LISA TALEV
ABOUT LISA TALEV
As a life-long HSP and empath, I was driven by my personal experience overcoming overeating and living with complex illness and chronic pain. I became passionate about healing, life-long learning, and helping other women heal and thrive. I started my wellness journey in 1993 and became a massage therapist in 1998.
Massage was the first service I offered to clients when I opened my private practice in 2007. As a massage therapist, I studied my own bounce-back from chronic migraines and fibromyalgia, developed effective ways to treat pain, and shared my best techniques with clients to help them feel their best.
My dedication to self-care enabled me to manage a long list of my own symptoms and still maintain a 5-star rated practice since 2007. Job #1 was taking care of myself, and only then could I do job #2, helping clients. Always in my free time, I was learning more and deepening my understanding of holistic health and nutrition.
From 2010-2020, I grew my menu of services to include: Reiki energy healing, holistic health coaching, healthy cooking lessons, sound healing with tuning forks, brain health coaching and qigong & breathwork lessons. In 2020 I retired from massage therapy and went on sabbatical, focusing most of my energy and time on restoring my own health.
During the shutdown of 2020, while researching how to recover from toxic mold illness, I realized that the complex web of symptoms I'd been dealing with since childhood was not just mold, but also Lyme disease and co-infections. Lab tests confirmed that my decades-long "mystery symptoms" came from a combination of tick-borne infections, toxic mold and heavy metal poisoning. I decided to prioritize my own recovery, and reduced my work load to a small number of existing clients I could help part-time, while working my own health recovery program full-time. Now that it's 2026, I've made a lot of progress in my own healing journey, and am starting to emerge from my sabbatical.
Curious to learn more? Check out some of the insights and resources I share free of charge, on my YouTube channel. In addition to the videos I've uploaded, I also have a big collection of Playlists, featuring a variety of experts in their fields, like master meditation teachers, Lyme-literate doctors and trauma healing experts.
Ready to start the conversation? I have a strict NO SPAM policy. I welcome emails and inquiries from those interested in working with me, but my Contact form is intended only for prospective clients. Solicitors will be blocked and sales messages ignored.
Empowering Transformation
Scroll down to see my own before/after photos
(At University in 1994)
This snapshot from college shows what I looked like at the beginning of my healing journey, when I was a sugar-addicted, depressed, stressed out binge-eater. My anxiety and food cravings were made even worse following a low-fat/high carb diet. I also suffered with ADHD symptoms, but had not yet been diagnosed. I was unable to meditate or sit with my emotions, driven instead to overeat several times a day in an attempt to self-soothe.
My idea of exercise during this phase was, "the more the better." I was trapped in a vicious cycle of perfectionism, self-criticism, over-exercising and overeating. The harder I worked out, the more I overate, and the harder I tried to be perfect, the further I drifted away from my fitness goals...
AFTER
(2013 fitness photo of me by photographer Chuck Schmitz)
It took me many years of studying nutrition, fitness, brain health and energy healing for me to master working smarter, meditating daily and treating my body with more love and respect.
Ironically, when I let go of self-criticism and perfectionism, got rid of my scale, and focused on eating and exercising for brain health, I was able to get into the best shape of my life--and maintain that ultra-fit physique for many years with much less effort than my "before" era.
Now, in my early 50s, I'm still just as lean and muscularly defined as I was in this photo. I only do gentle exercises now, like walking, Pilates and qigong, and am able to maintain my physique through an anti-inflammatory, autoimmune friendly diet, intermittent fasting, daily detoxification and self-pampering.
It's my joy and honor to share my hard-earned wisdom and fitness secrets with you, so you don't have to learn the hard way! It's all about working smarter, being strategic and LOVING your body.