Very Happy Stories

Alternative Health
Parenting
Mental Health

Liza Blas is a storyteller and healing empowerment coach. Her kids struggled with complex conditions including anxiety, OCD, ADHD, and psychiatric disorders. Just when she thought life couldn’t get any harder, the universe dropped a big ole’ lemon on her when both her kids were diagnosed with Lyme disease. She healed her kids by healing herself first. Today, Liza shares her empowerment stories and mindset to inspire and uplift other moms going through these challenging times. She also interviews more storytellers and healers, providing hope and validation for us all. Let’s heal, one story at a time.

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16: A Story of Validation, Being the Mama Bear, and Healing Lyme with Brooke Rash

Kicking off season two, Liza interviews Lyme warrior Brooke Rash. Brooke is an entrepreneur, social media influencer, and beauty and wellness expert. Despite her fortune today, Brooke didn’t always have the financial means to support her family’s medical needs. She shares the story of how she exclusively focused on her son’s clean diet when she could not afford his autism therapies. Validation came years later when her son’s doctor changed his diagnosis. Ultimately, Brooke and her son were both diagnosed with Lyme disease, the underlining disease to both their conditions.

You’ll also hear more about Brooke’s Lyme journey including mystery symptoms and treatment with whole-body hyperthermia. Learn how Brooke’s determination and mindset continue to help her heal through her on-going recovery from Lyme disease. Plus, Brooke shares what she is most grateful for in her personal story – she is awakened.

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17: Healing Our ACEs for Mental Resilience

Are you or is your child suffering from an ACE – Adverse Childhood Experience? In this episode, Liza talks about mental health and brings awareness to ACEs. Adverse Childhood Experiences include events such as living with a parent who experiences a mental illness or addiction and divorce. Events such as bullying, racism, and the pandemic create adverse childhood experiences for adolescents. Awareness of ACEs is critical towards healing. Liza’s guest, Samantha Wettje, shares her personal story of triumph, how she overcame her own ACE and why she founded 16 Strong, an organization dedicated to empowering resilience to Adverse Childhood Experiences.

#mentalillness #ACEs #adversechildhoodexperiences #depression #anxiety #childhoodtrauma

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Instagram/Twitter: @16strongproject

Website: www.16strongproject.com

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18: Get Your Shine Back with AJ Sarcione

Get your Shine back! This episode is a huge mood booster as Liza interviews AJ Sarcione for a conversation on positive mindset. When Liza is interrupted by a household incident during recording, AJ makes space for a new conversation, one centered around self-compassion and control. We all have the ability to shine, even when life’s chaos keeps happening. Listen to AJ’s practical advice on how to stay positive and hear how he helps Liza reframe her own perspective during this fun and inspiring conversation. AJ also shares the story of how he shined so bright, he made a childhood dream come true and performed with Whitney Houston.

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Website: www.getyourshine.com
Social: @ajsarcione

Linked In: /ajsarcione

Creator of the Get Your Shine Awards: www.getyourshineawards.com

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19: The Power of Personal Choice

It’s difficult to find peace in our lives when we experience sadness, chaos, and uncertainty. Liza shares how she finds peace by trusting the process. In this episode, Liza invites Anita Kimbler, psychic, medium, and energy healer, to the podcast to exchange stories of intuition, empowerment, and what it feels like when we use our internal compass -- our gut. Together, they discuss following our truth, listening to guides, and recognizing that even in the darkest of times we always have a choice. Finding empowerment starts with being open and listening to the “taps” from our higher selves. Listen to this episode and subscribe today.

Connect with guest, Anita Kimbler:

www.ForYourHigherGood.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anitakimbler/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ForYourHigherGood

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20: The Relentless Optimist - Seeing Clearly through Her Sons’ Blindness

Are you ready to see things differently? In this episode, Liza interviews Kristin Smedly, a relentless optimist. Kristin is a two-time best-selling author, TEDx speaker, advocate, and co-creator of Brilliantly Resilient. She is also the mother of three kids and two of them are blind. Kristin shares her story of how her then three-year-old son helped shift her mindset. At three years old, her son saw the world to be a joyful and beautiful place. She also talks about the need for tools and access, and how extraordinary and remarkably capable her sons are today by having the right tools. Most of all, Kristin reveals how her children helped her become the mother she always wanted to be, by prompting her to ditch the hopes and dreams she had for them and allowing them to build their own dreams and future. Listen to this episode and start seeing things in a different way.

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Learn more about Kristin Smedley at www.KristinSmedley.com

Facebook: www.Facebook.com/ThrivingBlind

https://www.facebook.com/groups/BrilliantlyResilient

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristinsmedley/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KristinSmedley

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinsmedley/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUu4adubD7za8um9SEEpxZA

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21: Healing the Beautifully Broken Body

Have you ever felt broken? Physically, emotionally or spiritually? In this episode, Liza interviews Freddie Kimmel, the proud survivor of metastatic cancer, Lyme disease, and mold. Freddie shares his personal story of how he healed his body after a grueling period of perpetual illness and surgeries. His biggest breakthrough in healing? Bringing the body back to its most natural state. Moreover, Freddie’s journey led him through a physical, emotional, and spiritual transformation, one that takes self-awareness and choices. Today, Freddie serves as a transformational coach, creator, and host of the Beautifully Broken Podcast and is part of the management team at AmpCoil. Listen to his inspirational story and learn how it feels to heal.

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Connect with today’s guest and learn more about Freddie Kimmel at www.Freddiesetgo.com and https://www.buymeacoffee.com/freddiesetgo

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22: Winning The Battle by Learning How To Feel

In this episode, Liza is getting back to basics with Crystal Waltman – athlete, speaker, and the author of “Quitting to Win,” the number one health book of the year. Crystal shares her story of how she overcame a serious disease – alcoholism. Once sober, she needed to learn how to feel and process all of her feelings so she could be the mother she wanted to be and the successful public figure she is today. Crystal reveals her six basic factors for managing her wellness and processing emotions successfully because even nervous energy can be good if it is channeled in the right way. Learn her “faith over fear” mindset and start living like the most empowered version of yourself. Friends, it all starts with Learning How To Feel.

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Connect with today’s guest and learn more about Crystal Waltman at www.crystalwaltman.com and www.QuittingtoWinfreebook.com/free

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23: How the Heck Is Everyone Else So Dang Happy?

Have you ever questioned your own happiness and wondered, “How the heck is everyone else so dang happy?” If so, you are not alone. Today’s guest is Penny Williams, founder of ParentingADHDandAutism.com, host of the Parenting ADHD Podcast, and award-winning author of four books on parenting kids with ADHD, including Boy Without Instructions.

For a long time, Penny believed she was not destined to be happy. She believed “happy people” just had something she didn’t have. So, she began a very intentional journey of learning what makes people happy, where she stumbled on the power of practicing neutrality. She went on to actively transform her victim mindset into a survivor mindset! And all that “hippy dippy” talk of gratitude, positivity, choice and hope – well there is something to it in fostering happiness.

Listen to this honest and warm conversation between two moms who have both struggled in raising neurodivergent children (ADD, ADHD, ASD) and reshaped their mindset to become authentically happy.

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24: The Autistic Supermom – A Story of Gratitude, Attitude and Confidence

In this episode, Liza interviews Ife Thomas, motivational speaker and the author of “Powerlift Your Career: Everything You Need To Succeed.” Ife is also a mental health advocate and founder of MindWorkOut, a company helping to improve wellbeing. Ife also happens to be autistic, just like her son.

Growing up, Ife always knew she had sensory processing disorders, but she never let them hold her back. In fact, her hyper fixations later became her greatest superpower, and she was able to leverage her fixations by creating methodical rituals – intentional routines centered around goal setting, gratitude, and self-love which transformed this once shy introvert into the confidence queen and successful entrepreneur you see today.

Ife’s story speaks to neurodiversity, autism, gratitude, and confidence! What is Ife most grateful for? The unconditional love and encouragement from her adoptive parents. Listen to this episode as she brings her superpower to the forefront of her life and she will inspire you to do the same.

Connect with today’s guest Ife Thomas at www.mindworkout.co.uk and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/ifethomas

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