Marina Theron-Monnery, is a RTT practitioner, Clinical Hypnotherapist and Coach guiding people to overcome the pains of childhood trauma, abuse, poverty, weight issues, cancer and many more. Her professional expertise through years and many clients is complemented and enhanced by her personal experience with many forms of the same pain, abuse and disease, and overcoming them.
Using Rapid Transformational Therapy and coaching, Marina has a tremendously positive energy and an approach with all her clients of “if I could do it, so can you”. She feels called to do this work and thrives on helping people live their full potential every day. With the gift of intuition, Marina helps people see who they want to be, and then she guides them to rehearse that role, until it feels natural.
After a life that felt to her as if she was living in a bubble of perpetual failure and not being worthy and good enough, Marina battled with depression and the burning desire to find out why she is here, living this life.
Slowly life unravelled and when she hit rock bottom after a cancer diagnosis, the right teachers showed up in her life. Through training from Natalie Ledwell to Mary Morrissey and finally Marisa Peer, Marina found her purpose. Today Marina truly knows success. In love, business, singing, parenting and life. She is in love with life and it radiates to her clients.
As an author, speaker and podcast host, Marina’s mess became her message. She lives in gratitude today, as everything she had to overcome, also makes her relatable to a variety of clients. She is a living example of the success of the work she does.
Marina believes that every person has the potential to live the life of their dreams. She knows first hand that our mind dictates to our body, and if we can harness our thoughts, we can change our reality. The best part is that she does not just say that, she lives it.
Marina Theron-Monnery, RTT Practitioner, Hypnotherapist and Coach
Who is Marina Theron-Monnery?
If you had asked me this question a few years ago, the answer would have been much different, but today I can say that I am extremely positive because I know what is to be stuck in negativity.
I am a tolerant person because I lived in the epitome of intolerance.
I know the freedom of forgiveness as I was once trapped in the prison of unforgiveness.
I know health as I am a cancer survivor.
I know function as I lived with dysfunction.
I know abundance as I was once in the hopelessness of poverty.
I know the magic of self-love, as I had to find it to heal myself.
I have healthy relationships because I knew abuse.
I know what it is to be enough, as I knew intimately what it meant to believe that I was never good enough.
I create hope every day, for myself and everybody around me, because I lived in the grip and darkness of hopelessness and depression.
I like to quote that “my mess became my message” as the above things I experienced and overcame became my inspiration for the life I live today and the work I do.
Before I transformed my thinking and my life, I felt that whenever I overcame one trauma, one pain, the next one would pull me in. However, looking back over my life, I realized that I had many pivotal moments that led me to be me today.
I grew up in Apartheid, South Africa. My perception of my father was that he was a narcissistic and abusive man and I constantly challenged him, which eventually morphed into me becoming the family scapegoat.
My mother, such a beautiful woman remained in love with my father, despite his behaviour. She lived for one kind word or gesture from him and would forget her pain and discontent the moment she received it. Something I took personally as disloyalty to me.
The rest of the time, alcohol became my mom’s escape. No encouragement, no attempt to help her see her inner strength and beauty could make an impact in the shadow of her worship of her unfaithful abuser.
When I became the scapegoat to him, she also blamed me.
For her to survive difficult times, sometimes triggered by my outright disregard for him, she would beg me to tell him I was sorry, so that he could become “good” again. Something I resented for a long time.
I broke the cycle when I moved as far away as humanly possible. The spirit of division, not just in the country, but within my own family was ubiquitous and I could raise my children detached and unaware of all the drama and prejudice that I knew in my childhood.
Furthermore, I learned how to love my family and even South Africa for the lessons I learned and my growth to peace. I am so grateful to them because they were my best teachers.
The next profound shift came when I left my first marriage, in a new country, with two very young kids and no financial means. I had to face my fears and walk out of a hostile and emotionally explosive situation. I had to find a way to make it work and came face to face with poverty and hard work.
The third turning point was the unexpected death of my boyfriend when I had to face that there are things in life I cannot control.
After that, I encountered failed relationship after failed relationship, as I desperately searched for love.
It ended with a physical attack on me and police involvement.
This was one of the most profound pivotal moments, as the realization came that I do not love myself enough to set the boundaries of self-protection and mostly that the love I sought was always within me.
When this clicked, slowly my life started to turn around, but I still had work to do. This moment healed my concept of love and I can honestly say that it is still a journey of discovery, but this moment led to the first real miracle in my life. When I learned to first love and accept myself, It unlocked my ability to attract a fantastic relationship. When I knew who I was, I could determine who I wanted and after 11 years, it is still just as beautiful, loving and accepting as only true love can be.
But obviously, my life lessons were not over yet when the biggest blow came. Breast cancer, followed by depression.
After this journey, I questioned my existence, and my purpose, and when I finally screamed out to whoever and whatever could hear that I had enough, the doors opened. I found my why, I found my dharma, my calling, my reason to live this life: To give hope, to help people live a beautiful, loving, stable, and happy life.
To help them see that the love they want, the healing they desire, and the abundance they crave, are already within them.
I love that I can teach all of this because I have done each of these things myself.
What is your business and how do you help your clients achieve what you have?
My business is MTM Therapy Inc. and I am trained as a Dreambuilder™ coach, Rapid Transformational Therapy™ Practitioner, and Clinical Hypnotherapist.
When my life changed, people always asked me how I did it. They asked me for advice and told me that I inspired them. I became a friend who could encourage people and help them feel better, I could be there, and offer advice, all of that from my own, limited experience.
During my journey, teachers showed up in my life, just when I needed them. After depression, one of the people I stalked on YouTube, was Marisa Peer. I bought a couple of her books and wrote the words on my mirrors “I am enough”. I started to feel stronger within myself and to believe those words.
I remember the very first time I was challenged to say out loud what my wildest dream was, and I felt as if the world should open up and swallow me whole. When I spoke the words out loud "I want to help people overcome what I overcame", I expected laughter, ridicule, teasing, and humiliation. But I learned, I focussed, I detached and eventually, I found out that Marisa Peer was offering a training program and it was a phenomenal fit from the very first moment.
Instead of blindly trying to help people, I now had a proven process. It resonated and it transformed me.
Through it, I found out the patterns of thinking behind my emotions, that led me to take the actions I did in my life and resulted in the outcomes I never wanted.
I feel very blessed that I can use the skills taught to me to help my clients get out of their pain and to create amazing new realities for themselves.
Through Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT™), I help my clients Identify why certain things showed up in their lives. I can give a great example from my own life.
I used to sing opera professionally and in 1993, I was offered a scholarship to go study opera for 2 years in Florence, Italy.
I declined because I did not feel as if I was good enough. I felt overwhelmed by the idea and the magnitude of this, being in a foreign country with, unfamiliar culture, and strange language, even though this was one of my wildest dreams come true.
Through RTT™ I uncovered certain events that happened in my childhood that made my mind decide that I will fail and that I should give up on my dreams.
Through RTT™ we go through steps to upgrade the client to believe something better and finally, we determine what it is that they would love and then create that and practice that until it becomes the new way of thinking
What inspired you to do this work?
For many years I lived as a victim and I hated it. For a long time, all I wanted was to learn how to master this life and I realized that it is an ongoing process, a journey, and not a destination. Not yet, anyway. Even in the victim state, I lived the proverbial life of making lemonade out of all the lemons life has thrown at me.
But then I went into a place where I realized that life does not have to throw me any lemons. This became the second phase of my life. The journey to mastering, creating, and even co-creating a life that I love.
Now, the work I do is the third phase, even though the second one is still in process. This new place is truly in service of the Divine.
Inspired, called, meant to, all thoughts that I can relate to the gift of being an instrument of hope to my clients.
I have learned from so many teachers over the years and I am an example of the idea that “when the student is ready the teacher shows up.”
I keep getting inspiration, I keep learning, and I keep expanding. I do not see myself as special, but I see myself as a part of the bigger picture. And for that, I am eternally grateful.
I love all the lessons I have learned and am still learning from Marisa Peer, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Dr. Joe Vitale, Dr. Wayne Dyer and so many more. I revisit their work over and over again and every time there is something new in it for me.
Then there are also all the lessons I learn from my clients. When they grow, I grow. When they are set free from pain, I am too. In every one of them, there is a lesson for me. And for that, I am forever grateful.
Tell us about your greatest career achievement so far.
There are many amazing stories of healing, overcoming addictions, becoming successful, and even creating money and finding love that I can talk about. But one of the biggest achievements for me is to work one on one with an Olympic athlete.
I learn so much about focus, about creating a zone where only the athlete and her laser-sharp focus exist. The lessons in detachment from distractions, the dedication to success, and ultimately seeing how our work together is turning into success in competition for her, is a great achievement for both of us.
I can see how these lessons are turning into success for other clients as well. How the universal “zone” or “vortex” is a place where success exists for everybody.
I see it as an acting role that we have to rehearse until we can play it perfectly. We have to study how this person or in our cases, the future you, talks, walks, thinks, feels and responds, etc. We have to mimic that behavior until it feels natural, real, and automatic.
When the old self and behavior wants to come back we then have to firmly tell it that that is not us anymore. We are now this new, future, and improved version.
It is amazing to not only witness it in my clients but to also live by this example every day.
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