#175 How to Heal Your Life: Beyond Success to True Fulfilment

What if the life you worked so hard to build is the very thing that needs healing?

From the outside, Larisa Vakulina’s life looked ideal: a multi-award-winning businesswoman, global traveller, devoted mother and grandmother. Inside, she was exhausted, disconnected, and running on empty. A serious health crisis became the moment she could no longer ignore the truth.

In this deeply compassionate episode of Healing Through Love, Larisa shares how she healed her life without burning everything down. She explains why many women silently carry burnout, emotional disconnection, and self-abandonment behind outward success, and how the body often becomes the messenger when the soul is ignored.

Larisa walks through the exact multidimensional process she used to reclaim vitality and rebuild her life from the inside out. This is the same approach that has helped hundreds of women heal burnout, restore clarity, and experience inner peace without abandoning their responsibilities or identities.

You’ll learn how to recognise subtle signs of burnout, why healing is about integration rather than fixing yourself, and how aligning physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual intelligence supports true self-leadership.

This episode is for women who have done everything right, yet feel tired, disconnected, or unseen. It’s an invitation to step out of survival mode and into a life led with presence, purpose, and love.

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Transcript

Intro | 00:00
The Healing Through Love podcast with Sharlene Lynch and Rose Davidson. 

 Sharlene | 00:08
Welcome to the Healing Through Love podcast. I'm Sharlene Lynch and together we're shining a light on hope, resilience, transformation in the journey to end domestic violence. Each week we bring you inspiring interviews with changemakers, survivors, advocates and experts who are making a difference in the lives of those affected by domestic and family violence. Whether you're on a healing journey yourself or you're supporting someone who is, This is the space for powerful stories, practical tools and heartfelt inspiration. Let's heal through love. I'm very excited today. One of my personal favorites, we have Larisa in the room. She is a multi-dimensional we've got to unpack that, she's a multi-dimensional leader, a visionary futurist and a catalyst for conscious success. Let's dive in and find out what that's about. She's the healer and founder of the Askara Sanctuary here in South Australia. One of my favorite places to visit. I've been there for soul retreats and couples retreats and I send my clients there for their retreats as well. I love the space and we're going to find out more about why the space, why the land is so special. She's a former award-winning businesswoman with an MBA from Harvard Education and Larisa has transformed her own life after overcoming personal challenges, traumas and terminal health challenges. Larisa, it's so great to have you in the room. Thank you so much for joining us today. 

 Larisa | 01:42
Thank you so much, Sharlene. I'm so happy to be here and thank you for inviting me to this beautiful container that we can basically just share our own challenges and stories and wins so that people can see that we all the same. We all trying to live our life the best way we can and heal ourselves and help others. 

 Sharlene | 02:09
I love it. I love it. Larisa, you are no stranger to trauma and it's come in many forms. Is it okay if we talk about childhood trauma? Because that's going to be really relevant for many of our listeners today and how childhood trauma, how it shapes our decisions moving forward. Can we talk about that? 

 Larisa | 02:30
Absolutely. Well, for a long time, I didn't understand or didn't even know, it didn't come to my mind that all that we live in our adult life is reflection of that first seven years of our childhood. And this really, the imprints of what we get in this period of time are basically become driver of our adult life. And for me personally, I realized that only when I went to healing school and when we start to dive deeper into the landscape of our unconscious level, I remembered and I realized that this traumatic event that happened in my very early age life completely was, it was driving my life. All the decisions, all the protective, defensive, all the reactions that I was living through and suffering through was basically from that moment of the trauma. And only later I realized what happened was that I was about three or four years old and I witnessed a violent attack of my father on mom. And it was kind of really rough, raw beating, I guess. That was blood. And all of this violence was for a child of four years old was such a traumatic event. And I remembered through healing later that in my mind in that moment there's a two concepts fall into this concept or into the belief that I then lived through my life that very painful limited belief I formed in that moment the father figure the figure of man I completely collapsed in my mind and I decided that all men are violent and I don't trust them ever. No man in my life that I trust, right? Imagine this type of limited belief. Then I looked at my mom and of course, this is a figure of mother figure and it's a woman figure. That is victim and she didn't have any strength to protect herself. She didn't have any emotional, physical or any kind of resistance to this force. And in that moment I formed another belief that I don't respect weak women. I decided that I'm not going to be a weak person, woman. I'm going to be strong. I'm going to protect myself. I'm not going to allow myself to be in a situation where that would be repeating in my life. And imagine these two beliefs formed in a child. 
 So I don't trust men and I don't respect women. And imagine living with these two beliefs deeply embedded and deeply imprinted into the child consciousness. 
 So when I become, you know, adult, I was living from these beliefs. I was longing for connection. I was longing to be deeply connected to a man, to women around me. But I couldn't because this belief was always having reactions or defenses or this type of wall. That I hold within, I don't trust men, I don't respect women. And that's how I always felt lonely in my life. I always felt that I'm somehow not right. I'm not enough. I'm not good. And the only way for me to compensate this luck, I was super successful. 
 So I was driving myself to make money, develop business, develop all of this success, which I thought through success then I can connect with people. Which didn't work because it is still on the surface. It's not that it is from genuine intention to have success from the heart and doing something from the heart. 
 So intention was twisted by this erroneous beliefs that been sitting from the childhood.

 Sharlene | 07:32
I Love it. I love it. You're speaking my language. I'm curious, as an adult, how do we know that we've got these limiting beliefs that are affecting our lives right now? 
 So what results are we getting that we might be connected to limiting beliefs and stories that have hold us in these patterns? Talk to me. 

 Larisa | 07:53
Okay, well, basically, it's really kind of simple, but it's not so simple when we look at it with our own personal experiences. So we all hear and know that it is a mirror concept, right? We all know. How do we know that we are not living from our authentic true self is that We look at external experiences of our life. If we have challenging relationships, if we have conflicts, if we have reactions, if we have any sort of luck within the relationship area or any luck within our professional life, well then it tells us that we're living from some kind of deep misalignment in deep negative or distorted imprints that we experienced in our early life. That's how we can tell. 

 Sharlene | 08:55
Okay, so I'm an adult and I've got these patterns of behavior that are not serving me, but I don't know where they're coming from. I come and see you. 
 And then I'm able to move forward. I love this. 
 So this is what happened to you when you were young. And then this is not the only trauma, though, that you've had to face. And for many of us that are listening today, this trauma of ill health is something that has affected many of us. 
 So can you walk us through what happened in that space? It would be great to. 

 Larisa | 09:31
Know. Yeah. 
 Well, as we know, everything is connected, right? When we start from that childhood, time. And when I made decision based on that limited Perception of myself and perception of men for men, women, and basically almost like I blocked the whole experience of human can have. And when I blocked the whole experience, the fullness of this life, the fullness of what life is offering through the richest area of relationships, because we live in a relational reality, I was basically missing it all. I was like a... A, almost like a robot, you know, separated myself from all the relational experiences through that trauma. And of course, even though I was very successful, I built the businesses, I did all of this, the lack of that the lack of fulfillment, the lack of being connected, the lack of truly sharing myself with someone created, of course, a disbalance in body. And biology is sitting and the base of our physical body is our multidimensional levels of energy. This is the field that we are sitting in. And energy is penetrating us. And when we have this limited perception of life and ourselves and others, of course, our energy field is in constant tension. It's like there's a block, there's a lack of fluidity in the movement of energy. And these time capsules, that time capsule when I created at three years old, was constantly in the only way for me to express myself and to let others to be connected with me and expressing themselves. And once I would accumulate these experiences and say myself, well, yes, I'm doing my best. I am successful, but I still cannot connect. 
 Well, then I'm not enough. I'm not enough. Each experience of not being connected to a man or woman I always put it back on myself and blame like I'm not good enough. What else I can do to connect to people without realizing that this time capsule that was created at three years old, getting bigger, the tension getting harder and all of this created then like an explosion. And for me, it's become breast cancer. 

 Sharlene | 12:35
Okay, so the body absolutely holds the score. Yes. And this diagnosis, this is the body screaming. Yes, but for our audience today, they might not be having the scream. They might be having the quiet whispers that there's something wrong. What do those physical manifestations look like that are quiet whispers that will, if not attended to, elevate to that loud scream? 

 Larisa | 13:00
Absolutely. I mean, we all started with a little science, as little as a simple tiredness. A simple, more than tiredness a little bit sometimes, and a simple pushing. 
 Like when we force something to do, when we force to go and do something, but we really feel tiredness, the body is telling us, like, I can't. Like everything when we do through the force, it's the first sign to say, okay, well, what is this that my body is not really allowing me to do with everything? Effortlessly, with ease. 
 So this is really first signs. And most of us, we just ignore it. We have the logical override of these feelings, sensations, and we just go. 
 And then, well, the next one gonna be exhaustion. Then we take holiday. We go somewhere to, you know, warm places. We spend three days thinking that's it. I now can, you know, go back and be okay. 
 So we assume that this tiredness, exhaustion going to be healed by going somewhere for holiday for three days. It's not like that. 
 Well, then there's a burnout. Then there's depression. Then this panic attacks then this all of these things and then Finally, the body would scream really loudly, either with heart attacks, diabetes, explosion of different allergies, or the cancer. All of that then will be almost like a screaming, like, what are you living? 

 Sharlene | 14:48
Yes, on every level. So Larisa speaks to your body when it's still at a whisper. And so then you can identify where is this coming from? And it helps you get connected and get to the core of what it is. I've had several sessions with Larisa. I loved them. I think if you can imagine Reiki is like a massage, I'm just looking for an assimilation. 
 So Think Reiki, massage. The work that Larisa does, think surgery. I have had several sessions and I have the net result of those sessions with Larisa. Would have taken maybe five years of therapy to move and transition from where I was to where I ended up. And the speed to manifestation, the speed to everything increased because my body, my frequency is less dense and I was able to heal faster. I was able to manifest faster. I was able to project faster. Everything was like on fire. Next level amazing and that was just after a couple of sessions with Larisa so she does this in person but she does amazing work online as well and has a women's circle is my kind of call it a women's circle where you can be in a connected group of women to help you move forward as well and so whether you're local to Australia South Australia or you're interstate On every level, make sure you connect with Larisa. Her links are going to be in the show notes and the show description. And to connect with her, she has a beautiful experience where you can come to a free masterclass and just lean in and find out more about, look, your body is whispering. 
 You know it is. Come on, you know it is. And she helps you unpack those whispers and find out what's at the root cause of this so that you can unpack that And when you know and you've taken that apart, everything just moves fast. Everything's moved forward. Everything is a step in the right direction. And yeah, you'll love it. And if you're listening today, and I'm going to give it a free plug because I love the location. If you are listening today and you run retreats, OMG, you have to go to Askara. The property is amazing. 
 Look, I won't skill you funder. You tell them about it. But can I just say that everybody that I know that's actually been at the property can physically say, I don't know what it is, but I feel different. And I've been there. We have little quick fixes. 
 So sometimes we're just there for a space of 24, 48 hours. And that is all that we need to reset, reground and reconnect to ourselves, whether it's a soul retreat or I've been there with my husband. He likes it too. He wants to know if he can go fishing. I keep telling him no, because I'm a vegetarian. He's a carnivore. But Larisa, tell us a little bit more about Askara. 

 Larisa | 17:39
Well, yes, Askara is a special place. It's a sacred space of 89 acres of land that miraculously manifested from my imagery and my vision. And basically, that was my dream. And while I was dreaming about this place, I was happy just as a dream you know I knew that I really want to have that place but just having it within my consciousness to go there anytime I was tired or I just need my happy place I would just close my eyes and I'm there and I could actually see it and imagine almost like it is now in the physical form so I've connected this frequency of this property already in my consciousness before I actually purchased it. 
 So it found a way to me itself through this manifestation art, right? And then, of course, I was curious about what the land represents, what it is there. And because purchase of my property was happening at the same time when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. 
 So it's kind of had this really strong connection of how I can just be present myself on this land and allow myself to be connecting with this place that I dreamt for so long. And really, I could say that the land healed me. As well as I healed the land because I was contacting eco energy environmentalist, the person who is working with an electromagnetic gravitational field. And during my time where I was deciding what I'm gonna to do about my cancer, we went through full eco energy analysis of this property. And we measured all the distorted frequencies and geomagnetic currents and underground waters and carry grids and lay lines. Everything was put on a map and we could see how we can heal the land through remedies of neutralizing distorted energies. And through this process, I decided that I will sit and be with my cancer and I decided not to do anything like I just say no to operation or chemotherapy. I took a radical trust and I'm not offering or not recommending anyone to do the same as I did because we all have our own level of, you know, fear or trust or it's a very intimate decision towards your states that you created. But what I would like to say is that when you connected to this sparkly essence that you have, that divine spark that you're carrying within you, then you will know all the answers. And it seems like through the process of connecting with the place and connecting to that essence of me, I... I knew, I had this knowing that I will heal myself. And yes, it's end up to be that the healing happened. And the mind was puzzling about this healing and wanted to have answers. And for me to satisfy the mind, I needed to take another step to actually officially study and understand how the process of, for me, creating this disease and how I recreated it holistically, my mind need to know. And I enrolled myself into the bar I'm a member of Brennan School of Healing in America, and I started to travel every two months for four years, 20 times to America for residential training to become a Brennan Healing Science practitioner. It is a multi-dimensional, multi-faceted healing modality that is now helping me to help others to understand the importance of Diseases that we create, importance of these imbalances and all the blocks that we have. Once we get the understanding, well, this is already half of things that helps healing.

 Sharlene | 22:55
Love it, Larisa. I could seriously talk to you all day. Give us just a cup of tea and I'm there. I love it. Larisa, now, for those of you listening, if this has piqued your curiosity, come to Larisa's Masterclass. The details are in the show description and in the show notes. It'll be a wonderful experience for you to get that level of connection and understand exactly what's happening for you. This magic of energy works online or in person, either which way it still works. Energy is energy. And it'll be lovely to have you come along to the Masterclass. Larisa, it's been a privilege and a pleasure to speak with you. We're going to go over time, so we've got to call it quits there. But I'd love to have you back because there's so much happening in your environment, in your ecosystem, in what it is that you're sharing. 
 So we'd love to have you back as another guest closer to Christmas or just after. It's a privilege to have a conversation. It's a goodbye from me and a goodbye from Larisa. 

 Larisa | 23:49
Thank you so much. I am really happy to have you. But just one last word. Please, you are not broken and nothing is wrong with you. You are the best expression of this divine plan. Please remember that. And once you have this understanding that you are unique expression. 
 Well, then everything will start to fall into right place. Thank you so much and goodbye. 

 Outro | 24:21
Thank you for joining us for this episode of Healing Through Love. You can get further resources See the show notes or simply reach out to us via our website at htlaustralia.org. Thanks so much for joining us and we look forward to your company next time on the Healing Through Love podcast.