Henrik,

I appreciate you speaking up, and remember … perception is in the eye of the beholder. I will answer your question, but it is my honest intuition that this is not really what holds you back, and I invite you to go deeper with it. My program triggers in many people the nearly-universal fear of healing. This is why I require such a powerful commitment from each of my 15-week clients. It is important for their results that I make it very unappetizing to quit in the middle of the program.

Now on to your question … or at least the question I hear in what you said. I don’t coach my clients about their testimonials. It is very important to me that the testimonials be spontaneous and authentic. I also publish only a tiny fraction of the positive feedback that I receive. My in-box fills up every week with “thank yous” and “wow that was a powerful session” and “these are all the changes I’m noticing.”

Nor, frankly, do my clients always realize how much they’ve changed, because this process is so organic. But if you listened to the recordings, you’d hear an extremely angry bitter person in session #1 transform into a compassionate, grounded person by session #6. (This, btw, is a phenomenon that many tapping practitioners talk about, sometimes we need to remind our clients how much they have transformed, because sometimes they literally “forget” they had a problem that was agonizing for them just a few weeks earlier and now doesn’t bother them at all.)

The reason I don’t think this is your real concern is that when I think back on the testimonials, and the specific clients who wrote them, I remember things like this. A client manifested nearly $10,000 out of nowhere after one session. He was not in my 15-week program, but if he had been, he just paid his entire tuition in one session. The client who had the pay raise was in the 15-week program, and his entire life was transformed. He not only got a pay raise and an entirely new approach to money, but also we averted a bankruptcy, he got a girlfriend who started helping out financially, and he got a home loan that previously seemed impossible and then started living in his own house with his girlfriend. If that is not a radical transformation, I don’t know what is. And that doesn’t include the details I’m leaving out because I’m not sure he’d want me to share them.

The client who talked about “Rose” had a total transformation of his approach to life. He didn’t write one testimonial. He wrote several. He previously had a deep sense of inadequacy and “not good enough.” Now he has confidence and self-esteem. Such issues can be resistant to years of coaching and therapy, and he had tried everything before he found me. Again, that doesn’t even cover the numerous other issues we resolved for him, such as getting someone to pay him back a nearly six-figure amount of money and helping him with a romantic relationship, etc.

Another woman I’ve been working with in regular sessions was able to go off her anxiety meds after five sessions with me (I didn’t recommend this, she made her own decision). I then helped her through the withdrawal symptoms. She doesn’t have to take anxiety meds anymore, after taking them for years. If that’s not a significant result in your eyes, I seriously don’t know what to tell you. I didn’t write about that result on the blog, but I did mention it on Facebook.

These are just a few of myriad examples. Of course results vary based on the client’s level of commitment, and sometimes by how messed up their life was at the beginning. This is why I have focused a lot of attention on how I as a coach can facilitate a level of commitment that gets maximum results. Part of this, I’ve found, is the substantial upfront financial commitment and the requirement that people complete the program. Another aspect is reminding my clients not to give their power away and to take full responsibility for their results. I do not tolerate any “victim mentality” in this program. Ultimately, I don’t want them dependent on me. I want them to remember Who they really Are, and to take their power back from external “authorities” and events. I want them to get at a deep level that they have the power to create these results on their own, and — if they wish — to turn around and coach others to get this level of transformation.

So … I don’t see any other coaching program out there consistently getting these kinds of results. I especially don’t see any other program teaching a holistic method that can be applied to any problem that arises in any area of life, thus giving me the ability to get (for example) relationship and self-esteem results simultaneously with financial results. I hope what I’ve written helps to illuminate why the interpretation I’m hearing you have of the testimonials does not fit with the bigger picture I’m seeing as a coach. But I go back again to my intuition that this is not the real issue for you … and I invite you to explore it more deeply.

Feel free to email me if you have further questions about the program: Erika@ErikaAwakening.com

cheers,
Erika

I just read your newsletter “Don’t wait another day, …”, and it inspired me. For quite some time I am thinking about taking your wonderful 15-week program, but I wanted to share with you that there is one fact that is really holding me back.

The testimonials you provide are wonderful to read. I think you program helps people to make the deep inner change. But I miss this deep inner change in your testimonials. When I read your testimonials I get the feeling that they are the typical euphoria-based short-term testimonials, although you advertise a program that promises long term miraculous effects.

I would expect a testimonial for this program to be much more than just “and few days later my income went up by 16.5%” or “Rose, who knows me better than anyone, told me this morning, that she absolutely couldn’t believe what she saw yesterday” or “yesterday I went out with Matt, and I met his buddy, …”.

I hope this feedback helps you in some way, and I really think that your program in reality is much more worth than you communicate with those testimonials.

Thank you for your wonderful contribution to this world.

Peace
Henrik