From stagnation to fulfillment:

“What I remember most about working with Apollonia is her care. I felt loved and supported in a way I hadn’t known was possible. There was something in the quality of her presence that let me feel held. 

One moment has stayed with me: after a course, I was lying back in a beautiful, deep chair, and I felt like I could finally rest. There was no one to prove anything to. I felt that there was nothing fundamentally wrong with me, and that feeling belonged to me. No one could take it away.”

“When my father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, it obliterated me. The process was so painful, and my only option was ‘socially constructed grief’ which didn’t capture the entirety of my experience.

Apollonia gave me a place to go inside where I could honor my father and my own experience – all as truth and love.”

“The thing that has changed the most is I’ve become much more willing to be myself. I pull cards. I do kinesiology. There’s magic and Spirit in my world, and I make room for that openly now. 

I’m still weird in the way I’ve always been weird—but I used to save that part of myself for when I thought no one was watching. That freedom reaches into the rest of my life. I’m more present, more willing to make choices, and more willing to take a chance on what matters to me.”

“I am a 50 year old woman who has studied and advocated for disability rights for 30 years with no idea I was on the spectrum.

I was masking for the sake of familial and cultural acceptance. I was so dishonest with myself that when I started my PhD (about disability and stigma) I still had no idea I was talking about myself.

After decades of self-suppression - I met Apollonia.

She was instrumental in changing my perception of the world and who I am within it.”

“Apollonia brings tremendous love and care, and she also asks you to risk—to question familiar patterns and take a chance on living differently.

For me, that has meant trying things I didn’t fully understand and being willing to act before I felt certain. I’ve felt deeply supported as I’ve learned to do that. You have one life, and this work has helped me become much more willing to live mine.”