Meet Leah Recor of The Abundant Parent in Lowry

Today we’d like to introduce you to Leah Recor.

Leah, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
We often find our passion and purpose in our pain. And I am no different. I inherited a victim mentality from my mom. She was a loving and attentive mom. However, she didn’t take the time to confront and heal her past. And so she modeled feelings, mindsets, opinions and the energy of a victim. It was only when I became awakened to my victim mentality did I realize the effect she had on my perspective of life and life’s events. I was already a mother myself when the fog lifted and I saw the generational impact on unhealthy and toxic family patterns. And I knew, if I wanted my children to have healthy respectful relationships, I was going to have to make drastic changes in my own life. Telling my children what kind of life to live and what social rules to follow wasn’t enough. I was going to have to be the adult I wanted my kids to become. In every single way.

Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
Growing up with a single mom with an unhealed past who was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was seven years old, didn’t give me the most innocent perspective on life. I knew from a young age that life was hard, life was fleeting, and that my needs paled in comparison to the needs of someone fighting for their life. I also struggled with loving myself. Without a father figure I didn’t have that basis for healthy male dynamics in my life and fell into that category so many women do; measuring my worth by the appeal I had to men. Unfortunately, that story didn’t shift until after I went through a devastating divorce. I was forced, kicking and screaming, into allowing my path to unfold, releasing my perception of control, and becoming awake to my worth, my path, and the trust I could have in the Universe.

Please tell us about your work.
I healed myself and became aware of the negative patterns in my life. I could see, so clearly, the unhealthy patterns in the lives of nearly everyone around me. I could see the impact parents’ ego was having in their children’s lives and the anger, anxiety and chaos children were reflecting their parents. When I first started coaching, parents would come to be baffled by the behaviors of their children. They would lay out the lists of all the things their children were struggling with. We would then make a list of the parent’s struggles or issues they faced as children. Almost, without fail, those lists were duplicates of one another.

Our children are our mirror. I help parents find that image (of behavior or thought or emotion) they are modeling to their kids and get to the root of healing that inner child within them that is screaming to be held and validated. Parents are the peace their child seeks. And when they heal the hurt within themselves, their entire family dynamic shifts.

Bringing in a deep sense of vulnerability, I offer tools for parents to take back their control over their emotions and be the parent their child connects with best. I teach EFT Tapping, meditation, mindset work, and I offer accountability to maintain those practices long enough to carve those new and improved neural pathways.

What is “success” or “successful” for you?
I used to think of success as a monetary measure. But when I lived a financially affluent life, I could see everyone around me was unhappy and unfulfilled. Now I realize that when you take care of spiritual and psychological satisfaction, the money finds it’s the way to you. Now THAT is a success! It’s not a number, or a car, or a ring. Success is a mindset involving satisfaction and daily practice of finding gratitude and recognizing the abundance in everything. The measure of success is pretty simple. How do you feel? Do you feel good? Do you feel proud? Do you feel filled with purpose? Take a moment and reflect on that. Your heart will tell you.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.theabundantparent.com
• Phone: 720-696-1373
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theabundantparent/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheAbundantParent/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/abundantparent

Image Credit:
Anne James Photography, Kim Denver, Monowar Studios, and Jeremy Glazier

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