“I had reached a time in my life where I was stuck in a complicated grief cycle and stuck in life in general. To give a little background. I had had a lot of loss over a period of years and like most people kept on going as life had to be dealt with and work had to be attended to. I have raised my two gorgeous children myself and through meeting my partner of ten years I also became a step mum to two lovely young men. The breaking point in my journey is when one of my stepsons died suddenly at age 24 due to a routine operation. He was a beautiful soul and as with all the others I have lost he was way too young to have left this world.
About a year after this unbelievable trauma. I shut down. I could no longer just get on with it. The grief of all this loss was too much. I could not find joy in life and I felt I should be grateful for what I did have in my life despite the terrible losses. However I could not rise above it anymore and life became a dark vortex of nothingness.
This is where I reached out and was matched with Alan Farrell. Alan showed, patience, understanding, he is practical, empathetic, and rational. He was not afraid to challenge me in my entrenched thought processes and destructive patterns and showed a caring and non-judgmental approach all the way through my journey back to finding joy in life again. He was not afraid to go over all of my life’s journey not just the grief to help me gain the self-awareness and foresight I needed to heal. No area was off limits and his knowledge, support, empathy and understanding shone through in a very unassuming way – it was just like magic in the sessions. At first the heaviness of everything was difficult to process but as I moved through the curve with Alan as my guiding hand, I knew I would see the light again and feel the joy again and be able to stand on my own two feet again which I am happy to say I am. I cannot recommend Alan highly enough and I have recommended him since and anyone I have referred has found this partnership to be a winning one.”