Finding Peace in the Storm

In this episode of the Giddy Up segment, Lesa shares personal reflections on finding inspiration during challenging times, especially through faith and mindset shifts. While on vacation in Arizona and feeling uninspired, she finds solace in physical action and connecting with God. The host discusses a recent personal experience of going through a diagnostic mammogram post-cancer treatment and shares how surrendering to God and mindset work have profoundly impacted the ability to handle hard situations. Emphasizing the importance of personal growth, the episode introduces upcoming projects including a book and new mindset courses aimed at helping others through their own difficulties. Practical advice is given on starting the day with God, practicing intermittent fasting, self-coaching, and exploring neuro-linguistic programming to rewire the brain. The episode ends on an encouraging note about self-care and the significance of using one's gifts to serve the world.

00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:28 Overcoming Lack of Inspiration

01:01 Redefining Success

01:32 Facing Hardships with Faith

02:13 Handling Diagnostic Mammograms

03:04 Embracing Supernatural Peace

04:18 Writing and Courses on Mindset

05:45 Personalized Approaches to Well-being

07:06 Mindset and Neuro-Linguistic Programming

07:57 Conclusion and Encouragement

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Episode Transcript

Speaker (00:00):
Welcome to the Giddy Up segment.
I'm thankful that you're here and Ihope you listened to Tuesday's episode.
It was kind of a quick, short one,but it was really inspirational to me.
I was on vacation in Arizona, waitingfor family to arrive and just enjoying

(00:21):
the quiet, and I had been on along hike, which is a way for me to
really connect with God, in fact.
It was interesting today.
We've got a bunch of snow and Iwas feeling kind of uninspired
and not super passionate and.
You know, I look at thatand I think, why is that?
Why is it that sometimesI just kind of drag?

(00:44):
And so I got up, I jumped a littlebit, I walked around the barn, I
moved my body and that seemed to help.
So I think sometimes, and now I'mdoing this recording and I think
sometimes taking action can help.
Um, so anyway.
That was inspiring.
It was about success and how I havechanged how I view success a lot

(01:09):
since I was younger and rather thanwhite knuckling it, I really want
to find my true calling and follow.
Follow that.
And, you know, I, I begin the dayin scripture and I turn to God and
I go, how can I serve you today?
And sometimes I forgettill later in the day.
And so, so then I'm backpedaling,but it, it has changed my life.

(01:32):
And what I want to share withyou is something hard that I
went through, um, just last weekand it was hard and it was good.
It was, me going to my.
First diagnostic mammogram sinceall my, um, you know, catching that

(01:55):
stage one cancer started and allthe things that I've been through.
And I do want you to know thatI am learning how to handle
hard things so much better.
And that's what I want to share with you.
One year ago, if I would have had tohave gone in for a diagnostic mammogram

(02:18):
after going through all the thingsthat I've gone through, you probably
would have had to sedate me this year.
I was able to, with the helpof surrendering my life to God,
I was able to kind of get ahandle on my mind and watch it.

(02:41):
And keep things clear.
And so I was a little nervous,but I was not as nervous as I
normally would have been, which.
You know, it makes sense.
It's kind of scary.
But, um, and I did, I cried a littlewhen it was good and, um, and it felt
good, but it wasn't, it wasn't obnoxious.

(03:04):
It was kind of like when I drove in tohave my surgery, I was so terrified,
but there was a supernatural peace.
People talk about this when theysurrender to God and I had that
again driving in to get this test.
And I told my husband, I don'twant you to come with me.
I, I can do this alone because I'mgoing to have to keep going in for

(03:27):
these, you know, every year for therest of my life, just like we all
have done up until this happened.
And, um, I didn't wantto go and I wasn't happy.
It was hard, but there was a peace there.
So it's so hard to describe, but that'swhat I call that super natural peace.

(03:48):
And the only reason I believe I gotthat was because of what I went through.
So listeners don't be afraidto go through hard things.
We all do.
And I don't want you tosuffer, but there is.
There is a certain amount of difficultiesthat we're going to go through.

(04:12):
I want to help you so that youcan handle the difficulties.
And so that's why I'm writing my book.
That's why I'm doing somenew courses on mindset.
I'm still doing mediations because I feelso drawn to serving and, um, I feel so

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strongly that that is a gift that I have.
So that is.
Probably, well, for right now, alwaysgoing to be a part of what I do, uh,
mediations and um, you know, eitherhelping people take one last ditch
effort to save their marriage oramicably divorcing if, if that's the
path that they, they choose to take.

(04:56):
So, um, but in addition to that.
I want to have some courses andthis book that are going to help
you get through something hard.
And I mean, they're here, herein a nutshell is what it is.
And I've talked aboutthis in past podcasts.
You can go back and listen.
I talk about mindset a lot.

(05:16):
It's huge.
It's big.
It is the number one stepbesides surrendering to God that
I took to get my mind right.
And I learned how todo it through coaching.
And then.
I started self coaching so that I couldreally, uh, do it every day and get
better and I don't do it every day.
I try to remember, but sometimes I getlost and when really big, scary things

(05:40):
happen, I got really lost and I hadto go on a little anxiety medication.
And so, There's a lot of tools outthere that we're going to need.
It's just that we're going toreally need to think through it and
pick the option that's best for usbecause we're all unique individuals.
And I feel like that's true of anything.
That's true of any medication orany plan or diet, anything that

(06:04):
you're doing, you are unique.
So you, it's up to you to figureout what works best for you and
what might work best for some.
may not work best for you.
For example, I do believe in intermittentfasting, but that only means that I
stop eating at dinner and I maybe don'tpick up eating until about 10 30 or 11.
Um, the next day, what doesn't workfor, for Lisa is to do long fast.

(06:30):
It raises my cortisol.
I get chubby, I gain weight.
So.
It's just interesting, butfor some people it works.
So I'd love to be able totell you exactly what to do.
I can share the tools that I knowof that you can start testing out.
And so I say, I start the day with God.

(06:52):
I kind of surrender that.
And then I do that mindset workand you can go back because these
are just little short segments.
You can go back and listen to that mindsetpodcast about how to get your mind right.
Another thing that I did was theJJ Flazain's core wounds course.
That is how I started really understandingwhat was going on in my head.

(07:16):
And then I've been doing neuro linguisticprogramming, which I haven't even dived
into, or dove into yet, but I will.
That is kind of rewiring your brainto change your beliefs, because even
though we all know, We should thinkof certain way and we know it's

(07:37):
sometimes silly or not serving us.
It's really hard to changethose neural pathways.
So that has been a huge piece.
That's the first step, um, forme to changing my life and to
changing how I felt walking into that diagnostic mammogram.
And so all is good.
Um, they tell me I'mcured, which is awesome.

(08:00):
And I'm so thankful.
Um, So if you're going throughsomething hard, go listen to that
mindset, start digging and take careof yourself because you, in order to
serve this world and to use the giftsthat God has given you, you got to
give yourself rest and care and love.

(08:23):
So you take good care.
Thanks so much for being here.