Embracing Resilience and Radiance: Transforming Adversity into New Growth and Purpose

Navigating through loss and personal hardship can be transformative. Join me, Lisa Dorn, as I share an intimate look at a particularly challenging November, marked by the passing of my father from dementia and a work injury that left me with a broken wrist and fingers. These trials have reinforced the importance of resilience and forgiveness, urging us all to release past grievances and embrace the journey ahead. As I recount my experiences, including a pivotal three-day event that inspired new growth, you'll find encouragement to begin the week with a sense of purpose and gratitude.

This episode is about stepping into your power and recognizing the unstoppable force within you. We discuss the significance of self-belief and the process of unleashing your inner radiance as we set our sights toward 2025. With an empowering affirmation, "I am resilient, radiant, and worthy of a life filled with joy and purpose," I encourage you to let go of past burdens, forgive yourself with compassion, and step boldly into your future. Together, let's commit to authenticity and embark on a journey of fulfillment and purpose, embracing the challenges that shape us into who we are meant to be.  Affirmation:  I am resilient, radiant, and worthy of a life filled with joy and purpose.  I release the weight of the past, forgive myself with compassion, and step boldly into my future.  I trust the process, embrace growth, and know that every challenge I face is shaping me into the unstoppable force I am meant to be.

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Chapters

• 0:30 Healing Through Forgiveness and Transformation
• 24:49 Unleashing Inner Radiance and Resilience

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:30

Hello and welcome to another episode of Unleash your Inner Radiance. I am Lisa Dorn. I am your host of this amazing podcast where I empower women to live a life of balance, growth, purpose and whatever else you guys want, because I want everybody to live in gratitude, even though we all struggle with that right. So, find something that you're grateful for, three things. Write them down right now. That's a great thing to do. So, as I said before, I'm your host. I'm Lisa, I am your catalyst, life, wellness and transformation coach, and I am so honored to be here with you guys today and to have you here for another episode. It's just amazing, and this is the Monday Mindset episode, and I usually like to put this out at 5am. But, as I will tell you in this episode, my November has not gone the way it is supposed to, which is why there was no episodes, and I'm trying to start my December off better, but, of course, here we are on the 9th, so I'm not starting out too good. Anyway, um, this is the space where we are going to dig deep. We are gonna hopefully shift perspectives and, um, you know, let's just. I want to start the week off with intention. I will get better. This will get delivered to you on Monday mornings at about 5 am.

Speaker 1: 2:05

Right now, before we dive in, I really want to take a moment to reflect on the whirlwind of a November that I had, the whirlwind of emotions that really brought me to where I am today. I struggled with deep emotions around grief, around grief. I had moments of profound growth and I had moments of severe pain when I had a work comp injury at work which left me with a broken wrist and two broken fingers and a bruised bone in my shoulder. So it has definitely been. November was definitely a month of really high highs coming off the first part, and really low lows between my work comp injury and the death of my father. So it's you know. I lost my dad after a super long, hard decline with dementia. Dementia is a really sad, scary, hurtful, just a horrible disease. That's all I can say about it. It is a horrible disease. You don't know who you are, you don't know who anybody else is, you don't know where you are, what you're doing. It is just a very horrible disease and I just I'll talk a little bit more about that.

Speaker 1: 4:02

But the other thing that I did at the beginning of the month was. I attended the Empower you three-day event and I got to do a photo shoot, which is something I've never done before, so my next photo shoot might be better, but it was three days of transformation. Like you would not believe the transformation, and it just literally changed my life. And then things happened, right, because life happens and we need to figure out how to be resilient. And sometimes you're not resilient like you need to be, just because you're just not, and I, you know, I don't know, but through it all, I truly. It just really reminded me that life is so precious and your life can change at the snap of a finger. It can change that fast.

Speaker 1: 5:15

And I want to remind you guys how important forgiveness is, how important forgiveness is for not only the people who you need to forgive, but also for yourself. Now, in writing my chapter, I went back and relived some really hard times growing up, not as hard as some people had it, but hard in a different way, right, and at the end I needed to forgive my dad, needed to forgive myself, and so it's just really super important. And I do have a program digital program that is absolutely amazing, and if you want more information on that go to my website. You can sign up for it there, because I want you guys to make 2025 your best year ever. And going through my course around forgiveness, it takes you to a different mindset. It takes you to a different mindset. It takes you to a different healing place and it really makes you think and really makes you figure out who you are deep down inside. So you know forgiving yourself and others. It's just how you set yourself free. It's just how you set yourself free Because I've had to do a lot of forgiveness work myself, you know, with just generational stuff that I needed to forgive Forgiving my five-year-old self, forgiving my ex-husband.

Speaker 1: 7:11

I mean, there's just things that you have to forgive, right. But the biggest gift that you can, take that little dream that they have inside of them and make it something. Follow your dream, follow your heart, because in the face of life's challenges having kids, getting a job, doing all these things I think we forgot that when we were 10, we dreamed of something, and it might not be what you're doing right now and a lot of people are like, ah, you know, that was a dream I had when I was a kid. I can't do that now. I have kids, or I have this, or I have that I have to adult. Why can't your dream happen just because you're adult? Why can't it? Why can't it? So I want to thank you for joining me on this journey. So let's begin.

Speaker 1: 8:38

So, like I talked about a little bit, november was one of the hardest months I've experienced in a long time Between life. Happening, losing my father brought a wave of emotions that I really truly didn't think I would experience. It's been a tough struggle for two years, with him having dementia and him declining, and he qualified for hospice about two weeks before he passed away. So we put him there and I really struggled with. I'm happy that he's at peace now, but I wasn't ready to let him go. So I've really struggled really deep in myself. Um, it's just, it's just. His passing made me reflect really deeply on the love and the lessons that he taught me, and even the unfinished conversations that we never really had or we didn't get to share, never really had or we didn't get to share, and it reminded me how absolutely precious and fragile life is and how forgiveness can become the gateway to healing, not just for you, not just for others, but it's a way to heal your heart.

Speaker 1: 10:33

The day, the Wednesday before my dad passed away, I was able to. I was able to spend a glorious five hours with him. He was um, he was thankful. We watched Hallmark channel, we talked about Navy, we talked about my mom, who passed away in 2017. We talked about his family, we talked about his granddaughters, and it truly was just something I wanted to hold on to for so ever, and I, I think back now, I am so incredibly blessed to have that day.

Speaker 1: 11:31

Um, he told me he loved me. Um, which is not something he shared very often, right? Um, that he was proud of me, and getting to hear those words from him just healed my heart in a way. I can't explain. But it still was hard, and I didn't expect him to go that fast. And I didn't expect him to go that fast, and part of me was it went fast, but part of me it wasn't fast, because he's been struggling with this for almost two years, so it wasn't really fast, but he's no longer in pain. He's no longer struggling with who he is, with who I am, because he didn't know who I was for probably the last two months on and off, so it just I don't know it was hard, harder than I thought, and I, yeah, it was a. It's a journey still, but he's in a better place and I know that and I love him and he's in my heart.

Speaker 1: 13:00

So at the beginning of the month, beginning of the month, I got to attend an empower you event in Chicago and I have to say that was probably one of the most transformative weekends that I've ever had. It was, it was mind blowing, what I learned about myself and then life happened and then what I learned about myself kind of got put on the wayside. So I'm back. I am back to make this podcast episode absolutely unstoppable and I can't wait for you guys to follow me on this journey. So I want to talk about how important it is to find a community of people to help you up level right, to help you become the best version of yourself. Now that could be through a coach, that could be through a women's empowerment group, that could be through just talking to executives at work, right, it can be at so many different things. It could be reading.

Speaker 1: 14:14

I know that life changes so fast and what I learned at that Empower you event is life is full of challenges and those challenges are stepping stones. So for a long time I didn't think of the challenges as being stepping stones. Sorry, they were just that challenges. They were just that challenges, sorry, oh my goodness, they were just challenges to me and it was like, why do these things keep happening to me? But what I realized at that empower you event is those challenges brought me to where I am going today, because I learned that those challenges were literally stepping stones. Those challenges were. I experienced this so I can help you get through it faster. I experienced this so I understand what you are going through and I can Help you get through it, because my dad does not want me to do this podcast episode because I'm a little choked up right now and I'm sorry and try not to be choked up. I thought I would do better. So, anyway, it reignited in me um, now I'm just thinking of my dad too much. It reunited in me my belief of what is absolutely possible for me.

Speaker 1: 18:24

Becoming unstoppable doesn't mean you won't face setbacks, because clearly I faced setback after setback after setback just in one month, right, it means that you need to lean into the hard. You need to lean into the hard moments and you need to forgive yourself for what you think you should have done, for what you think you should have said or how you should have said it, or that you should have said it. You need to forgive yourself for all of those things. Take it from me, because I've had a lot of those thoughts this week about things I should have said to my dad or things I should have done with my dad. I've had all those emotions. It's about finding the courage to keep going. If I would have done this podcast episode two weeks ago, I would have probably lost it. I'm trying hard not to lose it, but it's about embracing your self-worth and accepting it, even if it feels super messy and uncertain. Even if it feels super messy and uncertain.

Speaker 1: 20:05

So this week, I want to invite you to reflect on what might be holding you back, because I had excuses for what held me back all these years and I now realize that those are just lessons to put me in the position that I am right now. So what are your lessons that put you in your position that you're in right now? Because I want you to know that you are exactly where you're in right now, because I want you to know that you are exactly where you're supposed to be at this moment in time. So what are we going to do? How are we going to move forward? So this week, I really want you to reflect on that.

Speaker 1: 20:52

Reflect on what's holding you back. Is it holding you back in a job? Is it holding back in your marriage? Is it holding back in your family? What's holding you back? Are there wounds from the past that need healing? Are you holding on to anger or guilt or perfectionism, happy to know everything before you do anything? That would be me, um, or just anything that doesn't serve you anymore. So I have a course that will walk you through. It's a digital course. You can go at your own pace. Plus, we have meetings. I'm here for you to answer any questions. Go to my website at changeyourlifewithlisacom and check out the course, because it will change your life, um, and you deserve it. You deserve to forgive yourself. Give yourself that, so that 2025 is your best year ever.

Speaker 1: 22:21

I want to thank you so incredibly much for joining me today. I'm sorry that I got choked up. I'm sorry that I started coughing. Sorry that I got choked up. I'm sorry that I started coughing, but I'm so excited to continue on this journey with you to grow my podcast and I am so excited about the guests that I've got coming on in the near future January and February, february and March are going to be absolutely amazing, and that is when I'll have my 30 Thursday episodes also. So, um, don't forget, um that if this episode spoke to your heart, I would absolutely love to hear from you. You can go on my website and leave me a message. You can comment and rate any of these episodes wherever you listen, whether it's a moment of reflection or maybe a step that you're ready to take. I would love for you to share that with me on social media. Leave a review, like I said, wherever you're listening. And don't forget Unstoppable 4, the powerhouse edition, which I was asked to read a chapter in, oddly enough, is available on Kindle If you'd like to read it on Kindle, or if you'd like a hard copy. I have a whole box of them in my office and I would absolutely love for you to order one off my website and I will ship it to you so that you get on my list.

Speaker 1: 24:09

So I just want you to remember that life is a series of chapters. Actually, a month of your life can be a series of chapters. Actually, some of them are filled with joy, some of them not so much. Others a lot of pain, but every chapter really shapes you into who you're becoming, and I know that with my dad's passing, there's a huge weight lifted off my shoulders because I was his main caregiver, um.

Speaker 1: 24:49

But I want you to remember that becoming unstoppable starts with you believing in yourself. Do you believe in yourself? It's believing in your own self-worth. It's embracing your forgiveness and taking that first step towards your dreams, and I want that for you. I want you to take that first step towards your dreams. That's what we're going to do in 2025. So I want you to remember that you are radiant, resilient and so much more capable than you realize, and I'm going to leave you with this affirmation I am resilient, radiant and worthy of a life filled with joy and purpose. I release the weight of the past, I forgive myself with compassion and step boldly into my future. I trust the process. I embrace growth, because that is a lot of fun, and I know that every challenge I face is shaping me into the unstoppable force that I am meant to be. That is your affirmation for today. I will put it in the show notes. Until next time, stay true to yourself. Until next time, stay true to yourself, embrace the journey and unleash your inner radiance. Have an absolutely beautiful week.