Turn The Lens Inward

In this solo episode, I’m sharing a moment I witnessed at Canada’s Wonderland that deeply impacted me and prompted me to reflect on my own parenting journey. Watching a young child in obvious emotional distress made me ask some difficult questions—not only about what I was seeing, but about the ways many of us, often without realizing it, respond to our children when they’re struggling. As I share...

In this episode, I’m joined by coach, mentor, and intuitive guide Cassie Collister for a heartfelt conversation about grief, healing, and what it means to support our children through life’s hardest moments. After experiencing the devastating loss of her grandson, Cassie began a deep journey of personal growth and healing that ultimately led her to leave the corporate world and step into her work...

In this solo episode of Turn the Lens Inward, I open up about my relationship with alcohol, emotional escape, and the realization that I spent much of my adult life connecting substances with joy, freedom, and relief from stress. I reflect on growing up feeling emotionally isolated, discovering drinking as a teenager, and how survival mode quietly became my normal. As my daughter faced her own men...

In this episode of Turn the Lens Inward , I sit down with Claudine Pereira, also known as The Pink Coach, a leadership coach, bestselling author, and entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in financial services and leadership development. Together, we have an honest and emotional conversation about what it’s like to support a child through a serious mental health crisis. Claudine shares her...

In this episode of Turn the Lens Inward, I share a time in my life when everything felt overwhelming—financial stress, supporting my daughter through her mental health struggles, and trying to carry it all on my own. The pressure became so intense that it affected my body, leaving me in a constant state of anxiety where I could barely breathe. I open up about the moment things began to shift and h...

In this episode of Turn the Lens Inward , I share why the traditional path of getting a job wasn’t working for my daughter and how that led us to start a cleaning business together. With her struggles around anxiety and overstimulation, I realized we needed to stop forcing a system that didn’t support her and instead create a path that allowed her to thrive. This episode is an invitation to rethin...

Sign up for The Sash Bear Walk → https://sashbear.akaraisin.com/ui/SW2026/p/4b3627b67cf84f0fa157f41826196dcd In this episode of Turn the Lens Inward , I’m joined by my very first guest, Sheila Marina, for a deeply meaningful conversation about parenting through emotional dysregulation and finding your way back to yourself. Sheila shares her personal journey raising a son with complex challenges, t...

In this episode of Turn the Lens Inward , I share my journey with dating during a really challenging season of life as a single mom supporting a child through mental health struggles. I open up about the relationships I chose, the red flags I ignored, and how my lack of emotional availability impacted what I attracted. Even though I wanted connection, I wasn’t truly ready for it—and that showed. O...

In this episode of Turn the Lens Inward, I talk about one of the hardest things we can do in life: change. We often hear that people don’t change, but I believe they can. The challenge is that real change requires us to look at ourselves first. When my relationship with my daughter reached a breaking point, I realized that if anything was going to shift in our family dynamic, it had to start with...

In this episode, I take you back to January 2021 — living in my parents’ basement during the pandemic, supporting my mother through stage four lung cancer, and struggling deeply in my relationship with my daughter. I made a choice that felt selfish at the time: I left for three months to pet sit 40 minutes away. That space became transformational. During that season, I committed to personal growth...

In this episode, I’m speaking directly to the parent who is quietly struggling while their teen or adult child is in crisis. Whether it’s mental illness, self-harm, substance use, dropping out of school, or emotional instability, I know how heavy this can feel. We talk about the guilt, shame, exhaustion, and overwhelm that often go unspoken. I share my own experience navigating this season of life...

Welcome to the very first episode of Turn the Lens Inward . I’m Lisa Taylor, and in this episode I share why I felt called to create this podcast and who it’s truly for. I open up about my journey as a mother, a professional, and a woman who once felt completely overwhelmed by her relationship with her teenage daughter. I talk honestly about divorce, emotional dysregulation, mental health diagnose...