This is a YouTube video titled "Overcoming Adversity The Power of Community and Personal Growth" featuring a personal monologue or talk by a single speaker reflecting on their difficult experiences in 2023, the importance of community support, surrender, and personal growth through adversity. The speaker shares insights about the challenges of coaching oneself through hardship and the necessity of vulnerability and support from others.
When everything fell apart in 2023, to know that I was surrounded with people that I'd already built relationships with, that I could trust to go even deeper with this work, because it was probably one of the most painful things I've ever gone through in my life. I could not have done it on my own, and I had to be very, very kind to myself through the journey. Because, you know, when you've been coaching for as long as I have and worked with as many people as I have, I have all the tools in the toolbox. It didn't matter. I had to just say, like, screw the tools, Lisa. Put the tools down. You be human and allow yourself to surrender and be supported by others. It didn't mean I didn't have responsibility in where I was holding my attention, in managing my emotions and feeling what was going on and all the things. Right? There were a lot of things that I could be personally responsible for, but there was also such a huge element of surrender and allow yourself to be supported by others and just be in it. Because, you know, we can, as coaches, we can turn the tools of personal development into weapons against ourselves. I should know better. I should know better. And I knew that that was just that part of me that's like, let's push harder, right? Being a high achiever, I'm like, I'm going to move through this faster. I'm going to do this is. This is how it's going to be. And it didn't matter which way I turned. The universe was like, that's not happening, woman. Like, I'm going to keep taking you to your knees until you surrender to this path. And you know what? Because I surrendered, I think that that's where I am today. Because I know people who've gone through something very similar to me, and 10 years later, they're still medicated for it.
