70 - Lisa Tucker, how my coping strategy became the basis for my business.

Lisa went through a lot as a child.

Her childhood was thwarted by an abusive step parent which resulted in her moving in with her dad. She was happy living with her father but it did mean she had to grow up quickly and of course being a girl some topics were a little more difficult to discuss with him.  

Very sadly Lisa’s little sister Zara suffered a brain haemorrhage when she was only 4 years old and Lisa was 10. She remembers how scary it was to see her in intensive care.

Thankfully Zara survived but she would never be the same little girl again. Lisa became aware of people staring in the street when her sister was out in her special wheelchair; all she wanted to do was protect her sister.

Sadly Zara passed away when she was 10 years old, for Lisa this was like losing her again, she had to cope with the grief and loss just as she was about to take her GCSE’s.  

In her 20’s Lisa was involved in a terrible Jet-Ski accident that she was lucky to survive. She had to endure many painful operations and learn to walk again with long stints in plaster.  

Eventually everything came to a head as an accumulation of the traumatic childhood, losing her sister twice essentially, the accident and twinned with some failed and abusive relationships. Lisa did not leave her flat for 3 months. She was given a lot of labels for her symptoms during that time and she has tried a lot of different therapies since.
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The thing Lisa noticed about herself was that her coping strategy up until that point was to always be helping  others.  Having dealt with her own pain, anxiety and depression with various treatments she decided to train a Holistic Therapist, she is a Reiki healer, who also teaches mindfulness and does Emotional Freedom Therapy as well as Tarot and Angel card readings
 
https://araztherapy.weebly.com