Testimonials

Healing Truth Sanctuary Testimonials

Through the Healing Truth Sanctuary, workshops and e-courses, Stephanie Gagos provides a message of hope and healing to fellow abuse survivors. She speaks from the voice of knowledge, the voice of experience, and from her heart. This is a combination that cannot be beat.

As a survivor she knows what she is talking about. She has great empathy and speaks so that my heart, mind and spirit can drink it in and learn from it. She has the ability and knowledge to tell it like it is; to say what it is I need to hear. She is a great teacher and leader, she is also a fellow trauma survivor and a companion on the healing journey. As a survivor of abuse who is on my own healing journey, I highly recommend her and what she offers.

The ladies of the HTS are my tribe, my family of choice, the family I never had growing up. They understand what I am feeling even when I cannot. The love and support is fantastic and healing. It is a place where I can go to be heard and accepted. And I am very grateful.”

Jane Hamilton 

HTS is a place where your heart, mind, & soul can be submerge into it without feeling judged. It is a place where your thoughts are respected and valued close to heart. HTS is a sanctuary that comforts the soul through the constant support that each person gets from one another, therefore you are not alone in your journey, as there are many share similar journeys to yours. ~Elizabeth

“a beautiful eclectic space that will embrace and applaud your unique wisdom and your unique self. and of course will support you when in need.” Jacqueline

I am so glad I was introduced to The Healing Truth Sanctuary. It’s a place to go when I don’t feel like being up, on, or perky. When my inner child begins to rage or gets sad and can’t stop crying I can bring her to the Sanctuary and let her speak her mind. Here I find that my problems and feelings are shared by many. Here is where I get encouragement and find friendship. I also get to see what my fellow abuse survivors are going through and am able to offer help and support. Giving support is as healing for me as getting support. The Truth part is very important for me. All our lives we are taught to hide our truths. I don’t have to do that here. I also love the art sharing part of it. Thank you Stephanie.  Virginia

The community of women in the Healing Truth Sanctuary is one of the most supportive and nurturing online groups I have ever experienced.  I love how deeply we connect we each other.  I love that we have this space for us, where we can speak whatever we need to speak and know we will be heard, where we can hold space for each other as we work through our most difficult emotions, and where we can cheer each other on through our struggles and our triumphs.

Ashley Rae www.authorashleyrae.weebly.com

My greatest feeling about the Sanctuary is … just I have a safe place to go, no matter…. day or night and meet other woman I can talk with. never thought such a place could exist. That is helping me a lot.  My greatest lesson here is the freedom of NO PRESSURE. This way I’m learning to say things I was never able to…. and I get sweet reactions with encouragement. Also I can do for others, I read their stories and give mine honest comments.  My greatest respect is for all the sisters in this place. I honor all the impact strength, the honesty and courage…. and the willingness of everyone, to listen to each other and help where it is necessary in the best way possible. 

Last but not least,  Stephanie who made this place possible, is the best captain ever … She’s a great artist the way it really matter for this fragile issues. We all are learning from each other and also from the captain herself.  This helps a lot. The very last point: We all are giving help and support, AND  here we are learning to ask help for … ourselves, the most difficult issue ever. Vicky

The Sanctuary is exactly that – a place of safety and refuge.

It has given me a place to go where I know I will be understood without doubt. I never feel like a burden, no matter what I have to share. It is truly a place to be MYSELF.

The sanctuary is a haven where survivors are so different, but one at the same time. When those around me, cannot give me what I need, or cannot tolerate the ambiguity of trauma and the inability to “fix” it – the women of the sanctuary hold space for me to be whoever I am at the time.

We share hopes, dreams, pain, tears and I’m learning the value of artistic expression.

Stephanie has made a place for safety, for healing, for fellowship. It has been extremely helpful to get support and validation. Gerry

Stephanie wears many hats: coach, survivor, artist, friend.. ANGEL. She has created a unique sanctuary space to hold our hearts, to teach us not to feel shame, to share our truth and to process our pain in a variety of creative & therapeutic ways. You will quickly come to realize.. you have found YOUR healing sanctuary!

I have never felt this level of complete validation and love, from her and from all of the other women, my sisters, whether I am feeling broken or whole. Honestly, just knowing the sanctuary is there, waiting for me to share whatever has been heavy on my heart and NOT BEING JUDGED, is worth more to me than gold! And knowing that, no matter how different our paths, we have a place to listen and extend love to someone else that shares our pain, has been nothing short of life-changing for me. My heart overflows with love, compassion and respect for the strength and bravery that has brought you here today.

Vicki

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Healing the Mother Wound Testimonials

 
Participating in Healing the Mother Wound has profoundly changed my life. It has been hard and painful work but is so worth it in terms of the growth and healing that have come to me. I have gone from feeling a victim of child abuse to being a stronger, empowered survivor with choices. I can see the gifts of my past that until now had remained hidden. It has helped me come to terms with my past, accept it and then grow beyond it. This has truly been a life changing experience for me and I highly recommend it.
Jane Hamilton

I have watched my wife as she has taken this course and observed a much more positive person emerge from the process. It has been wonderful to see and my wife and I are all the better for it. Thank you Stephanie for doing this kind of work.
Skip Hamilton

 
I am grateful for having the opportunity to have take the “Healing the Mother Wound” course. I know in my heart it was a blessing given to me. I went into it with a bit of fear, as I did not know what to expect. I find that talking about my “mother” is difficult for every aspect of my being. Not everyone knows my story, and those that do it is because they are close to my heart. When I first learned that someone had given a scholarship for the “Healing the Mother Wound” course and that there would be a giveaway and that we were to apply, I must say that I applied with heart in hand. I had no idea I would win, but when I did I truly was excited!
 
This amazing course took me to my inner self and discovered many things I thought were non existent such as frustration, anguish, sadness, bitterness, and anxiety. I got to work them out with the topics that were given. These topics were not only for writing but also for creating art. I believe that writing & art go together for a course like this.
 
I am grateful for the person that gave this scholarship as a gift and I will always treasure their love for healing in my heart even though I do not know their name. Thank you anonymous angel. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
 
Thank you Stephanie Gagos for being an AMAZING teacher with heart in hand. I am grateful for your teaching and dedication. Thank you for all your attentive measures of being there for me & everyone in the course. These things are NEVER forgotten. You are an angel and to top it of from where I am, Puerto Rico, makes it even more assertive that we are sisters at heart, mind, & soul. You touch peoples hearten with your simplicity and courage to take on a delicate subject and one to which you also have battle with.
 
Feeling grateful, happy, & honored to haven been part of such an amazing course. “Healing the Mother Wound” has proven to be one course to not miss out on. 
 
Sincerely,
 
Elizabeth Aviles

Coaching Testimonials

Stephanie Gagos is above and beyond. I don’t know where I would be without the work I have done with her. She is truly my life coach. I have been to therapists for years, but found that their work did not hit the core, which is what she and I are working on. She has made me feel like the impossible is possible. We do a combination of pathwork and core energetics, gestalt, imagery and journeying, and other methods of analytic work. She has been available at times I needed her most, and the packages she offers are very flexible and affordable. I think the most important thing I have learned from her is to have faith in the universe, to let go, and trust that solutions to conflicts come about at the right time. Thank you.

-Anonymous

New York

There is something so simply and purely wonderful about Stephanie Gagos, both as a Life Coach and as a fellow being on her own life journey. I felt an immediate connection when I first met Stephanie. She was extremely open with me and allowed me to feel safe enough to be open with her. We worked together on all dimensions of myself involving body, mind and spirit. She boldly challenged me when I needed an extra “push”, and lovingly guided me when I needed compassion and nurturing and to have someone simply “hear me”.

She holds me accountable to myself and my own truth. She encourages me to speak my truth, both to myself and others. She helps me to trust that the process is just as it should be… it’s all good, it’s all OK. How freeing and reassuring is that?! This lets me just be in the moment and take a lot of pressure off myself, to be more open to allowing a positive shift to take place inside me, to let the “good stuff” in. Most importantly, she has served as an invaluable mirror, encouraging me to see the beautiful aspects of myself that I so often neglect to see. She does that during every single session, and that is absolutely amazing to me!! Stephanie is warm, genuine, personable and insightful. I think what makes her so special is that she, too, is a beautiful spirit on her own journey, just like the rest of us.

Stephanie is as real as they come, and I am so appreciative of the changes and greater self awareness I continue to reach during my work with her.

Suzanne Q.

New York

The work I have done with Stephanie Gagos as my Life Coach been incredibly productive and eye opening thus far.   I appreciate her upbeat candidness, enthusiasm and razor sharp intuition, which when combined with the coaching skills she has developed makes her a delightful thinking partner and highly effective coach.   Stephanie creates a safe space, supporting her client toward meeting the challenge of introspection necessary to move forward toward accomplishing their goals.  If you are ready take a good hard look at yourself and do the work that needs to be done, Stephanie can help you to realize your own divine future.  I absolutely love working with her.

Nancy Krisch

South Africa

Stephanie Gagos employs intuitive as well as empathetic skill sets that honored me as her client during our coaching alliance. Her willingness to stay aligned with Source, and remain in a state of allowing facilitated me going exactly where I needed to go during every one of our sessions together. Stephanie suspended all judgment and agenda (two paramount skills of a spiritual coach) at all times holding the sacred space for me the client. This created an environment that was not only safe, but vibrant in its potential. This became the easel that we painted together. I would highly recommend Stephanie as a coach for that which is the most important aspect of us as humans, our deeper journey into who we are.”

Jeff Albert

Atlanta, Georgia

Stephanie Gagos is a rare and extremely intuitive person and coach.  I feel her genuine wish to help a person move forward to a better reality. I feel she must be very, very good at coaching because she made my journey seem so effortless. I’ve worked on myself for years and studied myself and worked on different therapies. Stephanie was put in my path at the right time.  I ‘m feeling a major transformation in my life.  She is my catalyst and I am eternally grateful for her being put in my path and her gentle guidance.

Cheryl E.

California

Stephanie has a natural ability to move me out of the “noise” and get to the root of a challenge. Her empathy, warmth and wisdom provide a safe space to deepen my understanding so that I can take meaningful action to experience real life shifts. She walks her talk and her commitment to truth shines through in her coaching. If you’re ready to open to expansion and lasting change, Stephanie has what it takes to empower you in your journey.

Kimberley Simon, Creative Emergence Coach
Ontario, Canada

I have had the great opportunity and honor to work with and witness Stephanie coach a variety of clients. Stephanie’s calming presence immediately puts her clients in a safe and trusting space. Her ability to uncover, understand and relate to personal and sensitive issues keeps her clients safe, while on their journey of self-discovery. Stephanie lets her clients know she is there with them by being an authentic, honest and very caring person. She not only listens to what her clients say, but listens for what they don’t say, which I have found to be only
one of her amazing strengths.

Victoria Edge CPC, Mindset Life Coach

“Stephanie , you are such a genuine, compassionated and resourceful person and coach. The couple of hours we spent on the phone was very helpful in clarifying some of my thoughts in relationship to my goals and needs. Your thoughtful questions and your ability to really listen and plug in to my concerns put me at ease and built my trust level and my confidence. Thanks so much for your time. “

Sissel Bridges
ActiveCoaching@aol.com
www.ActiveCoaching.biz

Stephanie is a remarkable, compassionate and intuitive Coach.  She listens intently and knows when to seek clarifying information, when to be silent and when to move to the next level.   Stephanie created a safe nurturing environment allowing me to open my heart and discover my truths.  For that I will be forever grateful.

Susan McCauley