Lara Land

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Healing Trauma with Nature

Healing Trauma with Nature

Healing trauma is complicated and often requires a multilayered approach which includes multiple practices centered around dispersing trapped energy and …

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How to apologize

How to apologize

One of the things we have to start learning as yoga teachers, trauma informed yoga teachers, and humans is that we don’t know everything.

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Quieting Your Inner Critic

Quieting Your Inner Critic

Your inner critic does not have to win. I can say that with confidence because mine was the worst. My insecurities got in my way big time. They stopped me…

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Feeling Good

Feeling Good

Lots of folks when they start getting into yoga, meditation, and mindfulness are looking to ease stress AND many are also considering how they may improve…

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Planning in the time of Corona

Planning in the time of Corona

Is this real life? Is this how things will now be? What is coming in 3, 5, 12 months and if I don’t know, how can I plan? These are the questions plaguing so many people today.

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Have Coach Will Travel

Have Coach Will Travel

Sometimes a little nugget of knowledge appears and changes EVERYTHING. That happened to me a couple of years ago when my now husband proposed to me. I wrote about it here….

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Being the Best verses Trying your Best

Being the Best verses Trying your Best

It’s a common practice especially in this city to groom your child to be the best. This means starting from early as two months out with scheduling, training, classes, and obedience. It’s a commitment I’m pretty amazed at but have no desire to introduce to my own child.

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25 Reasons Why You Need a Life Coach Today

25 Reasons Why You Need a Life Coach Today

It’s an anxious time and so many people I know are seeking the help of therapists which is truly wonderful. Therapy provides a certain outlet and support unique to any other and I often refer people to the very qualified caring therapists I know.

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How to show up for your friends this season

How to show up for your friends this season

Sometimes though we have our best intentions we end up pushing friends away when they need us the most. When a friend is struggling or even just debating a next step, it is important to know how to be there for them. Being conscious and careful about how we respond is a kindness to a friend that will be appreciated and reciprocated when our time comes.

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How to show up for yourself this season

How to show up for yourself this season

If there is one secret I know about life it’s to show up for it. Even if you are not ready, unsure, and frightened as hell, you will always prosper in some way from showing up even if it’s to learn your lesson for next time. Growth will never come from hiding.

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Reduce your stress in one instant

Reduce your stress in one instant

Who wouldn’t want to reduce stress? Stress is the leading cause for heart disease, gastrointestinal problems, headaches, weight gain, and premature aging. It can lead to anxiety, depression, and completely dismantle our lives and yet we are largely lost as to how to combat it and often even how to see and acknowledge it.

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How to live your most authentic life in 5 simple steps.

How to live your most authentic life in 5 simple steps.

Have you noticed, or is it just me, that people are always saying they are value driven. Family values, American values, the word ‘values’ comes up more and more and yet few know what their true values are let alone what to do once they pinpoint them.

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