Today, Lisa Maddock, a juice plus educator joins me on the podcast and shares her journey of trauma from a broken home and substance abuse at an early age as a coping mechanism to a successful wife, mother, and businesswoman.  Lisa was able to stay clean while she was pregnant and nursing her children but admits that the pull as always there. Over the years she found herself yo-yoing back and forth between being clean and then binge drinking. But it was after a weekend in Florida celebrating her mother's birthday that she realized she was unable to go an entire weekend without drinking and that something had to change.

Lisa talks about how she had to start with being honest with herself how much she was actually drinking and it was her faith that gave her the strength and helped her discover tools to overcome her addiction and clean her lifestyle up once and for all. She now helps teach others who are recovering addicts to channel that all in personality and energy into good things and not things that harm you. Lisa has found alterative drinks, she maintains a running program, and surround herself with people that encourage her and lift her up. Please share with all of your friends and lets end the shame and stigma around substance abuse in motherhood and support everyone to get the help they may need.

Lisa Bio:
Lisa has been married to her husband Bob for 25 years and has four Children. Madalyn 22, Savannah 19, Justus 16 and Canton 12. She was born in WI where she spent her early years and lived in FL from middle school until adulthood. Bob, Lisa & Madalyn moved to MO from FL. in 2000. 

Lisa holds an Associates in Early Childhood Education and an American Montessori Society Credential. She has been certified through several state and local certifications for Child Care. Where she used her knowledge to teach outside the home and then homeschooled her children’s own early education. She has been a stay-at-home mom for 20+ years, during this time she had a significant health crisis being diagnosed with several chronic diseases. This is where she found the Juice Plus+ product that later became the company she aligned with to grow a successful business. Lisa has been with the Juice Plus company for 16 years and holds a leadership level. She is passionate about helping others avoid disease & live with optimal health. She is a Certified Health Coach through The Dr. Sears Wellness Institute able to coach families, pregnancies, adults and seniors. Being an educator at heart she is certified as a paraprofessional working directly with special needs kids. Lisa holds a Rhema Correspondence Bible School diploma that she believes is the foundation of everything she does. She grows the Juice Plus+ Tower Garden and teaches nutrition class weekly with two local, faith based addiction recovery homes where she feels pulls all her education together to serve well in this area.

Ways to Find Lisa:
FB: @Lisa D. Merollo-Maddock
FB Group: lifestyle truth with lisa
Instagram: lifestyle_truth_w_lisa

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