Lauren L’Amour, MS

"Then we set some goals. Let's dream big. What gets you excited? What feels really exciting to you? Then we go there, and the next step is we start to combine the two. It's very important to have a strategic plan to follow because in that movement toward your big excited goal is where the real work will occur. That's when you start to come up against yourself, and that's where the tools come in. My goal is always to empower them with their own special tools that they can use moving forward. I believe in setting yourself up for success, not waiting until you're up against the wall to then be scrambling."

"We always start with, who are you at your core? There are probably ten different assessments or conversations that we can use to dig into that. I'm always listening in terms of what are the threads and trying to highlight that for them. It's a process of unfolding. It's not a doing, it's a feeling thing. What you're feeling for is that essence of your soul, your inner core, your higher self, however you want to think of that."

"The biggest struggle I faced in living my own purpose was coming up against the programming of my family and society about, you know, you're not really that, or you're not meant to do that. People from our family do these sorts of things, or you're a girl or a woman, so you should follow this track. Primarily in my spirituality, it was a big place where that would show up. Those can be some of the most difficult days to overcome. But they can be, and I like to tell everybody, I have done my share of personal growth work by necessity, but it's possible, and if I can do it, anyone can do it. I would love to encourage anybody who's listening to this to do it because it's powerful work."

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"When I discovered my purpose and passion was in service to humanity, that showed up early on in life and has sort of shown itself throughout. There's definitely been a thread there in my life. Currently, I'm working with the World Upshift organization, and we're working to upshift all the other tremendous work that's happening in the world. I do volunteer work as well in service of humanity, and I've done that my entire life. I look back even starting as early as sixth grade, helping Cambodian children who were becoming orphaned from the war."

"The last step is to really find support, either a person, a coach, a teacher, or ideally a group. This was the biggest gift I gave to myself: I found my soul group and I traveled with them over time doing this deep, explorative work. It has to be a safe group, and it has to be a solid container. When you find your right group, they help you feel safe enough so that you can take off a mask, let that vulnerability show through, so that you can get to that core. They can reflect back to you, I see you, and better yet, I can feel you, and I love it, and keep on doing it. That's the work. Your group will be able to know you faster than you ever will yourself, which is kind of mind-blowing."

"Often, it's, well, I became a doctor because my mother wanted me to be a doctor, or an architect. That was the last gentleman I was talking to. He actually wanted to be a doctor, but his mother said no, be an architect, and there was not a lot of thought that went into it. Until they get to that place where they feel it's a pain of sorts. I know there's more. I can serve more. I can feel more alive. We always start with, who are you at your core? The raw part of it is getting to those things that you've had in place maybe since you were five years old, that are so comfortable and well-worn that you don't even realize they are a wall to your heart or to your true essence. I have done my share of personal growth work by necessity, but it's possible, and I will say if I can do it, anyone can do it."

"What you're feeling for is that essence of your soul, your inner core, your higher self. That's the piece of you that came in, that you knew when you were a little baby, was the truth of who you are, and then for some reason that was programmed out of us. They say, for the first seven years, we are developed into becoming someone pretty much the opposite of who we really are. So when people come to this pain point and they want to discover what's more, we need to go back there and discover who we really were when we came in and address each of those things, each of those places where we took a vow that said, I will not be who I really am. Instead, I will sit in, I will be quiet, I will play small in order to stay with the family, the society, the tribe. We need to visit those places and move through them. When you do, what's on the other side is freedom, joy, full expression, power, and hopefully, ultimately, the ability to serve humanity in a much deeper, more powerful, meaningful way."