Author Archives: Laurie Gerber

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A Few Things You Might Not Be Getting From Your Spiritual Practice

Spirituality is an area of life we at the Handel Group® ask all clients to address. We don’t teach religion or promote any particular path, but spirituality has to factor in for any human being trying to better his or her life. I recommend yoga and meditation to most of my coaching clients. In fact, I […]

Just When You Think All is Lost with Your Love

Awhile back, my husband and I spent two days coaching a couple once so in love, now on the brink of divorce. We had already been working with them individually, with my husband coaching the husband and I coaching the wife. We were managing to help each one cope with the stress of a dissolving […]

Gravitate Towards What You Hate

 Have you noticed that the New Agers are telling you to go towards your bliss? To notice what you love to do, what gives you pleasure and joy, and do more of that? Pshaw, I say. Gravitate to what you hate.Here are some things I used to hate:– Carrots– Exercise that required sweating– My brother– […]

Defying Food

 Trust me, I have tried to defy this law, but I find it to be unassailable: You cannot have two thoughts at once. While I am busy thinking about FOOD, I cannot also be thinking about what I want to accomplish in life. I also can’t be tuned into the thoughts, words or feelings of […]

Does Food Talk to You?

 This doesn’t apply to all of you, only some of you. So you might want to stop reading if you can’t relate to the following statement: Food talks to me. If I let it, it can almost talk all day long. I have an excellent solution for how distracting this can be. It’s part of […]

Can’t Find Love? Here’s Help

Are you one of the millions of people out there searching for love, but can’t find it? Are you frustrated and annoyed with the dating scene? Is “all the good ones are taken” a popular line of thought for you? Here’s annoying but good news: It’s likely your inability to find love has little to […]

Debunking Your Dating Dumb Ass Theories

She is too funny for me not to “borrow” from. One of our coaches at Handel Group® Life Coaching, Marnie Nir, just published an article about dating mistakes and I just knew you’d be interested in her insights. It already has over 200 comments on Huffington Post, so I know people are really trying to figure out […]

Don’t Make Resolutions, Make Promises

It’s getting to be that time of year when we especially take stock and think of changing. That makes me happy, but please don’t just make resolutions. Why? Resolutions are the reason the gym is so crowded on January 2nd, but also pretty empty by January 15th. Resolutions have within them the suggestion of an […]

Enjoy Laughing AT Us

 It’s time for a little levity. I love comedy!The comedian, Jeff Foxworthy, of Blue Collar Comedy fame, is known for his “You might be a redneck if . . . ” bit. Well, I liked that format so much (though please don’t hold his stereotyping against me) that I decided to do a Handel version […]

Don’t Get Love Amnesia!

Remember back to when you were really in love and you felt it, in this relationship or a past one. What was it like? How did you feel? Behave? What did you do when it was at its best, most romantic and delicious? I am stalling a bit so you can really get some good […]

The How of Flourishing Relationships

 Usually my husband’s jokes get an eye roll or a snicker from me, but today I tried something new. I told him he is so funny. (He is.) I smiled big. I looked right at him and beamed. I was the sun and he was a big, purring cat, basking in my light. In the […]