Rise and Renew Mindset Coaching

09/06/2026

When you think about how you’ve been moving through your days lately, are you experiencing your life or just getting through it?

09/06/2026

Some days seem to pass without us ever fully experiencing them… the alarm rings, our feet hit the ground, and before we know it, the day is over.
We move from one task to the next, answering messages, meeting expectations, caring for everyone else…while some quiet part of us remains somewhere far behind.

Somewhere along the way we can become disconnected from our own lives.

For some people, that detachment can feel almost like looking at life through a camera lens. Just going through the motions, doing all the things they’re supposed to do, but somehow standing on the outside looking in.

We stop noticing
The way the air feels when we step outside.
The beauty of the sky we’ve driven beneath a thousand times.
A song that once meant something to us.
A familiar smell that suddenly brings us back to a place we haven’t thought about in years.
The sound of someone we love laughing.
The warmth of the sun on our face.

Not because these things aren’t meaningful anymore, but because sometimes we become so accustomed to getting through life that we forget what it feels like to actually live it.

Dissociation and emotional detachment can be subtle. Sometimes it isn’t an obvious feeling of being disconnected. Sometimes it looks like living on autopilot for so long that we don’t realize how much of our own life we’ve stopped noticing.

Being present can begin with something very small…
Noticing…
A sound.
A smell.
A feeling.
A memory.
A moment of beauty that would normally pass unnoticed.

And allowing ourselves, even for a few seconds, to actually be there for it.

When you think about the way you’ve been moving through your days lately, are you experiencing your life or mostly just getting through it?

-Lisa ♥️
Rise and Renew Mindset Coaching

08/30/2026

08/29/2026

What might change in your life if you stopped believing that your past determines your worth?

08/29/2026

When Shame No Longer Gets to Tell Your Story

Shame has a way of following us.

It doesn’t always announce itself loudly. Sometimes it quietly becomes part of the way we see ourselves…the stories we tell ourselves about our worth, what we deserve, and whether we are truly lovable.
And when we haven’t forgiven ourselves, those stories can begin making decisions for us.

We hide parts of ourselves.
We struggle with honesty, trust, and vulnerability.
We wear masks.
We accept things that don’t feel right because somewhere inside, we question whether we deserve better.
And sometimes the choices we make from that place create even more shame.

It becomes a cycle…

Shame becomes lack of self-love , which decides the choices we make that we aren’t proud of …then more shame.

Until something changes.

Maybe it happens intentionally, after doing the difficult work of looking inward. Maybe life brings us to a moment we never expected. But somehow, we begin to understand something we couldn’t understand before…

We are allowed to forgive ourselves.

Not because everything we’ve done was okay.
Not because our choices didn’t have consequences.
And not because we can rewrite the past.
But because we no longer have to spend the rest of our lives punishing ourselves for who we were while we were still learning how to become who we are.

And slowly, the masks come off.

We become more honest.
More vulnerable.
More willing to be seen.

We stop trying to convince everyone to understand or accept us. We begin trusting that the right people will love us as we are, and we find the courage to walk away from the people, places, patterns, and stories that no longer serve us.

That is freedom.

Self forgiveness doesn’t erase our past.

It allows us to stop living there.

And maybe today, we don’t have to love ourselves perfectly.

Maybe today, it’s enough to love ourselves just a little more than we did yesterday.

-Lisa ♥️
Rise and Renew Mindset Coaching

What might change in your life if you stopped believing that your past determines your worth?

08/23/2026

When was the last time you gave yourself permission to feel joy without asking your sadness to leave?

08/23/2026

Society has a lot to say about what grief is supposed to look like.
How long we should hurt.
How long we should cry.
When we should “move forward.”
When it’s okay to laugh again, travel again, celebrate again… live again.

But grief doesn’t follow a timeline, and it certainly doesn’t follow anyone else’s rules.

When we lose someone we love, life can change in an instant. The world we knew is suddenly different, and we are left learning how to exist in a world where someone who mattered deeply is no longer physically present.

And that process looks different for everyone.

Some people need to talk about their person constantly. Others grieve quietly. Some cry every day. Others don’t. Some need solitude, while others need to surround themselves with people. And sometimes the same person needs all of those things at different times.

You can also be grieving and still be living.

You can laugh while your heart is hurting.
You can take a vacation while missing someone terribly.
You can celebrate a birthday, dance at a wedding, fall in love, make new memories, and experience genuine happiness while still carrying grief.

One does not cancel out the other…

Enjoying your life does not mean you loved them less. Having a good day does not mean you’ve forgotten. And experiencing happiness after loss is not a betrayal of the person you lost.

Grief and joy can sit at the same table.

There may be days when grief feels overwhelming and days when it quietly exists somewhere in the background. There may even be moments when you realize you haven’t thought about your loss for a while…and that realization can bring its own complicated feelings.

None of it requires guilt.

Perhaps one of the kindest things we can do for someone who is grieving is to stop deciding what their grief should look like.

Don’t measure their love by their tears.
Don’t measure their healing by how quickly they return to living.
And don’t assume that because they’re smiling, they’re no longer grieving.

There is no single roadmap for loss.

Grieve in the way your heart needs to grieve. And when moments of joy find you, allow yourself to experience those too.

You are allowed to miss someone deeply and still love the life that remains.

Both can be true.

-Lisa♥️
Rise & Renew Mindset Coaching

08/12/2026

When did we learn to be so afraid?

This past weekend, I found myself holding a Burmese python, an alligator and a tarantula.
Not exactly something that was on my weekend agenda, and I wasn’t fearless… not even close to fearless.

But I WAS surrounded by children who were excited to hold them. They weren’t standing there thinking about everything that could go wrong. They weren’t analyzing the risk, imagining the worst case scenario, or talking themselves out of the experience before it even began.
They were CURIOUS!
Watching them made me think about how differently we move through the world as we get older.

Children aren’t born carrying all the fears we eventually collect. Over time, we hear…be careful, don’t do that, what if something happens, what will people think, you’re too old for that, that’s not for you.
Some fears protect us. But most were handed to us without our permission by parents, relationships, experiences, society, or simply years of becoming more cautious.
And without realizing it, we can begin building our lives around them

So I held the snake, alligator and big hairy spider…
Not because I suddenly became fearless, but because for a few minutes, I borrowed a little of that childlike curiosity and let it be louder than my fear.
And you know what? It felt good.

Maybe stepping outside our comfort zone doesn’t always have to mean making some huge, life changing decision.
Sometimes it’s simply giving ourselves permission to be curious again.
To try something new, to look or sound silly….
To stop asking “What if something goes wrong?” and occasionally ask “What if I actually enjoy this?”
We may not be able to return to the fearlessness of childhood.
But we can remember the child we once were…
The one who wanted to experience life before learning all the reasons to be afraid of it.

Sometimes renewing our mindset begins with letting that part of ourselves come out and play again.

What’s something you would try if you let curiosity be louder than fear?

Rise & Renew Mindset Coaching
- Lisa ♥️

08/02/2026

A shady tree. A quiet lake. Bare feet in the cool grass. A gentle breeze that seemed to slow everything down.
I cherish the moments when nothing needs my attention. I can just sit, breathe, and let nature remind me that peace isn’t something you find… it’s something you allow yourself to feel.
Maybe we could all use more moments like this… simple, quiet, and ENOUGH.

If peace had an address, where would you go to find it?
- Lisa ♥️