About Michele
Hello Beautiful Soul,
The grief experienced from a loss can be unbearable, keeping you stuck in a negative loop, and affecting areas of your life you had no idea it was having a negative impact.
My name is Michele Tomasicchio. I’ve had many losses in my life, and two experiences were keeping me from living fully.
The first loss was when my “star”, my aunt Mimi, died suddenly from a brain aneurysm. I called her my star because she was my person. She was warm, kind, loving, and my cheerleader. And then she suddenly left this planet. I could not process her death and experienced such sadness. I felt stuck.
The second loss was devastating and occurred three years after my aunt died. My husband died unexpectedly and suddenly on a cold November evening. At that moment, my world was rocked, instantly, and forever changed.
Traditional methods - grief therapy and grief support groups - helped me intellectualize these losses; however, they did not resolve the emotional pain I experienced in my heart that lasted days, months, and years following these losses.
I was experiencing not only emotional pain but also physical symptoms due to the grief. I knew, as a massage therapist and craniosacral practitioner, that if I did not resolve the pain I was experiencing inside, it could easily manifest into illness and disease.
The night my husband died, it felt like my heart was pulled out of my chest, slammed on the pavement, broken into a thousand pieces, swept back up, and put back into my chest, and I was expected to function.
I experienced severe panic attacks at night, which would prompt me to call 911. I thought I was dying. I had insomnia, anxiety, brain fog, loss of concentration, lack of energy, zero motivation, and picked up unhealthy habits.
After 3 years of grief therapy, grief support group, receiving massage, acupuncture, energy healing, and craniosacral sessions, I felt better…but not 100%. I KNEW there was “stuff” inside. At night, the movie of my husband dying played in a loop. The anxiety or panic attack would arise, and I wouldn’t sleep. Still had unhealthy habits. Still felt stuck in my life and career.
I was ready to be in a relationship, and I knew it would benefit me to acknowledge all the parts of the relationship with my husband to create the space for someone new to come into my life.
A Google search led me to the Grief Recovery Method®, an action-based program to move beyond loss. I got the Grief Recovery Handbook and I put it on a bookshelf, sitting there for six months.
After some painful dates and missing my husband…being pissed at him for leaving me here…alone I took the Grief Recovery Handbook off the shelf and over some time completed the exercises.
I wasn't sure if I had done them correctly, and I didn't feel much improvement.
Then I worked with a Grief Recovery Method Specialist.
It was a 180º difference and a extremely powerful experience!
I was finally able to release the emotional pain I had been carrying from these losses.
After completing the program, my life underwent a significant transformation for the better. The physical symptoms disappeared. I felt like I was able to rebuild my life and focus on self-care.
As my life and career progressed, I found myself drawn to a new relationship and a fulfilling path in empowerment coaching in a year-long program.
Working with clients, helping them to create a life they love living using transformational tools, I began to see a pattern.
I discovered that the stuckness and struggle for many clients was connected to unresolved grief from a recent or past loss, especially when they didn’t change their mindset or habits to create what they said they wanted in their life.
I referred clients to The Grief Recovery Handbook and the Grief Recovery Institute, but many of them did not invest in themselves and look at their current stuckness through the lens of Grief Recovery.
I know how valuable the Grief Recovery Method is. I completed the training with the Grief Recovery Institute to become a Grief Recovery Method Specialist and have added the method to my services.
The Method works, and I wanted to be able to help others heal the unresolved pain experienced from a loss.
I feel honored and privileged to walk with grievers through the Grief Recovery Method and to create a safe space where they can take the steps to truly feel better, no matter the loss.
