Hello!
I am a Certified Recovery and Life Coach. I am the Executive Director of a trauma-informed Recovery Center in Vermont. I am a mother to three young adults, all each on independent and secure paths right now. I am someone who has done and continues to do extensive healing and work on myself. I help people transform their lives, including my own, every single day. Every day you have a choice to move yourself forward, or not. Let’s move forward.
If you are looking for guidance with your business, looking at efficiencies, systemic breaks, ways to improve culture or profitability, I can help. I prefer to work with larger businesses or systems, I am skilled at understanding how to reduce redundancies and therefore improve workflow, collaboration, staff culture and overall business health. If you are looking to bring a positive inspirational speaker to your business or institution, I will come in and offer a direct, real, serious and life-changing hour for your staff or students.
I am not taking any new clients for one-on-one life-coaching currently, though please reach out to me to be put on the waitlist. In the meantime, I suggest you read the books I have written. They are the best jumpstart you can immediately give yourself. If you are ready to take a deeper dive into your healing, working with me will transform your life and help you set and accomplish your goals. I offer coaching for the specific purpose of reconstructing your life and developing tools to help you overcome what has held you back. We work through my book and study the concepts of attachment theory, healing the inner child, and the important connection of polyvagal, nervous system healing to overall emotional and mental health.
If you or a loved one is struggling with addiction, please reach out to Journey to Recovery Community Center either on Facebook, or call (802) 624-4156 or visit www.jtr-cc.org. Lila does offer Keynote speaking through Journey for addiction-related addresses.
My Story
I am here to help you find your strength, take next steps forward in your personal life or to evaluate how to improve your business.
One client recently wrote that “‘Break UP’ is a distillation of about 20 classic books and a whole host of spiritual teachings. It’s literally like the Cliff Notes to 20 years of study and learning. It’s fearless and incredibly authentic.” (Michael Stewart- Annapolis, MD)
After my divorce in 2016, I began researching trauma, attachment, and polyvagal theory, healing myself, and transforming my life. I became a Certified Recovery Coach and a Certified Life Coach and accepted the position of Executive Director of a Recovery Center which is my full-time career. This is a complex organization that requires me to be a strong and organized leader, and to apply attention to every detail from personnel to finance.
As I grew in my role and healing, I put together a simple a step-by-step guide for people who are trying to understand toxic relationships, understand unhealthy patterns of behavior, and learn how to stop repeating the same painful cycles in life. I wrote this book because I wanted to detail the actions I took to heal my childhood trauma, my relationship trauma, and my dysfunctional patterns of behavior. I put these steps in one easy-to-read place so you can transform your life too. As a single working mom with a lot to manage, I created a concise and clear roadmap for you to follow.
The next book I wrote is specific to substance use, and is also a workbook style, so you can make it your own. For the past three years, I have been working on the frontlines helping people at the very darkest bottom of addiction. For most of my life I have been surrounded by addiction- hence my (former) wildly codependent and people-pleasing tendencies. Healing from codependency is something that is JUST has hard as healing from any other dysfunctional pattern of behavior. This book is a compilation of everything that actually works for those in the throes of addiction. It is also a simple guide that will give a codependent loved one a glimpse into the world of someone deep in addiction. This is a manual based on real-time techniques that WORK. This book works; it is proven, we use it every day for all different kinds of people with all different kinds of addictions. If you are ready to understand what drives you back to that substance over and over again, buy this book and get the relief you have been so desperately searching for. This will help you. Get the book and follow the guidance. It is a workbook, so this roadmap will become yours. The beauty of it, is that no two paths are the same. This workbook allows for that. If you want to stop drinking or using, if you need help, buy this book and get a little help.
