Our Story

A journey of coming home to ourselves

My story has never been a straight line.

As an adoptee, my relationship with identity, belonging, and understanding where I fit in the world has been complicated. There are parts of my story that have taken years to understand, experiences that I carried quietly, and things about myself that I didn't yet have the words for.

For a long time, I moved through life on autopilot, disconnected from parts of myself in ways I didn't fully understand. I didn't know I was neurodivergent. I didn't understand dissociation or how much of my experience lived in my body.

My journey through nursing, trauma-informed yoga, my work with Zabie Yamasaki, and Reiki became part of a much bigger unfolding.

Through movement, art, creativity, sensation, and learning to listen to my body, I began to discover myself in ways that thinking alone never could.

And as my body and my life changed, my work changed, too.

Rise with Lisa has evolved alongside me. What began in one place has grown into something more fluid, more embodied, and more deeply connected to the realities of being human.

Today, my work brings together nervous system education, somatic practices, Reiki, art, singing and creativity the understanding that we are always becoming.

I know that sometimes the parts of our stories that are hardest to share are the very parts that have shaped us most profoundly.

You don't have to explain your whole story here. You don't have to have the words for it yet.

This is a space to begin wherever you are, to explore who you are beneath the expectations and the adaptations, and to discover what it feels like to reconnect with yourself.

Rise with Lisa is an unfolding. And so are we.

I can't wait to see your story unfold.

With love,

Lisa