Welcome.

My story: 

The physical symptoms were still present - red eye, light irritation, squinting, dry mouth - but I had made a decision to stop postponing my happiness until my body changed. I was no longer waiting to feel better before I began living my life. 

This photograph captures the joy I was experiencing, being exactly as I am. 

For years, I wanted to know how healing happens. I wanted to understand how we move from sickness to health, from fear to peace, from struggle to freedom.

I studied spiritual teachings, practiced meditation and forgiveness, changed my thoughts, and followed the instructions of teachers who said that healing and awakening were available to everyone.

But it wasn't until I stopped trying to make healing happen that I began to discover what healing actually is.

My search for healing

In 1992, while living in New York City, I discovered A Course in Miracles. I was 24 years old, and I felt as though I had finally found the instruction manual I had been searching for.

I wanted to know what Jesus knew. I wanted to understand how healing happens, how miracles are possible, and how we can experience the peace and happiness that spiritual teachings tell us are our natural inheritance.

I devoted my life to studying and practicing these teachings. But even after years of spiritual study, I continued to experience fear, doubt, worry, and the feeling that there was something more I needed to do.

And then, in 2013, I became physically ill.

What began with symptoms that seemed like the flu eventually developed into a chronic illness that was diagnosed as an incurable autoimmune disease.

For the next several years, my life became almost entirely focused on healing. I wanted to be healthy. I wanted to feel good. I wanted to wake up in the morning feeling strong, energetic, and alive.

And I believed there must be something I could do to make that happen.

I went to doctors and specialists. I tried different treatments, diets, supplements, and alternative therapies. I practiced meditation, prayer, forgiveness, visualization, and changing my thoughts.

I read books, listened to spiritual teachers, and looked at what other people were doing to heal. Whenever I heard about something that had worked for someone else, I wanted to try it.

Sometimes I experienced relief. Sometimes my symptoms would lessen or even disappear completely. But then they would return, and I would go back to searching.

What else could I try? What was I missing? What was I doing wrong?

I spent years trying to make healing happen.

The turning point

In 2018, as I approached my 50th birthday, I began to realize that I didn't want to spend the rest of my life trying to heal.

I had spent years searching for answers, following instructions, and trying everything I could think of. And I was tired of making my entire life about getting to some future moment when I would finally be healthy and happy.

I wanted to live. I wanted to enjoy my life. I wanted to be happy.

And I began to consider a question I had never seriously asked myself before:

Can I be happy now, even if my body never heals?

Not when the symptoms disappear. Not when I find the right treatment or practice. Not when I finally feel the way I want to feel.

Now. Exactly as I am.

I realized that I didn't know whether my body would ever heal, but I could stop making my happiness dependent on it. I could stop spending every day searching for the next thing to do and begin living my life, even if my body never changed.

And I made that decision.

I stopped trying to heal. Not because I no longer wanted to be healthy, but because I was no longer willing to postpone my happiness until some future condition was met.

That decision opened the door to something I had never expected.

What I discovered

When I stopped trying to make healing happen, I began to see thoughts and beliefs that had been hidden underneath all my efforts.

Fear came to the surface. Thoughts about what my life would be like if I never healed. Beliefs about what I could and couldn't do. Assumptions about what needed to happen before I could be happy.

I had been so busy trying to make healing happen that I hadn't really stopped to look at what I was believing.

Now I could see.

Instead of immediately trying to change the thoughts and feelings that appeared, I began to allow myself to become aware of them. I began exploring what it meant to welcome my present experience without trying to make it different.

This led me into a deeper investigation of non-duality, self-inquiry, and the nature of awareness itself.

I began asking different questions. Who is the one who wants to heal? Who is the one who is afraid? What am I, really?

And through this inquiry, I began to recognize something that had always been here.

Presence. Awareness. The simple experience of Being.

Not as a special state I needed to achieve or maintain, but as what I am.

Over time, my experience of physical health also changed. The chronic pain and many of the symptoms I had lived with for years gradually subsided. But the most profound change was in my relationship with myself and my experience of being alive.

I was no longer organizing my entire life around trying to make healing happen.

The One Ability

Today, I teach healing as a natural ability that can be learned by anyone.

My work draws on A Course in Miracles, non-duality, self-inquiry, and my own direct experience of healing and awakening.

I teach people how to recognize the thoughts, beliefs, and identifications that keep them in conflict, discover the Presence that is already here, and begin living without making their happiness dependent on achieving a particular outcome.

You can still want health, love, money, meaningful work, and a beautiful life. You can still take action and pursue what matters to you.

But you don't have to wait until everything changes to begin living.

You can begin exactly where you are.

My part is acceptance. Truth's part is correction.

This is the work I love to share.

With love,

Lisa