MARIE VERPILLEUX

✨ I have a holistic approach: 

During sessions, I take into account the various aspects and layers that compose the person (and their life), not just the symptoms or the "issue". 
Indeed, I consider each individual as a whole, multifaceted being, that is simultaneously physical, mental, emotional, psychological, energetic, social, cultural, spiritual, etc.

 

✨ What mostly characterizes my life journey and specialization is resilience.

In short, resilience is the ability to bounce back after life challenges and hardships, take a fresh start despite tough situations, and in some cases to rise from the ashes and feel reborn. 

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✨ As a coach and therapist, I am heartedly committed to offering:

 

❤️‍🩹 A comforting, reassuring, soothing and judgement-free space BUT no toxic positivity and sugar-coated cheesy quotes ! 
 

🙆🏻‍♀️ I often hear "it could be worse", "I can't really complain", "it's not the end of the world"... which tends to really bother me because: 
 

➳ Sure, but at the same time it can always be "worse". Plus suffering is not a competition anyway (unless we are slightly masochistic!) 
 

➳ Generally speaking, life is not a competition either: we are not here to compare ourselves to others. Nor to beat ourselves up (unwanted guilt, it's time to go away!)
 

➳ When confronting the same unpleasant or painful situation, the way it is perceived tremendously varies from one person to the other. So, so does their emotional response. 

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➳ Last but not least: all – I repeat – ALL (no no, I'm not shouting 🙂) thoughts and emotions are valid AND useful. Indeed, they are precious messengers delivering key information about our fears, zones of suffering, emotional wounds and traumas, unfed needs, etc.

✨ Lastly:

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⊹ In my world, humor and spontaneity play a big part, besides I'm not a huge fan of political correctness.
In other words, I may swear a bit from time to time and I'm pretty direct, but I promise I won't make Uncle Marcel's famous gross jokes I hear at every family wedding (thank God I actually tend to forget them) 😅

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⊹ I'm a 41-year old emoji fan 👩‍🎤

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⊹ I'm a balanced Cancer sun ♋️ with Virgo rising ♍️, and my life path number is 3.
I don't like labels and I believe we are not, in essence, defined by astrology, numerology & co. But I find it accurately interesting as long as we use those wisely as tools while remaining neutral and detached, not taking it (and ourselves) too seriously.