You Are Not Alone!
Testimonials
Hear stories of strength and healing from courageous survivors who found hope, growth, and support through our journey together.
You Are Not Alone!
Testimonials
Hear stories of strength and healing from courageous survivors who found hope, growth, and support through our journey together.
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I am a survivor of intimate partner violence (IPV) who has experienced PTSD for many years. I am also a mental health worker and the former director of an IPV organization.
The support I have personally received from Adri over the years has been tremendously helpful. Adri always finds the sweet spot between listening and asking. Throughout the process her empathy is palpable. After talking to Adri, I feel heard. And most importantly I feel believed.
I consider experiential knowledge to be very valuable to doing IPV support work. Nobody understands better what it's like to find oneself in a violent relationship than someone who's gone through it. Adri's style encapsulates the best of this approach: she brings her own experience with IPV into the conversation only to the degree that it helps the woman in front of her. She is encouraging, supportive, and never judgmental.
I highly recommend Adri to any woman seeking guidance from a strong, smart and deeply empathetic woman.
—Renée
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I am a survivor of intimate partner violence (IPV) who has experienced PTSD for many years. I am also a mental health worker and the former director of an IPV organization.
The support I have personally received from Adri over the years has been tremendously helpful. Adri always finds the sweet spot between listening and asking. Throughout the process her empathy is palpable. After talking to Adri, I feel heard. And most importantly I feel believed.
I consider experiential knowledge to be very valuable to doing IPV support work. Nobody understands better what it's like to find oneself in a violent relationship than someone who's gone through it. Adri's style encapsulates the best of this approach: she brings her own experience with IPV into the conversation only to the degree that it helps the woman in front of her. She is encouraging, supportive, and never judgmental.
I highly recommend Adri to any woman seeking guidance from a strong, smart and deeply empathetic woman.
—Renée
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____I am a survivor of intimate partner violence (IPV) who has experienced PTSD for many years. I am also a mental health worker and the former director of an IPV organization.
The support I have personally received from Adri over the years has been tremendously helpful. Adri always finds the sweet spot between listening and asking. Throughout the process her empathy is palpable. After talking to Adri, I feel heard. And most importantly I feel believed.
I consider experiential knowledge to be very valuable to doing IPV support work. Nobody understands better what it's like to find oneself in a violent relationship than someone who's gone through it. Adri's style encapsulates the best of this approach: she brings her own experience with IPV into the conversation only to the degree that it helps the woman in front of her. She is encouraging, supportive, and never judgmental.
I highly recommend Adri to any woman seeking guidance from a strong, smart and deeply empathetic woman.
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—Renée
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____When times are tough, I can count on Adri for a good listening ear. She challenges me in the right ways, and provides encouragement and validation when that is needed. Adri is a very talented, compassionate and insightful woman, and she is poised to support other women with their journeys of healing and transformation.
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—Marlo
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____I was thrilled when Adri invited me to write this testimonial. To be given the opportunity to express what her friendship has meant to me over the past twenty years is an honour.
Since we met when studying together in Amsterdam in 2004, I have seen Adri face struggles that would have broken most people. I have watched her embrace her vulnerability, face up to the reality of her situation, give herself time and compassion, seek out what she needs, and come through it stronger, wiser and more empathetic.
She has channeled it all into both her professional and personal life and gained unparalleled knowledge, experience and skills to serve as a guide and inspiration to others. Adri has held me through my own challenges, helped me come through my own trauma with confidence, power and love, and been a cherished role model and friend.
EllePower is Adri's calling. I can't imagine anyone better equipped to support women who have survived intimate partner violence to access their well of inner strength, and I am moved when I think of how many women who, in partnership with Adri, are going to heal their wounds, find their path and shine their light on the world.
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—Nicole
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____When I think of my friendship with Adri, the founder of Elle Power, I think: Guiding Light. Adri has been such a guiding light to me on my journey in becoming a mother. This is slightly outside the focus of EllePower but in a way, it makes total sense. The knowledge from the experience Adri has, she generously spills it over into this realm as well. Anxiety, worry, and doubt can plague us all from becoming who we are meant to be, and Adri knows how to pull the creative, brave and determined side out of us so we can soar! EllePower is for women who are ready to shed their baggage and fly high!
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—Laura
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When times are tough, I can count on Adri for a good listening ear. She challenges me in the right ways, and provides encouragement and validation when that is needed. Adri is a very talented, compassionate and insightful woman, and she is poised to support other women with their journeys of healing and transformation.
—Marlo
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“
I was thrilled when Adri invited me to write this testimonial. To be given the opportunity to express what her friendship has meant to me over the past twenty years is an honour.
Since we met when studying together in Amsterdam in 2004, I have seen Adri face struggles that would have broken most people. I have watched her embrace her vulnerability, face up to the reality of her situation, give herself time and compassion, seek out what she needs, and come through it stronger, wiser and more empathetic.
She has channeled it all into both her professional and personal life and gained unparalleled knowledge, experience and skills to serve as a guide and inspiration to others. Adri has held me through my own challenges, helped me come through my own trauma with confidence, power and love, and been a cherished role model and friend.
EllePower is Adri's calling. I can't imagine anyone better equipped to support women who have survived intimate partner violence to access their well of inner strength, and I am moved when I think of how many women who, in partnership with Adri, are going to heal their wounds, find their path and shine their light on the world.
—Laura
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When I think of my friendship with Adri, the founder of Elle Power, I think: Guiding Light. Adri has been such a guiding light to me on my journey in becoming a mother. This is slightly outside the focus of EllePower but in a way, it makes total sense. The knowledge from the experience Adri has, she generously spills it over into this realm as well. Anxiety, worry, and doubt can plague us all from becoming who we are meant to be, and Adri knows how to pull the creative, brave and determined side out of us so we can soar! EllePower is for women who are ready to shed their baggage and fly high!
—Nicole
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