HI, I AM LAUREN
MOTHER - BUSINESS GUIDE & MENTOR - BRANDING & WEBSITE ALCHEMIST - CREATIVE SOUL - SACRED SPACE HOLDER - MULTI-DIMENSIONAL HUMAN BEING...
There are very few things in life that light me up more than walking with other women as they craft a life that feels meaningful, deeply fulfilling and also supports their life force and aliveness.
As a passionate multi-faceted (Manifesting Generator) soul, you will find many threads to my heart and soul work, and yet everything I craft is tethered together by a deep desire to hold a loving space for others to activate and remember their own unique blend of medicine.
After over two decades in business I have crossed many thresholds as my offerings have evolved, and it is my honour to share my experience and wisdom with others to facilitate a transformation that ripples out from the heart.
You will find that I combine earthy, grounded and practical tools, practices and strategies with a sprinkling of magic and mysticism and as a 4/6 Manifesting Generator in Human Design, my whole life is multi-faceted and doesn’t follow a linear path, so you can also expect the unexpected!
I am earth and sky… here to hold the medicine keepers, the mothers, the space holders, the healers and the visionaries as they journey into new realms within themselves and create expansive ripples in the world around them.
YOU ARE THE MEDICINE
My Story
My own business journey began twenty years ago when I left my role in journalism to run my own PR & Marketing agency. Over the years it has evolved drastically and has taken many different iterations - all with communication and visibility at the heart.
In 2016, after journeying with anxiety and health issues for most of my twenties, I pivoted and set off on a deep dive in to the healing arts world…
I taught yoga classes and ran retreats in France and Austria, spent hundreds of hours coaching and guiding people, built many websites, set up in depth communication strategies for brands in the holistic wellbeing industry, organised and ran two global health summits, ran a podcast and wrote thousands of words for myself and my clients that can now be found in many places across the internet and even some in print.
And then came motherhoodI walked through a portal in September 2019 that would leave me forever changed.
Giving birth to my first daughter, Sophia.
I was re-birthed as a Mother the moment she was put in my arms and have since been on a journey of learning, unlearning, softening and surrendering. In December 2022 I walked through another portal and met my second daughter Vesper.
I knew these Rites of Passage would be transformative... but had no idea just how much they would teach me.
I believe that these turning points in womanhood can be incredibly powerful catalysts to propel us into our heart and soul work and that these transitions, if we allow them, will orientate us towards our heart and soul work to give new perspectives, skills and wisdom previously undiscovered.
Now, I am stepping into another season of life as I journey into peri-menopause and yet again am being invited to meet my body, my heart and my energy with a new acceptance and willingness to change. It is humbling, uncomfortable and yet also exciting in equal measures as my capacity shifts, my priorities evolve and my own heart and soul work deepens.
Having studied many different holistic modalities, including various Coaching certifications, Yoga teacher trainings, Meditation, Yoga Nidra and Human Design - I now very much merge the worlds of healing and holding space with creating a heart-lead business.
My intention in everything that I do is to hold a safe and sacred space for the remembering, the unfolding and the emerging so that you can find a way to dance between a business that sets your soul on fire AND living a life that reflects your values and your unique needs.
My specialities…
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I view business as a form of sacred artistry. It is an expression of our heart and soul, and that is why I refer to it as our ‘heart work’.
I truly believe life is too short to spend too much time doing work that doesn’t fulfil us and support our aliveness, and so from a very early age I decided to go against the grain and create my own business opportunities.
Over the years my strategies have changed, as have the modalities that we use to communicate with (when I began social media didn’t exist and we still used landlines!!) but at the foundation of it all is a deep belief that we are gifted with unique medicine to share and that if the calling is there, we can craft worlds for ourselves, and the communities around us.
Business to me is a deep journey with ourselves. It brings up shadows and discomfort, it is an undulating pathway, but it is also an opportunity to make change and impact.
In every session I hold, whether it is in person, during a website design, a mentoring group or a women’s circle, I am devoted to creating a loving space for your medicine to rise up, and then provide you with the guidance to bring that medicine into the world.
I see so much possibility in those around me, and it is my greatest honour and pleasure to walk with others as they truly see it in themselves.
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Visibility and Communication is a hugely important part of our heart and soul work, and yet it is also the part that brings up a lot of discomfort and fear.
Without being visible and communicating with your community, you simply cannot create a thriving business. That doesn’t mean it looks the same for everyone though.
I understand how vastly scary (and exciting) it can feel to be truly seen, and yet when we craft a brand and business that feels authentic and truly aligned with our individual selves we can show up to our work with more confidence and clarity (even if we feel a little wobbly in the process).
I have worked in Marketing, PR & Design for over twenty years and worked with hundreds of people to find ways to connect with their communities in a way that feels true to them. There is no cookie cutter process here and every single being is unique in the way they will communicate their medicine.
My intention is to support you in creating spaces and platforms that you can share and become known for your own blend of medicine. This will look different for everyone, but it is always based on a genuine connection and an invitational energy.
Together we will explore your visions and inspirational ideas, looking at the unseen elements of your heart work, and then use soulful strategy to bring them earth side.
Website creation has become a passion of mine because we have the possibility of crafting an ecosystem for our work that feels like home. From here we can create clear channels and offerings, turning your seeds of ideas into reality.
There are so many ways we can market our medicine, and I adore working with others to create pathways that resonate with them.
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Over the years I have come to understand that one of the most important pieces of ‘work’ we can ever do when walking the path of our heart and soul work, is to tend to our own nervous system.
If we create from a heightened state, it often frazzles our energy and is unable to fully integrate. I learned this the hard way after launching several business ideas in my late twenties and not quite understanding why nothing would ‘stick’.
My realisation came when I understood more about the nervous system and that I was effectively moving too fast for my system to feel safe, and therefore would expand quickly and then end up burned out and need to retreat again.
We can have all the shiny external pieces in place, but if the underlying energy is not steadied it can feel fragmented and too vulnerable.
Only when I started to integrate practices that tended to my nervous system did I start to feel my business shift. It was slower movement than before, but it was sustainable.
I believe that in order to step into the kind of leadership the world needs, we have to put our attention on our own systems and ensure that we are doing all we can to support our capacity as we grow.
This doesn’t mean staying still, but it does often mean taking pauses, gently soothing ourselves along the way, being aware of when we are able to stretch, and being aware of when we need to rest and let the dust settle.
Having now studied with many wonderful teachers (and continually doing so) the way I work with others is constantly weaving in nervous system practices and support in order to make sure that those I work with are resourced, given space to breathe, and finding a steadiness in their work even through the big growth phases.
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My own relationship with my body has been complex. I have experienced disordered eating, mistrust in my physical capacity, poor body confidence, autoimmune disease, and a lifetime of health anxiety.
While this has been challenging in many ways, it has also lead me to study the body in great depth and understand just how important movement and somatic awareness is to all areas of life.
Alongside our heart and soul work, and the strategic side of my work, is also a deep passion for working with the body. When our body is ‘on side’ our creativity and expression can be liberated.
I adore holding space for others to connect to themselves through subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, movement.
To strengthen in many different ways, to grow resilience, to be able to access the body as a way of activating our own medicine through practices that nourish and support us. This fascinates and inspires me.
Nearly all of my work involves some form of movement, even if it is a 2 minute dance to shake off residual energy, a gentle stretch to open the heart space or a roll around on the floor to find our true expression.
I will forever be deepening my studies of the body. Becoming a Yoga teacher in 2016 has been one of the greatest gifts. I am a lifelong learner of how our body speaks to us, and how we can work with our bodies… and this will always show up in the practices I share and the work that I do.
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All that I do is aligned with the undulating cyclical seasons of being a woman - which means that our work together is built on the understandings of the non linear path that comes with life.
One of the catalysts for my own healing was losing my menstrual cycle through Hypothalamic Amenorrhea in 2013 and this experience placed me firmly on the path of menstrual cycle awareness and the sacredness of the female body. I studied with Uma Dinsmore Tuli (amongst others), I began connecting with the lunar cycles, the seasons and the spiralling nature of what it is to be a woman. The shift in me was profound as I remembered where my power and vitality came from.
Motherhood yet again threw me into a deep learning phase of the female body from both a physical and energetic point of view. Studying Matrescence put name to so much of my own experience.
Now here I am meeting peri-menopause, and yet again I am being initiated into another way of being. I can see how the holding of women through these powerful rites of passage is integral to the wellbeing and aliveness of our community.
At each of these pivotal points in my own life I have deepened into my own medicine. It has brought new awareness, new perspectives, new priorities, so I see these threshold crossings as activations into the way we walk and work in the world.
This awareness infuses into all that I do and I adore weaving ceremony and ritual into the way I work with women. It is an ancient remembering and reclamation of medicine from the past and feels increasingly important in our often disconnected world.
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Just after giving birth to my first daughter in 2019 I discovered Human Design.
At first it was a tool of remembrance for me personally… it gave me permission to fully step into my multi-passionate nature as a Manifesting Generator. It helped me connect with my own passions and see many of the superpowers I had often overlooked.
As is the nature of my curiosity, I soon dove deeply into studying it, and over the years I have worked with some incredible teachers to learn more and more about this incredible system.
Human Design now forms an integral part of the way I work with others. It weaves into Design and Branding work, it is powerful in a mentoring session, in a simple reading it can give someone access to parts of themselves that have long become buried. It is a system that I truly wish everyone knew about!
This incredible tool supports us in truly deepening into our own unique medicine, whether that is in sacred business or personal relationships and life.
The celebration of uniqueness that Human Design offers is a healing balm in a world that tells us to follow certain steps and adhere to certain ways of being.
It is a pathway back to the heart and soul of who we truly are and it is my greatest honour to share it with others.
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I cannot fail to mention the magic of Yoga Nidra here. To be a guardian of this medicine is one of my greatest honours.
Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep) was pivotal in my own healing journey and from my very first practice I was captivated by it.
As someone who really struggled to rest, to stay still and to be with my own thoughts at the start, this practice gave me a guided restoration practice that nourished me on all levels.
In addition to this, once in these rested states I noticed myself accessing a creative, spiritual side of myself that I had previously not really been able to reach.
After travelling to Canada in 2018 to study with the incredible Tanis Fishman, I started sharing the practice with others and it has become an integral element of my work.
I adore infusing my skills as a yoga nidra facilitator with my creative writing to take those who receive it on a guided journey deeper into themselves.
For me it is the absolute balm for modern life and gives us access to deep rest in a shortened period of time, making it ideal for those of us who dance with busy life and may not have the time and space to commit to as much rest as we really need.
Yoga Nidra truly is a tonic, I hope I get to share it with you soon.
Trainings and Teachers…
IIN Health Coaching Certification. 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training. Well Woman Womb Yoga Teacher Training with Uma Dinsmore Tuli. Pregnancy & Post Natal Yoga Teacher Training with Sally Parkes. Reiki Level 1 & 2. British School of Meditation Teacher Training. Yoga Nidra Teacher Training with Tanis Fishman. 600 hour Sex, Love & Relationship Coaching Certification with Layla Martin. Matrescence Mentoring with Jessie Harrold. Trauma & The Breath Studies with Jane Clapp and Jennifer Snowdon. Human Design Reader Training Level 1 & 2 with Jenna Zoe. Human Design Training with Kyla Derkach. Cacao Facilitator Training with Cacao Mama. Part of Standout Squarespace design community. Human Design Levels 1 & 2 with Erin Claire Jones. Cacao Facilitator training with Laura Durban. Pause Place Practitioner Training with Katie Abbott.
And, as a lifelong learner, I have no doubt that there will be many more to add!
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