Testimonials

Clients

As a way of helping you decide if I might be the right coach for you, I've asked some of my clients to comment on their experience with me. I appreciate their willingness to offer some words of praise and am humbled by their kindness. I hope this is helpful for you in determining whether or not to try my services or products.

• Your book (Cure Your Depression) is really inspirational, It's making me see things in a completely different way. It's helping me figure out what's wrong and what to do about it and I feel excited! I actually feel genuine excitement for these things, these ideas and solutions and I really think they will help and I just wanted to thank you again, because this is just an amazing gift you have given, and I hope that you get this out soon so that it can help others too. Thank you so much!
  ~Leah Tyler


• I really enjoyed attending "Know Your Self," part one of Pat Benage's "Transform Your Life" workshop series. Pat teaches from the level of personal experience; everything he teaches is something that he himself has used successfully. In just three days, I have already received insights and benefits from practicing the key self-discovery techniques Pat presented!
  ~Michelle Wood


• I had been plugging along, doing what I thought was better given all of the changes that have taken place in my life over the last two years... Then about three very big, emotional obstacles were handed to me to "deal" with, all within about six days... It brought me to my knees, literally, I needed help... but where do I turn this time? I have tried counseling, anti-depressants, etc. only to find myself back in this place, time after time... so, out of what felt like true desperation and honestly, some hopelessness, I turned on the computer with my box of tissue next to me and began my search for help... I started at a site geared towards helping women get their lives on track... This felt like answers, but maybe not the right timing for it... Then I came across the link to the Spiritual Awareness Center. This felt like a "click" in the right direction. I was reading about the SAC and came across the Transform Your Life workshop, KNOW YOUR SELF, and instantly knew, just knew I had to go. It happened to be just a couple of days before the workshop and I had already made plans for the day. But there was no question, everything else was getting cancelled, I was going... I can not justly describe the connection that I felt to the words coming from you. It was exactly what I needed to hear. I know I have much work ahead of me on this "new path", but your workshop, and your heartfelt connection to that in which you are sharing with others has given me HOPE!!! and someone said, "ONCE YOU CHOOSE HOPE, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE". Thank you, for offering this workshop, I know it has already started to work in my life.
  ~Brenda Brewer


• Pat's workshop has been self revealing. Doing the exercises has opened some inner doors and is allowing me to have a glimpse of who I really am. I no longer look in the mirror and see a stranger that I do not know.
  ~Steven Tracy


• Great insight! You presented some excellent materials and I plan to start Transforming My Life.  Anyone and everyone could use the skills in Transforming Your Life to understand themselves better, and start living the life that feels right for them.
  ~James Nisley


• The workshop was a revelation and very inspirational for me. Pat is an amazing teacher and coach. He has an innate ability to sense the truths that we consciously or even unconsciously hide from ourselves, 'our stuff' that we hold deep inside, the same stuff that holds us back from growing and moving forward on our life journey. The information and mental excercises we worked on helped me to begin to explore different ways of thinking consciously about the real me, accepting myself, figuring out what is really important to me, and beginning to move forward again. We all left the workshop with a plan. Pat has stayed in contact with me, checking on my progress and has been there to support and answer my questions. I will most definitely attend another workshop in the future.
  ~Marion Shepard

Associates

Additionally, I thought it might be useful for you to hear what some of my colleagues and associates have to say about me. I am very appreciative for having connected with some wonderful coaches, counselors and guides along the way.

Here are a few comments from colleagues regarding my book, Cure Your Depression:

• Excellent! No fluff, as promised, just a lot of good, solid information presented in a clear, straightforward manner by someone who has been there and beyond!
  You personally have been through quite at lot and show great courage in sharing that with others to help them through it, too. It's very obvious that your book was written from the heart. I'm sure it will resonate and be very helpful as a guide to people with depression who have gone the rounds with pharmaceuticals and are now ready to take responsibility for their lives and health to find a real cure, but who may not be sure how to proceed.
  ~Michelle Wood


• Brilliant, compelling, honest, inspiring, and amazingly simple treatise.
  ~Kelsey Collins


• Thank you for sharing your "soulful" book. It will be received in the spirit with which it was written - and will be such a gift of love to so many! Thank you for giving so much of yourself in so many ways.
  ~Darlene Gertsch


• I found it to be a meaningful recount of your own experiences with depression. This makes reading it a personal message of hope. Your experience throughout brings authenticity and realism with a sense of the genuine which should prove helpful to others.
  ~Daryl Ochs


• I think it's good, well-organized with important points for recovery from depression. What makes it unique is your personal experience with depression and recovery.
  ~Chi Choong Lee