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Break the Cycle of Self-Sabotage: Fully Alive

Laura shared with Mary how her personal health journey inspired her entrepreneurial path to help others release self-sabotaging behaviors, embrace self-confidence, and live out personal truths by self-authoring their own stories. Check out the interview!

Is “fat” really a feeling?

Have you ever uttered the words, “I feel fat!”? That statement used to enter my mind on the daily, even after I had lost 60-pounds and was maintaining my weight. I still remember the first time I had the conversation with my health coach when she said, “Laura, fat is not a feeling!” I felt […]

Getting to the Root & Overcoming Stress Eating: Practically Well

Stress/unconscious eating–something that so many struggle with! While sometimes we understand that we’re eating because we’re stressed, oftentimes we don’t even know why we’re doing it, making it that much harder to stop. Learn practical steps we can take starting today to facilitate deep healing and sustainable change!

Breaking the Cycle of Self-Sabotage: Empowered Worth

Check out this interview to learn about the root causes of self-sabotage. Laura also shares the results you can expect by gaining awareness and clarity about your relationship with food. You’ll also hear why many of us turn to diets and how you can make them work for you if you choose to follow one.

What’s Behind ‘I Need to Lose Weight’ ASAP

Do you ever have days where you look in the mirror and feel good about what you see? You feel confident and comfortable with your body. On the flip side, do you have days where you feel “fat” and start thinking about needing to lose weight ASAP? That rollercoaster used to happen for me frequently. […]

Eat in Alignment with Your Goals: The Self Project Podcast

Kristy and Laura talk about the four triggers that lead to unaligned eating and how emotion gets wrapped up in an inanimate item like food or money and creates stories and beliefs we don’t always realize are there. 

A Tool to Feel Empowered: Memories with a Beat

Learn about one of the tools I use with my clients as they’re exploring their relationship with food, why it works, how to use it, and how it helped me as I was going through my journey to heal my relationship with food.

How Fear Becomes Strength and Leads to Finding Your Why

This is a guest blog post from Boudoir & Family Photographer, Shannon Griffin. I wanted to share a piece from Shannon because the work she does with her clients is so much deeper than just a boudoir session. She really gets to know her clients and helps them feel seen. I hope you enjoy this […]

Tips for Loving Your Current Body

This is a guest post from Liz Hansen, owner of the Chicago Boudoir Photography Studio If you’re like many women, you may feel some shame and dissatisfaction with your body. But what if you could start loving your body right NOW, just as it is? I want you to picture what that would be like. […]

How to Navigate the Office Food Minefield

Working in an office can be one big food minefield from various celebrations, leftover business meals, to the “obligatory” candy bowl on your co-worker’s desk. You start off the day strong with a good breakfast and eat what you brought for lunch. But when you see the free food you just can’t seem to resist […]

Emotional Eating: A Different Perspective

When you think of emotional eating, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? In the traditional sense, many people think it occurs when they’re bored, sad, happy, lonely etc. Even if you don’t consider yourself to be an emotional eater, I encourage you to keep reading as it can apply not only to how […]

The Benefit of Option C

When I start working with my clients most of them talk about how they’re stuck in black and white thinking. This typically leads to only being able to see two options in a situation. For example, they can either eat in alignment with their goals, or they don’t. They either meal plan or they don’t. […]

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