Coaching is the Path from Desire - to Commitment - to Action - to Fulfillment
Services
Wellness Coaching
Within each of us, nature has provided all the pieces necessary to achieve exceptional health and wellness, then left it up to us to put them all together. ~ Diane McLaren
Coaching addresses the emotional and mental aspects and is a container that invites presence of spirit. Coaching considers our whole life and helps create movement. It helps us to become unstuck. Sometimes a negative belief pattern, low confidence and self-worth, fear of change, or simply feeling comfortable, is in the way of us finally creating the life we desire. Sometimes misinformation, lack of information or a sense of disconnectedness to what it is we truly want stands in our way. Through the information and insight offered in wellness coaching, we’re able to let go of defeating past patterns and step courageously toward complete health and well-being.
Some of the elements Laura’s wellness coaching clients focus on include:
-Losing weight
-Changing eating patterns / all aspects related to food
-Eating disorders
-Anxiety or depression
-Being more fit
-Balancing the demands of life (e.g. work, health, relationships, etc.)
-Beginning a meditation practice or building a deeper spiritual connection
Leadership, Management and Transformative Coaching
“Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
While all coaching—at its core—attempts to evoke transformation, there is no where the coach is trying to force us to go. There is no right and wrong—only what we truly desire. Sometimes we forget we have the answers, the key, to our own lives. We get busy and stressed and forget to ask ourselves what it is we truly want. There are goals we want to accomplish and don’t. Goals we want to accomplish but don’t know how to. Sometimes we don’t even know where to begin. We simply know we want things to be different. We yearn to feel happier or more fulfilled.
Coaching helps us to better understand what we really want. It helps keep us on track. It can also help keep a business owner, an organization and employees on track. Coaching helps keep us focused on the vision that is propelling us - and the business of the company - forward. There are specific issues to work on; relationship issues at work and at home, strengthening communication with family, friends and co-workers, career changes, new business development, business plan writing, leadership and management, eating patterns, exercise regimes, time management, dealing with loss and so many others. These are the specific coaching items that lend us the insight and help us move closer to what we truly want in our lives: More passion, success, love, balance and happiness.
Some of the elements Laura’s leadership and management coaching clients focus on include:
-Leading an organization through transformational change
-How to better step into the role of leader
-Calling forth the magnificence in current employees to help support the needs of the organization
-Managing employees with clear direction and competent communication
-Fostering a work environment focused on innovation and a competitive edge
-New partnerships, business plan implementation, new business development opportunities, holding the vision, creating a new vision, and so on.
-How to use fun as a motivator in the workplace
-New career development, figuring out what the client is really passionate about, finding new employment and so on.
-Balancing the demands of life (e.g. work, health, relationships, etc.)
Nutrition Based Disorders and Disease Coaching
The first wealth is health. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
An individualized nutritional assessment is used to help determined the underlying nutritional symptomatology—how nutrition can benefit the symptoms of disease. Laura is trained to work with many different ailments including; allergies, arthritis, IBS, eczema, psoriasis, pain management, gout, hypertension, diabetes, and so on.
Improved nutrition—including food, herbs and supplements—are used to help restore the body to balance. An individualized plan is assembled to help integrate the healing power of nutrition and achieve optimal health. Other aspects integrated into the Nutritional Healing program include exercise, mind-set, emotional blockages and action. There is a balance of education, research for specific needs and coaching.
Laura believes the mind and body are not separate. She uses her training as a registered holistic nutritionist to help ascertain the underlying imbalances that are creating the pathology. As a wellness coach, she integrates deep discussion, exercises and perspective training to address the mental and emotional aspects of healing.
Cancer Management
Cancer Management explores and maintains a deep relationship between your body, mind and spirit.
This service includes deep individual assessments of the client’s nutritional needs. Laura disseminates powerful nutritional information and helps the client to incorporate significant changes into the diet. Nutrient-dense food is used as the basis of helping to protect or restore the body. Through education and information, action is taken on the part of the client to help build stronger immunity and resistance. Laura treats every client as an individual, incorporating research and nutritional tricks and techniques specific to each situation.
Cancer Management also incorporates wellness coaching to help the client get in touch with emotions and mental perspectives that foster hope and peace. Strategies and goal setting are integrated to bring the whole person into better alignment to take charge of his or her health and medical decisions. The techniques are designed to be powerful contributors to healing on all levels. The coaching relationship is a container that invites spirit and strength.
Having survived tumors and cancer three times, Laura personally understands the power of food and nutrition. The third time she was diagnosed with cancer—two tumors grew in her chest wall— her surgeon recommended surgery, for the third time in four and a half years. He insisted on removing all her ribs on the right side. She decided to continue to be monitored but seek out a different answer. She found success in healing was only possible when she considered the consistent sum of what she ate, thought, felt, and did. In the end, more than four years after her third diagnosis, she (finally) had a clean x-ray. She has been cancer free for the past seven years.
Laura brings compassion, gentleness, realness and her own experience to this part of her work. She is a beckon of light, love and knowledge in a time that may be enshrouded in fear.
She works with cancer clients in person or over the phone.