Dearest Marion,

I first heard about you through a shared post from Kate Baltrotksy, an Aware Parenting Instructor I was following.

I loved what you had written and started following you. You wrote a post about willingness and ways that our own willingness (or unwillingness) show up in our children’s behaviour.

At the time I was having trouble with my breastfeeding relationship – my daughter was wanting boob all the time and I found it so difficult to say no. I started journalling about it and so much grief came up about losing her love if I said no to her. I cried rivers of tears and knew I had touched on something deep.

So I bought your willingness course and worked through it. It was life changing!

I had been trying to buy a house all year and losing out at every auction.

I was living in my mum’s shed, feeling completely isolated, my partner and I were fighting and he was sleeping on a mattress on the floor. Mum and I were fighting too, so it felt like the two people closest to me were hurting me the most. It was so hard. I was only just surviving through huge releases in emergency listening time though Hand in Hand.

Within a couple of weeks of practising willingness I was feeling like a changed woman and we finally bought a house!

The clarity I was able to bring to the negotiation of the sale made what had seemed so difficult, a complete breeze!

I was learning to hold myself through deep fear of losing love when I said no to people or stood my ground.

I signed up to the Marion Method Immersion and learnt about the whole Marion Method.

I loved learning about how the psychospiritual parenting approach and how much our babies and children mirror us and teach us about unconscious, often harmful patterning.

Parenting has become the greatest teacher through having these tools to work with this deep psychological material.

Seeing the patterns that have come about through the domination paradigm and having a framework to understand and heal is so, so powerful and I am so grateful for this work.

I then signed up for ‘The Room’ and loved tapping into the conversations with life and the poetic wisdom that the collaboration with Mary brought.

During this time I also completed ‘get free from guilt’ which I have gone back to over and over and used this information to try to guide other mothers and friends when they were hurting themselves in this way.

I kept thinking about the Marion Method but wasn’t sure if I could afford it. Then one day I decided to go for it, and emailed you about it and you said you had just been thinking that you wanted me to join the group!

It’s amazing how often these synchronicities have happened in my work with you.

The sessions with you have been so powerful. You are so supportive, so insightful, so loving.

I also just love where our conversations flow and the energy and inspiration I feel rush into my body through our conversations.

The sessions have often brought about deep healing. My relationships have all improved immensely. I am much more able to speak up for my own needs as well as listen to the needs of others even when there is conflict between the two. This in itself is huge for me!

I now feel like I have a much more solid base to put my ideas out into the world, something I have struggled with immensely in the past.

The groups are also so wonderful. To have a group of women who are deeply committed to healing from the domination paradigm and all their wonderful insights and support is so spacial and just as much part of the healing journey.

The wonderful thing is there is always more to uncover, learn and practise. The tools are like a taurus, every spiralling, turning back in and revealing more.

I am so so grateful to you, your incredible presence and your wonderful body of work, Marion. Thank you!”

Marisa xxxxx

1 – 1 mentoring with Marion … It’s hard to find words to describe the journey I have been on ever since I started the mentioning.

I don’t know where to start expressing my gratitude for the things Marion has taught me.

The things I have learned have changed how I see myself and the world forever. The love and acceptance I felt during that time have been life-changing and I’m still finding it hard to understand how having Marion in my life for such a relatively short time has changed everything so totally and absolutely.

Never in my life have I felt so deeply understood, listened to and cared for and nourished.

Marion is more than a mentor. The way she helped me connect the dots in the most loving and compassionate way is like watching an artist paint a picture.

Her voice is with me every day and has become a resource that I can tap into whenever and wherever I need to. Her presence and love feel like an invisible string guiding me throughout the day giving me a sense of belonging and trust.

Marion’s work is so incredibly powerful and transformative that I truly believe that she, and everyone having been on this journey has the ability to bring change. Change that is so desperately needed.

If you feel called to do this work, do it. Don’t hesitate. This is the pathway to a journey you will never come back from. It is ongoing.

Once you are on it, and if you are willing, the invisible string of love and wisdom will guide you and stay with you gently pulling you towards the life that you have always dreamed of.

This has not only been the greatest gift to myself but to everyone around me, particularly my family. Thank you, Marion, for walking beside me and sharing your gifts, wisdom and knowledge so generously.

I cannot begin to express with words all the ways that working 1 on 1 with Marion Rose has completely changed the course of my life. Giving myself the gift of working 1 on 1 with her will forever be one of the most important ways I have chosen to spend my money. There is no price I could put on the transformations that have happened in my life as a result of this work. Working with Marion has laid the foundation on which I will spend the rest of my life building on.

If you’re looking to work with someone 1 on 1 for 2020 who will support you completely, honour you deeply, and guide you with LOVE, look no further. I promise you won’t regret it!!

Marion, you are my psychospiritual mentor and I deeply value the journey I have embarked on with you over the last few years.

I have been fortunate to complete many of your courses, online groups, and individual face to face mentoring sessions.

You have deeply touched my life in many areas including parenting, career, personal and spiritual. Your support, wisdom and insight have been transformational for me.

I feel so deeply connected to myself and my children, and a growing interconnectedness with everything within and around me.

My heart is filled with gratitude and I look forward to continuing this journey with you.

It is hard to put into words what it is like to work with Marion. I went into mentorship because after years of work through books and courses, parenting still felt so challenging/depleting/impossible.

For weeks, it just felt like me talking about my day and my struggles, and her listening and validating. She would send love to all my younger parts, and offer reflection. It felt like a relief to have someone to share all my day to day challenges with, but at the same time, it just felt like we talked about the same thing over and over again.

Then when we were in session one day I let it all out. I raged, cried and got really pissed off. Before that session that day there was still that hesitation to really be seen in all my rage and trust I would still be loved, but I was. Marion gave me the space to be myself and celebrate all that I am.

Little did I know at the time, that those early conversations talking about the same thing over and over again were repairing years of broken trust in my relationships. They allowed me to feel that trust was a possibility. The loving presence and patience that Marion provided in our sessions gave me a sense of safety that I had been longing for, and was able to reclaim within myself.

With this renewed sense of safety and foundation, I brought a fuller experience of myself to our conversations. I had the space to voice things I would normally hide. I began to see challenges in my life in a different way, even in a humorous way, yet still hold the pain/frustration/anger at the same time. It felt liberating! I felt like I could be myself and forge deeper connections just by being me.

She taught me the power of love spans time and space. She taught me how the simple act of sending love to your baby self can change you, and those you love, especially your child.

Marion showed me a different way to engage with life. She showed me the magic in the everyday, and that deep, healing laughter could be found in the most ordinary places.

I am forever grateful!

A Year with Marion is quite simply the most important thing I’ve ever done for myself.

Marion holds a space where any and all things are welcome. In this space I had the opportunity to relax, release and look at my life in ways I had never done before.

I trust that whatever arises is Life offering the next part of the puzzle. With Marion I was able to meet whatever arose, hear the invitation, and reimagine moments in my life where I had misunderstood myself and Life itself.

The beautiful tools Marion has created—the Inner Loving Presence Process and the Willingness Practice in particular—have settled deeply in my bones. Through the ILLP, the dialogue in my head, that voice that narrates my day, is now loving, compassionate and supportive. The Willingness Practice has become second nature. Because of it, I now have a strong alignment between what calls me forward, and my capacity to flow with it willingly. Things that would have stopped my progress or slowed me down in the past are now understood and folded lovingly in to how I proceed. Things that used to stop me now simply show me what else I want or need in order to move forward.

An old fear of being judged for what I say used to prevent me speaking up. Now I see that the fear was showing me that I need to feel safe. Today I am willing to speak, and I am not willing to receive judgement from others.
A fear that writing and publishing more would mean less time with my family shows me that I value the time we currently have together. Today I am wiling to write and publish more AND do it in a way that maintains beautiful connection with my family. It is no longer an either-or proposition.

My life is enriched in very profound and very practical ways by Marion’s work. Having her one on one support, being in the presence of her deep compassion and acceptance, has been truly life-changing. It has literally rewired my brain to expect love, compassion and ease.

If you feel called to work with Marion, I can sincerely assure you it is a call you can trust. Mentoring with Marion is a gift that will last a lifetime.

I signed up with Marion and her Psychospiritual Entrepreneurship Immersion as a way of gifting myself some outer support to help me take action on a women’s retreat I received a clear downloaded to offer.

For many years I’ve worked quietly and intimately 1: 1 with women as well as running regular womens circles but I’d never really marketed myself in any big way feeling content with word of mouth referrals. For this retreat though I was being called to show up in a bigger way and I knew that I felt some fear around using my voice.

When I reflect back to when we first began, I can see with hindsight how my core issue showed up in our very first session together! We kept losing internet connection and whenever I spoke it was cutting in and out. “A clear message from life” as Marion would say.

To be honest, as I reflect back I am so blown away by the profound nature of the work that Marion & I did together, it is difficult to put into words.

And when I tune in as to why, I sense its because of the deep soul nature of Marion and her work.

I felt so deeply held and safe to express myself in Marion’s Presence.

I could FEEL her unconditional love, compassion and deep empathy on every level of my being as she listened. Her guiding words penetrated me body, heart and my soul.

During some of the most intense times, Marion helped me understand how the fear and pain that was arising in the present, as well as the thoughts that I believed along with it, were from my past coming up to be loved & acknowledged. This was so helpful for me to be aware of when I was in the thick of it.

She helped me expand my own capacity to be lovingly present to those intense experiences AND move through them by reminding me of my power as the woman I am Now, deeply trusting in my connection to my Divine nature as well as to my Soul’s calling.

She supported me to move at my own pace, deeply trusting my process moment by moment, and I truly believe this was so integral to the deep healing transition I went through.

During our whole time together I could feel how Marion genuinely believed in me, and in my Sovereignty.

And I believe this is because Marion is a true Queen herself, whose compassionate leadership was born to inspire us to step into ours.

My psychospiritual journey with Marion helped me realise that I was not speaking to a whole part of myself and my personal journey that is important to share in my offerings.

In acknowledging this I witnessed powerful energetic shifts happen within my family relationships both backward and forward in the timeline. I feel so grateful to be integrating all of this now and aligning to my truest path.

Words cannot convey my love & gratitude for you Marion.

Our journey has shown me that you cannot underestimate the power that holding space in unconditional love & safe connection can do for someone, and that we definitely don’t need to do this deep inner work alone xx

The mentoring I had with Marion over the past six months has been such an incredibly deep well of support for the issues I’ve had showing up; particularly in uncovering the root of old patterns from the past that were still playing out.

The Marion Method unhinges old, outdated domination paradigms and brings better outcomes through more love-filled, tuned in, compassionate choices. It’s like learning a new language that opens new doors.

Since meeting Marion and being guided by her teachings over the last few years, I’ve added so many powerful, loving practices and approaches to my life’s toolkit.

Working with Marion will cause deep shifts in the way you connect with yourself and life itself.

Marion is a wise medicine woman. Her medicine is love and compassion.

The Divine mother love energy flows through her and touches everyone who comes in contact.

She has shown me what it feels like to be loved unconditionally and for that, I will be forever grateful.

Dear beautiful, Marion,

Words cannot describe how grateful I am for the depth and unwavering, unconditional love and support you have shown me. You humbly describe yourself as a Mentor but your work is nothing short of healing and positively transformational. 

When we embarked on this massive journey together I consciously set HUGE goals and little did I know my Soul was setting some of her own. 

I never, in a million years, would have anticipated the profound positive shifts I so longed for would happen in such short space of time. 

To be honest, I more imagined there would be a long, slow gradual build up required in order to achieve such change, for me to establish the resources, confidence and courage to leave my ‘secure’ public service job would take at least one to two years. This happened totally unexpectedly and divinely within weeks of us working together. I am still blown away at how it all unfolded and have not been happier pursuing my soul work since!

We had been experiencing significant challenges with one of our children that was noticeable to all who were around us. The judgement and rejection of their behaviour and feelings and the lack of compassion and desire to understand what was driving the behaviour from modern society conditioning felt crippling and isolating to me. 

Within an incredibly short space of time you guided me through two massive experiences with my child, supporting and reassuring me that their raging expression was healthy and my capacity to stay with them until the charged energy and feelings neutralised would be hugely beneficial.

Along side birthing my last baby undisturbed, this was the most powerful and empowering parenting experience I’ve had. What’s most remarkable though isn’t the softening and relaxation I witnessed immediately after the rage and grief, it’s their genuine expression of love, concern and generosity for themselves and others that has consistently continued to be part of their nature for the MONTHS following and still to date. 

Pain is an interesting part of our human experience and ‘being present’ is a popular recommendation to work with or heal pain.

“be present with your emotions”

“be present with the other person, they don’t have the capacity,” 

“Just be present with yourself”

“Just be present with them”

Who else gets how incredibly freaking difficult or even impossible it is to ‘just be present’ with your own pain or with others?

This reminds me of the saying “people can only meet you as deeply as they have met themselves” – Matt Kahn.

It is crystal clear to me, and I believe everyone I have seen you work with, your ability to be piercingly present is like no other. And I feel confident in saying this is because of how deeply and passionately you ABSOLUTELY practice what you preach. 

You never expect the souls you’re working with to do things or go places you haven’t been yourself. You lead by example using your tools and practices daily not coercing others to do the same, but gracefully inspiring them too – just like a true leader. 

You know what pain is, you know how to feel and honour it, you’re not scared of it, you know that it’s a beautiful healthy part of us that needs to be heard and healed rather than rejected and suppressed. And, in my experience, you do that like no other. 

You are a living, breathing example of what is underneath the pain, love. 

Absolute, unwavering, unshiftable, undeniable, unconditional love. 

It’s where we come from and it’s where we go. It is our true essence, and you, Marion Rose, live and teach it like no other. 

SO much eternal love and gratitude to you,

The Marion Method Immersion is a thorough soaking in LOVE. I felt it…until I believed it…until I became it.

And the biology of that belief is changing everything.

Immeasurable gratitude to you Marion and my extraordinary MMI soul sisters whom I walked with.

This is an offering of deep knowledge and tangible practice at the leading edge of mind-body medicine and psychotherapy.

I feel exceptionally privileged to have experienced this.

Marion, I am filled with gratitude for what I have learned about love and will from you. Thank you for seeing all of me, for loving all of me. 

I am brimming with smiles and heart hearing your messages.

I experience your energy as a huge loving wave that gently rolls across the whole planet. Your voice is the call of nature’s truest energies of love and creation.

Knowing you, being in connection with you reconnects me to my most innocent intent in life. 

Thank you. I love you and your message.

This is the end of Marion Method Immersion and feels like the beginning of a whole new life.

Marion, you create the most beautiful spaces. Every moment with you is enriching for me. 

And to have you plus all these other wonder women I feel SO blessed.

I have emerged from this six month immersion with a felt sense of what being ‘mothered well’ is like. A LOT of that came from Marion’s constant pouring of affection and unconditional love on me through Messenger almost nightly, 3 sessions a month, and monthly Zoom conference calls; and some was from her helping me notice how I’d done that for my own daughter and imagining it was for me too.

I absolutely loved how, in our sessions together, I could ask for whatever I felt I wanted, and Marion would happily oblige. At different times, I asked her to speak directly to my body, to my psyche (the hurt child) and to my soul. Those experiences were always profoundly moving, as she poured on love and empathy and compassion. My spirit was deeply, deeply stirred and has renewed hope and enthusiasm.

I now wake most mornings and ‘hear’ my Inner Loving Mother say to me, ‘I’m right here with you darling’….and the same when painful feelings are coming up, when I remember to. Every time, it eases the hurt, I feel more ‘cushioned’, not so raw and exposed, not so vulnerable and alone. It gives a certain sweetness to the feeling, because it’s now minus the misery of the old, old sense of being alone with it.

The other aspect that has had a major difference is listening to Marion and becoming aware of all the ways my avoidance of coercion has governed so many aspects of my life and decisions. 

She helped me see all the ways I know what I’ve NOT been willing to experience or have happen to my daughter, and how that’s a powerful thing.

And on the flip side of that, I’ve had a good look at where I’ve rebelled and ‘pushed back’ on anything that has even a whiff of coercion to it….and now I’m able to bring awareness of that to any decision I’m making. For instance, I might think I don’t want to do something but what I’m actually doing is baulking at feeling coerced into doing something. Once I recognise that, then I can decide, without that in the way, if I actually DO want to do it, or not.

And I loved our Zoom sessions. Such a WARM group of women….that’s what stood out the most to me. And I have to say, I loved the timer too, so that I could listen willingly and whole heartedly. 

I LOVED Marion’s generosity that lent a sense of abundance to the course, being welcomed to join all the new workshops and courses she created whilst we were Immersed in her bath of love.

And knowing I have ongoing access to the other members and the course material made for a softer landing, when the immersion reached completion. 

I can think of so many people I would love to have this experience.

I’m feeling at a loss for words.

How does one describe an experience that has been life changing and yet effortless?

Powerful yet peaceful.

Present yet full of ease.

It’s like I fell in love with myself.

I can see myself through Marion’s eyes and the view is spectacular.

I fell more in love with my children.

I fell in love with the women in my group.

Every moment I got to learn with Marion and expand my awareness was sacred and I will carry these past 6 months in my heart forever.

Nothing has changed my perspective on myself, my potential, my power to heal, my ability to form deep, resonating, mutual friendships, and my understanding of past hurts like the Marion Method Immersion.

(To the Mentees’ group):

I’ve so loved being part of this group and witnessing you all in all you’ve shared here. It’s truly a gift. Even though we’ve not met in person, I feel like I know many of you like old friends. This journey that we’ve all been on with Marion is like no other and it feels so good to know there are women around the world who’ve had the courage to look within and love, trust and be willing to create a loving relationship with themselves, with others and with Life. 

To dear Marion… oh my! I’ve expressed only some of my gratitude to you on Voxer and on our last call.

I want to CELEBRATE you with all of the women in this amazing [Mentees’] group. You and your Soul’s work is absolutely divine and lifetime changing. From the depths of my heart and Soul, I thank YOU for all that you are and all that came here to be. You’re ever loving and your love and support has been so helpful and inspiring for me.

Last week, in reflection with my time with Marion, I wrote all that I’ve learnt and embodied. I know that I’ll go deeper with all of these as my journey continues. I’d love to share it with you all because I’m so proud of myself.

So here goes…

– That I’m not responsible for others feelings and they’re not responsible for mine.

– That frustration + rage + a strong desire for answers are such a powerful mix for me. That when I lean into and become curious about these feelings that I can really understand what it is that I really want and don’t want. It creates such willingness for me. I used to be so scared of those feelings.

– How powerful I truly am and that I really do love myself deeply.

– How connecting in, listening to and loving all parts of myself is so powerful.

– Many Aware Parenting practices that help me be a more present and loving mother to my daughter and her future siblings.

– Understanding my themes, both ancestral and childhood. Knowing these helps me understand why I have behaved, acted, thought, experienced things in the past or present. Also, they help me connect in with the younger parts of me.

– A feeling of safety and security within myself that I’ve never felt before. I feel both ground and light within. Ahh what a relief!

– The power of Marion’s processes. What a gift to be able to continue to use these whenever I choose.

– Understanding my repression mechanisms.

– A deeper understanding of my husband and that the more empathy and love that I have with him and express to him the more that he reveals his true Self.

– That every day my love for my daughter is deeper. I didn’t think that was possible.

– That when I connect in with what I’m feeling, needing, wanting and/or thinking that I can then be in a place of empowerment to choose what I deem is best for me (not what others think/feel).

– The power of understanding, meeting and expressing my needs.

Thank you for witnessing me. Sending you all so much love and hope to remain in contact. Wishing you all the BEST in your beautiful journeys.

Love, Esther xoxo

Marion’s work is transformational! I am so deeply grateful to me from just a few months ago, for allowing myself 1-1 support from Marion. It was one of the best investments I have ever made, for me and my whole family – especially now, being a mother of a 3 year old and a baby.

Having followed so many of Marion’s courses these past few years, this was a next level experience.

Being bathed in Marion’s pure loving compassion for 3 months was surprisingly gentle and powerful at the same time.

Here I experienced the true power of being held in such an enormous unconditional loving space – being heard, seen, acknowledged and supported over and over again during this deep inner journey of healing and letting go of past hurts and intergenerational trauma.

And that way, becoming more and more who I truly am, myself being LOVE and WILL.

My capacity to be with what is has increased drastically, such as my capacity to respond to my day to day challenges with spaciousness, gentleness, willingness and loving compassion.

I feel deep gratitude for having found Marion quite early in my parenting journey. Before I’ve known her, I had kept on searching for the right person to support me in my inner journey, and hadn’t found someone that was a fit for me. With Marion and her profound method, it was like finally arriving home (in her presence, her community and in myself) and from then on my inner and outer support just kept on growing.

And now I know it’s all there, in myself and I have the chance to tap into it, every single moment, while I am willing to receive more and more of this support.