Testimonials
My life was changed in the most profound and subtle ways. I walked into Donna and Joe’s life about a year ago. I felt broken and lost. Donna received me with open arms. After some weeks of sessions and classes together, I found myself changing, shifting and belonging. I think of her as my God-Mother. I now feel more comfortable in my own skin and am so grateful for her influence." |
"When I moved to Maui, I was a single parent trying to raise my ten year old daughter, Kiana, on my own. She was definitely a hand-full. Very smart, stubborn, precocious. She definitely needed a father. |
Donna saved my marriage and my family. My partner and I married because we became pregnant. We married although we both knew we had significant issues as individuals and as a couple. I was a 50 year-old, never married bachelor. She was a 38-year version of me. There is not a single person who thought we’d make it past a year. We fought vigorously and continuously. Always about a story based in some untruth about the past that we both thought to be reality in our present relationship view. To say it hampered communication would be an understatement. This state of “unmindfulness” made it impossible to hear or be heard. Donna guided us from this dismal starting place through a period where she helped us both become able to recognize our own stories and take responsibility for them. Then she helped us to stay in the present as we both unwound them. Eventually after much work and perseverance we moved into an incremental recognition and living in the ever-present love that surrounds us each all the time. We continue to move in that direction. Today, we enjoy a phenomenal relationship and communication, we have three beautiful children and are happy and fulfilled. The trickle effect is that we now get to break the cycle of our collective past and give our children a new reality of love and relationship. I could not thank her enough. She saved my marriage and my life!" |
Before I met Donna Bradley I was a spent, overworked, stressed out single mum on the hamster wheel of work, exhaustion and silent desperation living on coffee and adrenalin. Luckily for me, all the relentless pushing and denial caught up with me, and an injury at work forced me to stop in my tracks. This is when I met Donna at the Radiance Centre. She is the most loving, patient, supportive, validating person I have ever met. Many tears and hours of unwinding and reintegration later, I am finally starting to be my own greatest treasure - daring to embody the joy of being fully alive. |
With my heart closed, stressed, frightened and broken due to a painful divorce. Upon my arrival, I felt the love pouring out of Donna and Joe, and it was like going back to the womb. I stayed in their home, ate with them, saw other people come and go, each one part of a big community living by the one rule only - to love. I was hugged, touched and had healing sessions all week. By the third day my heart just burst wide open. While talking to Donna I realized that what I was lacking was an opportunity to express the love I have inside, as a person. The block melted away, I cried and cried, and all that time, Donna held me and enabled whatever was happening to me to just be.
It is not like a psychological session. Donna and Joe create a healing and sacred center in their home, by living like we all want to live... All the time. “
I was a teacher for Donna and Joe’s adopted children. A child who has been as severely abused as these were will test one’s skills. These did. But I watched, and then as I learned, I joined Donna and Joseph in applying their creativity and insistent loving techniques and saw the power of love turn a temper tantrum into an opportunity for constructively channeling anger, turn a scared child into one who would always reach out to another child to comfort and support, to transform rock bottom self-esteem into self- confidence and joy.
I still know these children in their adult lives. I can tell you, if the world were filled with individuals like them, we would have a world without hatred, a world where family and community would come together to face adversity, a world where all would have access to the physical and emotional needs all humans have. My work as a mental health therapist has given me a solid understanding of the importance of early attachment disruption and repair. Attachment disruption is at the heart of the personal, relationship, family and even political dysfunction we see around us. Only recently has the mental health field come to discover how it can be healed. But Donna and Joseph understood instinctively what needed to be done. What they did clear back in the 1980‘s is only now being discovered by the mainstream mental health field. What they did with those children was ground breaking. And now, many years later, they are taking what they developed in those early years to adults. And many many more miracles are taking place."
Linda Bannerman,
MA, LMHC (WA), Intern (HI)
It is not like a psychological session. Donna and Joe create a healing and sacred center in their home, by living like we all want to live... All the time. “
I was a teacher for Donna and Joe’s adopted children. A child who has been as severely abused as these were will test one’s skills. These did. But I watched, and then as I learned, I joined Donna and Joseph in applying their creativity and insistent loving techniques and saw the power of love turn a temper tantrum into an opportunity for constructively channeling anger, turn a scared child into one who would always reach out to another child to comfort and support, to transform rock bottom self-esteem into self- confidence and joy.
I still know these children in their adult lives. I can tell you, if the world were filled with individuals like them, we would have a world without hatred, a world where family and community would come together to face adversity, a world where all would have access to the physical and emotional needs all humans have. My work as a mental health therapist has given me a solid understanding of the importance of early attachment disruption and repair. Attachment disruption is at the heart of the personal, relationship, family and even political dysfunction we see around us. Only recently has the mental health field come to discover how it can be healed. But Donna and Joseph understood instinctively what needed to be done. What they did clear back in the 1980‘s is only now being discovered by the mainstream mental health field. What they did with those children was ground breaking. And now, many years later, they are taking what they developed in those early years to adults. And many many more miracles are taking place."
Linda Bannerman,
MA, LMHC (WA), Intern (HI)
Donna and Joe are the most wonderfully generous and loving people I know. They are truly a fountain for a parched world. The love and goodness that they inspire through their union is really a blessing for all of us. They model what is possible when we decide that love is our only answer and live that in a very real and visceral way. Their partnership is a marriage between the deepest intimacy and commitment to each other and to Love, while at the same time allowing a delightful sense of freedom and ease. Although they have such a close bond between them, they always make room to love all of us. I'm not sure how they manage that sort of generosity, and for them it seems the most natural and easy thing. Maybe having all those children gave them great practice.
In these times of so much uncertainty and chaos in the world they are an anchor of sanity and steadfastness. They give us a way to maneuver in this world with our hearts and souls nourished and leading the way. I often think of them as a lighthouse in a turbulent sea. In these times, they give us light to navigate these perilous waters."
- Apurvo Taryn Sutherland,
Maui
Having studied with Donna for more than ten years, I have come to the understanding that Donna is of one of the most enlightened teachers I have met in my travels and inquiries of many years. Just meet her yourself and you will see. She walks her talk and has depth and wisdom miles past most of us. I feel we are all extremely fortunate to have Donna and her husband back on Maui. Quite frankly, rather miraculous healings are common place around this remarkable woman. And yet, there is no showing off, or it ever being understood as anything less than Grace Itself." |
It's all about human connection. This would solve homelessness, poverty, war... And the Bradleys are all about human connection. After I met them, I could no longer say, "I wish somebody would do something about ..." whatever social problem. By example, I knew I could be part of the solution, too." |
I have only known Donna for five months . I have been invited to her home for Women's groups, dinner with beloved friends, a healing group and a meditation group. In every instance and moment in her presence and at her home the vibration and actual manifestation of love, permeated throughout. I have been witnessing the healing and liberation of many people from the pure vibration of unconditional love. What more could we possible need at this time on the planet. If anyone has the means to help create a more permanent Radiance center you will surely be blessed for your generosity, wisdom, and auspicious use of wealth." |
Upon moving to and arriving on Maui Christmas Day 2008, I met Donna Bradley & her husband, Joe, during a holiday gathering at the Radiance Center. Since that day, Donna has had a huge impact upon my life. I spent much of 2009 and 2010 involved in weekly classes and gatherings at The Radiance Center which in turn shaped my outlook on life to be more loving, more compassionate, living with more acceptance and understanding of Reality. The Radiance Center offers a safe and effective venue for giving and receiving unconditional love. I am forever grateful to the Radiance Center for the profound role their offerings and teachings have had upon me. |
As a practicing psychotherapist, I have investigated numerous healing techniques over the past forty years. I met Donna Bradley less than a year ago and find her work to be incomparable. She provides a therapeutic container that allows the most fragile beings to find safety, hope, and understanding. |
Donna and Joe, in their unconditional loving, love all… even, or especially, the “unlovable.” They reflect back the innocence and pure essence that’s within each and everyone. They reach deep inside us - beyond the coping mechanisms that we had to adopt, beyond our imagined brokenness, into the tender depth of who we truly are so we may know ourselves once again as whole and complete. They return us to Love over and over again, both with their words and their actions.”
- Lenette Searle,
Holland
I have one experience of unconditional love in my life, other than from my mother who passed when I was young. I was blessed with the good fortune to live next door to Donna and Joe for a couple of years when they were in California. Because of a hostile work environemnt, it was a very difficult time for me. A three-year survival of a hostile and abusive work environment. Knowing them, being able to talk to and be soothed by Donna, certainly was critical to my making it through that experience. Donna is the embodiment of Unconditional Love. I think a lot of people never have that experience." |
Watching the quality of your marriage allowed me to get the divorce I had been wanting. The quality of your relationship encouraged me to hold out for what I really deserved. Now I have my own version of that amazing marriage which proves to others what is possible.“
- Anonymous,
Boston, Massachusetts
When I first met Donna fifteen years ago, I was immediately struck by the ease and generosity with which she was sharing truth. It wasn't only her teaching but her wise, peaceful and bright energy she shared with everyone. Her home and heart is always open to me as well as to all who seek her support. It is very special to feel her non judgmental unconditionally loving, extremely perceptive and understanding presence. It is very important for me to say that Donna always teaches by example, drawing personal examples from her own life. |