Author Archives: Laurie Gerber

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What It Takes to be a Handel Coach

  Only very special people become Handel Group® coaches. I don’t know if you’ve heard of the custom (I learned it from Sex and the City) that if someone is trying to convert to Judaism, the rabbi is supposed to reject them three times and only teach them if their earnestness is proven by the fact […]

Daily Love of Time

 In keeping with my theme of talking about the currencies of your life, I am back to talk about your most important currency: TIME. Time is THE currency of your life. It is the instrument through which you sing the song of your life. Your relationship with time, therefore, really matters. But why am I […]

I Judged Someone and I Liked It

It feels so good, is it really so bad? I think it’s too simple to say: “Judging is wrong” or “I am trying to be less judgmental.” I hear it in yoga and spiritual circles all time, we are quieting our minds to stop all the ceaseless judging. But I want to take a deeper […]

Don’t Let Your Emotions B*#ch Slap You

Bliss Broyard published an article in ELLE Magazine about her experience coaching with me. I found it fascinating that the most poignant take away, and hence her title was “Don’t Let Your Emotions Make You Their B*#ch.” Yup, much to my 9-year old daughter’s dismay, I said it. How I ask clients to deal with their […]

Daily Love of Your Food

As you probably know, I am coaching Mastin on his love and design of his dream body. What a great test case; he is one stubborn cookie! I have gotten in trouble in the past on this blog for my fixation on controlling the foods people eat. I have been accused of having and projecting […]

Agree With What You See

 I think I’m a pretty positive person, but turns out, I spend a lot of my day disagreeing with things. I don’t like how my body feels in the morning. Why are my kids not up and dressed yet? Why can’t I find that blender part? Why are people talking so loud? Why does my […]

Is the Handel Method Negative?

 From time to time, we hear the criticism that we are too negative. Oh man, we are working on always delivering our tough truths with grace and love. We pride ourselves on having been through it ourselves and thus relating and caring deeply about our individual clients. But sometimes we do get excited and enjoy […]

You Might Be a Hypocrite if . . .

When I talk to leaders, I find out a lot of them struggle with feeling like frauds. After all the work you do to succeed, do you sometimes still end up feeling like a fraud? Recently my leadership capacities took a leap forward when I realized I was being a hypocrite. I was telling other […]

What Are You Smoking If Love Is Still a Pipe Dream?

You say you want love. Seemingly, you are searching hard for it. Your friends would all nod their heads in agreement that you are doing the right things, or, at the very least, complaining loudly about it and, therefore, must care. Alas, to no avail, because you have nothing but proof that there IS indeed […]

Make Yourself Sacred

 Usually I coach you to make yourself scared, because we know how cool it is to go up against fear and win, but today I am going a little new-agey on you and tell you to make yourself sacred. In other words, you are the source of your own experiences. Too often we erroneously think our […]

Daily Love of Your Job

 When was the last time you felt riveted by your career?Ever?The average American lifetime includes 90,000+ hours of work time. If you aren’t rating work an 8 or above on a scale on 1-10, it’s time to deal. Isn’t it time you confront the fact that nobody is coming to fix this problem but you? It’s […]