Core Wounds Healing: Stop People-Pleasing & Rewire Your Patterns (Divorce & Beyond)
Core wounds healing + nervous system rewiring for women over 40. In this episode, JJ Flizanes joins Lesa Koski to unpack core wounds healing, the “core wound map,” and how your subconscious beliefs shape people-pleasing, abandonment fears, and everyday triggers. You’ll learn why core wounds healing isn’t just awareness—it’s rewiring, stretching past comfort zones, and building new neural pathways. JJ shares how core wounds healing can change your patterns in real time, and why choosing yourself is the pathway out of abandonment loops. Plus, a powerful look at 2026’s “Year of the Fire Horse” energy—movement, action, and expansion after a season of shedding.
If you’re navigating midlife change, divorce recovery, emotional healing, or you’re ready to stop spiraling and start choosing you, this conversation will meet you right where you are.
Timestamps (in parentheses):
(These are listener-friendly timestamps—adjust to match your final audio.)
(00:00) Welcome + why JJ is a “big deal” and where to find her work
(02:10) Lesa’s healing journey + why the Core Wounds course mattered
(05:10) JJ explains core wounds as subconscious beliefs (and why therapy can stall)
(10:40) The “core wound map” + why people process differently (moon signs + patterns)
(16:30) Why awareness isn’t always enough: rewiring requires stretching
(20:30) The “video that made her cry” example + how the brain flags “unsafe”
(24:40) Neuroplasticity story: cats in an RV + how the brain learns “I didn’t die”
(28:40) Lesa gets real: people-pleasing, overexplaining, and tiny daily triggers
(33:10) Abandonment wound: the belief underneath it + “How do you abandon yourself?”
(38:15) “Choose you” homework: one daily small step + one bigger weekly stretch
(42:30) Healing in relationship vs healing alone + the power of mirroring
(47:10) Tribe + community: why group energy accelerates growth
(50:25) 2025 shedding → 2026 Year of the Fire Horse begins Feb 17, 2026
(55:10) How to work with JJ + her application link + closing
Key Takeaways:
- Core wounds are subconscious beliefs that shape how you see yourself and relationships—often without you realizing it.
- Awareness is step one, but rewiring requires action that stretches your comfort zone and builds new neural pathways.
- People-pleasing and overexplaining can be signs of an abandonment pattern—your nervous system trying to stay “safe.”
- Healing isn’t just emotional; it’s nervous-system and behavior change, practiced moment-to-moment and proactively.
- Community matters: being in a tribe of people on a similar growth path keeps your “coal” warm and your progress moving.
Guest Bio:
JJ Flizanes is a personal development coach, podcast host, and creator of emotional healing programs focused on identifying and rewiring subconscious patterns. She developed the Core Wound Map, expanding on the core wound exercise from Imago therapy, and continues to teach tools for emotional resilience, nervous system awareness, and practical rewiring strategies.
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Transcript
Welcome listeners.
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:I'm thankful that you're here and I'm
so excited because JJ Za is with me.
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:She hasn't been here for a while and
jj, I, I remember the first time I had
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:you on, I'm like, Ooh, she's a big deal.
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:I was like nervous.
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:You've like been in magazines and I
mean, this woman there is so much to you.
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:It would take years.
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:To unfold, but I'm gonna say, I'm
gonna put your link in the show notes.
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:I always have a link to the core wounds
course there, but there's so much and,
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:and, um, things I wanna delve into.
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:You've got books, you've got lots
of podcasts, not just one podcast.
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:There's, there's an abundance of them
and you can find them on her website.
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:But jj, I just wanna welcome you and I,
I have been taking a healing journey.
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:And I think you've been a big part
of it and you maybe don't even
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:know it because a lot of it has
been through your online course.
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:And, um, it's been a hot
minute since I did it.
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:I think I did it about a year ago,
and I want to talk about it because
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:I think it has really led me to the
next level of healing and taking a
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:look at where those wounds came from.
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:I didn't even realize, let, I didn't even
realize how much that course affected me
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:until I was led a little bit further along
and then I did some, um, forgiveness work.
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:Ooh, that was powerful.
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:And redeeming too.
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:So, um, I really, if you could just share
a little bit more about your core wounds.
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:Course in this episode.
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:And then you mentioned the
year of the horses coming.
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:Speaker 2: Yes.
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:2026 is the year of the fire horse in
Chinese astrology where while we were
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:in 2025 was the year of the snake.
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:Speaker: And
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:Speaker 2: the snake is
about shedding skins.
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:And thank you, Lisa, for having me back.
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:'cause what's happened in 2025
is I actually wrote the book
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:about the core wound process.
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:'cause I actually created
something called a core wound map.
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:So what you have is the very first
iteration of the My Roadmap to
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:Emotional Healing Course, which
is still in all of my rewiring
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:your core wound pattern programs.
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:And it's still, it's its own
course people can take, but it was
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:way, way in the beginning when.
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:For me, when I did the core wound exercise
in Imago therapy and I just saw it on
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:a piece of paper because the way my
brain works, I could quickly identify
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:a pattern that I didn't know went back
as far as it did, which helped me to,
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:because I have a SAG moon, so sags are.
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:And a moon's how you deal with emotion.
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:And so for me, there's the educational
piece of when I see something differently,
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:I automatically will change the behavior
because I understand it differently.
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:Like I can catch it, I can see it, I'm
conscious, I'm aware I'm making choices
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:in the moment and I can't unsee it.
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:So for me.
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:Just doing the COR exercise
and imago therapy was enough
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:for a life changing moment.
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:Whereas over the years when
I've used it at my workshops or
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:with my clients, it's a 50 50.
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:Some people go, oh my God.
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:And then they have this big like
emotional breakthrough and some people
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:go, okay, and then nothing changes.
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:And so for years I've been working
with this to, in different groups in
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:order to peel back and to understand.
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:Again, people's moons and how
they handle deal with emotions.
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:So you're
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:Speaker: speaking over my head there.
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:I don't know anything about that.
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:Speaker 2: About what?
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:Speaker: About people's moons and
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:Speaker 2: right in, in astrology, you
know, you are like a, a recipe, and in the
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:recipe there's many different ingredients.
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:So you know that there are thousands
of recipes for chocolate cake, but
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:it's all chocolate cake, right?
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:So you are a person who, and it
doesn't matter what your sun sign
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:is or not, there's still a recipe
of all these different planets.
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:That make up your sort of energetic
blueprint of why you're here, what
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:lessons you're here to learn, how
you deal with emotion, how you deal
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:with communication, how you are in
love, how you are with sex, how you
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:are, like, what you're growing into.
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:And that's sort of your, that's your
chart, that's your astrology chart.
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:And, and I actually, way
back when started my podcast.
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:Wanting to talk about that on one
of my different days of the week,
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:which is where fit to love then
becomes spirit, purpose and energy.
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:And I get to talk about anything
spiritual, but to me there's a lot
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:of behavioral clues in astrology.
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:It's how I energetically function.
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:However, for other people, it's
not, you can know something and
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there's a lot of different planets.
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:I'll tell you that earth sign moons,
like anyone with a, with a moon
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be Virgo, Taurus, or Capricorn.
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time, uh, because that's a
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:Um, you know, like you, you want proof.
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:They like structure, they like
stability, repetitive things.
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:So anyway, knowing all of this and
going into how, you know, I, I can't
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:assume everyone's gonna react like me.
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:So I do the exercise and I wait to
see, and I even had a certification.
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:I did two years of the certification.
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:And even within the certification,
some people life changing.
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:Like, oh my God, here are my wounds.
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:Here's how I heal them.
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:And then other people, I realized like
they'd been in therapy or in 12 step
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:programs for decades and they knew
some of the stuff, but so it didn't,
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:Their behavior didn't change.
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:And so throughout the years, I've
created something called a core
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:wound map, which we started in the
road roadmap to emotional healing.
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:Deepened because I, you know, every
new group of people, I learned more
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:I had different people who
didn't process the same way as
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:I did or the group did before.
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:So it's been a really fun
process of not rushing.
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:The creation of this core wound map
that's an extension of Imago therapy
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:and the core wound exercise, and I've
got Harville and Helen's blessing.
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:They wrote the forward to the book.
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:I finished the book this year and I
have an agent shopping it right now.
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:So hopefully it'll be published in 2026.
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:But it, and I, in terms of the
title, there's several titles that
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couldn't even tell you what it is.
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:It might be, it might
be the Three Beliefs.
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:It might be allowing more, it
might be the core wound map.
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someone thinks I can sell.
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really not about the title for
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:So you know, your core wounds.
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on this podcast, I think this is my
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:Speaker 2: And you know, you're What?
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:I like my message to people.
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:And some people think they get it
and some people don't really get it.
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:So it's interesting for me to like,
okay, your core wounds are beliefs.
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:They're beliefs that your subconscious
has as the foundation of how you see
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:the world and yourself in the world.
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:Most people do not know what their
core wounds are because when you go to
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:therapy or coaching, you deal with the
situation at hand in the red hot moment.
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:So you could be in therapy forever
and be manifesting the same situation
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:over and over again and talking about
your feelings and what happened to you
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:over and over again and not getting
any results or relief because you
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:haven't really looked at why you're
in the situation in the first place.
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:Speaker: Right?
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:Speaker 2: Why do you look at the world?
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:The way that you do well, how do you look
at yourself in the world the way you do?
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:And then how do we, it's
a three step process.
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:How do we rewire, yes, those core
wound patterns, but you have to
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:What are your beliefs?
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:And it's not, so it's literally like
if someone would, it's as, it's as
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:simple as if you're a Christian or
if you're a Buddhist, or if you are
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:like, those are your spiritual beliefs.
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:Well, this is your beliefs about
the world and yourself in the world.
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:So I think it's kind of
important to understand them.
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off at least the top three.
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about uncovering what you are in.
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colored glasses on.
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:Like if I have an abandonment wound,
I'm wearing red glasses, and everywhere
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:And if I have a, I was smothered, uh, in
my childhood and I have a smothered wound.
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:Maybe I'm wearing green glasses and
everyone has a different pair of
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:glasses, and so everyone's looking at
something differently that make sense.
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journey and I learned to become
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:Okay, so let's go, you know?
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:So then I look back at, at those early
beliefs and then the thing that was
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:Like changing them, like
even though, you know.
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:Something isn't true that you
believe it's really hard to change.
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:Speaker 2: Well, I had you,
you took the course before I
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:So what I'm saying is I have developed
a new, like I've kept developing.
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:I kept going deeper with it because
I'm the person who saw the pattern
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:and changed it because, I mean, not
in every aspect, but in my current,
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:in the situation that I was in, I can
now recognize it and pivot faster.
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:I do the things I need to do to create
a different belief, but I broke it
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:down into sort of three steps and
added some really important things.
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:And here's the most important thing
at the end of it, is that, you
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:know, as a personal trainer, people
understood when they hired me.
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:That I'm going to push you past your
comfort zone so that you can get more
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:results in your whatever weight loss,
flexibility, uh, strength building muscle.
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patterns, you also have to push
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:And I'm telling you, most people are
not gonna sign up to be uncomfortable.
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:They're not gonna say, yes, let
me make myself uncomfortable.
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:Like, that's not how we're built,
which is why I'm now a personal trainer
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wanna push you beyond into new neural
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:pathways that you are not gonna choose.
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:Love that you're just not,
most of us don't do that.
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I would if I had somebody Right.
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me or being accountable for that.
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to rewire colon patterns, for sure, and
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sections, if you will, are things that
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well, what's the stretch?
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:And the stretch piece is, to give
you an example, one of my clients,
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she was doing her very first summit.
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record a video to be like, Hey, here,
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summit's about and I hope you join me.
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the time, you may be thinking like.
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but this was her first time.
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of this stuff came up and she cried and
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she tried and she just was so for like
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and when, and so when you're done with
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year, when she did it was a lot easier.
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like, well, maybe you wanna.
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had she not stretched herself
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say, like, I tell the story with my cats.
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:He, he and I rented an RV a
couple years ago and took two
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girls, because I wanna get them
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she has transitioned.
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cat in this lifetime, but she'll be back.
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on this RV trip, which was me,
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we've packed all the stuff.
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they're smelling everything.
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dive headfirst into the bed, put
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and are, they're paralyzed.
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went into fight or flight 'cause
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but I'm going to die.
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then for lunch and got out and
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their body melted a little bit.
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then they came out and they sort of
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again and turned the engine back
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except it got better and better.
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on my lap while we were driving.
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even for what you consider is what you
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stupidest, most insignificant thing.
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to use your reptilian brain to survive.
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the video for this client.
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thought, I'm literally, I'm sobbing.
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this is unsafe, this is unsafe.
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planning, you override it in a way
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send you into a, a, a fight or
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that it's not going to.
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brain goes, oh, I didn't die.
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talking through this and I'm
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me and I think, I feel like I can
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can jump in and go to law school.
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lots of different things, but
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people pleasing that is spinning out
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and I'm becoming more aware of it.
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I'm like, I'm surrendering it.
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of try to surrender it, but it is.
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it's not like a big thing.
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like, I don't know, like.
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in between, uh, podcast episodes and
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off and I think I gotta go in and tell
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you know, it's like I have to explain.
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the heck really cares?
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little things I can do.
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go for that uncomfortable a little bit.
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about that, but it's the little things.
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is the big things for other
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people are actually big things for you.
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with fully face of makeup and lipstick.
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defend yourself or justify why you
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for you, you think you're judging
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your top three core wounds?
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:So abandonment shows up for people
and all, and this is one of the
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Since you took the course and act
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:Speaker: and then just let me ask, can
I go back in and do I get, do I have to
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within the nine, six, or
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already have, but there is more
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accountability, the stretching, the
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everything else that goes in there.
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times as you want to.
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future, I might record another one.
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update it with the, the new things.
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because again, when I, I saw that
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and that's one of my top core wounds.
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value, that behavior, I, I just
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said, oh no, no, this is situational.
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blah, blah, blah, blah.
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know what you're doing isn't working?
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know it's not working.
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dated back to my parents, I was like, oh.
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that made an instant shift in me.
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:Now when it comes to abandonment or
whatever your wounds are, so anyone can
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:do this, who's listening or watching
this, if you can identify with a wound
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:that you think you have, and there are
many, um, and some of them won't be
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:accurate until you do the exercise, right?
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:'cause sometimes you think they're one
thing, but they end up being something
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:else.
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:Speaker: Can you name like the top three?
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:Speaker 2: Uh, ignored,
devalued, abandoned, uh, uh,
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:invisible, smothered, controlled.
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:Speaker: I think mine was ignored too.
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:Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm gonna work
with abandonment because I think
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:that one feels very cross the board.
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:Uh, okay.
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:Someone can identify abandonment
when you have an abandonment wound.
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:So what's the belief?
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:The belief behind I was abandoned is, I'm
not important, I'm not valuable enough.
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:Uh, people leave me.
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:Relationships aren't safe.
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:That's the way that you look at the world.
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:So in order to, and again, this is
part of, this is like the second part
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:of the map, but we have to turn that
around because if it was just something
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:that happened one time and you did the
forgiveness work and you're like, okay,
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:cool, I can forgive what happened to me.
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:That doesn't change your.
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:Response to you.
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:Because here's the thing, there's
an event that happened, or several
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:events that created the wound.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:And then there's the belief that
gets embedded and anchored over
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:and over again when you believe
it and you act from that place.
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:So what, so the questions would be,
what three ways do you abandon yourself?
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:Speaker: Yeah.
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:Speaker 2: So if we look at the,
the wounds of abandoned, how does,
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:and, and it could be anywhere from
self-care to overexplaining and
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:people pleasing, it could be, right.
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:So how do I aba I'm doing for
others before you do for yourself.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:Not speaking up because you don't
want to cause a problem or you
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:don't want someone to get upset.
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:Like, those are all parts
of how you abandon yourself.
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:'cause you're not necessarily
speaking your truth.
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:Now, it doesn't mean that if you're in
a situation and you wanna say something
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:that you can't do it in a way that.
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:That is a win-win for everybody.
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:That's what the whole feelings and
needs list is about, is being able to
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:come from the place of, I have this
feeling, 'cause I have this need and
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:here's what I'd like to have happen.
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:But it's not about you changing or
you doing something different for
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:me, person I'm talking to, which is
acknowledging, Hey, I need some help.
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:I have this, I need this.
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:How can we do this where
both of our needs get met?
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:Speaker: Mm-hmm.
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:Speaker 2: So, so abandonment
can look like, yeah, not.
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:Sticking up for yourself, not
speaking your truth, not taking care
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:of yourself, putting others first.
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:Speaker: Yeah, the people pleasing.
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:Putting others first really rings.
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:Rings true.
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:Which is interesting because
I still deal with it.
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:I'm still dealing with that.
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:The thing where I felt like
I had redemption after the
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:forgiveness was really kind of fun.
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:Like I have never like.
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:Um, really sang in front of people since
I was very young because I'm so afraid.
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:And my, my baby was upstairs
with a microphone singing and I
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:didn't have any wine or anything.
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:And I went up there and I sang loud and
I, and it was probably the day after I had
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:done the forgiveness work and it was like.
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:Wow, that feels really good.
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:'cause I've never done that.
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:So I love that.
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:Nice.
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:And yet I'm still carrying around
the wanting to please everyone.
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:And then I get so mad at myself.
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:Then there's like all this, like, I'm
not really doing anything outta love
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:because you're like mad about it.
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:So I'm becoming aware of
that, which is helping.
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:Speaker 2: Well I think it, it, it's
that moment to moment decision making.
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:See, like two years ago
the group I worked with.
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:Really helped because there had
a lot of air signs in there.
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:And they, they, I understood that it was
about the moment to moment decision making
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:that we, how we assess and look at things.
463
:And so for when you're, you know, when
you're feeling the impulse to people,
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:please, uh, what your brain is telling
you is that it's unsafe to mm-hmm.
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:Piss off this person
because they will leave you.
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:So part of the healing of
abandonment means choosing you.
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:So how can you choose you?
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:More than choosing others.
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:How can you put into play?
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:And, and so there's the, there's,
and there's two parts to this.
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:There's the reaction that happens in,
in a moment, like when the trigger
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:happens and you're in the trigger
moment and you have your circuit, that's
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:your, that's the, the, the wounded
triggered the feeling you get, then the
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:action you take, that's the circuit.
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:And once you're aware that it's
happening and you get to the, the
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:reaction piece sometimes, and, and
through time you can absolutely
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:catch it and then do the opposite.
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:But you're already in reaction mode.
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:So that's one piece.
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:Well, what ha, what about proactively?
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:What could you proactively do to
choose you to put you first, to
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:consider you before considering others?
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:And that's what you go back and look
at habits and patterns that you have.
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:And say, what could I do actively?
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:And it doesn't have to be in reaction.
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:I want you to actively do something
that sends a message out energetically,
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:that you are choosing you, that you love
you, that you accept you, that you feel
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:safe, that you are safe, that you are
loved, because otherwise, the belief of
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:abandonment is about clinging to everybody
else to show you that you're loved.
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:Yeah, it's looking for love outside
of yourself versus inside yourself.
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:Speaker: Yep, that is right.
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:Hit it on the nose and I have to say.
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:So interesting you said choosing you.
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:This has been the oddest day.
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:I told you like I had a no show on the
podcast, but I recorded another one and
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:I have never heard choose you before.
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:I heard boundaries.
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:I heard the, the gal I
talked to prior to you.
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:I asked her, what's one thing that
you can do, you know at the end of
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:the podcast to truly love yourself?
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:She said, choose you.
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:And I was like, oh.
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:So that's twice I've heard it today.
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:I wonder if it's gonna come back again.
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:Speaker 2: I think twice is enough.
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:I think twice is enough in the same day.
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:I think that's a clear enough message.
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:Lisa, take it.
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:And then, and so then here's
what comes your homework.
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:How can, how can I,
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:Speaker: yeah.
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:Speaker 2: Choose me more and daily, how?
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:What could I do daily?
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:And then what's one big thing
I can do and what's one little
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:thing I can do daily that.
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:Or one big thing weekly that chooses me.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:What does that mean to you?
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:Speaker: Mm-hmm.
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:Yeah.
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:Speaker 2: And that's, and that's,
that's what you have to put together.
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:So that's your action plan.
523
:Because once you do it and you're
afraid of it and it makes you
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:wanna throw up and you, you know,
you nervous or whatever, yeah.
525
:Once you do it once or twice and the brain
goes, oh, this is safe and it's okay.
526
:But until you do it, you can't
expect anyone else to do it for you.
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:That the, the wound of
abandonment does not get healed
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:by anybody else other than you.
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:I mean, maybe you were
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:Speaker: Yeah.
531
:Does
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:Speaker 2: anything, uh, yes.
533
:I, in relationship, I will say that
the Imago therapy, which is Harville
534
:and Helen's, uh, therapy, relationship
therapy, they come at the, you know,
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:your relationship and relationships.
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:It could be just, you know,
mother, daughter, uh, parent,
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:spouse, whatever, relationships.
538
:The place where these things
get reflected back to us.
539
:So in relationship, there are things you
can heal that you can't heal by yourself.
540
:Speaker: Ah, ah.
541
:' Speaker 2: cause because you're
not, you're not being mirrored.
542
:It's one thing when you're never
triggered, like you can do all
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:your right, but it's when someone
else comes in and reflects back
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:to you what's going on with you.
545
:And now you have to be
different in the same situation.
546
:So relationships.
547
:But there, what I.
548
:Didn't necessarily agree with, is
that ev, like that you have to be in a
549
:relationship to heal things you don't?
550
:Speaker: No.
551
:Speaker 2: Um, I think they're equally
important that a person individually needs
552
:to take responsibility for their healing.
553
:And then as a, as a relationship, there
are tools and things that I provide
554
:that other people provide, that here's
how to help heal within relationship.
555
:Right.
556
:Speaker: That, that's so key
because as you're talking, I think
557
:about this people pleasing thing.
558
:Yeah.
559
:It happens every day.
560
:It's not as important to me with
the people at the yoga studio
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:as it is, like with my kids.
562
:So hard for me to say no to a kid.
563
:I almost can't.
564
:And it's been a problem.
565
:Um, you know, like even with like,
if they need something, if they need
566
:money, I would, you know, tear off my
arm and give it to them kind of thing.
567
:Um.
568
:It's interesting and
it's so uncomfortable.
569
:It is worse for me to say no to a
child than to be forced up on a stage,
570
:which I don't really like either.
571
:You know?
572
:It's just, it's, isn't that interesting?
573
:Because I, I'm afraid, I feel
like they love me because of what
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:I've given them and what I've done
for them, and I've done a lot.
575
:Speaker 2: Yeah.
576
:It, it becomes about loving
and accepting yourself.
577
:Without performing for love.
578
:Speaker: Mm-hmm.
579
:I'm still learning how to
do that, jj, I need help.
580
:Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing.
581
:We're all gonna, we're all
gonna be learning these lessons.
582
:Yeah.
583
:It just gets easier and it gets better,
and you get to go to the next level.
584
:There's a certain amount of allowing that
we, so let's talk about manifestation
585
:for a second and how this, how this
kind of bridges this gap for me.
586
:You as a person.
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:Everyone.
588
:You have a sort of temperature gauge,
and that temperature gauge is how
589
:much love, love, joy, and abundance
I allow in how much do I deserve?
590
:And the deservedness is absolutely
100% linked to your core wounds.
591
:Mm-hmm.
592
:All right.
593
:So they go hand in hand.
594
:So your core wounds link
to this temperature gauge.
595
:It says, I am only worth
yes allowing in this much.
596
:So when your temperature gauge goes up,
because you start to heal these wounds.
597
:So does your ability to receive more.
598
:That still doesn't mean though, that
when you, after you get to like the
599
:next level of like, this is amazing
that you're not gonna like come
600
:crashing into the next level because.
601
:We don't learn when we're not challenged.
602
:We, you know, we, we learn when we're
forced to learn, we're we learn, when
603
:we manifest something that pushes our
back up against the wall that's so
604
:uncomfortable that we're forced to learn.
605
:And that's, and I'm with the core wound
stuff and the rewiring stuff, that's
606
:me saying here, don't let life get
so bad that you have to learn this.
607
:And it's super painful.
608
:Like, let's learn it now in a,
in a more controlled situation.
609
:Speaker: Yeah.
610
:Speaker 2: So that you are better skilled
and have better tools so that in case life
611
:really pushes you up against the wall,
that you can handle it and you understand
612
:what it is and what to do about it.
613
:And you don't just make this
sweeping assumption that goes
614
:back into your core wound patterns
and says, oh, I'm worthless.
615
:Look at this.
616
:Nothing ever works out for me.
617
:And you just start to go down the,
um, the rabbit hole of all the wounds.
618
:'cause if you can't identify them,
then you never can get over them.
619
:Right.
620
:You can't heal them if you can't see them.
621
:Speaker: Amen.
622
:I, yeah, exactly.
623
:That's, that's so, so true.
624
:And I'm so thankful that.
625
:I, I hit a hard wall, you know, a
couple years ago and I, before that
626
:I was doing a little bit of work.
627
:You know, I was becoming aware.
628
:I was looking at my mindset.
629
:Um, definitely not enough.
630
:And so that's where like, I feel like
now I just want to help women feel
631
:better and, and be prepared because
there are gonna be things that happen.
632
:But it's so interesting, jj, because
how I handle something today is.
633
:Very, very different than how I
handled the same news six years ago.
634
:And I have a, you know, yeah.
635
:It, it's amazing.
636
:Amazing.
637
:In a good way.
638
:Doesn't mean that crap
doesn't still happen.
639
:Speaker 2: Right.
640
:Speaker: You know, but I am able to
handle it better and I, and I feel like
641
:I'm gonna learn till I die, don't we?
642
:Speaker 2: Uh, if you're conscious.
643
:Yeah.
644
:I mean it, and, and I, I
say that I love my parents.
645
:They were just here.
646
:It was great to have them here.
647
:My parents are not conscious.
648
:They're not learning lessons.
649
:They are repeating the same
thing over and over again, but
650
:they're not that unhappy about it.
651
:Like they're pretty simple people.
652
:Like they're not trying
to reach for anything.
653
:Speaker: Yeah,
654
:Speaker 2: right.
655
:They, they, there's a certain level of.
656
:Contentment that they
have with their lives.
657
:And there's, there's no
yearning for something.
658
:You know, we work with people who feel
like, God, there's so much possibility
659
:about things that I wanna create, or
ways I wanna feel, or ways I wanna be.
660
:And we understand that that takes a
awareness and then has to be paired
661
:with doing something about it.
662
:And they just don't have it.
663
:Like, they just think
things are the way they are.
664
:And that there's nothing
they can do about it.
665
:Like my, my grandmother passed
away a couple years ago and my mom
666
:made a comment, 'cause I actually
interviewed my parents on my podcast.
667
:And, and it went, it was the week
of, uh, the new year of New Year's.
668
:And my mother made a comment about like
the, you know, my grandmother's situation
669
:like that, it couldn't have been changed.
670
:And I'm sitting here thinking, oh yes, it
could have, my MO grandmother had a mouth.
671
:Full of metal, of amalgams and mercury.
672
:Yeah.
673
:Which I'm 100% sure caused her dementia
and Alzheimer's and the cognitive decline.
674
:Right.
675
:And not, not mentioned anyway,
so, but my mother comes to the
676
:viewpoint of, oh, well the doctor
said that this is what just happened.
677
:I'm like, no, it didn't just happen.
678
:Like there were factors, but
because she's not researching
679
:or curious or wanting to learn.
680
:To her, this is what it is.
681
:And so, you know, it does take a
specific kind of person, an older
682
:soul, really an older soul who came
on the planet to help really make
683
:change for themselves and others.
684
:And uh, so it's not for everybody.
685
:Speaker: That's so interesting
because my husband just giggles
686
:at me, and my dad's a lot like me.
687
:I mean, my dad's 84 and he's
always doing something new.
688
:He's really good at computers
and he's like, now he's reading.
689
:He'd started acting.
690
:I mean, he's just like, so cute,
which I love, but my husband's
691
:like, I can't keep up with you.
692
:And I'm like, well, I love this.
693
:And like the, I want to, I
want this podcast to help
694
:women and my hub's like honey.
695
:You gotta find the women
who wanna learn like you do.
696
:'cause not everybody does.
697
:And that, and it's so funny, jj, 'cause
I have darling friends that have taught
698
:me like how to have a lot of fun in my
life and how to like quit sometimes.
699
:Just let it go.
700
:And I love those friends, but
they are so not in to like.
701
:Learning more and growing
and so, and that's okay.
702
:Right?
703
:Yeah.
704
:So I just, I need to, to
be at peace about that.
705
:Um, and I'm looking at the time
and it's going so fast that I feel
706
:like we have to end this and I'm
gonna have to have you back again.
707
:But I have to ask you before
we go about the horse here.
708
:'cause I am in my barn and I've got
a horse over there and a donkey, but
709
:I wanna know about this horse stuff.
710
:Speaker 2: Yeah.
711
:Let me, uh, first let me just
address real quick if, if it's okay.
712
:Yeah.
713
:Uh, that.
714
:The thing about what we just talked
about, like you said, you wanna just
715
:help people, help women, and you wanna
find women that want to be helped.
716
:I'm also gonna say, and you're
doing it 'cause you're doing
717
:it through your podcast.
718
:It's like coal.
719
:When you, after you have a fire,
if you just, if you leave the
720
:coals together, they'll stay warm
for a really, really long time.
721
:But if you take a piece of coal out
of a fire and put it separately,
722
:it'll cool down really quickly.
723
:It's really important that
people understand that.
724
:You want to find or create?
725
:A tribe of people who are on the
same path or a similar path to you
726
:and not demand, punish, or shame
other people around you who are not
727
:interested in what you're interested in,
728
:Speaker: right?
729
:Speaker 2: You can have all the things.
730
:I love my parents and I
accept them for who they are.
731
:Does it frustrate me?
732
:Sometimes, of course.
733
:Do I, you know, get into a position
where sometimes I worry from here?
734
:Of course, but ultimately it's their
decision and I can't force that.
735
:Not everyone is interested in everything,
but people are out there searching for,
736
:and so for you to grow anyone, that's
why I do groups because they work there.
737
:When I did the empowerment strategy
certification, there was a magic
738
:that happened in the groups and when
I, after I was done with it for the
739
:second year and I put it on pause.
740
:I realize I can't stop
the group situation.
741
:The group situation's magical.
742
:It is, people are just get so much more
out of it because of their together.
743
:They're, they're
experiencing things together.
744
:They can learn from each other.
745
:They're examples.
746
:They're motivated.
747
:They're connected in a different
way than a coach and a person or
748
:a trainer or a therapist, and a
person's a whole nother like magic.
749
:So I just wanna encourage
everyone to find a.
750
:Find or create a tribe that is
interested in the things that you are.
751
:And please let your husband, spouse,
kids, parents, children off the hook.
752
:Yeah.
753
:They don't have to do what you
do, but you wanna support yourself
754
:by finding or creating a tribe
that is with you on this path.
755
:Speaker: Such, such great info.
756
:Yes.
757
:Speaker 2: The year of the horse.
758
:Okay, so snake year, which was
:
759
:So it's looking at things that no longer
serve you, uh, ways of being, ways that
760
:you keep showing up in the world that.
761
:Might be time to let it go.
762
:Something maybe that you've
repeated many times, but it just
763
:didn't work the same way last year.
764
:And I have several of those examples.
765
:I was like, oh, thank God, you
know, 'cause we're still in the
766
:shedding until February 17th when
the year of the fire horse kicks in.
767
:So the fire horse, you know, horses are
about movement and action in galloping
768
:and, and they're passionate and fire.
769
:The fire sign is about action.
770
:So in astrology you've got fire, air,
earth, and water, and each element
771
:represents a different action.
772
:So.
773
:Fire is action.
774
:Water is emotion, air is
thinking in Thoughts and earth
775
:is stability and security.
776
:So it's a fire horse year, which means
that by the 17th of February you wanna be
777
:pretty clear about who you are supposed
to be, because that's when the energy's
778
:gonna say, go like run wild and go do
the thing that you're passionate about,
779
:that you have energy around, that you're
focused on, that you have clarity about.
780
:And by that point, we
wanna be sort of at that.
781
:Level of awareness of I can't keep
playing small, or I can't keep repeating
782
:this pattern, or I like, it's time
to expand into this new way of being.
783
:So that's what 26, 20 26 will
bring us starting February 17th.
784
:Speaker: I love that.
785
:I'm, I'm in.
786
:That's my kind, that's
my kind of year, honey.
787
:Speaker 2: My kind year too.
788
:But I have to tell you, like
when I first read about it in
789
:2025, I was like, Ugh, running.
790
:I'm not ready to run.
791
:I'm tired.
792
:Speaker: Like think I'm,
I think I'm, yeah, I do.
793
:I
794
:Speaker 2: do.
795
:Oh, I'm getting ready.
796
:I'm getting ready.
797
:But I, I, I was like, okay,
thank God this isn't January 1st.
798
:'cause I'm not feeling it right now.
799
:I'm still in the identifying and
shedding and pivoting and allowing,
800
:which is exciting and scary.
801
:Uh, but yeah, but I'm, I'm getting
closer, so I'm getting ready.
802
:My, don't worry.
803
:I'm gonna be, I always run.
804
:That's the problem that I always run.
805
:Speaker: Me too.
806
:Speaker 2: Right?
807
:So I wanna, I wanna run
differently and it's getting there.
808
:I can start to see it, start to unfold.
809
:Speaker: Awesome.
810
:Okay.
811
:Jj, if people wanna work with you, what's
the best way that they can do that?
812
:Speaker 2: So there's a application
page right now that I'll leave up
813
:because it has the programs on it,
but it's just another portal for
814
:you to fill out a form and then say
I, it's not that you're signing up
815
:for any things that are on that page
necessarily, 'cause there's many options.
816
:Speaker: Yep.
817
:Speaker 2: JJ fs.com/.
818
:Apply A-P-P-L-Y-J zas.com/apply,
819
:and that's a great place to start.
820
:We hop on a call, there's no
obligation, it's completely free.
821
:And a zoom call for 15 minutes and
see what you need and what would, and
822
:I'll make you some recommendations.
823
:And then if it fit, great.
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:If it's not, I also have a ton of podcasts
that I can recommend, yeah, that I
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:have that could provide some, you know,
either preliminary information to kind
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:of get you more confident or feeling
more connected to me, or maybe it's.
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:Something will solve your problem.
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:Here's the podcast, but I have,
you know, a lot of content.
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:Speaker: Perfect.
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:Well, I highly recommend you.
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:You have enhanced my life and I'm excited.
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:We're gonna chat a little bit more after
this, so I'm excited about that too.
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:So, jj, thank you for your time.
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:Thank you for being here.
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:For my listeners, you're
always a joy to have.
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:Speaker 2: Thank you, Lisa.
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:Thanks for having me.
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:And Happy New Year everybody.
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:Happy 2026.
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:Speaker: Yes.
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:Yes.
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:You take care.
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:Speaker 2: Thanks.