Hi, I’m Lizzie
Ever since I was a little girl I was determined to “save the world” which really meant save the animals. Growing older I explored more of the world’s ecosystems & cultures, I couldn’t help but realize everything is connected. In college, I studied plants in the classroom and the human body in my free time and continued to find parallel’s between them all! My heart is passionate about fostering connection between all beings. And I believe we can all start with our mind-body connection.
What if you develop such a connection to yourself that you could give it what you truly need on a physical & emotional level?
Imagine how your life would change by showing up as your authentic self for the people you love, your work, your health, and your creative projects if your light was shining bright!
This is possible. And it is my dream for us all to reconnect to our true light and shine it bright out into the world. We can all help to “save the world” together.
“Everything that Lizzie taught me was so helpful that I started implementing it in my life as a routine, and now feel so much smoother at them!!”
“I love the multi-dimensional way that Liz embodies food as medicine.”
“I feel more confident in my ability to make time for myself and prioritize my lifestyle choices over the everyday tasks I have to do for work or school!”
So you want the juicy details? this is my RAW REAL life story…
Like shared above I can remember being a young girl thinking to myself “I’m going to save the world” which at the time really meant being the superhero to save endangered animals. I was obsessed with big cats like tigers and cheetahs. For holiday presents I would ask for World Wildlife Fund donations to save them. I couldn’t bear to think these magnificent creatures were endangered due to our human influence.
I didn't know how I would “save the world”, I just knew that it was my path. I let it unfold in divine timing, so here we are! Throughout high school, I was blessed with experiences of traveling abroad, which opened the doors for me to follow my path.
I can close my eyes and be taken back to where it all really clicked…
Birds are chirping, running water plays like white noise in the distance, the wind swirls through the earthen molded outdoor classroom - feeling a bit sweaty, but oh so engaged in the lessons of permaculture, lessons on cultivating harmony within a human-designed ecosystem.
I’m a 17 year old listening to the wisdom being shared and wondering “Why the HECK is this not taught in school? Why are American farmers not practicing these methods? This makes SO much sense!”
The Costa Rican culture is very in touch with the land and their community. By capitalist standards they may not appear rich, yet they were rich in happiness. Ya I learned about plastic pollution and green energy in high school, but there were never conversations around intentionally connecting to the land and our food.
As I sat in the rainforest “classroom of life” a shift occurred, my mind was seeing the world in a whole new way. After over a week of being fully immersed in nature (the smell of my clothes sure could tell you that) I was dropping into a new sense of clarity in my life path. Lightbulbs were going off in my head and heart. A fire was reignited in my spirit, my little girl's dreams to save the world, was on my horizon clearer than ever before! AHA “If we don't have a connection to the Earth, which is a part of us, how can we ever expect to reach our highest potential?”
Disconnection from yourself, from your community, from nature is just like a monoculture field of corn. There’s just you, just corn...for miles and miles. As that corn you require help and lots of it!! For the corn it requires tons of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, genetic engineering to keep it alive in an environment so far from it’s natural ecosystem. For you this appears as laziness, eating mindlessly, overworking yourself to do “all the things”, sleeping all day, infinite social media scrolling, self-judgement and doubt, trying to control life by excessive planning and creating a million sticky note to-do lists…. If it’s just you for miles, you have no community or growth tools to support you, you will keep requiring the same inputs and achieving the same outputs, not getting any closer to your true path. This is called a bandage, or rather coping mechanisms.
Growing up I felt like no one understood me and I couldn’t communicate my truth. I had deep rooted limiting beliefs that “no one cares what I have to say” “my opinion doesn’t matter” “no one will understand me”.
But I knew I had magic to share with the world and I wasn’t going to let my fears win.
First semester in college was amazing. I threw myself into opportunities to grow my forest and my own branches. I dove into leadership roles, I applied with no experience. I entered these ecosystems before I believed I belonged. But that's exactly how I rewrote the belief of belonging. I belonged in this forest because I am here, I am contributing, and I am heard.
Middle of sophomore year I felt overwhelmed…
I knew it was time to let my freshman year leadership positions go, I knew I needed my time back for myself. I was feeling clouded, not clear on who I was and where I was headed. I did know something BIG needed to change.
So I took a leap and joined an online holistic living course with girls from around the country. I could feel my introverted fear creep up, but I showed up anyway! Through realigning with myself a passion project emerged: “Consciously Connecting” it was my blog! (brownie points if you remember) Within a few months I grew it to over 100 subscribers and was pumping out thought-provoking content and vegan recipes every single Monday!
My mom’s peers were telling me how insightful I was, my family drastically reduced their plastic and paper use, my cleaning lady switched to reusable water bottles, subscribers would reply “this is exactly what I needed to hear”, and I even had girls in da club tell me what an impact I had on their health journey. I saw in action how choosing to take responsibility in re-aligning with my truth impacted wayyy more than just my life, rather many!
Imagine if I let those limiting beliefs win. Imagine if I never took aligned action before I felt “ready”. You wouldn't be here reading this…
I jumped again too. My partner and I moved to Hawaii post-graduation despite the internal + external voices telling me “you should take a job with benefits” “it’s expensive to live on the island” “you haven’t even been to Hawaii before how do you know you will even like it….”.
listening intuitively to my Heart > Fear once more
There was no fear in my heart making this jump. Hawaii’s tropical environment reminds me of Costa Rica, which not only contains an external ecosystem of beautiful connection, but allows me to connect deeper with my true self, find my like-minded community, and receive inspiration from nature. This is the environment for me to thrive and bloom into my most abundant fruitful self.
What I wanted to bring into the world required all of me.
And now….
I want the world to feel trust in their ability to take the jump. Jump with me into the ecosystems of our internal and external world. Reconnect to your mind, body, and soul with nature as our teacher and me as your guide through the forest of life. You will learn how to model your life based on a thriving ecosystem. You can be sure to throw out the old models of how many of us grew up learning life organizational skills, such as with daily discipline, endless to-do lists, eating the same meal prep everyday, and the work hard, play hard mentality.
Aligned Life Academy is a self-discovery journey in which you cultivate mindfulness and intuition to design your best life and embody your authentic self everyday. Connection to your body, mind, soul, and nature will be the sun and the rain to grow your thriving ecosystem!
I want the world to have the tools and this holistic lens to view life so we can become our own healers and share our medicine with the world. Ultimately you inspire others by working on yourself…
I want to create a domino effect of reawakening the connection between us ALL.
What if you develop such a deep connection to yourself that you could respond to what you truly need on a physical & emotional level?
Imagine how you would show up in life for the people you love, your work, and your creative projects if you are supported by an ecosystem of like-minded people, strategies for daily success, and accountability from me along the whole journey!