Episode 79: You are Already Enough with Lisa Olivera
“Acceptance is so powerful and potent, and can be such a catalyst for finding ourselves in a life that actually feels really nourishing, even amidst the grief and shame and challenge and pain and desire for things to have gone differently than they might have.”
-Lisa Olivera, The Everything Belongs Podcast
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Lisa Olivera. Lisa is a writer, therapist, and creative who shares work centered around radical acceptance, cultivating compassion, and integrating our stories and full humanity. She holds a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Dominican University, where she received the Dr. Robert Schukraft award for Inspirational Leadership. She has worked in schools, community-based mental health, and private practice, all of which inform her lens of the world. Lisa’s mission is to guide people in remembering their goodness, honoring who they are, and reclaiming their inner stories in order to show up more fully in their lives. Her work has been featured in many publications including The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Good Morning America, The Guardian, and The Huffington Post. Lisa currently has a small private practice and creates courses, offerings, and writing. Her first book, Already Enough: A Path to Self-Acceptance, released this January. She lives with her husband and daughter in Northern California. In this episode, Madison and Lisa speak on her new book, Already Enough, navigating our humanity in life and online, the possibilities around forgiveness and acceptance, motherhood and much more…
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In this episode, we talk about:
Lisa's new book, Already Enough, and what prompted her to write it
Letting go of of our expectations around healing and letting ourselves be human
Being and centering humanness in online social spaces
How live and heal as projection and meaning-making machines
Navigating the story of not being enough, and where it comes from
What to do when we have outgrown our stories and self-perceptions
How to accept the hard parts of life that may never change
The complexity and possibility of what it might mean to forgive and accept
Willingness and its importance to living into new stories
Lisa's experience of new motherhood
