Michele Bordonaro
Professional Certifications and Licenses
Certified Grief Educator — David Kessler & Grief.com
Trained directly under grief expert David Kessler, Michele integrates his principles of presence, witnessing, and compassionate understanding—helping clients move from feeling unseen in their pain to feeling fully met and understood.
Certified Speaker, Coach & Trainer — Maxwell Leadership®
Rooted in John Maxwell’s frameworks on growth and communication, Michele helps individuals and teams move from confusion in change to clarity in direction, and from pressure to perform to purpose-driven presence.
Certified DISC Human Behavior Consultant — Personality Insights®
This certification enhances Michele’s ability to decode emotional and communication patterns, guiding clients from reactive interactions to relationships built on awareness and empathy.
Intuitive Development & Spiritual Practice Training
Michele’s work blends evidence-based coaching and intuitive listening, helping clients move from mental overwhelm to spiritual steadiness—integrating compassion and connection into how they live, lead, and heal.
Together, these disciplines create a holistic foundation that bridges the emotional, practical, and spiritual dimensions of healing — allowing Michele to meet each person where they are and guide them toward steady, meaningful growth after loss.
✨ From confusion to clarity. From pain to presence. From loss to living with intention.
Services Offered
Certified Grief Educator | Speaker | Coach
Where grief is witnessed, healing begins.
💫 Introduction
Grief touches every part of who we are — our thoughts, our bodies, our sense of safety, and our ability to hope.
Michele understands this not only through training but through lived experience with layered and compounded losses that reshaped how she viewed love, strength, and healing.
Her work isn’t about fixing grief; it’s about helping you find steadiness, clarity, and compassion as you move through it — and rediscovering what still lives within you.
Every offering is built on one belief: grief doesn’t end your story — it deepens it.
🌱 Private Coaching
Grief can shake the foundation of who you thought you were.
Private coaching offers a calm, confidential space to steady yourself again — to breathe, reflect, and rediscover the strength you didn’t know was still there.
Together, you’ll explore what’s been lost, what longs to be honored, and what still lives within you. You’ll learn body-first tools to calm the nervous system, release self-judgment, and rebuild trust in your own direction.
You’ll move:
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from numb or overwhelmed → to steady and self-aware,
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from carrying everything alone → to feeling supported and understood,
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from reacting to life → to choosing it again, with clarity and purpose.
Private coaching is for those ready to move with their grief, not away from it — turning pain into presence and presence into peace.
💫 Group Experiences
Loss can leave us feeling separate, yet healing begins in connection.
Michele facilitates small-group circles for anyone navigating loss — death, illness, divorce, transition, or identity shift.
Each circle opens space for reflection, grounding, and genuine connection — an invitation to slow down and be witnessed in your healing.
Through guided reflection, gentle presence, and shared stories, participants move:
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from isolation → to connection,
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from emotional overwhelm → to anchored calm,
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from grief as survival → to grief as integration.
Each group experience may center on a different theme or season of life, yet they all share one purpose: to create a space where healing begins through connection, not correction.
You’ll leave not “fixed,” but witnessed, grounded, and strengthened — reminded that your story still matters.
🎤 Workshops & Speaking
Grief doesn’t just touch individuals — it shapes families, workplaces, and communities.
Michele’s workshops and talks bring language, compassion, and practical tools to the places where empathy is most needed.
Through storytelling and reflection, she helps audiences move:
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from disconnection → to empathy and trust,
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from burnout or avoidance → to presence and resilience,
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from loss of purpose → to clarity and connection.
Her speaking and training experiences invite people to recognize that even in loss, there is room for healing and renewed connection — not by moving on, but by moving with.
Leaders and teams leave with tangible tools to communicate with compassion, support one another, and lead from humanity, not hurry.
✨ Training & Resources
Healing unfolds through awareness, practice, and community.
Michele offers a growing collection of tools and teachings designed to meet you exactly where you are in your grief journey.
Her resources include:
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Short video practices that help you steady yourself when emotions feel overwhelming.
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Guided journaling prompts and body-first grounding tools to restore calm and connection.
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Written reflections and teachings exploring how grief reshapes love, purpose, and daily life.
These offerings help you move:
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from feeling lost in the waves → to steadying yourself with simple practices,
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from questioning your healing → to trusting your own rhythm,
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from searching for guidance → to feeling supported right where you are.
Michele continues to expand this work, creating new ways for individuals and communities to navigate grief with presence, compassion, and hope.
✨ Because grief doesn’t end your story — it deepens it.
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