From Hiding to Healing: How to Let Go of Perfectionism and Learn to Like Yourself with Lisa Crozier

Welcome to The Uplifters Podcast. Today, you’ll meet Lisa Crozier, who is introduced by Marci Walker, her “Late In Life Best Friend” (a term I learned from my new friends over at Red Bird House).

You know that old game where you introduce yourself by using a descriptor that starts with the first letter of your name? There’s no question what Lisa’s descriptor would be. She is Love.

As you look at Lisa you’ll see a woman with hair sculpted in blond waves, a beauty queen’s smile, always dressed to the nines. A woman who spends her days lovingly caring for her husband, children, grandchildren, recovery sponsees, church community, and clients. It’s easy to imagine that she’s perfect. But, letting go of “perfect” is exactly how Lisa went from an inferiority complex to true self-love, from hiding to healing, and found self-acceptance.

Like so many of us, it’s the challenges she’s faced: an abusive childhood, mental and physical health issues, and alcoholism that have taught her the most, but it’s love that gives her purpose. 

In this conversation, you’ll hear what Lisa has learned in her journey to becoming someone she really likes:

• How sometimes we can get so low that picking ourselves up by the bootstraps is no longer an option

• How hitting rock bottom broke her open and allowed her to finally ask for and receive support

• How generational traumas can help us and hinder us (and sometimes do both at the same time)

• How ego is the biggest block to love and intimacy with ourselves and others

• How ego is sometimes a mask for an inferiority complex and what to do about it

• How Lisa takes care of herself while taking care of so many other people

I can’t stop thinking about this episode. I hope you enjoy it and share it with the women in your life who do so much for so many others. Head over to www.theuplifterspodcast for a transcript of this episode and conversation with The Uplifters