Lisa Erlandsen
Licensed Thrive Programme Coach (ATPC)
Hello and welcome to my website! I am Lisa and I am an experienced Thrive Programme Coach for Bournemouth and Southampton, helping people to build limitless mental health and learn how to thrive in 6-8 weeks. Our mental health is something we can not only learn to understand, but also change for the better in order to create the best life for ourselves that we truly love and make the most of! Click here to head to my official Thrive Programme Coach page on the Thrive Programme website, and to learn more about the programme directly.
I am also a passionate blogger and sobriety advocate in Dorset, both through my bar work and through my Ambassador work with Bee Sober, an organisation I can’t shout enough about for anybody wanting to give sober a go…! Click the ‘Sobriety’ button at the top of this page to find out more.
In both my work and my personal life, I help people to discover the joy of ditching the booze and living an alcohol free life, and am passionate about giving people the opportunity to truly rediscover themselves in the process. I love working in Sobar, and am always excited to try and experiment with new and unusual alcohol free drink combinations - after all, there are so many choices these days that sobriety is anything but boring!
My own Thrive Programme journey
I found the programme myself back in 2012 after google searching for something that might be able to help me with my emetophobia. I had tried counselling, psychotherapy, I almost tried hypnotherapy (but wimped out as I panicked that they might hypnotise me into a coma!), and a number of other things, but somehow I was getting worse and worse. I was barely sleeping, only eating around 500 calories a day, having panic attacks that were occasionally so severe I would pass out, unable to travel on public transport - the list goes on and on!
As time went by and I felt more panicky and out of control, I started to drink more and more to try and reduce my anxiety and to appear ‘fine’ to my friends. My self esteem and confidence were at absolute rock bottom and soon, alcohol was becoming a problem too as I was using it to numb pretty much everything. I was spiralling, and starting to think that nothing would ever change.
I hadn’t been fully committed to the programme up to that point, but in 2014 I started to properly give it a go, with Rob Kelly (Thrive Programme Creator and CEO) as my Coach. I was very stop-start with it which really slowed my progress at the beginning, but eventually I began to make progress and in around 2015 (who’s counting anymore?!) I was able to say once and for all that I was over my emetophobia! In 2016, I started my journey to becoming completely alcohol free too.
I then decided later in 2016 that I wanted to become a Thrive Programme Coach myself, and help others also struggling with their mental health to change their lives the same way I had managed to do for myself. It’s not always been an easy journey, and (as with life!) there have been ups and downs, but I’ve had my Thrive Programme mental toolkit with me the whole way, able to navigate my life in a totally different and more helpful way than I’d ever been able to before.
As a Coach, I really have ‘been there done that’, so I understand how anxious and nervous people can feel when they first approach me about starting the programme. Many have tolerated low mental wellbeing for a long time, and are hesitant to believe (yet!) that anything will change for them either. Rest assured that you will be met with a Coach who has been down the rabbit hole of poor mental health too, so I can help to show you the way out - the same path I trod myself all those years ago :)
My life would genuinely be hugely different (for the worse) if I hadn’t found this programme, and it is why I am so passionate about helping others now too in my coaching practice.
You can read more detail about my journey in some public articles about my coaching and my passion for The Thrive Programme (shared below).
Some of my own journey, in pictures!
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2015 TTP Conference talk
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Thriving by the beach - 2016
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Brick theories at bootcamp
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Tackling fear of flying!
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Thriving after bootcamp
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5k Tough S**t race - 2015!
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TTP Conference - 2017
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First Business talk - 2017!
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2018 YouTube Q&A video
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2018 TTP Conference
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Tough Mudder - 2019!
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2019 TTP Conference
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2019 Year of Fear!
Talking publicly about my coaching work
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Daily Echo Newspaper
I was featured by the Bournemouth Daily Echo about my business and my own mental health struggles before find the programme myself - read the full article below.
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Dorset Business Magazine
Dorset Business Magazine featured my story and my business in their magazine back in 2018. I shared my previous struggles with anxiety and panic attacks, alcohol, self confidence, and emetophobia.
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Yes She Can - Online Feature
I wrote an online article for Yes She Can, an online movement to inspire, empower and engage women. I talked about being a woman in business, and the struggles women like myself can go through
TTP Coaching quality and standards
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TTP Training
All Licensed Thrive Programme Coaches, myself included, have undergone thorough and wide-ranging training (from psychological theories, to clinical practice and coaching skills) to complete their training as a Coach.
In addition, Coaches are fully supervised in their early practice and can seek ongoing support from the Head of Training whenever needed. In order to retain our licenses to practice, TTP Coaches are required to attend regular conferences and online training sessions to refresh knowledge and skills regularly, so my training is always up to date, and best practice is shared amongst our experienced and varied network of TTP Coaches.
You can find out more about the training itself by clicking below.
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ATPC and Code of Ethics
The ATPC is the Association of Thrive Programme Coaches. Membership is mandatory for all qualified and practicing Thrive Programme Coaches. You can read more about this by clicking the button below.
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GDPR and your data
All Licensed Thrive Programme Coaches undertake compulsory Data Protection training and are required to comply with internal company policies relating to the protection of client data, including ensuring that businesses they work with (such as clinic rooms they hire) are also GDPR compliant. Read more about our GDPR policy by clicking below.
Putting my Coaching into practice myself!
As somebody who went through the programme myself to get thriving, before becoming a Coach myself, I am absolutely passionate about living and breathing myself the programme I teach to others. I always try to push myself and build on my own mental skills, to show my clients that seasoned Coaches have room to grow and develop too! From living a sober life, to taking on physical and mental challenges, see below a few examples of my own thriving challenges, to keep myself learning alongside my amazing clients…!
Year of Fear 2019
I always tell clients that a big part of continuing to thrive and build new skills and achievements is about pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone and taking on new challenges. Nobody is born with skills; every skill we have has been learned at some point or other, and the better the skills the more we have practised and honed them. Our mental skills are exactly the same, and the more we practise the new mental skills we learn in The Thrive Programme, the better we get at them! Coaches are no different, and in fact should probably practice them even more so that we are in the absolute BEST state of mind to help our clients to change their own mental health too.
I therefore designed and achieved what I called my ‘Year of Fear’! The idea was to do one thing every month of 2019 that scared and/or challenged me, all in the name of raising money for charities including Alcohol Change UK! You can read the article I wrote for Alcohol Change UK about my Year of Fear by clicking the button below, and scroll down to watch my summary video of all my challenges! I raised around £1500 for charity in the end which I was incredibly proud of.
Thrive Programme Coaches Bootcamp 2019!
Devon, September 2019
The thing about thriving is, it's not about perfection. Not even a little bit. We're not made (and making others) through the insights in the programme into perfect robots that function and think seamlessly all the time. We're teaching people how to thrive, which is to flourish in our environment, to feel powerful over our actions and reactions, to manage our thoughts well and to be able to cope and tolerate with challenging situations (and to take the learning from them when we don't handle them as well as we'd like!).
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'd argue that's the biggest thing I came away from our bootcamp processing is that we can all still learn new things about ourselves, and better ways of handling things, and that that's a GOOD thing, not a 'failure'! You don't either have or not have thriving skills, you aren't either thriving or not thriving, you have skills that you can continually build on and hone to create the BEST most exciting life for yourself!
Some of the highlights included;
Coasteering on the rugged Devon coastline, including a 4m cliff jump
Surf lessons in the pouring rain at 8:30am
Social challenges like rapping to a group (and tolerating getting some of it wrong!), and doing a speech
Bootcamp was an incredible experience to learn and improve as a thriver, with a fabulous group of colleagues who were all there to push their limits too!
Tough Mudder - May 2018!
In 2018, I decided that I wanted to end my 20s in a better way than I started them, so I decided to take on a physical challenge of a Tough Mudder…!
Nicknamed my ‘Dirty 30’ challenge (just a few days before my 30th birthday), Tough Mudder was a 15k (9 mile) run, including around 30 obstacles to push your body to the limit. Watch my video here which I recorded not long after crossing the finish line!