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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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- Find out if Liza can help you by clicking here and schedule your free consultation through her calendar.
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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32 min - 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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- Read Liza’s Very Happy Stories Blog.
- Find out if Liza can help you by clicking here and schedule your free consultation through her calendar.
Grateful for our sponsor - Green Valley Nutrition
Have you heard of all-natural CBD products by Green Valley Nutrition? This company was founded by an entrepreneur who overcame PANDAS. Get 20% off. Click the link below and use the code VERYHAPPY.
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27 min - 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.
Connect with AJ Sarcione
For a limited time, AJ is doing FREE one-on-one “Get Your Shine Back” Sessions.
During this 15-minute call, we will dive deep into your Shine Scale results and I’ll give you my personal recommendations to “Get Your Shine Back”. Schedule your call now.
connect.getyourshine.com
- Website: www.getyourshine.com
- Social: @ajsarcione
Linked In: /ajsarcione
Creator of the Get Your Shine Awards: www.getyourshineawards.com
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- Download Liza’s free Thrive Guide for more of Liza’s best practices on empowerment and happiness.
- Subscribe to Liza’s newsletter on VeryHappyStories.com.
- Read Liza’s Very Happy Stories Blog.
- Find out if Liza can help you by clicking here and schedule your free consultation through her calendar.
Grateful for our sponsor - Green Valley Nutrition
Have you heard of all-natural CBD products by Green Valley Nutrition? This company was founded by an entrepreneur who overcame PANDAS. Get 20% off. Click the link below and use the code VERYHAPPY.
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34 min - 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
Contact Samantha and 16 Strong
Instagram/Twitter: @16strongproject
Website: www.16strongproject.com
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- Read Liza’s Very Happy Stories Blog.
- Find out if Liza can help you by clicking here and schedule your free consultation through her calendar.
Grateful for our sponsor - Green Valley Nutrition
Have you heard of all-natural CBD products by Green Valley Nutrition? This company was founded by an entrepreneur who overcame PANDAS. Get 20% off. Click the link below and use the code VERYHAPPY.
https://greenvalleynutrition.com/
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27 min - 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.
#wholebodyhyperthermia #lyme #lymedisease #sanoviv #autism #inflammation #cleandiet
Connect with Brooke through Instagram, Facebook.
Follow Liza and Very Happy Stories on Facebook and Instagram
- Download Liza’s free Thrive Guide for more of Liza’s best practices on empowerment and happiness.
- Subscribe to Liza’s newsletter on VeryHappyStories.com.
- Read Liza’s Very Happy Stories Blog.
- Find out if Liza can help you by clicking here and schedule your free consultation through her calendar.
Grateful for our sponsor - Green Valley Nutrition
Have you heard of all-natural CBD products by Green Valley Nutrition? This company was founded by an entrepreneur who overcame PANDAS. Get 20% off. Click the link below and use the code VERYHAPPY.
https://greenvalleynutrition.com/
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30 min - 15: Healing through Human ConnectionIn this episode, Liza emphasizes the need of letting go of energetic walls and living your most authentic self. This is especially important when you are raising kids with special circumstances like mental illness and neurodiversity. Liza also stresses the importance of being open and stepping out of isolation bubbles, in order to break the stigma of shame typically associated with mental illness. Find out why connection to a community is vital for our children and how sharing your own true story can heal your life. Finally, Liza shares gratitude towards her listeners for taking this healing journey with her as she closes out season one of Very Happy Stories.Subscribe to PodcastFollow Liza and Very Happy Stories on Facebook and Instagram Download Liza’s free Thrive Guide for more of Liza’s best practices on empowerment and happiness.Subscribe to Liza’s newsletter on VeryHappyStories.com.Read Liza’s Very Happy Stories Blog.Find out if Liza can help you by clicking here and schedule your free consultation through her calendar.Grateful for our sponsor - Green Valley NutritionHave you heard of all-natural CBD products by Green Valley Nutrition? This company was founded by an entrepreneur who overcame PANDAS. Get 20% off. Click the link below and use the code VERYHAPPY.https://greenvalleynutrition.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.21 min
- 14: Celebrate the Win, AuthenticallyIt’s easy to celebrate the wins of our kids when they score points at a game or come home with an A grade. But, can you celebrate the wins even when your child struggles with impulsivity, emotional dysregulation and chaotic outbursts?In this episode, Liza shares the story of how her son’s painful decline with Lyme disease opened the window of gratitude and allowed her to find and celebrate the everyday wins of his ADHD. Through a series of stories spanning one day, Liza demonstrates how her new family constitution allows her to celebrate the daily wins, while parenting from a place of neutrality with no shameful tactics. Learn how a family constitution stops parents from projecting their own fears onto their kids. Listen to this episode to start celebrating the wins of your kids and celebrate them authentically, every single day.Subscribe to PodcastFollow Liza and Very Happy Stories on Facebook and Instagram Download Liza’s free Thrive Guide for more of Liza’s best practices on empowerment and happiness.Subscribe to Liza’s newsletter on VeryHappyStories.com.Read Liza’s Very Happy Stories Blog.Find out if Liza can help you by clicking here and schedule your free consultation through her calendar.Grateful for our sponsor - Green Valley NutritionHave you heard of all-natural CBD products by Green Valley Nutrition? This company was founded by an entrepreneur who overcame PANDAS. Get 20% off. Click the link below and use the code VERYHAPPY.https://greenvalleynutrition.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.24 min
- 13: Break the Cycle of Self-Sacrifice with Rita HylandIn this episode, Liza dives into the concept of self-sacrifice with Transformational Coach, Rita Hyland. When moms and care-takers self-sacrifice, they injure themselves and their kids. So why surrender and allow self-injury? For starters, we think we are helping our kids, but in actuality, we are harming them.Self-sacrifice shows up when we give up a part of ourselves and make our children more important. Examples of self-sacrifice include the following:You don’t have any time for yourself.You can’t make space for a morning routine.You are over-extended and over-tired.Sound familiar? Self-sacrifice is actually selfish and comes from a place of fear. When we are in self-sacrificing moments, we are displaying harmful behaviors such as:Not allowing our kids to figure things out on their own.Denying our children the space to be unhappy.Training them to believe they need something from us.Modeling the belief that our children don’t have what it takes to make it.Showing them that they are not capable.Together, Liza and Rita discuss practical ways to stop self-sacrificing including:Take care of yourself first.Have faith your child will be fine and believe in them.Allow your child to experience their life experiences.Subscribe to PodcastConnect with Rita Hyland:Instagram @[email protected]Follow Liza and Very Happy Stories on Facebook and Instagram Download Liza’s free Thrive Guide for more of Liza’s best practices on empowerment and happiness.Subscribe to Liza’s newsletter on VeryHappyStories.com.Read Liza’s Very Happy Stories Blog.Find out if Liza can help you by clicking here and schedule your free consultation through her calendar.Grateful for our sponsor - Green Valley NutritionHave you heard of all-natural CBD products by Green Valley Nutrition? This company was founded by an entrepreneur who overcame PANDAS. Get 20% off. Click the link below and use the code VERYHAPPY.https://greenvalleynutrition.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.39 min
- 12: Take a Break Before the BreakdownWhen was the last time you took a break? Liza emphasizes the importance of taking breaks before your regularly scheduled breakdown. Her secret? Listen to your body. Liza also pays tribute to her daughter’s Lyme disease, which taught her the importance of taking breaks before the big event (in this case, the holidays) as opposed to after life events. Liza announces her plan to take a short break with her podcast and encourages you to pre-plan your break in advance!Subscribe to PodcastFollow Liza and Very Happy Stories on Facebook and Instagram Download Liza’s free Thrive Guide for more of Liza’s best practices on empowerment and happiness.Subscribe to Liza’s newsletter on VeryHappyStories.com.Read Liza’s Very Happy Stories Blog.Find out if Liza can help you by clicking here and schedule your free consultation through her calendar.Grateful for our sponsor - Green Valley NutritionHave you heard of all-natural CBD products by Green Valley Nutrition? This company was founded by an entrepreneur who overcame PANDAS. Get 20% off. Click the link below and use the code VERYHAPPY.https://greenvalleynutrition.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.11 min
- 11: Correcting Perfectionism by Embracing MistakesIn this episode, Liza takes listeners through the story of her daughter’s perfectionism and OCD throughout the years. To model a healthier perspective around failure, Liza re-tooled her mindset to practice self-correction. She refers to this practice as EMM (Embrace Mistakes Mindset). Embracing mistakes has helped Liza shift the focus off of perfection and more on correction. Liza shares how embracing mistakes results in less pressure, more personal growth and a new superpower – accelerated learning!Subscribe to PodcastFollow Liza and Very Happy Stories on Facebook and Instagram Download Liza’s free Thrive Guide for more of Liza’s best practices on empowerment and happiness.Subscribe to Liza’s newsletter on VeryHappyStories.com.Read Liza’s Very Happy Stories Blog.Find out if Liza can help you by clicking here and schedule your free consultation through her calendar.Grateful for our sponsor - Green Valley NutritionHave you heard of all-natural CBD products by Green Valley Nutrition? This company was founded by an entrepreneur who overcame PANDAS. Get 20% off. Click the link below and use the code VERYHAPPY.https://greenvalleynutrition.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.19 min
About Very Happy Stories
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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.