Testimonials For Denise DeMarco
I was surprised to learn about the many different kinds of grief and the impact seemingly insignificant events from my childhood have had on my adult life.
One-on-One Support04/07/2022
I had low expectations that this program would benefit me but after five years of experiencing the waves of grief, I was willing to give this a try. It was extremely difficult and at times I couldn’t see how this was going to work. But I persevered, put in the work and tears, and in the end, I finally feel that I am on the other side of grief. I feel a huge relief and a great burden taken from me. I have a wonderful peace now and can look back at my son‘s life and remember the happiness. I have said goodbye to the negative thoughts and do not feel the need to revisit them. I am thankful for the program and Denise for leading me through this recovery. She suggested that I might also like to take the course and become a grief counselor and I am seriously considering doing just that.
One-on-One Support01/20/2022
I just finished last week so the program is still working for me. I look at things differently now. I do think of my Husband of 50 yrs with a different outlook. We had a good marriage, and the loss has thrown me for a loop. I thought I was ready to endure this loss far more than I was, Thanks to Denise and her patience with me, I did get over a couple of hurdles and still working on more. I don't think her and I are finished .
One-on-One Support01/13/2022
The program helped me organize my experiences and feelings in a comprehensive way so that I could make some real headway in healing and processing the past.
One-on-One Online Support01/05/2022
One-on-One Online Support09/24/2021
The program has helped me in the following ways: It has helped me to understand that most people cannot express or know how to console people who are grieving. It has helped me to take a walk through my life and actually focus on my grief/loss which are emotional i have always pushed deep down inside me in order to move on.Now i have learnt to deal with the emotions and know that it is healthy. I learned that it is okay to take your time to deal with the loss. There is no real time limit to get over your loss.
One-on-One Online Support07/27/2021
The Grief Recovery Method has helped me to look at my grief over the terrible loss I've had and see ways to work through it. It even helped me to remember memories that I treasure with this beloved person, and it gave me the opportunity to share my feelings and concerns with the one that I lost by reading a letter to her and picturing she was sitting there listening to me. It's been very hard "heart work," but the program has helped to minimize the overwhelming power that grief has had on my thoughts and daily activities. Thanks to the program, I now have new tactics to use to help with this grief process, and even to use for future grief problems that I probably will face. I also want to add that Denise DeMarco has been an amazing grief counselor to me. Not only is she super supportive and caring during our sessions, but she has also reached out to me and listened to my concerns all throughout the many weeks, which has tremendously helped me. She deserves 5 stars for her incredible teaching skills and her ability to really connect with the people she helps. She has such a kind heart, and I am very fortunate to have been able to share all of my troubles during my grief with her. Thank you so much, Denise, for everything.
One-on-One Online Support04/06/2021
It helped me to realize all the different ways there are to grieve losses, not just with death. It helped me to understand the different emotions attached to the losses I have and why I had the emotions I have. I now know how to write down my timeline, things I need to be reponsible for and when I need to forgive. And actions that had a significant impact on me. I just feel like I would have done better if I could have done this in person. But, again not Denise's fault. It is this stupid covid!!
One-on-One Online Support02/20/2021
I have uncovered some of the underlying sources of my thought patterns and worked through letting go of losses I experienced in my relationships with my parents. I am better able to see how my relationship with them has influenced my present relationships. After putting in the work of doing the GRM, I literally feel lighter.
One-on-One Online Support01/22/2021
Support Groups10/02/2020Participant in Cranberry Twp , Pa
I lost my 18 yr old son and Denise helped me identify my greif and complete the emotions for first my dad and then my son. I'm finally able to function in the 6 months since his death and I'm armed with skills to continue working my loss history graph and how to identify emotions I'm trying to hide before they are buried behind STERBs.
One-on-One Support09/22/2020Participant in Wexford, PA
One-on-One Support06/08/2020Participant in Cranberry, PA
The Grief Recovery Program helped me to process the areas where I was getting stuck in my grief. It helped me let go of the pain I was holding on to and I learned ways to express how I was feeling in other healthy ways. Denise Demarco did a wonderful job of being a witness to my pain and I felt her empathy throughout the program. She had also lost loved ones so I felt very connected to her because she could understand what I was going trough.
One-on-One Support02/20/2020Participant in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania
I felt like I got to tell my mom everything I wanted her to hear with a compassionate listener witnessing my grief. The empathy helped so much when I felt the most vulnerable and a lot of my pain left after the several weeks working through my grief with Denise.
One-on-One Support12/20/2019Participant in Cranberry Twp , PA
I lost my son to suicide in 2018. I was also trying to complete my grad program and keep my family intact. I have a personal history of very traumatic losses that resulted in PTSD that I couldn't seem to resolve. After working with Denise and learning the grief recovery method, I was finally able to put an end to some of those unresolved issues I've carried through my life, and gained the tools I needed to deal with the loss of my son. I plan to continue using those tools throughout my life, and hope to help others find their own recovery through the same method. The changes, in one year, have been significant. While I am still sad at the loss of my son, I am able to enjoy memories of him without carrying around a load of guilt or pain with it. I am profoundly grateful to have met Denise and be able to go through this process and feel like I can continue moving forward with my life.
One-on-One Support03/07/2019Participant in Cranberry township, PENNSYLVANIA
The program demonstrated the need for me to identify and bring closure to all the losses in my life so that I could move forward. I will reuse the relationship graph until I have addressed all the losses identified.
Support Groups08/16/2018Participant in Mars, PA
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Support Groups08/16/2018Participant in Mars , PA