TESTIMONIALS ON THE ADVICE FROM A LOVING BITCH YOUTUBE SHOW

Hey Rythea! Enjoyed seeing a couple episodes I hadn’t seen yet last night. Just want to drop you a short note to say I think your work is awesome and inspiring. The facepainting episode was hilarious. I love how you make me smile and think. Sending a hug – Tom

I am absolutely crazy in love with “Advice from a Loving Bitch”-slightly obsessed if I am completely honest- HEY there are worse obsessions, eh?! I forwarded it to all my friends & some family for them to see! – Kerry

I loved it, haven’t laughed and cried so much in a long time! Also… I think your song from the music video is excellent and could really be a hit! – Robin Weingarten

I just watched Episode 19 – left me feeling strengthened and really inspired to continue my own journey of healing the wounds of incest. Helps to remember I’m not alone! Thank you Rythea, for your courage, perseverance, and everything else it takes to not only face your demons, but to so passionately and lovingly motivate us to join you and others who’ve made great progress on the path to health and wholeness. You are amazing and I feel so fortunate to know you  R. R – (anonymous)

Rythea – Your videos make me laugh and cry and have changed my life. Thank you from the bottom of my heart (and the top and the middle). – Christina

Rythea’s videos make me ponder, delight, cry unexpectedly and know that much more recovery is possible. – Alisande Cummington

I can’t wait for Season 2! I am using these resources for myself and those closest to me. I also work with trauma survivors and love the right-brain emphasis of the whole show. I’m now a huge fan of Rythea and recently purchased her book, too. Please make more of everything, Rythea! Thank you for what you do and for being you. -Sofia Montgomery

Your show is my new addiction. Rythea Lee, you fuckin’ rock! Thanks for your bravery and fierce love! – Maria Steriti

Because your IC videos are fun, funny, sunny, lunely, toony, truthy, and you keep reminding me to do the homework. – Skip Short

Wonderful series, highly original, much needed. Don’t normally donate but this really deserves encouragement. Thank you. – Adam Knowles

Thank you, Rythea for courageously providing this crucial support for all those who need it. – Dylan Boyd

What can I say? This work is so important and timely and to the point and you bring such a beautifully funny light touch to it all— I hope you spark a world-wide revolution of loving bitches. – Ann Hackler

TESTIMONIALS from Advice from a Loving Bitch Support Groups co-facilitated with Divinah Erving

I think I’ve finally turned the corner on my healing process, and my work with you and the group played a huge part in helping me move through digesting my trauma faster. Feeling like I can interact with the world again and now that I’m no longer in survival mode i can devote more energy to creating and trying to start earning money again so this is good!!!! And I’m feeling much stronger knowing that if i have an emotional flare up so to speak, i have the tools i need to get through it and that i can always reach out and ask for help. That’s a new thing for me  thanks to the group for helping me work through my fear of receiving. I’m still working on it but my grip is softening. This is good.

N.S

Being part of the Healing Self Hatred group felt like being on an epic adventure, with Rythea and Divinah as wise and caring guides.I came into the HSH group after continuing to struggle with self-loathing, despite years of introspective healing work in therapeutic and 12-step spaces. I really wasn’t sure it would teach me anything I didn’t already know about myself, but I hoped it might give me a boost. I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly the unique nature of the group revealed new colors and textures to my inner map, helping me to travel further than I had ever gone before.

In addition to a more detailed map of my inner world, the group has given me a new respect for the various parts of self that make the “me” that I bring into the outer world; connections with a posse of courageous spiritual warriors; and a kit of tools to help me find my way back to self-love when the going gets rough, as it inevitably does on planet Earth.

The experience was alternately inspiring; hilarious; moving; fun; poignant; and creative. It was also consistently affirming, supportive, and engaging. I highly recommend it for anyone with a sense of adventure who wants to reclaim the treasure of self, including those who’ve done significant work in other settings.

Blessings to both of you,

Keith

I had a hunch that this workshop was going to "be good for me" but I had no idea how deeply and surprisingly it was going to change my life, making room for Love.  I've struggled with depression for almost 50 years and I do value the many therapies, counseling, medications, and spiritual paths that I've sought for healing on this path. The work with Rythea and Divinah, however, allowed me to *experience* - in my body and soul, as well as in my mind - where that depression came from and gave me a powerful new tool to step out of my depressive habits: self-love.  It may sound trite stated that way, but it by no means is.  Seeing that my self-hating voice is not what defines my identity, and that I have a demonstrable power to supersede it with a loving self, was a liberatory revelation. Thank you for your teachings and for sharing your wisdom with such humor, brightness, compassion and courage.

-Martin Hunter

I have been able to ACTUALLY develop a relationship with myself that is loving.  I had understood the idea of that intellectually before, but could never relate to that being possible to actually EXPERIENCE in myself.  And in just 10 weeks, I can say that I am beginning to be a friend in myself.  I am beginning to love myself unconditionally.  It is absolutely amazing to me that this has been possible. Of course, I have so much to grieve from my childhood, and so much to work on creating new paths from the 47 years of deeply driven tracks of self-hatred, but the fact that I have learned this in my lifetime at all feels like a miracle.  I wish my mother could have learned this for herself, and given herself the love she so needed.

-E. M

This was my first experience in a support group.  In our final session, Divinah named what this group has been to me at its essence and at its core: "Community Care." Being seen, being heard, alongside witnessing others in their processes (similar, different and each one unique).  The program's structure held touch points to tap into and unlock all my senses, experiences, memories, hopes, fears and narratives. It held me as I moved through the waves of feelings, grief, numbness, then more feelings. I am not the same as I was when I entered into and opened up to this space 10 weeks ago, the work has begun, the seeds have been planted, and now the next season begins: the internal and external work with the new tools and muscles I have begun to develop and continue to refine.

-M. S