A few years ago I had a near-divorce experience. Ten years and two kids into our marriage, my husband, Will, and I had fallen into a disconnected rut. Everything was fine, not great; we accepted each other’s good and bad qualities and existed pretty peacefully together. And then we tried to buy and renovate our […]
When a great new opportunity comes across your desk, is your first thought:“YES!”Or is it:“How could I make THAT happen?”Upon reflection, I am sad to find my mind usually tells me, and everyone else “no” in response to anything new, at first. Sure if the idea is about where to make dinner reservations, no problem, […]
Today we have a guest blog from Dr. Samantha Sutton, a Senior Coach and the Director of Courses and Seminars at Handel Group Life Coaching. Samantha is the leader of our flagship workshop, Design Your Life Weekend. Please enjoy; I’ll be back next week! – LaurieMany of us are stuck in one area of life […]
I was recently embarrassed while shooting my TV show and realized the power of the experience. Let me explain.I love my producer, (let’s call him Joe); he found me after interviewing many, many candidates, so I was so excited to be chosen. For the past nine months we’ve been planning and strategizing and shooting. We […]
A client, Diane, we’ll call her, recently reported in an email to her coach and me having two really difficult conversations: one with a former love-interest and one with a friend. In both, she had to admit some embarrassing thoughts she was hiding. She did NOT get the response she was hoping for or feel […]
This story cracks me up every time my husband tells it. He used to head up an elementary program at a Montessori school and he had a room full of 6-10 year-olds to deal with every day. There was always conflict, but there was one boy who repeatedly got into physical altercations with other kids. […]
I have had quite a journey with beauty. In seventh grade I wanted to be a model and even went to modeling school. (You gotta love it! Only a looks-obsessed teenager would dream this up at 5’3”.) In high school, I downplayed it for the girls and worked it for the boys. By college, I […]
My mom reads my blogs so I have to warn her right at the top. Hope this made it through your spam filters; don’t worry it’s nothing graphic. It’s all, as always, about the power of your mind. My health teacher in seventh grade made the joke: “what’s the most important part of your body […]
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 people […]
My rabbi once told me “don’t be so open minded that your brain falls out.” Sometimes when you work so hard on yourself and you want so much to do “the right” thing and be a good person, you can end up with one heck of a fake life. Is it possible to be so […]
Something was different about exercise class today with my favorite fitness guru Patricia Moreno. She wasn’t talking, at all. This is doubly strange because her whole yoga/martial art/cardio blast workout is designed around shouting out affirmations as you go through specialized, symbolic movements. Even stranger: regardless of Patricia’s laryngitis, this was one of her best […]
Today I want to talk about love. True, deep, lasting, juicy love takes place between two people who actually know each other, through and through. I know this seems obvious but people tend to deny it. How can you feel truly loved if you aren’t “being yourself?” It’s simple; you can’t. Deep and lasting love […]
