Download Power Questions Here 🌹In this episode, we take a deeper dive into our bodies ability to constantly take in information from our environment through our senses and how it naturally orients us based on what it perceives to be safe or unsafe. When we are in session with clients, it is normal for our stress response to be activated. This activation can sometimes signal to our body that we are under attack, and that we are being threatened. When we can better understand this process ...

Download Power Questions Here 🌹The 'patterns' that our clients come to us with and are wanting us to help them change are often the same coping patterns that they're using in their day-to-day life to help them manage their feelings. In this episode, Laura leads us through a beautiful lesson that even though there might be an expectation that we want to create change rapidly & efficiently, we actually don't want to try to remove their coping patterns immediately. She teaches us t...

Download Power Questions Here 🌹As we begin to deepen our coaching practice and invite our clients into conversations that involve emotional awareness or exploration of their thought patterns, it's really important that we also invite in the conversation with ourselves around the line between our scope of practice as a coach and what would be better served in a therapeutic environment. This line is going to be different for all of us depending on our formal training and the knowledge/expe...

Download Power Questions Here 🌹Today, we chat through the importance of obtaining consent from clients before delving into deep, unconscious work. As coaches, we cannot assume that just because we desire our clients to move through deeper work, that they are ready and willing to engage in that kind of work.This episode teaches us how to pre-frame the journey and offers us ways to confirm whether our client feels safe to be engaged in that type of relationship with us, and whether they are rea...

Download Power Questions Here 🌹Have you ever experienced a moment with a client where you offered a solution, idea, or action item...& they agree to give it a try, but somehow you sense that they aren't fully onboard with what you're offering? Perhaps it's something in the tone of their voice, or their facial expression changes suddenly...you might even sense a shift in their body language.Chances are, if what you offered was pre-planned, you may have been blocked from witnessing the subt...

In this episode, we explore the concept of spiritual bypassing, a phenomenon that was first introduced in the 1980s by Buddhist teacher John Welwood. Throughout this discussion, Laura helps us to better understand the ways in which we might use spiritual practices to avoid facing the emotional undercurrents that are taking place within us. & while it's meaningful to embrace spiritual practices in the coaching space, Laura shines a light on how we might be using this to avoid or ...

In this episode, Laura coaches listeners of the show through questions that they've been coming up against over the last month. Today, we cover topics from listeners about their morning routines and how to create an adaptable practice so that they can meet themselves with the demands of their day, regardless of how much time they have. We also talked about what it's like to begin a coaching journey when you feel like you're different or you don't fit in with what you see other coach...

This month, Laura guides us through a practice of presence. Simple in theory, presence is one of the most challenging states to consistently live inside of. It asks us to learn how to stay WITH the full experience of a moment that would previously cause us to unconsciously react or mentally spiral.The techniques Laura teaches us in this ritual are ones we can use inconspicuously right in a client session or on a sales call to stay grounded and open...or can be layered together to create ...

There has been an ongoing conversation around authenticity circulating the greater coaching community. What it means to be authentic, what authenticity looks like in practice, how to build an authentic business, realigning with what feels authentic to us...sound familiar?In this episode, Laura offers us a beautiful & hard truth around authenticity, vulnerability, and showing ourselves to the world without a calculated outcome. She helps us to better understand when vulnerability is coming...

This is a clip from our new workshop this month inside The Secret Garden. In this workshop we explored creating an experience where our unique energy guides our creation. Where we ascend from being a coach to being a leader for our people. Where we create intimacy, connection, potency, and transformation from within.In this clip Laura leads us through a beautiful discussion on the illusion of control. If you've found yourself in a constant spiral of wanting to 'fix' your clients or have had d...