Testimonials

The Woman Within Weekend was exactly what I needed. It was so healing for my spirit. The women radiated strength and gentleness and reminded me this is what I want for me. Yes, I have had many heartaches and I’m sure life will hold more, but I learned that in spite of the sadness, I can still have joy. I am on my way towards joy!”

Maureen Arnone - November, 2007, Elmer, NJ

A sincere thank you for the most movingly beautiful weekend of my 45 years on this planet! I...have already told all the women I love in my life that they need to have this experience before they die.

Lisa Hynes-Rosenfeld, May 2009

The Woman Within Weekend did have a profound effect on my life, though it was not immediate. It gave me a sense of inner strength and focus that I kept within me and then drew upon several years later when I finally took some steps to change my life. I am grateful for the experience and for the friendships and relationships with other women. I enjoy being part of the Woman Within community.

--Kathy

The Woman Within Initiation weekend gave me the opportunity to feel and see the emotional and physical pain I had carried most of my life and release it. I felt safe knowing I was not alone and empowered by the support and acceptance I received. As a result, I trust the choices I make for my life. I can share with others without depleting myself.

--Ginny

Most important for me is that I have learned to value, trust and love so many other women.

--Karlene

I have waited a long time to FEEL what being an empowered women is about. I spent much of my life compensating for being born a female. I've come a long way on my journey, finding the difference between being an overpowering woman and being an empowered woman has made in my life. (Every day is a new discovery.) I am aware that I have a right to be heard. WW has helped to validate my importance as a WOMAN. I no longer need to do battle in a man's world; I am comfortable as a woman to have my own feelings and opinions.

--Gloria

I was initially uncomfortable going to a process event that I did not have much information about. My husband, who was involved in Warriors, really pushed me to go. I am an observant Jew and this was on my Sabbath which made it even more difficult for me, since both physically and spiritually I was taken out of my holy space and placed in a culturally foreign environment on the holiest day of the week. To say the least, I was angry and confused as to why I was there in the first place. . . . Well by about Saturday PM I began to sense some of the holiness of the process and decided to let go of my resistance and get into the process, without compromising my adherence to my religious obligations. It started working and I started opening up to the fact that I could relate and go inside in a universal way, even if I could not participate fully for religious reasons. . . . I left on Sunday with an open and humbled heart, filled with the pain and joy of being myself, accepting myself, loving myself, and accepting that I was truly different and I could make it as a Jew in a gentile world and it could be deep, trusting, and accepting.

--Shoshana

I feel honored to share how this weekend changed my life. As a result I began a deeper level of healing that began its first level when I got clean and sober in May 1985. I met a group of women who not only could handle the level of pain and energy I brought to the weekend, but could nurture me in ways I have never allowed women to do. . . . Today I enjoy a deep and honest and loving relationship with my family of origin as well: my mother and I did a mother/daughter weekend to our city of birth, Paris, in January this year. I know I could not have made this connection without the deep healing I was privileged to begin on that fateful weekend in November of 1996. In addition my father, who is an alcoholic and also one of the perpetrators of my childhood sexual abuse, is now a part of my healing journey. We can share and talk as we have never before. . . . All of this work is about healing and about growing up. Today, rather than face life's experiences with the grief of a child, more and more I face them with the grace of a woman. What a gift!

--Barbara

I registered for the Woman Within Training Weekend after a friend gave me a brochure. I had done workshops before and I thought it would be a good experience to add to what I had already done. I had no idea it was going to change my life so deeply. It revealed wounds that were buried very deep. It made me realize that the powerful woman that I was, was actually a façade and that I was a very wounded little girl deep inside. Since my weekend, I have been surrounded by a community of women, my sisters, who have helped me see the true power in me. And for that I am forever grateful.

--Christel