Starting to Heal my Mind and Body

A week later after vegetable juicing to my hearts content and taking natural remedies to support healing, I went back to my specialist. Edna was benign. Phew! A very rare type of tumour. He said they can grow back and if they do there’s a high probability that it will be Malignant next time. I looked this up last year as it crossed my mind and it was there in black and white in front of me. Statistically, if this type of tumour re-occurs 80% of the time they are cancerous. I wasn’t going to let that happen. I know that stress is a huge contributor to disease as it lowers your bodies natural defences. The inner stress created from not listening to your inner compass or guidance is aging, and causes cellar break down! I’M LISTENING!

My client that had the operation the same week as me came into the salon, and although cancer cells were detected within her tumour they were contained and removed. Phew! She’s also been given the all clear! We celebrated and chatted about how grateful we are.

That didn’t last long.

Devastating News

Months later she had cancer riddled through out her body. She was 34. At her Fundraiser I sat down next to her and told her “I wish it was me, she has 3 kids and besides my business I have nothing”. Thinking about this moment still chokes me up. She told me to “shut up, and never say anything like that again”.

This is my absolute fuel! I had been given the precious gift of life and I’ll be darned if I was going to waste it doing something that doesn’t feel quite right for me. Being in a situation, doing what doesn’t feel quite right feels like you’re walking around with a sharp jagged rock in your shoe! 

There’s always this uncomfortable feeling, niggling below! Its exhausting and stressful.

Larissa 2:0 was born….

You Only Need to Know the Next Step

I read in one of my books that when you are looking to change you don’t even have to know the bigger picture, just the next step. Like headlights on your car at night, they only shine a few metres up the road, but thats all you need to see.

After meditating and journalling, I knew what my next step was. I sold my business (against everyones wishes), my new car and a bulk of my belongings and travelled to Canada for a year long working holiday. 

This was HUGE for me. I come from a family who go on 1 holiday a year to the same place. No one had ever travelled and my mum and Sisters hate even going out of their suburb. What the heck was I doing!! This year was transforming. It was amazing, scary, exhilarating, lonely, full of friendships, I lost myself,  I found myself, and for the first time in my working life I was dead broke but so very very rich in so many other ways. 

Connecting to My Calling

At that moment I realised Success isn’t about how much money you earn (I used to think this), it’s about how aligned and fearless you become connecting to your true hearts calling. 

While I was away I had a dream one night. My client came to me and she come to say goodbye. I recall her smile. My Mum phoned me the next day. said to Mum “I already know, she died”.

I vowed to discover and learn how to get past all the B.S we tell ourselves, all the past limiting beliefs, all the thoughts that hold us back so I could stay connected to my inner truth, my inner calling and truly live an amazing life. A life that upon my death bed, whenever that may be (none of us are getting out alive), I could say to myself “I did everything I could, with everything I knew how, to  live my life to the absolute fullest. No if buts or why.” 

Your Health is Your Wealth

Your wealth is your health, your love for yourself and others, your ability to expand into your true potential, to feel free and unbounded by your mind.

Since then I’ve studied under many international teachers. First I learned some of Bob Proctors work, I experienced Tony Robbins courses and did crew work at is events and the most soul touching and transformational work I learned was Dr John Demartini’s work (he’s a human behaviourIal specialist). I became a facilitator of his work.

Do What you Love and Love What you Do

I went back to formal study and started working in the health and wellness industry. I was the general manager for 10 yeas in multi-million dollar  health and fitness facilities, I worked in injury rehab with allied health professionals,  all while I was studying to transition in to becoming a life coach and Kinesiologist. My love for human movement and the body also sent me along the path of studying yoga, which in it’s entirety is a system to understand your mind. 

I now get to help people every single day, connect to their confidence, heal old woulds, create an inspiring vision for themselves, balance their mind, overcome the blocks that are in the way to them experiencing their life to the fullest.

I don’t want anyone to waste their life away playing small, being riddled with self-doubt or should’s or just going with the flow because they are too scared to speak up or step up. I know how it feels to come face to face with your mortality. 

It Hasn’t Been Lolly Pops and Roses

 I’ve worked hard for everything I have become. I’ve spent thousands of dollars learning and I’m not stopping here. I spend my money on learning and experiences not things. 

The universe also likes to test me a lot and facilitate my own growth and healing. My current partner and I broke up twice before actually coming together long term. I have 2 beautiful children but been pregnant 7 times. My Mum experienced cancer just after I’d moved interstate, which totally sucked. 

So that Was My Story and Why I Love to Share and Help People Live the Life They Love

This is my story about what I do and why I do it. Thank you for reading xxx I read it often as it brings me back to my heart, back to what gives me meaning and back to my why. 

Total Life Randomness

1)  I’ve been in an armed hold up

2)   My favourite part of my Life Coaching career (actually there’s many but this is one stand out event), is when I’d been coaching a 12 year old boy and his Mum called me crying. We’d been working on the fact that he’s been kicked out of his circle of friends at school by a bully. So his Mum was happy crying and I’m like “what, what is it”? She said her son went and thanked his bully that afternoon and they shook hands. That still makes me smile. I said to her, my job is done then, let’s cancel the last consult we scheduled. 

3)   In 2013/2014 I put on 11kg’s and I didn’t know why. I ended up being diagnosed as hypothyroid. I chose not to go on the drugs as usually they are for life and I balanced my thyroid through meditation and diet. Nature heals xx

4)   In Canada I worked in a strip club that was also a Hell’s Angels club watering hole. Special note: I was fully clothed at all times, I worked in the bistro. I also worked on a sustainable, off grid Organic Farm which was a health retreat. Talk a bout opposite ends of the spectrum. I loved both.

5)   I got invited to do a speech for the international Women federation for world Peace after randomly striking up a conversation with a lady (who happened to be the president) at a local Market.

6)   I got invited to study with a n invitation only authentic Philosophy of the Tao Te Ching Group. After a year one of their enlightened Masters came out to Australia to give a blessing. He said something to me in Mandarin and the people who could understands eyes nearly popped out of their heads and smiled as wide as the Chesire cat. After he left I said :What the heck did he say”. Apparently he said “Your light shines very brightly, keep on shining”. Cool! Honestly at the time I had absolutely no Idea what that meant. 

7)   I stopped studying the Tao te Ching because I wanted something that could help me and others that was more practical. At times the learnings of the Dao were like riddles to me. 

8)   Once I did a complimentary one day workshop and 10 people booked in. 1 turned up, and luckily she bought her daughter. I decided to share like there were a hundred people in the room. They thanked me profusely at the end of the day. My workshops now book out and I also charge so hang in there anyone just starting out. You’ll get there. 

9)   When I was in year 5 at school I got got voted as school house sports captain for the following year. The next day the teacher took it off me because she said she forgot someone was away. They voted again and the other girl got voted in. I was crushed

10)   When I was 6 I started learning piano, then when I was 7 I learned how to play the flute. When I was 10 I traded the flute for the saxophone and played the saxophone for nearly 10 years. My parents wanted me to be a music teacher and even though I was great at playing music, it  was never something that I ever wanted to do.