Feeling Down? Lizzie Allan Has a Cure for That
If you cross paths with Lizzie Allan, she’ll have you laughing, crying, and exhaling within minutes. Allan is unapologetically herself: a full-hearted human who uses humor to help us heal, even through the darkest periods.
“I thought I would be a famous rapper while I was in psychosis!” the comedy therapist shares about the emotional break she experienced in 2000. “I was going to save the world with my rap album! It's obviously ridiculous, right?”
Though the rap idea may have seemed silly (to her!), Allan’s experience was anything but. As she navigated that hard time of self-rejection, fear, and addiction, she kept her heart open to the messages she was receiving: deep, spiritual signs of awakening that were telling her, “We need to help each other.” Because, as she continues, “It's so bankrupt—spiritually and emotionally—how we are treating each other.”
The years that followed were a massive trek toward healing. She leaned into therapy and her lifelong affinity for humor, and she got clean. She earned a degree in comedy, trained as a therapist, and ultimately merged those “two loves” into Hilarapy—a movement that offers healing experiences of connection through belly laughs.
All her experience poured into one clear knowing: “I recognized that we don't save the outside world; we save the inside world.”
Allan shares this sentiment in her book, How to Save the World & Other Things on My To Do List. As one might expect, it is a funny, hard-to-put-down read, thanks to her signature warmth and wit. It’s also a serious book about the big and small ways the world crushes our souls and how we can begin to rebuild ourselves—piece by piece, truth by truth.
“I wrote this book for me, because it's so hard to be alive with all of this stuff going on,” she says. “Collectively, we're very much feeding a fear-based future; we have to get off that train.”
To get off that train faster, Allan offers her book for free—yep, free!—which we link to below. As much as she herself needed this book, she wrote it for all of us. Its words are for the person who’s spent a lifetime trying to fit in and now seeks a compass back toward their light.
Because, as she believes, we’re all meant to be ourselves.
“I think now, more than ever before, people are finally allowing themselves to do what they came to do, because we're throwing the rule book out,” she says.
“It’s not just what we have to put into ourselves. It's what we have to remove that allows us to actually shine.”
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