Meet Your Support Team

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Welcome to the Workshop – I’m so glad you’re here!

I’m Lisa Tickel, the founder of the Women’s Childhood Abuse Healing Workshop. My passion for this work comes from my own journey—one filled with deep wounds from childhood abuse and the desperate search for healing. For years, I carried the pain of my past, longing for relief. This Workshop was created to help shorten your suffering and help you step into a life of healing and freedom.

My story began at age four, enduring verbal, emotional, mental and physical abuse. My brother, who struggled with addiction, was my first abuser. My mother’s cruelty intensified when I turned to emotional eating, and the bullying I faced in school only deepened the pain. At 16, I lost my mother to cancer—an experience made even more traumatic by secrecy and emotional abandonment from my father.

The wounds of my past followed me into adulthood. My relationships were rooted in survival mode, including a chaotic 25-year marriage and a second marriage to a narcissist. It wasn’t until I faced the depths of my trauma that true healing began. I realized that I wasn’t unlovable, as my brother had once told me—I was worthy of love, safety and peace.

Healing became my life’s mission. In the early 2000’s, I co-facilitated a workshop that helped women find hope. Inspired by that experience, I created the Women’s Childhood Abuse Healing Workshop—a safe, supportive space where women can heal together, rediscover themselves, and break free from the pain of their past.

Healing doesn’t end when the Workshop does, which is why I also created the Women’s Healing Community—a lifelong sisterhood where women can continue their healing journey together. I am living proof that healing is possible, and I invite you to step into this space of transformation. You deserve this.

Dana S. Diaz studied journalism and psychology at DePaul University. While there’s no better teacher than life experience and Dana has had life-long experiences with narcissistic abuse, her education did give her the ability to accurately verbalize and express how narcissistic abuse creates confusion and conflict within victims.

Today, Dana is a proud voice for fellow victims who are unable, afraid, or ashamed to share their experiences. She strives to create awareness and understanding to ensure victims are given the support they need to first understand their situation and then begin the healing process. Her first book, chronicling her own abusive marriage that lasted nearly three decades, started as a journal that she hid under the couch cushion in the basement.