Hi, my name is Lisa and I’m “different”. 🙂

While endeavoring to become a true and decent human being, wife, parent, and friend while co-navigating our family’s ASD journey for 25+ years, as well as addressing personal challenges including but not limited to: disordered eating, AuDHD, PTSD, and the vastly uncharted territory of mixed neurotype relationships, I recognized this seldom acknowledged fact: we ALL have special needs.

Luckily I had acquired this mindset before I came to understand just how deep my particular rabbit hole of “special needs” ran…

I’VE COME TO BELIEVE THAT THESE SPECIAL NEEDS ARE NOT A DEFICIT UNLESS INTERPRETED AS SUCH, BECAUSE ONCE OPERATED UNDER OUR MINDFUL CARE AND CONTROL THEY SERVE TO MAKE UP OUR UNIQUE INDIVIDUAL MAGIC.

These special needs include individual thought processing methods that may encourage or impede our progress. It’s my belief that the key to mastering ANY endeavor involves uncovering and acknowledging what yours are, then using this knowledge to positively channel your thinking in a manner that is able to utilize ALL facets of yourself to fuel you positively on your journey.

The “dragons” within ourselves that we battle- inherent traits or familiar behaviors often resulting from our upbringing, how we’re wired, etc… that we deem as negative but unconsciously default to- repeatedly serve to frustrate and confuse ourselves and often others. It’s my belief that these dragons are not meant to be slayed, but rather acknowledged, optimized, then utilized POSITIVELY to SERVE ourselves and the world around us in a uniquely individual manner once we recognize them as gifts of alternate perception.

We HAVE everything we need to succeed– we just need to remove the mental blocks prohibiting our access to these often neglected muscles of our being. I believe this requires lifting- in both the figurative and literal sense. And while our physical fitness IS a component, it’s not the sole component. I’ve come to see it as one of the many soul components that when identified and strengthened have the capacity to serve us at an enhanced level.

By working these muscles.

Through physical workouts and what I refer to as soul workouts, which are essentially life situations that challenge and strengthen your soul stamina. You’ve actually been doing these all along, but understanding their purpose will shift your perception of their role, allowing you enhanced endurance to power through whatever comes your way.

By using CAN-DO coaching to ramp up your empowered energy.

That coach is YOU.

How you talk to and treat yourself determines your direction, so learning the language of a lifter rather than a dragger is a crucial skill. My mission is to aid you in gaining access to the coach within yourself that awaits your recognition and utilization through elevation and encouragement of self.

I do this by sharing information in these posts gleaned from my life experience, educational training, and divinely given messages intended to awaken our ability in recognizing ALL life challenges and circumstances as soul workouts allowing us to BUILD our BEING by taking control of our runaway thoughts and behaviors and channeling them into empowered self-talk and self-treatment, and deconstructing whatever conditioned thinking that may be often unknowingly blocking our energetic flow.

I haven’t mastered any of these practices, nor do I believe “complete mastery” in these areas is a possibility.

I work at them.

And just as we’ll never be “done” with physical workouts by reaching some specific fitness level, so it is with soul workouts.

You don’t finish because you evolve. You continue because you evolve.

And my perfectly imperfect human self is working on everything I write about. I share here not because I know more or can do more than anybody else out there, but because I need to hear it. I need every repeated reminder and every bit of coaching that presents itself through sharing with others and utilizing our interconnectedness.

My specialized training is as follows: ISSA Certified Elite fitness trainer, Senior fitness trainer, Transformation and Nutrition specialist, and coach.

While these personally valued and highly necessary formal types of education serve to enhance my service to others, there is an educational divine force much greater at work, merging with the formal, that I rely on predominantly.

THIS FORCE is actually at work WITHIN EACH OF US and while we won’t receive proof of its existence with a degree or diploma, we gain understanding of a deeper knowledge within that has been planted, watered, and allowed to take root within us THROUGH this force. It matters not how you choose to perceive this force or what you may call it, but trusting in and being led by its guidance allows us to manifest and learn to positively utilize the inherent gifts divinely planted within us while merging with knowledge obtained through more conventional methods.

It ALL matters.

I’m also the proud mom of 3 remarkable human beings, one of whom received a diagnosis of ASD 25+ years ago. (At this point in my life I’ve come to realize that if the majority of people I’m in close contact with, AS WELL AS MYSELF, were to undergo the type of in-depth assessment required in obtaining a diagnosis, we would probably receive a surprisingly wide variety of interpretations regarding our “diagnostics”. ) Though my child’s ASD diagnosis initially served as the catalyst in setting me on a misguided mission to find and obtain “normalcy”, it eventually led me to the realization that beyond the fallacy of normal is where our greatest gifts can be found.

In our own backyard.

By being ourselves and understanding that we are not something that needs fixing or “normalizing“! We simply require the awareness that in training not only our physical body but also the muscles within, we create a mindset strong enough to recognize our ability to override ANY internal default behaviors that hold us back.

By using what we’ve been divinely equipped with but are often hesitant to acknowledge and share in our quest not to appear different from everybody else.

A freak.

An anomaly.

An outsider.

To not be normal.

Once we dig deep enough, we’re led to question the societal conditioning that drove us to believe in concepts that often serve to keep each of our unique greatness tamed and contained, blocking our energetic flow.

Our individual magic.

Our empowered ENERGY.

IF YOU ONLY TAKE ONE THING FROM THIS MESSAGE, PLEASE REMEMBER THIS: WE ARE ENERGETIC BEINGS. ENERGY IS EVERYTHING.

Are you ready to grab your metaphorical shovel and dig deeper, channeling and utilizing the individual spiritual wizardry within to ramp up the magic in your body, being and life?

Jump in wherever you’re at knowing you’re exactly WHO you’re meant to be and where you’re meant to be at exactly the right time.

And you always have been.

Maybe you didn’t know it. Now you do. Let’s keep reminding one another.

Have a question? Ask away!