Liana Shanti Truths
The Firsthand Record

Jeff Lambrecht

What happened before Cahira met Liana?

“I escaped from my husband on November 4, 2011, almost a year BEFORE I met Liana.”Cahira Noelani’s firsthand account
Jeff Lambrecht
Jeff Lambrecht
Who is Jeff Lambrecht?

The history behind Cahira’s escape

“Yes, I literally had to take my kids and flee. Here is what happened when I tried to amicably leave my husband. It was one of the scariest and most dangerous times in our lives.”

Stage 01

Before Liana

  • Cahira grew up in an extremist religious cult that did not allow women to leave their husbands. Her entire family disowned, harassed, and threatened her when she decided to divorce Jeff.
  • In fall 2011, Jeff threatened her: “People die in situations like this.”
  • When Cahira tried to discuss leaving, she describes sitting on the kitchen floor with her knees pulled to her chest while Jeff towered over her, clenched his fists, screamed, and punched the walls around her.
  • Jeff told her, “You can’t leave. I’m not letting you leave.” Their four children were 3, 6, 8, and 9.
Stage 02

They tried to stop her from leaving

  • Jeff emptied their bank accounts and told Cahira she could not take the children or a single thing from the house.
  • He told her that her father and all six of her adult brothers would come to the house and physically stop her from leaving.
  • Cahira secretly changed the date. She stayed in her pajamas, pretended to work, waited until Jeff left, and then moved as fast as she could.
  • Nothing was packed. She threw her children’s clothes into garbage bags, loaded a small U-Haul, and got out in three hours before he could return.
Stage 03

The documented aftermath

  • In 2015, Cahira states that Jeff shattered her vehicle window in front of all four children.
  • A court granted a four-year domestic-abuse injunction. Cahira states Jeff violated it twenty minutes later and was arrested.
  • The children went to therapy and created secret safety words so they could text their mother if they were afraid at their father’s house.
  • As adults, three of the children wrote Jeff directly about why they had stopped speaking to him—and their reasons were about his behavior, not Liana.
Stage 04

What this has to do with Liana

  • Cahira escaped in November 2011—almost a year before she met Liana.
  • None of the conduct that destroyed Jeff’s relationship with his children began with Liana.
  • Cahira says Liana later helped her and her children find safety, rebuild their lives, and heal.
  • Her conclusion is direct: “What does this have to do with Liana? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.”
Cahira’s signed account

The escape—in her own words

“The months leading up to escaping were so scary. My then husband, Jeff Lambrecht, was so angry, and it was escalating. My journal is full of notes so worried about how he would react when I actually left him.”

Jeff said his children had been taken from him. His adult sons told him why they had stopped speaking to him.

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Their contemporaneous response

His adult sons answered for themselves.

The following screenshots were sent in the family group conversation after the April 2023 welfare check. Their names and messages are shown because they were adults speaking for themselves.

Exhibit 04“We haven’t talked to you in months.”
Exhibit 05“You’re taking no responsibility.”
Exhibit 06“I want nothing to do with you.”
“You’re taking no responsibility now and blaming stuff on Liana when all she’s done for our family is help us heal from the pain you’ve caused all of us.”
Three independent accounts

Three sons. Three voices. The same central truth.

Javan, Payton, and Joah each submitted a signed letter in April 2023. Their experiences are different, but each rejects the claim that Liana caused the breakdown in their relationship with their father.

01

What Javan says

Javan writes that he grew up trying not to upset his father and that, as the oldest child, he felt responsible for protecting his siblings from confrontations. Even after his siblings became more distant, he continued visiting partly because he felt responsible for Jeff’s happiness.

“The only thing that has had any effect on my relationship with my father was his own actions. Liana had nothing to do with me and my siblings deciding to cut him out of our lives.”

Javan Lambrecht · Signed letter, April 2023

02

What Payton says

Payton writes that he personally began reducing contact while he was still in high school. By the time of the welfare check, he says he had already seen Jeff only occasionally for years and had previously blocked his number.

“I personally chose to stop seeing him as much as I was heading into high school.”
“We’ve all grown up and realized how terrible of a father you’ve been and how detrimental you’ve been to our family.”

Payton Lambrecht · Signed letter, April 2023

03

What Joah says

Joah writes that he spent years walking on eggshells, hiding his emotions, and changing his personality around his father. He describes the 2015 window incident, the safety words, and his fear of making Jeff angry.

“It’s the choices that he’s made in the past 18 years of my life that are the reason I choose not to go to his house.”
“Liana does not force us to not go over there. I never even talk with Liana about my father.”

Joah Lambrecht · Signed letter, April 2023

A pattern documented across years

The situation Jeff later blamed on Liana was already his own history.

The following record follows Cahira’s signed letter and keeps her words at the center.

2011

“The most terrifying day of my life up until that point.”

“My then husband, Jeffrey Lambrecht, had emptied our bank accounts and told me that MY DAD, Mike Schneider, had advised him to ‘make sure she doesn’t get a penny.’ I knew I wouldn’t be able to afford to replace anything I didn’t get out of the house today.”

“All of us were moving as fast as we could. No one was talking. It was so scary. I had no idea what would happen if Jeff showed up. Would he hurt my grandparents and my friend who were helping me?”

“I escaped from my husband on November 4, 2011, almost a year BEFORE I met Liana.”
2015

The children witness the window incident.

Cahira writes that Jeff became violent while picking up the children, kicked and struck objects in her home, and shattered the rear window of her vehicle with his elbow. The children were present. Javan, Payton, and Joah each refer to this incident in their own letters.

Exhibit 07Police report

The incident report preserved with Cahira’s account.

Exhibit 08Court record

The court record identifies the injunction and hearing.

2015

A restraining order did not erase the children’s fear.

Cahira was granted a four-year domestic-abuse injunction. She states that, because the custody arrangement continued, therapists and domestic-violence advocates helped the family create safety words the children could send if they felt unsafe during visits.

“Who would willingly send their four young children over there without being fearful? But she had no choice, so what we had to do for us to even feel safe over there was create code words to send to mom.”

Joah Lambrecht · Signed letter, April 2023

Exhibit 09Cahira’s TRO statement

The statement submitted in connection with the request for protection.

2015–16

Repeated attempts to communicate did not produce stable co-parenting.

Cahira’s records show repeated requests to discuss schooling, counseling, health, supervision, and the children’s daily needs. Her signed account states that she sent sixteen messages asking for substantive parenting discussions and often received no response or a refusal to engage.

Exhibit 10“Peaceful request”

One documented attempt to discuss the children’s needs.

Exhibit 11Jeff’s response

His written response to a request for discussion.

Years later

The children describe why they pulled away.

Their reasons were personal and specific: fear of anger, feeling ignored, missed games, little emotional connection, being left hungry or unsupervised, and not feeling safe enough to speak honestly. These are the experiences they identify—not Liana.

“How can someone who has done so many bad things in his life to ruin his relationships with his kids, blame a person he has never met for the reason why he has no contact with us anymore.”

Javan Lambrecht · Signed letter, April 2023

2023

Instead of listening to them, Jeff blamed Liana.

After not hearing from his adult sons, Jeff requested a welfare check and claimed Cahira had taken them to a cult in Florida. The sons’ own messages contradict that explanation and state directly that they had chosen not to communicate with him.

Exhibit 12The welfare check

A contemporaneous message describing the police visit and the “cult” allegation.

What Liana actually did

“Liana completely changed my life and the lives of my children.”

The following is Cahira’s account of Liana’s place in her family’s life—not an outside summary of it.

“If you asked me to pick one person in the entire world who epitomizes the highest character qualities possible in a human, Liana is that person. Her entire life radiates goodness, kindness, compassion, love, and generosity.”
01

She met Cahira after the divorce

“I met Liana eleven years ago, when I purchased one of her online nutrition programs. It cost less than $100, yet the value Liana gave was a thousand times that.”

“When I first met her in this online community, I was a newly divorced mom with four young children. I had escaped a religious cult that suppressed and abused women and children. My kids and I were completely alone and had lost our entire family and world as we knew it.”

02

She believed in her when no one else did

“I was struggling to provide basic needs for myself and my children with an income below the poverty level. We were living in a small apartment and receiving government food and housing assistance.”

“Liana took me under her wing and mentored me out of the pure kindness of her heart. For years, she spent countless hours teaching me about nutrition, life, business, and parenting. She encouraged me and showed me that I could better my life. She believed in me when no one else had ever believed in me before.”

03

She helped Cahira become financially independent

“Liana taught me so much, that I was able to successfully start my own health coaching business. By the next year, I had tripled my income and was OFF of all government assistance!!”

“My kids and I went from living in poverty and on government assistance to now living in a beautiful home in one of the nicest, safest neighborhoods in our state.”

04

She helped Javan believe college was possible

“Liana helped me to see that college could be possible for him, and that there were ways that we could make it happen. My son ended up getting an academic scholarship to the University of Hawaii, his dream school!”

05

She helped Payton recover

“The doctors told him it would be a career ending injury and that he would likely never play basketball again. Liana helped me find a surgeon who could help him. She spent hours and hours helping me find the best treatment options for him.”

“Because of her guidance, my son went on to make a 100% full recovery!”

06

She found them shelter after their house burned

“When our house burned down in the middle of the pandemic lock down, Liana and her son, Chance, called every hotel in our area until they found one that was still open. They rented rooms for me and my children so that we had somewhere to sleep that night and until we could find a new home.”

07

Safety and support

“Liana was an incredible support to me and my children, during this time. She was so kind and caring. She helped connect me with domestic violence advocates, therapists and safety resources in my area. She showed me and my children so much love.”

08

A trusted adult for her children

“My kids love and adore Liana too! When they have a problem or need advice, she is the person they go to. She is like the ultimate aunt, godmother, and real life guardian angel.”

“She didn’t have to do any of this. There is nothing that we could ever do to pay her back or give her in return for everything she has done for us, and she doesn’t want anything in return. That’s who Liana is.”Cahira Noelani · Signed letter, April 2023
“Liana has done nothing for my family but help us heal from all of the pain my father has caused.”Payton Lambrecht · Signed letter, April 2023
The conclusion supported by the record

“What does all of this have to do with Liana Shanti? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.”

2011

Cahira left the marriage before meeting Liana.

2015

The violent incident, injunction, counseling, and safety plan were documented years before the “cult” accusation.

2023

His adult sons told him that their estrangement came from his conduct and their own decisions.

“Liana has absolutely nothing to do with the horrific mental, emotional, and physical abuse my children and I have had to endure from Jeff over these last 12 years.”