by Lisa Kohn | Mar 18, 2025 | Recovery
Maybe just like you, I was taught to look outside myself for love. For validation. For okayness. To look for love in all the wrong places, if you will. Truth is, when we’re young, we need the love to come from outside us and to fill us up. Second truth is, when we...
by Lisa Kohn | Dec 31, 2024 | Recovery
This seems like the perfect reminder for me as I start my new year. We have real influence over our minds (once again from Rick Hanson). I have been more and more aware of the stories I may be making up about other people. Even if what they do seems insensitive to me,...
by Lisa Kohn | Dec 10, 2024 | Recovery
It was actually my sleep doctor who reminded me of this. Or perhaps it was my yoga instructor. It’s funny that I can’t remember. It makes sense that it could have been either…or both. When I surrender to what is, even if I don’t like what is, damn but do I relax. I...
by Lisa Kohn | Nov 12, 2024 | Recovery, Resilience
I’m in a course on transformational coaching. It is transformational. We were asked about our anger, fear, sadness, and joy. Which of these emotions were we allowed or not allowed to have when we were young, and what was our relationship to them now? I realized I...
by Lisa Kohn | Oct 22, 2024 | Recovery
Today was a tough body day. I still have them, or I have them again. Either way, I’ve learned to be with myself, to tune into myself, to ask myself what I need. What do I need right now? I heard this question ages ago, I don’t remember from where. I heard it again...
by Lisa Kohn | Oct 8, 2024 | Recovery, Resilience
I am feeling my past – and the scars and chains of my past – healing and falling off of me in the most powerful ways. I’m deep in EMDR in a therapy session, or lying on the table during some body work, and I mentally go back to moments in my childhood, per usual. I...
