Testimonials
Debbie Norman
I joined Helen on the Lets Begin course – I was nervous and didn’t know what to expect and how it would work using the Zoom platform.
My worries disappeared as soon as the course began. Helen is an excellent guide mentor, really passionate and caring. I thought I wasn’t arty that soon evaporated and I was creating, exploring and connecting to all the other wonderful women on the course.
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We were all so supportive of each other, holding space and compassion for each other, loving the fact that each of us was growing and getting so much out of the course.
The 40 days went by so quickly, I learnt so much and got so much out of the course, it was a real gift to myself and I am so glad I took the leap and started. I would recommend it, a great way to create, explore and have fun!!
Leanne B
The Let’s Begin Weekend Workshop was eye-opening, fun, creative and brilliant. What a calming and beautiful way to process your emotions and document your journey of healing. I have learnt so much about myself in just 8hrs. The time went too quickly! Highly highly recommend!
It was an impulsive decision to sign up, I had asked the universe to help me find peace with my childlessness and to stop beating…
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myself up because we stopped trying. I opened Facebook and there she was, this beautiful soul, Helen.
This weekend started off skeptically for me! But after the first hour I started to really open myself to the process and by the end of the course I feel like a changed woman. So much calmer and I’ve unlocked so much potential within myself that I never knew was there! The world looks a little softer and my heart feels a little lighter and I have tools to help me continue my personal growth.
I could not recommend this lady and her course enough. There is no judgement, you can work to your own speed and she is a wonderful teacher. I’m not sure when the next one is but I’m sure if you reached out to Helen she would be able to help 😊. Much love to you all ♥️ Leanne
40 Day Program
Really cannot express how much I encourage everyone wanting something to change in their life to take up this course! I have thoroughly enjoyed and grown from this course so so much that I want everyone else who is struggling to feel like I do, full of energy and light and excitement.
If even a small part of you has read Helen’s email and thinks ‘oh, that sounds interesting’ or ‘I agree with everything she has said but is it for me?’ (which was what I thought before I went for it haha!) absolutely go for it…
sending love L xxx
Euli
Thank you, Helen, so much for providing this safe space. When I started I had been feeling stuck for months, with no clue what to do about it!
All the women in the group were warm, friendly and vulnerable. Their openness allowed me to be just as vulnerable and truly feel safe to express myself in this process and feel like part of a community.
Thank you for knowing when to push and when to gently allow …
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… us the space we needed to find ourselves in our own time.
Your guidance and your program has been the biggest blessing I could have asked for during such an uncertain time in my life to express, explore, and ultimately to rediscover myself. A million thank you’s are not enough to express my gratitude. I’m so grateful for you!’
Jenny C. Waite
I took up the 3 days Let’s Begin Weekend Workshop to overcome any creative blocks, fears & self-sabotaging behaviour with regards too shifting forward into a new chapter of my life.
I want to produce some abstract fluid art work. This is a dream that has been suppressed since I was young as I was discouraged from taking A level.
So I’m reconnecting to my truth and authenticity @ 51! I am admittedly & gratefully coming out the other side of my childless grief and seeing light on other side.
The weekend helped propel me forward further and has given me that final push & support necessary to realise ‘My true potential’ as there’s so much life can offer.
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I am admittedly & gratefully coming out the other side of my childless grief and seeing light on other side so the weekend helped propel me forward even further and has given me that final push & support necessary to realise ‘My true potential’ as there’s so much life can offer.
The pause and space that covid period has gifted me allowed me to rethink my life plan and ask Q what do I really want to do next?
I feel ready spring into action now and have set up my garage as a makeshift studio.
I feel Reenergised and the Let’s Begin Workshop allowed me process emotions through journaling and healing nature of intuitive art.
Thanks Helen you are a great facilitator x generous and talented x
Grieving with Gusto“ is unlike other online courses I have taken. The process goes very deep and touches a wide range of emotions, not only grief. As I‘ve written before, I have to go through a layer of rage before reaching the pain and the grief of childlessness.
I appreciate very much that you have given me „the license to grieve“. If you lose a child at a very early stage of pregnancy it‘s not visible for others. There is no official grieving process. Now I feel that I‘m allowed to miss my child and everything which comes along with having children.
I progress very slowly and take my time. And that‘s okay.
“Thank-you so much for your support and inspiration. I’ll try and keep this brief but I am feeling so grateful to you today and I wanted to let you know.
Last week I wrote to my brother to try and explain to him why I’d had so little contact with him since the birth of his daughter.
I wasn’t quite brave enough to actually send my letter but this morning after responding to your post I figured that although it made me feel terribly vulnerable I’d click send.
My brother replied instantly with the most beautiful and understanding of letters and we’ve just spent two hours on the phone together crying loads and just reconnecting. He’s such an awesome brother and I’m just so happy that I finally found the strength to express myself.
I was so fearful of my emotions and I’d kind of dug myself into a hole of fear. The support and understanding of your group have definitely given me the backing I needed to find my brave.”
Veronique, VA, USA
I received an email from Empowered Childlessness in 2019. after seeing Helen being interviewed. I felt a connection to who she was being, and really resonated with her art therapy as well. My son had passed in 2018 and I was feeling caught up in the sadness and feeling lifeless inside. My thoughts of never being with him again….all the stories of “I should have’s “why didn’t I … ” were consuming me.
I joined Helen’s Create JoY Program was a wonderful, deep, and transformative 6-week journey.
Helen, you are a gift…I felt heard, accepted and supported by you. The meditations and art therapy were so helpful in bringing up what needed to be seen and transformed.
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Helen, you are a gift…I felt heard, accepted and supported by you. The meditations and art therapy were so helpful in bringing up what needed to be seen and transformed.
I highly recommend Helen’s gifts to anyone who has been holding onto grief.
Helen is a compassionate, loving, wise, insightful, and very skilled guide… And Real!!!
I have a great affinity for Helen’s quest to transform lives. I am in awe of how quickly I moved into a joyful way of being. Inspired by being willing to do the work…I love life again and life is loving me!!!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you so very much for the Joy I am feeling again.
I love you
Veronique, Va. USA
“Using art creatively to process grief is a very welcome part of my life now .
Helen’s course has covered important areas that by-pass words and get to the heart of the matter in enjoyable ways. Making this painful process possible, revealing and soothing.”
“I will always be eternally grateful for the work I did with Helen, which had such a big impact on where I am today and the peace I feel… and has also brought me the joy of art to boot!”
Helen and the GWG program has helped me express difficult feelings through visual art, feelings which don’t always fit into words. When I see the art I’ve created it tells an original, colorful and moving story I uniquely understand.
I so love the kindness, support and art offerings of Helen and my new friends.
I want to thank Helen for making a difference in my life. She helped me begin to heal my childless wound which tied into my disordered eating, weight gain, and contributed to some health issues.
I’m 50 pounds down and feeling better. It’s going to continue into next year. Thanks for that session. My word for 2022 was Energy. I have a lot of people helping me and Helen was one of the most significant.
Jade, Canada
I had the pleasure of taking Helen Segal’s 6-week “Create Joy” training. I loved it and feel it was a game-changer for me. I sporadically used to paint for fun, but now I have a broader, artistic “tool kit” of activities and prompts to draw from. I also have a deeper resource (my own body and emotions) to paint from.
Each week we met as an intimate group via Zoom where we got to see each other’s art (optional) and share how our week. I loved seeing other’s art and hearing similarities and inspiration from their shares.
Helen is an excellent leader with years of artistic training and experience. She also has personal experience with grieving and using creativity as a mode of healing so naturally “knows” how to coach and support students. She is…
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Each week we met as an intimate group via Zoom where we got to see each other’s art (optional) and share how the week went. I loved seeing other’s art and hearing similarities and inspiration from their shares.
Helen is an excellent leader. She has years of artistic training and experience to lead from. She also has personal experience with grieving and using creativity as a mode of healing so naturally “knows” how to coach and support students. She is funny, and also very sincere. She leads lovely, body centred meditations to start off each practice. These helped me to become present and move out of my head and into my body.
Helen gracefully held space for us when emotions came up in the process. She also demo’d the art activities and moved through her own feelings (nothing crazy overwhelming) but it gave me a felt sense/example of how to paint (or create) from and with my emotions. I did not know how to do this before. Learning this means that I can feel more OK when I am not feeling up or happy. I can go to my art journal and feel that stuck energy and let my paint brush move without thinking too much or needing anything to be different than what it is. This is a key for me; as someone who has experienced much grief in my life and who is also very creative I need to be able to use my creativity for healing. The lessons in this course were varied and engaging; and I could work on them in my own time. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone.
I use my Create Joy Journal almost every day; either painting, colouring or collaging in it. Now when I create, (usually painting) my intention is to come from my body and emotions. I experience more feeling and connection to an inner resource of hope and strength. I’m so grateful!
Heather
Helen and the GWG Program has helped me in two ways :
- To face into and process my grief, after 9 years of ignoring it, in a completely safe and understanding space. Using creativity to do this has been an incredibly helpful experience.
- To remind me how wonderful it is to just sit with coloured pens, crayons and paints, in total “me time”. I’ve now remembered why art was my favourite subject at school. It’s been a long-neglected activity that I used to enjoy. The course has reminded me of the importance of guilt-free time for me, not just for art, but for other things I used to enjoy.
Thank you Helen!
Helen created a safe place for me where I could access pain and grief but also joy and life and amazing colour beyond any words. And all within a group of others processing there own experience in their own time, with lots of resources available to help alongside respectful guidance and support.
Thank you Helen for creating such a rich experience, and helping me access what this offers in my own time.