Today we’d like to introduce you to Lisa Collins.
Hi Lisa, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
For most of my life, I believed my purpose was to care for other people. As a Registered Nurse, that’s exactly what I did for more than a decade.
Then life unraveled.
Not all at once, but piece by piece.
I found myself facing challenges I never imagined, both personally and professionally. There were moments I questioned everything… my career, my identity, and the direction my life was taking.
One day, I realized I had a choice.
I could spend my life asking, “Why is this happening to me?”
Or I could ask, “What is this trying to teach me?”
That one question changed everything.
It led me to create The Journey Home by L Collins, not because I had all the answers, but because I realized so many of us are searching for the same thing. We spend our lives looking for peace somewhere outside ourselves, when it has been waiting within us all along.
Today, I write, speak, and create experiences that encourage people to pause, breathe, and see life through a different lens. My nursing career taught me how to care for the body. My own journey taught me how powerful it can be to care for the heart, the mind, and the spirit too.
I don’t believe life has to be perfect for us to feel at peace.
I believe we’re all on a journey home to ourselves.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
No, it has not been a smooth road.
I have dealt with health struggles for much of my life, often without fully understanding why certain things felt harder for me than they seemed to for everyone else. I was not diagnosed with ADHD, Lyme disease and Bartonella until I became a parent and began recognizing the same patterns in my children. The diagnosis helped me understand myself, but it also brought grief for the younger version of me who spent years believing she was simply too sensitive, too scattered, too dramatic, or not trying hard enough.
I have also spent much of my life in relationships shaped by narcissistic patterns. I became very good at reading the room, keeping the peace, caring for everyone else, and questioning my own instincts. Learning to trust myself again has been one of the hardest and most important parts of my journey.
For more than a decade, I worked as a school nurse and built much of my identity around helping others. Then several parts of my life began changing at once. I experienced my own unexplained illness, became the primary support for my daughter during a serious mental health crisis, exhausted my family leave, faced unexpected conflict and loss within my career, and eventually walked away from a position I had devoted years of my life to. At the same time, my marriage was changing, my family life felt uncertain, and I was trying to figure out how to create stability for my daughters while rebuilding my own life.
There were moments when I felt misunderstood, dismissed, and reduced to someone else’s version of my story. I had to learn that constantly explaining myself would never create peace. I had to stop looking outside of myself for permission to trust what I knew, what I felt, and what I needed.
Those experiences became the foundation of The Journey Home.
I began shifting from asking, “Why is this happening to me?” to asking, “What can I learn from this, and what can I create from it?” I learned to alchemize stress rather than letting it consume me. That does not mean I never struggle. It means I have learned how to pause, regulate, change my perspective, and return to myself.
My road has included illness, late diagnosis, motherhood, neurodivergence, caregiving, personal loss, professional loss, family conflict, and the unraveling of identities I once believed defined me; however, it has also led me to become an author, create a new path, and help others recognize that they do not need to be fixed.
Sometimes healing is not becoming someone new.
Sometimes it is finally coming home to who you were before the world taught you to doubt yourself.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I spent more than 13 years as a Registered Nurse, and that experience shaped everything I create today. Nursing taught me how to care for people in their most vulnerable moments, but it also taught me that healing extends far beyond medicine.
Today, I am the founder of The Journey Home by L Collins, where I combine my background in healthcare, my experience as an author, and my passion for personal growth to help people reconnect with themselves. Through writing, speaking, intuitive guidance, workshops, and immersive experiences, I encourage others to shift their perspective, regulate their nervous system, and discover peace even when life feels uncertain.
I have written books that explore family history, resilience, and self-discovery because I believe stories have the power to heal. I also create daily messages and content that invite people to pause, reflect, and see life differently. Whether someone spends five minutes reading a message or an hour in conversation with me, my hope is that they leave feeling lighter than when they arrived.
What sets my work apart is that it isn’t built on theory. It was born from lived experience. Every challenge I have faced has shaped the way I connect with others. I don’t believe people need to be “fixed.” I believe they need a safe space to remember who they are beneath the expectations, fear, and noise of everyday life.
The work I’m most proud of isn’t a single book or project. It’s hearing someone say, “I finally see things differently,” or “For the first time in a long time, I feel at peace.” If I can help even one person find their way back to themselves, then I’ve accomplished exactly what I set out to do.
We’d love to hear about any fond memories you have from when you were growing up?
My favorite childhood memories are the simple ones. I grew up in a rowhome in Northeast Philadelphia, where life happened outside. If I wanted my neighbor to come out and play, I’d knock a special pattern on the wall, and they knew exactly what it meant.
We’d spend hours outside playing games like Buck Buck, Freedom, and ball in the driveway. The neighborhood was full of kids, and no one needed a text message or a schedule. We just showed up. The only rule was that when the streetlights came on, it was time to head home.
Looking back, what I miss most isn’t just the games. It’s the sense of community. We knew our neighbors. We looked out for one another. We laughed, imagined, and created memories without realizing how special they were.
I think those experiences shaped who I am today. They taught me the value of connection, curiosity, and finding joy in life’s simplest moments. That’s something I still try to bring into everything I create.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://thejourneyhomebylcollins.com
- Instagram: @thejourneyhomebylcollins
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