What customers are saying...

Honestly, both the monthly and the yearly membership are beneficial depending on your personal circumstance. Here are the main difference so that you can evaluate YOUR situation and see which is the best fit for you:

1. COST: The monthly membership allows you to only pay the monthly cost of $109.99/mth so you save money upfront. At the same time, when you join for the year you save money in the long run because the cost for the year is $900. (paying monthly would add up to $1,319.88 so you save $419.88).

2. ACCESS TO ALL RECORDINGS: In the monthly membership you will have access to the months topic only for the duration of the month.

In the yearly membership you have access to ALL topics through out the year!

3. BONUS MEETINGS: Yearly members receive 2 EXTRA yearly members only meetings EACH MONTH that are focused on Somatic Experiencing. Trauma is stored in our bodies - and while we NEED cognitive learning, in order to experience lasting change we have to include somatic modalities that help our BODIES to heal from the stuck trauma. SE sessions are between $120 - $275 depending on the SE Fascilitator - in The School of  Transformation we weave in SE sessions included in the cost of your membership. Our goal is to give the most value to our members!

4. COMMITMENT: Monthly  members are not committed to any time frame - they can cancel at any time!! 

This is great for people that want to hop in and out of the membership when they need extra support.

Yearly members commit to the year. The benefit of this is that you are committing to providing help for yourself for a whole year! We often quit too fast, too soon on this recovery journey, and we don't get to see the lasting results. Imagine someone joins a gym for 3 months vs someone that commits to going for the year - at the end of the year there will certainly be a noticeable difference.

5. COMMUNITY: Unfortunately the monthly membership does not come with a user friendly community page where members can support one another on this journey - whereas the yearly membership is hosted on the circle platform and provides amazing community support.

6. PERSONAL SESSIONS SAVINGS: At the moment Michele offers a package of 3 sessions for  $600. HOWEVER, she offers yearly members the opportunity to work one on one with her on an as needed basis for only $120/session - that's a savings of $80 EACH SESSION!!

In the end, to me....

The monthly membership can be like a sampler - an opportunity to join and taste or sample the membership to see if it's a good fit before committing for the year. It's also a great option for anyone that can only afford the monthly fee as opposed to paying up front.  

I encourage you to examine your personal needs and circumstances so as to evaluate which feels best for you!

While many members of Thrivers have undergone trauma due to childhood emotional neglect, narcissistic family systems, sexual abuse and/or emotional abuse - the topics that we discuss center on the inner healing journey.

Trauma is less what happened to you and more the stuck, unmetabolized energy and over couplings in the nervous system.

That being said - the focus is less on the wounder and more on the wounds that are keeping a person stuck.

Examples of the topics discussed:

* How to Upgrade Your Self Image After Narcissistic Abuse

* The Somatics of Trauma and How to Feel Safe In Your Body

* How to Stop Fawning

* Understanding The Fight/Flight/Freeze/Fawn Trauma Responses

* Working With the 5 Main Components of Cptsd:

1. Changing a Harsh Inner Critic Into a Compassionate Dialogue

2. Overcoming Toxic Shame

3. Overcoming Social Anxiety

4. From Self Abandonment To Self Love - How to Reparent Your Stuck Emotions

5. Overcoming Emotional Flashbacks

As we work on the above mentioned 5 main components of Cptsd - we do so through utilizing the 5 channels that the body uses to digest trauma.

And honestly there is sooo much more that we do in The School of Transformation!!

We have Trauma Release Breathwork Sessions, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) workshops, group coaching!!!

The goal is to provide the cognitive learning, the somatic tools, the personalized power coaching sessions together with the support and acceptance of a community of like minded survivors to help you to have a consistent and powerful support for you as you travel on your trauma recovery journey!

Everyone is different and it certainly depends on where you are on your recovery journey when you join. 

The group community is designed to help you build your bodies capacity to work through the layers of trauma at a pace that is comfortable for you.

I tell everyone that the more you put into Thrivers the more you will get out of it!!

I've recently put together a Success Stories section in the Thrivers portal showcasing dramatic changes that members have experienced while in Thrivers. I've been an eye witness of the transformation of so many trauma survivors - this is what motivates me to continue to make Thrivers affordable, available and a life changing experience for as many as possible.

Great question! I'd like to start by saying that (by choice) I am not a licensed therapist or counselor. In fact, Thrivers is not a replacement for therapy!

Don't get me wrong, I do believe that talk therapy is needed at times and many members of Thrivers utilize Talk therapy with their personal therapists/counselors while participating in this membership program.

However, being trained in Somatic Experiencing as well as being trained as a life coach by an ICF organization - my approach to helping is not better - it's just different.

I am in year 3 of my training with Somatic Experiencing. With somatic experiencing I work with the nervous system and the information in the subconscious mind and with coaching I use solution focused methods to help individuals experience forward movement on their recovery journey.

You can't talk your way to healing and you can't only focus on the somatic modalities. It's truly by combining the mind and the body that we begin to shift, grow and shed the side effects of trauma, otherwise we experience a one step forward two steps back healing journey which feels as if we are always back at square one.

And then on top of the training that I have, truthfully having to bring myself on my own trauma recovery journey is by far what allows me to understand where and why others get stuck, struggle and feel as if they will never heal. Sometimes, as I'm coaching a person, it hits me that I was exactly where they are now... feeling as if I would NEVER overcome the side effects of trauma... but I did - and this truth helps me to never give up on my clients!!

Both one on one coaching AND group coaching classes can be beneficial and many members in Thrivers utilize both.

The benefit with one on one coaching is that each session is specific and customized to your unique situation. This allows for a quicker, deep dive into your recovery journey. The challenging thing about one on one is the cost - because it is more expensive it's harder to stay consistent long enough to experience lasting change.

The group classes are a powerful and affordable way to work on your trauma recovery. I liken the healing journey to putting together a puzzle as well as involving body and mind training.

We need the cognitive understanding as to trauma and what is needed to work through it and then we need the somatic therapy that helps us embody what we learn so as to experience lasting change.

I've found that it's only by combining the mind AND the body that we can overcome the side effects of trauma and that is what Thrivers is designed to help with.

In the group membership we take one topic at a time and deep dive into it for that month. Each topic is a key 'ingredient' to heal from emotional trauma, so as a group we work on that topic together.