Episode 45: What If I Start and Don’t Follow Through… Again?
What if you start…and stop again?
What if you buy the course and don’t finish it?
Set the goal and lose momentum?
Make the plan and find yourself right back where you started two weeks later?
And what if that becomes one more piece of evidence you use to tell yourself, “See? I knew I couldn’t trust myself.”
In this episode of All The Feels, Lauren explores the fear of not following through, and why the skill that changes your life isn’t learning how to never stop.
It’s learning how to start again without making yourself wrong.
Because losing momentum, changing direction, pausing, or even deciding that something no longer belongs to you doesn’t automatically mean you failed.
The real work is learning to understand why you stopped, what you need now, and whether you want to return, adjust, or consciously choose something different.
In This Episode, Lauren Explores:
- Why the fear of not following through can keep you from starting at all
- How unfinished goals and abandoned plans can become evidence we use against ourselves
- Why “I didn’t follow through” doesn’t have to become “I’m someone who doesn’t follow through”
- The difference between abandoning yourself and advocating for yourself
- Why losing momentum isn’t the same thing as failing
- How your past patterns can inform your future without predicting it
- The difference between blame and taking responsibility
- Why every pattern has a “source code” worth understanding
- How self-compassion helps you understand your patterns without excusing them
- Why self-advocacy is self-compassion in motion
- How to build self-trust by learning to return to yourself
- Why finishing something isn’t the only way to receive value from it
- How to recognize when it’s time to restart, adjust, pause, or consciously let something go
Introducing The How:
https://salmon-hawk-hcds.squarespace.com/the-how
The HOW is a three-month course + group coaching experience designed to help you create your own personalized formula for pursuing any goal while remaining deeply connected to yourself.
Inside, Lauren will guide you through a specific process to help you:
✨ Establish your Exquisite Self-Care Foundation
✨ Find your emotional fuel + create your Fueling Why
✨ Learn the Consistency Formula
✨ Create your personal Game Plan
✨ Find and follow your desire
✨ Learn how to pause, receive the wisdom of your emotions, and return to what matters
✨ Build a process you can carry into future goals and seasons of your life
You bring the goal. Lauren brings the formula. You bring the magic.
When you join The HOW, you’ll receive:
The complete three-month HOW course
Worksheets + additional resources
6 live group coaching calls with Lauren
4 months of written coaching
Community support inside Circle
Lifetime access to the course teachings, resources + coaching call replays
Immediate access to The Emotions Circle, including The Wisdom Library, The Listening Room + The Connection Circle
Purchase HERE:
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And if you enroll between August 18 and September 1, you’ll also receive a private 1:1 coaching call with Lauren to use during the four-month coaching experience.
🎉 August 18–25 at 5:55 PM ET: $555 founding early-bird price: USE CODE HOWEARLY
After August 25 at 5:55 PM ET, enrollment increases to $1,111.
Enrollment officially closes September 9 at 9:00 AM ET.
The first HOW content becomes available September 1, and the first live coaching call is September 9 at 1:00 PM ET.
The HOW will return in 2027 at a higher standard price, but this first-round $555 founding price will not be offered again.
✨ LEARN MORE + JOIN THE HOW HERE: https://salmon-hawk-hcds.squarespace.com/the-how
Connect with Lauren:
Freebie: The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook
Emotions Crash Course: JOIN HERE
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