My story

As I look back, it feels as if my entire life has led me to this point; being in practice, being Dr. Alizabeth. 

While I have studied the beautiful art of Chiropractic and other energetic modalities, my real training began in childhood growing up as a Mexican-American girl in LA. 

A lot of my youth was spent with my grandmother. As a devout Catholic, she was a big support to the church and community. On Sundays, we’d visit the dying after church, sitting with individuals and their families as presence of comfort, witnessing the final moments of people who lived all sorts of incredible lives.

Looking back, I can’t believe that was so nonchalantly part of my Sunday, but it gave me the ability to be fully present to any cycle of life. 

My interest in nutrition and alternative remedies may well have begun back then too. There were many months that I took care of my uncle who was passing and I remember cooking the foulest smelling herbal concoctions with my grandmother, slowly learning their medicinal properties handed down from our ancestors.

I was somehow always around death, watching people transition, and learning how to hold them in light.  

As a teenager I reveled in rebellion, shutting down a lot of what I’d learned in my younger years. It wasn’t until my grandmother passed that I really shifted and was awakened to my gifts; holding space, my wounds of the heart which later became profound wisdom, a belief in Spirit, and an indestructible amount of faith. 

I believe my grandmother passed many of her gifts onto me when she transitioned. At that time I accepted my role within my lineage and lifetime, and have since built on my inherited knowledge with new modalities and techniques.

Fast forward to birthing my daughter, I was refamiliarized with the same portal I had grown up with, except this time, it wasn’t death, it was new life. Through this, my eyes and soul opened to the fascination of beginnings, and the deep reverence and honor needed around this stage of life. 

My work today is woven from my Mexican Indigenous blood, my connection to that, and my studies of the body, my doctorate and all my years of working with trauma held in the nervous system, the knowing of energy, and the healing power of the heart.

Why Lilikoi ?

It was the middle of the night and I was about 15 hours into my natural labor at home in Venice, California, submerged in a giant inflatable tub of warm water where I was preparing to birth my daughter with my doula, midwife, and husband by my side.

As my labor began, I went into another world and became unaware of my surroundings and my birthing companions in the room with me.

As I went deeper and deeper into this space, I felt an intimate, strong connection to my daughter. Completely in tune with her needs, I began talking with her and deeply listening to what she needed in order to come into the world. It was an experience I couldn’t have imagined and one which I will never forget.

As the labor progressed my daughter told me to name her Lilikoi, that it had to be in her name. I remembered this effortlessly after the birth and Lilikoi is now our daughter’s middle name.

For me, Lilikoi represents the space I go to be fully present and awaken an intuition beyond logic.  It’s the place I go to listen to a person’s nervous system, body, and higher self. From this place, my belief is that all healing is possible. By naming my offering The Lilikoi Practice, I hope my clients are able to understand my work on a more intuitive level and see a glimpse of what is possible for them.

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