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...
by Lisa Kohn | Oct 1, 2024 | Recovery
I think it’s human nature to take pretty much everything personally. And for those of us born and/or raised in a cult or extremist situation – or at least for me – it also has been my nature to know that I need to fix or mend or make it all better…make you all better....
by Lisa Kohn | Sep 10, 2024 | Recovery
I was on the phone with a Second Gen friend (those of us born and/or raised in an extremist situation or cult). She has two young kids and had lost it with one of them. Her shame slam was huge, because she felt she hadn’t been the amazing mom she wants to be. I let...
by Lisa Kohn | Sep 3, 2024 | Recovery
Again, a yoga practice. Again, what I (always) need to hear. Give yourself grace today. I saw a dear, longtime friend yesterday. My first coaching client. In fact, the person who helped me become a coach when she said to me, “I want to be you. Do you coach?” I quickly...
