Emily: Lisa, I’m so happy you could join us today to talk about your course. You have a very inspiring and powerful healing story of how you came to this work. Could you share that with us?
Lisa: When I was 15, I got hit by lightning in the base of my spine, and I developed a fairly lifelong anoxic seizure disorder. By the time I was in my early 30s, I was flatlining, meaning my heart was stopping and my brain was shutting off. I had to be resuscitated. It was a mess, and you can bet my emotional states were very far from regulated.
I was reactionary. I was emotional. I was volatile. I was all of those things until I learned about neuroplasticity. It changed my entire life. It helped me rewire my seizures. I have been seizure-free for almost two decades. Neuroplasticity gave me back a sense of agency over my own emotional roller coasters.
Imagine if everyone has this agency over their emotions. The state of the world often seems imbalanced and dysregulated. My core mission and love of neuroplasticity has convinced me that there is a better way — a way where we can thrive even when life is outside of our own control. I feel like if we all had this natural well-being technology taught to us from an early age we could literally change the world. Perhaps the most radical thing we can do in a chaotic world is take agency over our own emotional well-being.
Emily: I know for many of us, life can feel overwhelming. Can you break down how this work in neuroplasticity actually translates into real, lasting emotional regulation? What's the core benefit people will walk away with?
Lisa: Absolutely. Think of neuroplasticity as your brain's incredible, natural ability to constantly adapt and learn. When our nervous system is caught in rigid, "fixed states" — which are often expressed as stress, overwhelm, and volatility — we lose that adaptive flow. Our course is a game changer because it teaches you simple, powerful daily practices to enhance your brain's neuroplasticity.
This fundamentally helps you regulate your emotions and manage stress better—they are two sides of the same equation. The ultimate benefit is building genuine, emotional intelligence and resilience. You will end this course feeling like you are firmly in the driver's seat of your own well-being. While you may feel an immediate calming effect from a single meditation, the deep work is viewing "calm" not as a fixed state, but as a resilient "home base" that you can return to again and again, even when life inevitably pulls you away.
Emily: How have you structured your course? What kinds of tools and practices do you teach?
Lisa: I’ve structured the course to make these concepts as simple as possible. And more importantly, I teach actual exercises so that you can start the daily practices right away. Concepts are nice, but practice is where the magic happens. Each section of the course will give you powerful but simple daily practices. I’ve loaded the course with both physical and mental practices so that you can choose what works best for you. I will walk you through meditations and give you breathing exercises for when you are in the fight-or-flight or freeze state.
You also will learn bottom-up practices like shaking or neurogenic to interrupt when things are escalating beyond your control. I also share top-down techniques to interrupt thoughts. You will use neuroplasticity to interrupt the momentum of a thought or feeling. If you don't interrupt that momentum, then those thoughts and feelings get reinforced, and they perpetuate. And the best part, the practices are easy to learn and don’t take a lot of time to perform.
In the final lesson, we create a weeklong plan for emotional regulation. With this plan, you will apply everything you've learned in this course but in a manageable, easy way, so you don't feel overwhelmed. I know that every time I take a course I want to apply everything, and then I feel overwhelmed because there is so much information. We're going to drill it down, and you will walk away with a solid, doable daily regimen to keep you regulated.
Emily: What kind of feedback have you received from people who have done this work?
Lisa: After just about 20 years teaching this and running a private practice, I’ve seen it all! We’ve used neuroplasticity work successfully with clients ranging from issues like anxiety and depression, memory and brain fog, chronic pain, inflammatory issues, emotional addictions, traumatic brain injury, stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, seizure disorder and/or general stress-related issues. I have yet to meet a human with a brain who cannot benefit in some way from neuroplasticity work.
