— “More than ever this is a time of hope rather than despair. It’s time for listening with all our senses and being open to the answers when they come. Our ancestors heard the call of the forest and they heard the song of nature. Now it’s our chance to discover that forgotten wisdom.”
Valeria Teles interviews Liz Jansen — the author of “Crash Landing: The Long Road Home.”
Healer, author, and motorcycle aficionado Liz Jansen combines her artistic mediums to create stories that inspire readers to embark on their own journey of self-discovery. No helmet or jacket required.
Her healing approach blends wisdom from her experience as a Registered Nurse, Corporate Human Resources Professional, and Certified Practitioner in Shamanic Energy Medicine.
Liz was born into a German Mennonite culture, the granddaughter of Russian refugees. At age sixteen, she began riding her brothers’ motorcycle on her family farm and a motorcycle became her lifelong muse. In 2003, after leaving a twenty-five-year marriage and a career in Corporate Human Resources, she spent two months traveling across Canada and the United States figuring out what to do next. Since then, Liz has logged hundreds of thousands of miles of mostly solo travel across Canada and the United States. While she enjoys the rugged beauty of Ontario’s northern wilderness, she has a particular fondness for the open expanses of the Canadian prairies and Midwestern plains.
In 2014, at age sixty, Liz set out on a solo motorcycle quest, seeking the answer to how ancestral experiences and a culture she’d distanced herself from had shaped her. Barely three weeks into what was intended to be a twelve- to eighteen-month trip through the Americas, a crash changed her trajectory and ushered in a period of stillness. Two years later, back on her motorcycle, she completed that quest and got her answers. They weren’t the answers she expected, and they’d appeared in a way she couldn’t have imagined.
Liz is a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada and the Non-Fiction Authors Association. She’s the author of Women, Motorcycles and the Road to Empowerment, Life Lessons from Motorcycles, and Crash Landing. She lives in Ontario with her cat, Measha, and Trudy, her Triumph Tiger motorcycle.
To learn more about Liz Jansen and her work please visit: https://www.lizjansen.com/
— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.
