Exploring Life & Business with Liz Wolfe of Liz Wolfe

Today we’d like to introduce you to Liz Wolfe.

Hi Liz, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
It all started with the beginning of my healing journey. After struggling in life and an early marriage, I started getting mental health care and after over a year of therapy, I was feeling ready to take on life. Unfortunately, in 2008, the economy collapsed and, as a person who was already struggling with employment, this made it 100 times worse. Since there were no jobs, I decided to try my hand at going back to school. I struggled in school my whole life, partially because of growing up in dysfunction and lacking support and partially because, as I’d later discover in my 30s, I have the neurodevelopmental disabilities autism and ADHD.
After barely passing high school, I’d still attempted community college but, couldn’t cut it. I had no study skills, no support, no clue I even needed support and so, after dropping many semesters in a row, I finally just stopped going and didn’t even drop that final semester. So, in 2008, four years after my last semester, when I wanted to re-enroll, I couldn’t even qualify for financial aid because my GPA was 1.54 and you need at least a 2.0. So, I took a couple of theater classes that year because I always loved theater and performance space, plus you don’t need costly text books for those classes and it was easy to get As and boost my GPA.
Halfway through this first year, my marriage came to an end and then I met my child’s dad and got pregnant unexpectedly and things were chaotic for a bit. However, I was still determined to continue my education journey and, after my kid’s dad left me in the dust, I moved back home with my parents to have my baby and continue going to school. The theater classes boosted my GPA enough to qualify for financial aid and, after spending my baby’s first year at home with her, I was finally able to attend full-time.
I had no idea what would come of this but, I decided to major in social and behavioral sciences because the acting classes I had taken awakened something inside of me that wanted to learn more about how people function. Humans have always been my special interest so, I ended up doing surprisingly well in school. I think it’s because I was studying what I genuinely cared about and doing it for me, not the expectations of my father or social pressure, plus community college is extremely accessible. It was easy to have the right support there despite not knowing just how much I needed it.
Unfortunately, as a result of pregnancy, I ended up with several spinal health issues that affected my mobility and caused me chronic pain. I had a doctor who wasn’t taking me seriously and kept criticising my weight while ignoring my real problems. I was going to school full-time, raising a baby on my own, and losing my ability to walk because the pain was so constant and severe. Around the time that I stopped being able to walk, I miraculously received notice that I’d been assigned to a different doctor because the one I had was so bad that the insurance stopped accepting him as a provider.
Getting a new doctor led to diagnoses and interventions. It turned out I had spinal stenosis, osteoarthritis, heavy damage (that’s yet to fully recover) to my left sciatic nerve from a fully ruptured disk, and myelopathy, which is spinal cord damage. I had two spinal surgeries in 2011 and 2013 to clean up the disk, arthritis, and fuse the spine. These were miraculous and drastically improved my quality of life; although I do still deal with chronic pain, it’s very manageable.
Despite all the challenges, I ended up doing so well in community college that I was offered a spot in the honors program and, with the completion of this program comes certain recognition academically as well as priority consideration to a handful of California universities, including UC Irvine and UCLA. When I learned that UCLA was a top university for psychology, I decided to make that my goal. Going to a four-year university was definitely not something that I ever thought I’d be able to do. I remember being in high school, looking at the requirements to get into a UC and just knowing I could never because I struggled so severely as a student. I was the overlooked “gifted” kid, which means I was really good at appearing competent but lacked the ability to follow through or do the work. Psychology is an impacted major at UCLA because of how in-demand it is so, I really had no idea what I was getting myself into but, nevertheless, I got myself into UCLA as a psychology major.
Bear in mind that I was doing all of this by myself for the most part. I had support and some guidance from community college professors and counselors but, even tho my dad had a Master’s degree, he did not know how to support me at all and, in fact, most of the time just questioned and challenged everything I was doing. So, going into UCLA, I was excited but also a bit naive still, and that was difficult to realize in real time. I managed to do okay my first year but, I went from being an honors student in community college to being a passing student at UCLA, and this was causing me to lose hope in the dreams I’d had of continuing on to grad school and giving me major imposter syndrome.
At the end of my first year, I was put in the middle of my parents’ divorce, and that, coupled with some other family things going on at the time, put me over the edge. I started existing in severe burnout and survival mode. I struggled more than ever that second year and felt like my life was majorly falling apart, grieving what felt like everything I’d worked for, burning to the ground. I’d fallen back into toxic generational patterns of family dynamics that essentially allowed me to sabotage everything. By the end of my second year, it became apparent I’d need to take on a third year to retake some classes.
It was at this time I learned that I could have actually been attending part-time because of my circumstances as a single mother, so, I opted into that for my third year. Unfortunately, because I was still really unwell, I wasn’t eligible to graduate by the end of that third year so, I dropped that last term and took a hiatus because I was burned out on every level — physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
With no school or job, I moved in with my mother who was settling her divorce with my dad and getting her own place. This wasn’t ideal but, it was the only reasonable option for my kid and I. This began a long process of deep burnout, what I’d later learn was autistic regression, and heavy isolation. This was the longest I’d stopped moving in years and a lifetime of repressed trauma was surfacing, and I had no control over it. I got myself back into therapy, which was actually a nightmare for a while so, I was looking for ways to better understand myself and how I was so broken after over a decade of therapy, developing skills and coping mechanisms.
In a really inadvertent way, I started coming across information about undiagnosed autism, particularly in people who are AFAB and I was shocked. I studied psychology, heard so many presentations and lectures about autism, and I thought, I must not really understand it. So, I started deep diving, for weeks, everything I could find. I had doctor after doctor shut me down for just trying to talk about it, or ask questions, to make sure I was understanding what I was learning. It would take 2 years for me to get a full scope psychological evaluation from a neuropsychologist who went on to diagnose me with autism and ADHD.
This accelerated healing for me because now I had answers, and I could reframe my experiences from feeling like I was a failure to realizing that I was actually a badass. It was liberating. Also, bear in mind, during this period of burnout and regression, I started using psilocybin recreationally through a friend, and this ended up revealing healing benefits so that became part of my process and journey, as well. It helped me start to access deeply hidden and repressed parts of myself, and it helped me fully integrate parts of myself stuck and isolated in dissociative states for decades in some cases.
I got my diagnosis in April of 2020 and, by early 2021, I was ready to think about going back to school so, I got in touch with UCLA and was able to get enrolled for summer for the few classes I needed to finish my degree. I was a little nervous because summer classes are far more condensed, and at least one of these classes was heavy on the neuroscience. However, armed with what I knew about myself and the healing work I’d put in, I got straight As in all three of my summer classes, and that felt healing, like redemption.
Now that I was done with my long-awaited and hard-earned Bachelor’s degree, I still didn’t know what I really wanted to do next and I didn’t want to over-commit just for the sake of picking something. I was really interested in grad school but, unsure what exactly I’d focus on and, for the amount of time and student loan debt, I didn’t want to be impulsive about it. I was also considering teaching because, through my own student journey, I learned to really love and value education and liked the idea of helping others in ways that I needed as a kid who was overlooked; but, I wasn’t sure if I could really commit because of my disabilities and concerns around burning out.
My solution, to buy time and gain insight about this crossroads, was to start working as a substitute teacher. This would allow me to make money while I gained meaningful insight into working in schools and weighed my options thoughtfully. My first year, I worked as a sub one-on-one for a Kindergartener with autism, which was the best job ever because it was so up my alley but it wasn’t my long-term goal. I stayed through the school year so that the student would have consistency, while allowing me to develop positive professional relationships.
It was during this year of finishing school and starting substitute work that Spirit started heavily getting my attention. For months, I’d been seeing repeat numbers constantly. I know we all see them sometimes, 1:11. 2:22, 11:11 but, it was all the time. everywhere. constantly. I didn’t know what to make of any of this but, it was also during this time that TikTok started showing live streams on the For You page and, although I was not seeking or viewing any content remotely related to spirituality, I started seeing live streams of this sort — tarot readers, bone throwers, pendulum swinging, dowsing rods, mediums — and, listen, I’m a lifelong mystic at heart. I’ve had a lot of experiences that would blow people’s minds, and I’ve always been fascinated by and curious about many aspects of these things to better understand “it all.” So, I’d watch these streams and try to decide how legit I thought they were.
After encountering a couple of readers who I found to be convincingly authentic, and even booking a reading with one that was incredibly accurate, I came across a woman who said she was a medium. I started talking to her, though I didn’t tell her about the others or the reading I had, but told her about Spirit trying to get my attention and being unsure of what to do with it. She said she was starting a free beginners’ mediumship class and had a spot left if I wanted it. I thought to myself, well, even if she’s just trying to sell something, I’m really good at saying no, so what do I have to lose?
So, around February 2022, I started this free beginner’s mediumship class and, in the first meeting, she had us connecting with spirit and bringing through information about each other’s passed loved ones. The free class was three sessions and I was convinced so, I signed up for her paid beginner’s class and then her intermediate class. I practiced over the course of a year and a half under her but didn’t continue with her advanced class. She’s a skilled medium, but I disagree with certain elements of her business practice, so I didn’t particularly want to take her lead on how to “run a business.” I don’t want what I do to run like a business; I’m interested in providing a service. I don’t want to sell or convince people, I want to work with those who feel called to work with me.
Meanwhile, I continued my work as a substitute. In the Fall of 2022, I took a long-term roving sub position at a middle school in Pasadena and stayed there for the last three years. Although my position became less permanent due to changes beyond my control, that was still the only school I was teaching at. I had a special relationship with my colleagues and students; it’s truly a special place, and it really helped me grow in ways I didn’t know I could. So, between substitute teaching, spiritual development, and plant medicine ceremonies, my healing over the years has gone deeper than I ever imagined it could. I’ve completely rewired my nervous system, I’m healing in ways I never thought possible, I’m off medications that I was on for decades, and I’m living in my purpose.
Now that the school year is over, I’m doing spirit work full-time. My abilities have extended beyond mediumship, which is just spirit communication, to direct intuitive channeling and tarot reading. I go live on TikTok to offer free three-card readings with paid, in-depth options and the ability to book private sessions. The feedback I’m getting from people is overwhelmingly positive and affirming. I’m here to share healing with people, to show them what’s possible, and to remind them of the infinitely powerful cosmic badass they are. This goes beyond proving Spirit is real and showing people the way back to themselves so they can remember their true self in Spirit.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
I probably answered a lot of this in the previous response but, no, it has not been a smooth road. I was born into a life of early childhood adversity and trauma which greatly impacts one’s life path. If it weren’t for the few key people along the way to validate me, which was crucial given the amount of chaos and dysfunction I lived in, I might have never developed the resilience I needed to start making the difficult but necessary decisions that ultimately led me down a path of growth and healing, making possible where I am now. I had to unlearn deep, intergenerational trauma patterns and conditioning, I had to learn to listen to my own inner wisdom, higher self, guides and ancestors. I had to learn to fully surrender and trust. In my mediumship development, one of the key mottos we learned was “trust and allow,” meaning that you have to trust Spirit to come through with the information/message/communication and allow yourself to transmit it even if you feel uncertain. I’ve implemented this philosophy into every aspect of my life and the more I’ve surrendered, the more I’ve seen the big picture coming together. It’s been a long and, at times, terrifying journey but every moment has been worth it.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
I’m an intuitive channel, medium, and tarot reader offering a variety of readings for clients who are looking for guidance and insight from their spirit guides, ancestors, and loved ones. When Spirit communicates with us, they have to use what we already know and that can come through in a variety or combination of ways. For me, because of the specialized knowledge I have from my lifelong interest and academic studies in human behavior, dynamics, psychology, culture, and evolution, I’m able to channel messages and guidance for people from a place of these deeper understandings. My readings are rooted in heart and healing, they’re trauma-informed and geared to be both validating and empowering. What I’m offering is more than just what the future holds or what will happen next but, how you can handle anything by stepping into your most empowered and realized self. I’m really proud of how hard I’ve worked to heal and how much I’ve decolonized my own mind so that I can light the path for others looking to do the same.

Before we go, is there anything else you can share with us?
If there’s one thing I hope you take from my story, it’s this: You’re not broken—you’re becoming. Healing isn’t linear or always graceful, but it is divine. I never imagined I’d go from survival mode and dissociation to living in alignment with my gifts, channeling Spirit, and helping others heal. But here I am. And if I can get here, so can you.

Spirit is real. Healing is real. And you are the magic you’ve been looking for. Crying is cool. Alignment is powerful. And the cosmos? They’re cheering you on.

It’s never too late to come home to yourself.

Pricing:

• $44 Full Tarot Reading
• $44 Message from the Ancestors
• $66 Mediumship Spirit Connection

Contact Info:

• Website: https://theleap.co/creator/lizwolfe/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lizwolfechannels/
• Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@lizwolfechannels

Image Credits
these are all my personal photos