WHAT MY CLIENTS SAY

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"Milena altered my life trajectory. I am NOT exaggerating. She is the most incredible coach you could ever work with.

I had a traumatic story that had really limited me in my life and its full impact was hidden even from me. I couldn't speak and my throat would just close up. After only two sessions with Milena, I went from not being able to speak/from literally having a grip on my throat to

giving two talks at MIT, having another talk planned at Oxford University, and I have also just become the host of a live TV show!

I can say categorically that without Milena's help, I would not be doing what I am doing now.

I absolutely and unreservedly recommend working with Milena."

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-Michaela Gaffen Stone, Human Design Specialist, Speaker, TV Show Host

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"My life has completely changed since I started working with Milena, and now I’m doing what I feel I should have always been doing my whole life, which is my art. I’ve never felt more happy, and more ‘me’ - plus, I’ve got the courage to keep pushing myself forward and taking on new challenges - I’m getting commissions and selling my work! This is the stuff of dreams.

My life is like a dream now, and I never want this feeling to end.

Thank you so much, Milena."

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- Bronwen Winter Phoenix, Artist, Author, Illustrator

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“I have done a lot of therapy but being coached by Milena has been the most transformational support I have ever received in my life.

It has been unbelievably helpful. A block around my heart has shifted. My fixation on the past has stopped. My brain is quiet now; the endless chatter, the what-ifs, and the worry have stopped. Things and noises that used to trigger traumatic memories suddenly no longer bother me. When I get frustrated, I now have tools that help me to dissociate from those things and get quiet instantly. I gained clarity and got hugely valuable insights into some of my most challenging relationships. Also, so far in my life, my creativity had always been side-lined. I was always focused on getting the best jobs. I’ve now started to make space and time for myself and for self-care. I’ve started exercising and dancing more and expressing myself. I am now really exploring my creativity – what it means to me. This feels so exciting, like an opening of new doors and I can’t wait to see where this will take me!”

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- Harini Nallapothola

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"I just had the most incredible, mind-blowing, and spiritual coaching session with the genius Milena Barton.

Wherever you are in the world - if you want to change anything in your life, I cannot recommend working with Milena highly enough.

It truly is like magic."

 

Dr. Sara Ababneh, Lecturer in International Relations & Politics, University of Sheffield

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"I have seen a hell of a lot of coaches in my life and I have never experienced coaching like this before with such immediate impact. Working with Milena is truly profound. I could actually feel my brain shifting - as if my brain structure was being rearranged physically as if blocks were being reshuffled in my head to let in shafts of light:

I glimpsed emotional freedom.

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Now there are these new openings, new spaces that are calming, curious and hopeful.

I touched the quiet center at my core - like the inside of the eye of a storm that is always calm and clear, that remains and sustains despite the storms.

I tapped into that and now live from there. I have since felt such self-possession that I had been craving for a long time and an enjoyment of being in my brain and myself in a way that I have never felt before. My need to reach out or look for reassurance from others has stopped. I now have a sense of non-neediness and feel compelled to follow my attention and focus on what I am doing without self-judgment.

I am now standing in my Self.

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This has changed how I now relate to other people. A challenging relationship that used to be tense and aggravating seamlessly segued into one collaborative and caring. I now ‘keep my side of the street clean’ and recognise nonsense very quickly and set boundaries. When things aggravate me, I know that this is not the story that I want to continue and I am able to pivot. This has had a more profound effect on me than I even realised at first.

I used to diminish myself for not being grown up. I now feel like a woman. There had always been a part of me that felt unsure or dismissive of myself and the things I do. Milena reflected my life back to me and I realised that my life is very beautiful and rich I am actually at a very exciting point in my life - I did not know this before! There are so many things that I want to create, implement, share, and show, and so many connections are coming together.

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​I am blown away. I inherently adore and trust Milena so much. I am captivated by and have an awe-ed trust of what we did and I am greedy for more! To anybody thinking about working with Milena, I want to say, ‘You have no idea what a profound impact this will have. Absolutely! DO IT! But don’t cut into my time with her!! :-)'

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- Eliza Shaw Valk, Landscape Architect, Artist & Coach 

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"This first session with Milena was so amazingly powerful - it was almost freaky! It unlocked something powerful in me.

And something magical happened right after the session - I got a call for an interview, and an hour after that another company called for an interview!

It felt like ‘OMG this is magic!‘ And immediately after the session, my husband was different! And my kids were fighting less and everything felt more smooth.

The day after the session was so magical that it felt unreal.

My husband said the sweetest thing to me in so many years and I finally saw the person I fell in love with.

 

It was as if the person I was the day before the session was someone else.

Milena brought back parts of me that I thought I had lost forever.

I now feel so much lighter and at peace and so much more confident.

I am forever grateful to Milena!"

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- Bushra Mukbil, Policy Advisor/Conflict Resolution and Development Economics,

former Head of the Local Aid Coordination Secretariat (LACS) and Senior Advisor to the Palestinian Minister of Justice

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"My life has completely transformed since I started working with Milena. 

I am a successful entrepreneur who travels the world and has built the life I had always dreamed of. But inside I was deeply troubled.

As a survivor of multiple traumatic events in my life, I thought that traditional therapy was always to be a part of my life and that the pain that I suffered with, would take a lifetime to fully repair, if ever. My 8 months with Milena doing Deep/EMDR coaching has proven that this is a much more deeply effective and efficient way than traditional therapy. I was a skeptic going in but was desperate for transition. Now, I am educated on how the brain works and I have tools to disrupt the [negative] habitual stories my subconscious mind has created that I can tap into at any time, anywhere, while I am healing.

As a result of this healing, I have lost 55 lbs.

My soul is coming to life again.

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I am a better human and I feel like my younger self again, but smarter, happier, and so equipped to handle life.

I am managing through the toughest of situations and am learning to accept life as it is. There are not enough words.

I cannot emphasize enough how Deep/EMDR coaching with Milena who is so damned talented at her work,

is the pathway to true inner freedom."

 

- Tina Daroff Hamilton, CEO at My HR Partner

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"As I am working with my own coach, the amazing Milena Barton, I am feeling a lot of inner shifts and shedding.

I just had an amazing session with her and I can feel all these layers shedding ready to be composted down.

She is unlocking a lot of keys for me right now; it is terrifying in a way but also really blissful. How powerful it is to have somebody work with you and help you along that journey! The growth takes on an exponential speed. It's really something else."

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- Elodie Mantha, Integrative Change Worker/Coach

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"I’ve had lots of coaches over the last 6 years and I haven’t ever had an experience like this before.

This has been the most powerful coaching that I have ever had in my life. I don’t have higher praise than that. 

There’s something about the way Milena works that is really different.

 

I often feel like I show up with only one version and aspect of myself. I felt like Milena understood me in a WHOLE sense - my whole self and my whole life experience and story were captured. Milena enabled me to reconnect with a part of myself that I hadn’t felt connected to for a long time. I now realise how this very part -that I had pushed aside- is my superpower. It’s become a really strong resource.

This has really stayed with me and is giving me new energy for what I am doing.

I am now feeling so good about an upcoming public speaking event that I had felt stuck and paralysed about. I now feel that I can do this; this is what I am here for. But also generally in my coaching business and within who I am as a person.

 

During a very intense and profound visualisation [using bilateral stimulation/EMDR] Milena asked me to put my attention on

pain that I’ve had for years and that felt like a shard of glass in my back - and it disappeared! 

I am blown away by the fact that for a whole week after the session, the pain was gone. It did come back after a week but I now realise that the pain is connected to my thoughts and feelings. I am excited by the idea that I can now also address my physical symptoms as well with coaching.

 

I felt that Milena was so accepting of me; I felt that she really believes in me and my potential.

I loved the scale of where Milena was able to take me in terms of my vision for myself and what I want. It feels very powerful AND sustainable. 

I’ve had euphoric and intense coaching sessions before that felt fantastic in the moment but then always struggled to hold on to these feelings afterward.

Working with Milena is different. This wasn’t just euphoric - something shifted in me. It is something that I can really hold on to, build from, and something that really STAYS with me which is why I feel that working with Milena is such a great investment."

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- Alisa Murphy, Climate Tech founder/former CEO at Lifesize Media, Speaker, Coach

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I’ve tried lots of different things since my burnout 6 months ago when my body just shut down.

Nothing made a fundamental difference. Talking therapy was exhausting. One therapist suggested changing my external situation. I felt that my burnout was a systemic external issue that I was powerless over.

 

Working with Milena has been completely transformational. It has returned the power to me; it has given me my autonomy back. ​

I learnt that in stressful external situations, I can find space WITHIN MYSELF that protects me. I now know that I HAVE power - that is the key.

​This is such a powerful antidote to systemic inertia. I now understand that I can’t change capitalism,

but I can heal the wound the system has created to then change the external system from the inside-out.

 

All my life I used to reject my body and thought that I should be thinner.

The patriarchal ideas of what I should look like had taken all my energy and this impacted all areas of my life – personal and professional.

 Working with Milena has made me understand that being exactly who and how I am IS my superpower. I have so many advantages because of my identity. I am loved because of it. I now realise that my uniqueness is a source of energy that I bring to others, and that​

​TO BE AGAINST THE NORM IS POWERFUL. And I can show other people that THIS is normal. 

This changes everything.

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Now there is so much more space in my brain. And I have so much time back! Everything is now so much more joyous! Now I can be more creative.

The self-reflective process I learnt -the ability to not only assess but also adjust my level of stress with new skills has been powerful.

This new level of self-awareness is in itself transformative. It’s a marked change. 

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I now feel whole and supremely calm.  

I feel like a drastically different new version of me!​

When I discovered that the window of my car had been smashed, I was not irritated at all! I just dealt with it.

While at work I am still dealing with similar challenges and pressures as before, my perspective is now completely refreshed and my mental and emotional state is now distinctly different. In a recent high-pressure situation, instead of reacting with panic, I was completely chilled. I even stepped into a new role at work and am now leading with curiosity and excitement. I am amazed at how relaxed and energised I feel. It is so good to be back at work and have more energy!  I am amazed that an old habit has stopped, and the new one now sticks. I also feel different as an athlete. In the past, I always needed to exceed expectations and if I was not able to immediately do that, I would lose patience and hit a wall in my performance. My initial enthusiasm would dwindle, and I would end up in a negative cycle, feeling sad that there was no progress. Now I am persevering through the middle stage.

This is the first time I have persevered through that barrier and with ease rather than struggle.

 

I now do everything in a sustainable way and with joy,

so I don’t burn out again.

 

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- Maddy Oliver, Circular Design Officer, Ellen MacArthur Foundation

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 "When I reached out to Milena, I was experiencing high levels of financial stress and also eco-anxiety,

triggered by a summer of unprecedented levels of forest fires in my region.

I felt frozen with fear.

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I was just 6 months into my new career as a coach and struggled to attract new clients. I didn’t believe that Milena could “fix” my issues also didn’t really believe that spending that kind of money on coaching was worth it. I am happy to say I was proven COMPLETELY wrong on both counts! 

This investment was worth every penny, and more. I grew more in my 6 months of coaching with Milena than I did in over 15 years of therapy. 

 

Milena helped me unfreeze parts of myself that had been stuck since childhood, far below my level of awareness,

and helped me to get over some major insecurities and feelings of guilt and shame.

I stopped leaking so much energy in the endless loops of trying to find new flaws and to "fix" myself.

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I learned that I am great the way I am – and now KNOW that this is true. I can trust myself now.

It's a beautiful feeling - like resting in motion, and trusting that the things I seek are also seeking me. I’m so much more joyful!

I now appreciate myself and my way of doing things. It is now much easier to be assertive, comfortable in my own sense of expertise and authority, in my business, my relationships and my parenting.  

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Once I let go of the old wounds and patterns, the universe seemed to respond by flooding me with opportunities. 

Everything in my life is now coming together much more easily than before. The biggest shifts have been in my business. 

I'm still shocked at how I went from zero/being a new coach, struggling to get any paying clients, to being fully booked!

 

I am now living the dream!

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As a new coach, working with Milena and observing her work on me was amazing. 

It was a masterclass in coaching that has expanded my repertoire of coaching skills.  

What I loved most about having Milena as a coach is her very unique way of bringing a combination of tenderness, lightness, and fierceness into her sessions. She gives so generously of herself both during, and in between sessions. As a coach, she is perceptive, intelligent, sharp, energetic, and driven. You get a sense that she has a vision for you as her client, and she's not afraid to challenge you towards it. And yet, she's so highly skilled in her craft that I never got a sense of her grasping towards a specific outcome. 

 

Milena emanates trust in her own work and in her clients, and that trust becomes contagious.

  She naturally and easily holds a sacred space for her clients,

trusting them and their unconscious mind to reveal what needs to be worked on and healed.

And when she starts guiding you through her incredible EMDR journeys, she's so incredibly skilled that she makes it feel like magic!

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Milena is like a guiding star, shining light on where you're getting tripped up and insisting that there's another way - even when you don't quite believe it. But then, she leads you to the place inside you where you come to that understanding for yourself.

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Some of our coaching sessions were pragmatic and down-to-earth.

Others were powerful spiritual experiences that changed me at a cellular level and will stay with me for the rest of my life.

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I've often ended sessions with a feeling of "What the heck just happened?".

It's like I'd emerge, feeling a little shaken but also brand-new in the world, filled with light and lightness - a glorious feeling.

 

Thank you Milena for always making me feel both safe and challenged. You helped me feel a soli dity in myself that was never there before.

I'll always be grateful to myself for deciding to work with you, to you for making it so worth it, and to life for bringing us together!"

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- E.M.

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