You my friend, are a change-maker, a visionary, an activist, an artist, a healer, a creative, a luminary, a guide.
Your work is deeply needed to heal this world - and you know that you were put on this earth to make it a better place.
Your leadership is a reflection of your values and your vision. You have impacted many with your words, your light, your offerings, and your leadership.
You hold space for others to heal, create, learn, and grow - whether it's in your business, your creative community, your art, your writing, or your organization.
And yet...,
You are feeling overwhelmed with all you do in the world.
Over the last few years, you have witnessed a pain rise up in your communities because of events that are out of our control - covid, racial injustice and unrest, divisive and patriarchal leadership, economic inequality, the climate crisis, historical trauma, or lingering feelings of isolation.
At the same time, you are holding so much - healing from trauma, juggling parenthood, building community, care-taking family members, and balancing a visible leadership role in your work.
As a result, you have put your rest, self-care, or health to the bottom of the list. Each day you are moving toward burnout. You realize that you are experiencing more overwhelm, stress and anxiety from the incomprehensible state of the world. Your heart hurts for so many experiencing hardship and violence. You want the world to be a better place, but you know its too big for you alone to solve.
You know you need to prioritize your healing and self-care, but how - especially when you're overwhelmed? You have so much to take care of each day.
You know that things need to change - for you personally - and for the world.
You know all you do is important - whether it's your role in your family, or your role in your work. What you have built so far feels meaningful. Even so, you sense that you have more to offer. But you know that it is impossible to have greater impact in your work if you are overwhelmed and burned out.
Despite all you have accomplished, you sense that it's time for your work to grow. You know in your bones that you have the potential for greater reach. You are witnessing a world full of divisiveness and unrest, both in your community and on the world stage. Your heart breaks for the state of our world. True connection seems fleeting through the lens of social media. You envision spaces that invite healing, nourishment, collaboration and co-creation.
You long to heal yourself in order to heal the world.
You want to put your self-care, healing and health back to the top of the list. You want to change your relationship to rest so that you no longer feel guilty for taking the time to reenergize yourself. You want to center your healing so that you can make more of an impact in your work. You want your work to reflect the healing you want to see in the world.
You not only want to make the world better, more beautiful and more just, but you want to get there by prioritizing pleasure, rest, and a balanced relationship to work.
Your vision is...
~ To make your personal healing a priority. Whether that healing is physical, emotional or spiritual, you want to re-commit to a healing journey to bring balance, grounding, and an overall reset to your life so that you have more energy to be the leader you envision. And you want to do this in community, you are tired of doing all the things alone.
~ To lead your community to be more equitable, diverse, inclusive, and social justice oriented, but you're not sure how. You want to center the voices of historically marginalized people in your teachings, circles, business, or organization, but you're unsure where to start.
~ To center your experience and viewpoint as a woman of color, or as someone part of a historically marginalized group, but you are afraid to be visible because of how others might judge or criticize you.
~ To hold space for difficult social justice conversations as an ally and advocate, but you know you have more to learn and you don't want to do that learning alone.
~ To center your work using a social justice lens in a way that is accessible to all, but you know you need guidance to find a path forward.
~ To "level up," which will require you to be more vocal, and more visible to have more impact and greater reach. When you think about this, feelings of imposter syndrome rise up and you feel stuck with fear. You wonder how you'll move through these feelings to show up for the work you're meant to do. You don't want fear to stop you.
This is where I can help.
Let me be your guide.
Hi, I'm Liza
I help women of color, their allies, and folx heal their hearts and transform their lives to become powerful leaders for social change.
I'm the Founder of Rise and Thrive Women's Leadership Academy. I am also a guide, facilitator, course creator, writer, teacher, scholar, creative, indigenous and feminist change-maker, mother and firm believer that the personal is the political.
My mission is to hold space for changemakers who want to align their purpose-driven leadership with social justice and a deep commitment to personal healing.
I believe that in order to heal the world, we must first be willing to heal ourselves. I also believe that when we hold space for others or we do social justice work, we need to invest in communities that can hold space for us, in all of our complexity, just as we are.
Holding safe space that is intentional, deep, rooted, and transformational is my superpower.
I do this through my signature course, Regenerative Leadership.
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