Meet Your Support Team
Lisa Tickel
I’m Lisa Tickel, founder of the Women’s Childhood Abuse Healing Workshop.
My passion for this work comes from my own healing journey—one that began with childhood abuse and years of emotional pain. I created this Workshop to help women heal sooner, find peace faster and know they are not alone.
At just four years old, I experienced emotio
I’m Lisa Tickel, founder of the Women’s Childhood Abuse Healing Workshop.
My passion for this work comes from my own healing journey—one that began with childhood abuse and years of emotional pain. I created this Workshop to help women heal sooner, find peace faster and know they are not alone.
At just four years old, I experienced emotional, verbal, mental and physical abuse. My brother, struggling with addiction, was my first abuser. My mother responded to my emotional eating with cruelty, and I was bullied at school. At 16, I lost my mom to cancer and was left to grieve alone and in silence.
The pain followed me into adulthood. I lived in survival mode through a chaotic 25-year marriage, and later, another to a narcissist. My healing truly began when I confronted the lies I believed about myself—especially the one that said I was unlovable.
In the early 2000s, I co-facilitated a women’s healing workshop that changed my life. That experience inspired me to create this Workshop—a space where women can heal together, rediscover who they are and reclaim their power.
Healing doesn’t stop when the Workshop ends. That’s why I also created the “Women’s Healing Community”—a lifelong sisterhood for continued healing, growth and connection.
I’m living proof that healing is possible. And you are so worthy of it too.
Dana S. Diaz
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, D
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.