“Words of Praise for Luisa Giugliano’s gifts are many. Her voice, heart, and mind brought our diverse community closer to one another and to themselves through an interfaith ceremony that seamlessly wove her own Quaker faith and Catholic Italian-American heritage together in a Unitarian Universalist church, honoring the words of poets, songs of love and devotion performed by children, New England Transcendentalism, culminating with the pushpa, a tradition adopted and inspired by her husband’s heritage, which I witnessed at their wedding decades ago. Katie and I couldn’t imagine anyone more capable or compassionate to serve as our celebrant for this sacred day of matrimony and celebration. She was also very present in honoring the process leading up to the big day, like they say, taking time and care to conference with us, exploring philosophies, theologies, rituals, and possibilities as a guide and source of inspiration from the get-go. LPG is family.
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“Collaborating in circles and couple’s therapy with Luisa for over a year and a half has enriched my life and ripened my heart in countless ways. My capacity to listen deeply to myself, my partner, and my friends has grown as has the quality of my relationships and my sense of self-worth. She helped set the space for ancestral support to come through in my process of shedding cultural conditioning and fears around speaking my truth, honoring my power, and trusting my own authority. She was there for me as I navigated fertility issues and trying to get pregnant, she was there my entire pregnancy term and is here now for postpartum support. I consider her a mentor for my work as a somatic psychotherapist, for which she introduced me to valuable thinkers and methods of inquiry with clients that have yielded profound change. She has an astounding and poetic ability to channel the spiritual realm into words that uncover dark shadows, words that have the power to inspire and and build a palpable warmth among groups of strangers, which I have experienced in Dream Hive events, trainings, and the weekly women’s circle gatherings I have now been in for a year. The kind of village-like quality to the communities she creates with the people around her gives me a feeling of home and belonging. By provoking inner reflection, ancestral mapping, and deep dives through varied modalities, such as writing, sacred ceremony, and one-on-one and small group experiential conversations, I have expanded my edges, welcomed home severed and wounded parts of myself, and become a more integrated whole being.
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