Participant in Findlay, Ohio
As I mentioned in a previous question, I have never felt as tho I could fully grieve my loved one or that I had to take a "back seat" to others grief. I also felt as tho I had to be the "strong one" and just carry on. This program taught me about some aspects of grief that I was not aware of (ie.the Sterbs) and it allowed for a safe place for me to grieve and to talk about my feelings, fears, etc.
Support Groups05/01/2023Participant in Goose Bay, NL
At the conclusion of GRM group, I feel that I got the completion in my life that was missing, as described throughout the course. I put a close to open wounds that was unanswered. I now have the knowledge to be able to tackle any loss that comes my way and feel at peace with it.
Support Groups05/01/2023Participant in Findlay, Ohio
I felt alone. I felt as though I were crazy. I didn't know my heartache was normal. I didn't know that it would be okay to feel my feelings and to talk about my heartache. This program made me knowledgeable about grief and how normal it is to feel what I am feeling. I know I will never be the me I was before losing my loved one, but I now know that it's normal to be this new version of me. It gave me a different perspective of dealing with grief. And I am forever grateful to have had this opportunity.
Support Groups05/01/2023Participant in Happy Valley Goose Bay, NL
I have struggled to deal with the grief of a broken marriage that also involved trauma. The programme helped me to think through my own background with grief and loss, what the losses were in this particular situation, to structure and express my feelings and in particular to express forgiveness, appreciation and apologies and, I believe, to "draw a line" under the situation to a large extent (I still see the relevant person within our community, but think that it will now be a lot easier to handle things). Thank you very much.
Support Groups04/29/2023Participant in London, London
Support Groups04/29/2023Participant in Essex, United Kingdom
Support Groups04/28/2023Participant in online, online
I felt much lighter when I first finished. I felt very motivated to begin working on completing other losses.
Support Groups04/27/2023Participant in Zoom, London
The program has been wonderful. It gave me a safe place to be completely honest about my pain and grief im going through due to my husband changing due to Motor Neurone disease. The program has helped me to accept and release grief as a natural part of life. I now have new tools to help me and my adult children. I’m so grateful . Thank you
Support Groups04/27/2023Participant in London, Kent
I learned new tools to deal with unresolved grief. I plan to do other loss graphs with other relationships in my life.
Support Groups04/27/2023Participant in Bowling Green, OH
When Donna Kendrick first mentioned at a networking group meeting that she did grief work, my ears perked. My life has been permeated with grief for a few years, and I had been trying to process on my own but struggling. As a lifelong learner, I always seek more. I signed up and dove into the process. I did not deeply trust Donna before starting this process. On the contrary, I worried a little that she would hear about memories I don't like to think about, memories that have carried shame for me, and judge me in our professional circle. But I really wanted to grow, so I trusted her and the process and said, "Fuck it." :-) I'm not worried about that anymore. Now, Donna knows many of my deepest pains. In sharing them, I have relieved some of this shame. As a teacher, I say to parents often that we provide a container of safety for our kiddos and especially teens, a "swimming pool" in which they can exist comfortably and occasionally "kick off the edge" (test their boundaries). What I loved about the space that Donna created is that no matter what we as participants brought, she affirmed it. We couldn't do our grief processing "wrong." :-) She counseled and helped as we needed, but she never corrected - so important! When we did our grief timelines, one member talked longer. The next week, she worried that maybe she had overshared or gone way too deep. To the contrary, her vulnerable reflections allowed me to think more deeply about my own processing and helped me in my next step, and I shared this with her. These were the kinds of affirmations we group members gave one another, and they were how we bonded as we progressed in our work together. Every week, we reflected about how our complete trust and radical honesty allowed each of us to share what we needed to in order to process and heal. Donna created that safe space for us, to her great credit as a human being of extraordinary depth and compassion. I am very grateful to her for this work. Finally, I will comment that I came to this work not knowing what to expect. Once my goals became clear, I processed the toxic romantic relationship I needed to release. That alone would have been worth this process, but I am walking away with more. For example, currently, I am providing support to my father as my abusive mother declines from Alzheimer's in assisted living. I am slammed with grief at every visit as I lose my mother a piece at a time, and as I reconcile all she has been in my life. With the GRM tools, I feel equipped to leave each visit (and the natural surge of flashbacks) with the processing questions, "What do/did I wish about these memories and interactions were better, different, or more?" As I wrestle with the grief of a childhood filled with domestic violence (from her), emotional violence, and gaslighting, while forgiving my mother as I give her loving care in her twilight days, these tools have been invaluable so that I don't leave things unsaid with my parents. I don't need to tell my mother to her face that I forgive her for being a narcissistic abuser, but doing the work *presently counts*. Knowing that when my mother dies, I won't have this unbearable mountain of unresolved grief issues to climb *matters*. I'll a big ol' death mountain of loss, and that's okay. Donna, my group, and the GRM gave me that, and I'll keep processing. One final note. I have dealt with chronic, recurrent depression my entire life, largely because I was gaslighted as a child. The strategies that the GRM teaches ground participants in their true emotions. That's powerful fucking stuff, which is why I embraced it from the start. Thanks to Donna and thanks to you for a process that has helped me to heal from a horrible relationship in which I was trapped during the pandemic. Tonight, after I read my letter and our session was over, I tore that letter into strips, and I look forward to no more haunted conversations in the car. My therapist told me today that I looked radiant, and I'll take that after 3 years of hell. That's all the hard fucking work I've done to grow since escaping that abusive man in late 2021, and Donna Kendrick's amazingly generous guidance through the Grief Recovery Method has helped me close that chapter. I can't wait to grow into the next! Thank you.
Support Groups04/26/2023Participant in Virtually on Zoom, PA
The program let me look at my feelings from different perspective.
Support Groups04/26/2023Participant in Los Angeles, CA