“I have known Michael for almost four years. It is hard to put into words how much gratitude and appreciation I have for Michael and all he has done to support our family with tutoring, mentoring and counselling. Michael is a gift to this earth and anyone that has the opportunity to work with him will benefit greatly. Michael always brings out the best in others and has a beautiful way to hold space and listen whole heartedly to what you have to share. His grace, joy, compassion and kindness is inspiring and ripples out into the community.”

– Shannon Simpson | British Columbia, Canada

“I am 15 years old and I recently had a session with Mike. I had an immensely productive and thorough conversation with him. His advice helped me to illuminate a number of confusing things in my life. I was able to pinpoint many issues and find my own way to solve them with his guidance. He helped me through the uncomfortable stage of self growth and taught me how to have conversations with myself in order to get better results. I have been to therapists before but Mike's approach is far from what traditional therapy is like and in my opinion, he is way better than a conventional therapist. Mike's attitude and tone encourage a positive and safe conversation and his genuine care for me and my mental health has taken me a long way.”

– Nicolle Santana | Maryland, USA

“The first session that I had with Michael was amazing. We began the session with a few deep breaths and I never felt so deep in a meditation and so present within a minute. I felt so comfortable talking to him and he has an amazing way of looking at things as they are without labeling or judging them. My suffering has greatly reduced since I started to apply some of the techniques that I learned from Michael and his teachings. My favorite thing about Michael is how empathetic he is. I highly recommend hiring him for his services if you need any help on your journey. I wish I lived closer to him so that I could be a part of his community.”

– Marjan Sattarpour | Connecticut, USA

“Michael made an impact on my life almost immediately. We met in 2007 and by 2008 I considered him one of the most important and special people in my life. Not just because he was a great friend who I shared many great memories with, but because at a young age of 14 I was dealing with many emotional problems, and he helped me understand the power of my own mind and the ability I had to choose my reality and most significantly the importance of self-reliance.

He listened to my problems tirelessly for years since and always gave me his most sincere advice which was always centred around the truth and never led me in the wrong direction. As a young teenage girl I felt wise beyond my years because of him. I truly believe that Michael gave me a “head-start” on the journey of consciousness, but I’m really not sure where I would be today without him or who I would be without having had him to constantly remind me of what to focus on and what to not lend my energy to. It is difficult for me to explain how he did this, that’s his area of expertise. All I know is that my life and my mind have benefitted from him in an immeasurable way.

He is the most genuine, understanding, open person I know, who has a true passion and gift for helping people tackle the emotional turmoil they may be experiencing. Over the last few years I believe he has become more and more aware of this gift, but it existed for as long as I’ve known him and showed itself naturally amongst his relationships with myself, his friends and family and even strangers. This is why I consider his abilities to be a “gift”, and along with that gift he has found the passion to go with it and expand it to new levels. I truly believe his goal is to spread love and light as far as he can in hopes of alleviating others of their emotional, mental and physical pain and suffering.”

– Jamie Rose | Newfoundland, Canada

“I want to share with you a guy who really helped me when I was in a spiritual blockage. Even though we live in two different countries, he was still willing to stay up with me for more than four hours throughout the night. Because of him I am now back on my spiritual journey! Michael is an amazing soul and if you’re in a spiritual blockage, I highly recommend contacting him! He wants to help! He really helped me. Happy Awakening!”

– Rory Lee | Oklahoma, USA

“Michael Dunphy is one of those people who come into your life and immediately enhance the experience. 

His presence is grounding, his energy is humbling, and his ability to share is admirable. I have known Michael for years but have really gotten to know him this past year. One of the things I love most about him is his ability to hold space. He is someone who I feel very loved, safe, and open with. 

Michael has this incredible connection to source and is constantly helping me elevate my own consciousness and human experience. 

One of the biggest impacts Michael has had on me is teaching me how to surrender and let Source be my co-creator. He has taught me how to give permission to the chatter inside my head, to show itself as truth and instead of fighting it, to love, welcome, and transform it. 

He has played a huge role in allowing me to trust the process and to be present in my body. He reminds me that I am always guided by the divine and helps me love myself when I get lost in ego or the human experience. 

If you are looking for someone to help teach and guide you through life with love and truth, Michael is the one. He has this incredible way of bringing out the love and truth within yourself and to help you find the strength and power within you. 

Thank you again, my friend.”

– Kara Roberts | Nova Scotia, Canada

“My conversations with Michael have been both enjoyable and enlightening. He truly has a gift for seeing the world from a unique perspective and is able to articulate perfectly upon spiritual subjects. His conversations provided me with enormous clarity and for that I am truly grateful. Thank you so much.”

– Simone Stone | Birmingham, UK

“I believe that everything in life is for a reason. We don't always know the reason immediately or ever for that matter but I do believe there is one. I also believe that every decision we make has a ripple effect and that is precisely the case when it comes to Mike Dunphy. In January of 2017 I went to a casting call for a local dinner theatre that was getting put off by our theatre group. It was there I met Mike...well technically I met him years before but I barely remember that so I consider this point the first time. He instantly made me smile and feel at ease. His presence just spoke comfort. After that day we were both casted in the dinner theatre and from there our friendship grew slowly. It was actually after the dinner theatre had finished where our friendship took off. Obviously we both like acting but our love of music is mutual as well and that's where the connection started. 

Looking back on it now I realize that Mike entered into my life at a time where I didn't think I needed a change but that's exactly what I got and I wouldn't change that for the world. Over a short period of time our jam sessions started to get paired with deep conversations of death, life, energy, spirituality, the universe, realms, personal history, I mean whatever deep conversation we could have, we had. We talked for hours on end. He spoke with so much love, openness and truth that it was infectious. I felt that being able to delve deep into conversations about topics no one really talks about was filling a place in my heart and soul that I didn't realize was empty. I always had this belief that there is so much more than what we see but I never really had anyone to talk about it with or bounce things off of until Mike. He opened my eyes to what else makes up this life and beyond. He has helped me see the bigger picture and in that has changed me as a person.

I have always been an analytical person. I like to understand why things are the way they are, why people are the way they are but I never really took an analytical look at myself. These conversations I had with Mike not only helped me understand the bigger picture but helped me become more aware of how my actions and thoughts affected everything and everyone around me. He made me want to break down my barriers and figure out why I do and feel the way I do about things in both a good and bad way. In other words he really made me want to better myself and become my best self. So, I started.

Through the conversations and lessons I was learning from Mike I was gradually starting to change my negative mind set. I was really starting to listen to my thoughts and really take notice to the negativity that I was thinking about others and myself for that matter. Once I started paying attention and realizing the negative thoughts going through my mind I would stop the thought and ask myself why I was thinking it. Then, when I got the answer to that I would keep asking myself why to every answer I gave myself and from what Mike is after teaching me, you keep asking yourself why until you get to the root cause. For me whenever I got to the root cause it was something I didn't want to deal with or something that I've buried for a long time. The hard part. The part that if I didn't figure out would just continually keep stopping me from becoming my best self. Thankfully, I had Mike in my corner to help me through dealing with it. He was there to support, listen, and guide. God knows that man has the patience of a saint for what I've put him through haha. So, through the jigs and reels I really started to understand myself and in that I began understanding others. Now don't get me wrong, I don't understand myself completely and I am a total work in progress but having someone in my corner every step of the way knowing that when I get to the "hard parts" I have him to help me through it, makes everything a little easier. 

This was not the only thing I started changing but this was more like the tip of the iceberg. Some other lessons I've started to live by is what you give out, you will get back. The Law of Attraction as it were. Thinking positively will bring positivity back to you and vice versa. It goes you can say this is like a ripple effect. I know we've all heard this before but give it a try for a certain amount of time and you will see for yourself. Accept and love everyone for who they are. We all deserve unconditional love and understanding. We are all love and to be your best self and love freely means you have to let go. Let go of your expectations, desires, wants, fears and just be. Yes, I know this is easier said than done and definitely something I am continuously working on but it's also something I will achieve at some point in my life as I keep learning and growing. Just making these changes has brought so much good into my life. It has opened me up to so much love and happiness. It has bettered and brought wonderful friendships into my life, opened me up to having better work ethic, better home life and a closer relationship with my family. 

I could go on for pages and pages about ways Mike has shown me how to grow and become my best self but I'll spare you the read and let you find out for yourself. I can tell you this though, Michael Dunphy has shown me what true unconditional love and understanding looks like and feels like. This is rare and one of the best feelings in the world. He makes me want to give that to others and in that I am motivated to keep bettering myself and better understand others so I can give others what he has given me. So, if you are questioning if you should contact him, don't. You won't be sorry but rather you could become inspired.”

– Robbi Mclean | Labrador, Canada

“Michael Jawn is nothing short of a lifesaver. In 2020 I was feeling alone, afraid, and lost. I posted in a facebook group that I was tired of my experience and that I needed something to change. Michael, the incredible person that he is, messaged me and said that he would be happy to help me on my journey. He then invited me to join his pro-bono group, The Path to Self, where I met so many incredible people and experienced my first true experience with love and human connection. Michael has the ability to make everyone and anyone feel seen, and I believe everyone in our group benefited from his sage wisdom. Even though I have veered off the “path to self”, Michael has continued to be an incredible mentor and companion to me. I would recommend working with him in any capacity that you can because Michael is the true definition of a diamond in the rough and just like King Midas, anything he touches turns to gold.”

– Zach Benezra | California, USA

“Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Michael and I have never actually met in person, but regardless he has made a deep impact on my life and my path back toward healing. I feel privileged and grateful to have been introduced to him through a mutual friend and, over the course of the last 18 months or so, I have come to know and to love Michael as a dear friend and mentor - and all of this sight unseen. No matter… our physical distance of thousands of miles vanishes each time we pick up the phone and find connection.

Michael has always been a steady hand on the rudder - kind and compassionate at all times, but never shrinking from challenging assumptions and pushing me in positive (although often difficult and uncomfortable, perhaps even unwanted) ways to look, feel and investigate and to go deep into that innate, timeless sense of truth and love and connection to everything that we all have… without exception. My relationship with Michael has never been one based on the presumption that he will simply passively sit on the end of the line and provide comfort. While our relationship has grown to a place where I feel deeply present in his friendship and guidance, that has been arrived at through probing and always, always a clear-eyed and open understanding that he ain’t going to just “sit” with me commiserating and simply listening to what I have to say and joining me in adding fuel to my own pain. Quite the opposite - he is the kind of mentor and friend who will challenge and prod and poke (always with a sincerely loving heart) to have me look inward and keep working to break through and break out of my self-created, mind-made prison.

I feel fortunate to have met Michael and to count him amongst my relatively small cadre of friends and teachers who have the courage to love enough to tell me not what I want to hear, but what I need to hear, explore and ultimately to find out and experience directly for myself. Michael can’t do the work for you. He isn’t magic, but he has a caring and loving (and, yes, tough enough) approach to keep me moving and believing that the only true way is, and has always been, inside my own heart and body and that there is no way around the work - it simply has to be worked through; however long that takes and painful that might be.

Indeed, the only way ‘round is through and the best of teachers, of mentors and of friends never let you off the hook about that fact. If you’re serious about doing the work, there are few people I have come across who are as tough and loving a guide as Michael Dunphy. I am lucky and proud to know him and be walking this great path with him at my side. Thank you Michael, my friend. May we someday meet face to face to add to the great and good fortune of having met heart to heart and soul to soul.” 

– Bruce Roberts | Ontario, Canada

“Michael has been an incredible mentor for me in the healing space. He is incredibly knowledgeable, intuitive, and grounded as a mentor. He holds beautiful sacred space. We worked through different aspects of being a coach like how to hold space, and be in integrity with your energy. He gave incredible advice on certain topics I was teaching. Highly recommend working with him!”

– Bailey Guilloud | California, USA

“Michael has always made me feel loved even in times when I couldn’t love myself. It is an unconditional non-judgemental love. A love you’d think you’d only get from your partner or family. A love that's made me feel whole. He has always seen the good in me, even in times when we have talked about things that could have easily been looked at as “bad” or could be said that “I’m a bad person”. 

It has taken me a little while to write this. It is hard to put into words the effect Mike has had on my life, from age 14 to now 28. It has been hard for me to put into words because he has helped me so much to stop over thinking and start feeling, to be more present in my body and in everyday life. So for me to try to put into words how he has freed me in so many ways seems limiting. He has helped me see the light in myself and in others. 

I could always count on him, I could always trust he would be there to listen, in a nonjudgmental and caring way. Not in a way where he would tell me “I’m right” because that’s probably what I wanted to hear, but in an honest way. A way that I would have no doubt that what he's saying is his truth. And I think that’s the most important thing someone can do for you, to be their whole hearted truest self around you. He has done that with me and no doubt everyone he encounters, and by doing that, by being his truest self around me, he has made me comfortable to be my truest self, which is absolutely freeing.

By making me comfortable enough to be my truest self it has allowed me to feel that freeness in other aspects of my life even when he’s not there. He’s allowed me to know myself. He’s taught me how to love myself, and to nurture my true self. He’s allowed me to meet myself with unconditional love. To have compassion for myself in my shortcomings, and to be able to rejoice in my gifts and accomplishments. To see who I truly am, the “good and bad”, and be able to love and accept all of it.”

– Stephanie Evely | Newfounland, Canada

“I had to write this twice when Michael initially hit me up because I had to take a second to think about it. My instinct to write a mindlessly glowing appraisal of Dunphy would be easy, that's my friend from way back. But this was a pretty meaningful summer so I took a lap to reflect on what happened before I submitted this. I met up with Michael this year when I was in the middle of a cross country promotional tour for the latest album I‘d put out. This summer I was completely lost. I would describe myself as directionless. I'd been touring making music, drunkenly spiralling from one town to the next, but I had no mooring anymore. The last tour I'd been on two of the four people that were with me had passed away, one from suicide, the other died in his sleep. I usually tour with a DJ, my producer Slam!, but this time I was on my own. I didn't realize it yet, but I felt actually deeply lonely. There was no permanence to any situation I would crash into, I'd been isolating myself further and further this entire year. Outside of shows, I rarely left my house, I was extremely depressed. I attempted to take my own life earlier this year, I'd been to the psych ward 3 times already since the fall of 2018. I was regressing mentally and, obsessing with my past, I was coming apart. 

When I arrived in Newfoundland, I hadn't seen Dunphy in almost a decade, but it was as if we'd never been apart really. I think a unique quality he holds is the ability to listen. And I don't mean the passivity of somebody waiting to talk, but actively listen, I felt heard. I felt like he actually saw me at that moment, understood my pain, what I was trying to express, and it was rewarding because I feel like I can't express myself accurately to anyone, like 150% of the time really. But we spoke all night long, I felt comfortable sharing everything with him, really it was a fundamentally honest and raw conversation that generated extremely organically. Clearly I had a lot on my mind, but with all that time apart, we could have spoken about anything. It could have been a superficial reunion, where I just tried to present myself dishonestly as someone happier or more successful or something. But we kept it real from the word go. We just fast-forwarded past the tertiary trivialities of life and it's minutiae to things I haven't even told some of my closest friends. I felt no judgment, I felt a rare connection, a kinship.  If only for a moment, I felt less lonely. We spent some time just chilling out, some serious downtime in the midst of a turbulent storm that is life on the road, which also helped me stabilize considerably. I was definitely less anxious moving forward, this was far beyond just a port in the storm, without exaggeration it was a sanctuary.

This wasn't a therapy session it felt like, we'd both died, and were stuck in purgatory sharing what life had been so far. A lot of: "Oh you were upset about this, never would have guessed”. It felt like a purging, like letting things I'd held onto go like I could allow myself to feel. For the first time in a long time, I could quiet my soul. I cried a lot on the bus ride off the island, I was kind of shaken up.

I was only there a couple of days, but those were unspeakably impactful. I'm by no means "cured" or "saved," or something. But I'm definitely better for the conversations I had with my friend that day. The tour continued, cities sped by, a few weeks later I was home, but that experience stayed with me. I may never be alright, I chase big things I may never catch, I can't afford trepidation, but self-doubt coupled with addiction and depression lap at my feet every day threatening to pull me under. My friend Michael made me feel like no matter what I face next it'll be ok. So I don’t know what other recommendation I can give, talk to the boy, you’ll feel better.”

– Thusano Setshedi | Ontario, Canada

“This man works in mysterious ways, tread with caution.”

– Siddharth Vashisht | British Columbia, Canada