Laura Young
MS, LMFT, LPC, CCH
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Manifestion - Get What You Want Expert
Laura Young Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Self Esteem, Personal Empowerment, and The Power of the Unconscious
- Career Focus
- Psychotherapist, writer, and author
- Affiliation
- Life Resource Center since 1992
Laura B. Young is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist (CCH) devoted to helping people reach their fullest potential. She draws on many years of clinical experience, including establishing Life Resource Center, a Private Practice.
Laura specializes in Relationships, Life Transitions, Grief Resolution, Stress Management and the Healing of Adults who have suffered childhood trauma. She leads groups with a special emphasis on Women's Creativity.
Laura is also a featured contributor to numerous publications including 101 Great Ways To Enhance Your Career. She has authored The Nature of Change, The Upside of Change, and Journey into a Passionate Life with a companion workbook. Her latest offering is Journey into a Passionate Life a Transformational System which includes over five hours of audio interviews discussing, in-depth, ten of the most universal of life’s struggles.
Laura was a radio host on Voice America's, 7th Wave Network from 2010 to 2012, focusing on how to Manifest and how to live a full and Passionate Life. She is sought after as a radio guest because of her ability to nudge people out of their comfort zone, as well as to encourage and uplift.
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Laura Young Books
The Nature of Change
http://www.laurabyoung.com/content/nature-change
Journey into a Passionate Life
http://www.laurabyoung.com/content/journey-passionate-life
Journey into a Passionate Life Workbook
http://www.laurabyoung.com/content/journey-passionate-life-workbook
The Upside of Change
https://www.createspace.com/4276438
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***Beyond the Pain of Divorce and Other Losses
“Give sorrow words: The grief that does not speak whispers the oe’r fraught heart, and bids it break.”(Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Macbeth, 1892)
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***Autumn Leaves
Life if full of transitions and as this one goes; summer into autumn may not be a highly dramatic Neiman Marcus moment. It may be a more practical down to earth restocking of our shelves and inner selves. What is important here is the attitude you bring to the restocking. If you do it mindfully this seasonal transition provides an opportunity to live life in a more meaningful way with eyes wide open. If we are not mindful summer can merge into autumn finding us picking up the pace of school, games, hunting, parties etc in an automatic headless, unfulfilling way.
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***Want a Less Stressful Summer?
I once heard George Carlin the comedian address the topic of vacations, and how people handle their “stuff.” People usually take a smaller version of their stuff on vacation and sequentially smaller versions to their hotel room, or to the beach etc. He was hysterical; resonating with the need we have for the familiar in order to feel more comfortable. Reflecting on this I wondered if it is the same with our stress level? Do we take a smaller version of our stress with us on vacation? Are we such creatures of habit that we unconsciously take along some stress to stay in our comfort zone?
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***What Does Your Busyness Really Mean?
“There is more to life than increasing its speed” (Gandhi & Desai, 1957) Life can be likened to a deep forest and on occasion we get lost in creating our path through it. If we are determined to find our way, it is necessary to face the fears and doubts that are always lurking, keeping us stuck when we do not face them. We cannot wait until the day arrives when there is an absence of fears and doubts, as it does not happen. If the forest is a metaphor for life, why do so many of us stay close to the entry not venturing in?
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***How to Win Your Struggle with Losing Weight!
There are a multitude of reasons why people struggle with weight control, many of which are unconscious. This article explains that it is not just about the food! Without recognizing and understanding your opponent, your struggle will continue to bring more of the same results. I will assist you in identifying what you are up against; as well as a range of reasons that hold you back. Tools to release the obstacles that get in the way of managing your weight are given. You are encouraged to give yourself that inner permission to succeed.
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***How To Make Anger Your Ally
"Creative energy that is not being rightly used..." (Osho, 1999)
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***Love the Dark Side of Your Moon
"Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody"(Twain The following is an excerpt from my latest book - "Journey into a Passionate Life." There is a companion workbook for those who want the tools and guidance to delve deeper into that part of self that they try desperately to hide.. The complete chapter may be read on my website LifeResourceCenter.net) “Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” (Twain, 1897)
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***Whose Beliefs Are You Believing?
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Rainer Maria Rilke
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***Change Is The Only Constant
Since change is the only constant in our lives, why is it so frightening to choose to change? Often it is thrust upon us and we didn’t see it coming. It may come in a way that cuts us off at the knees, such as having life, as we know it obliterated, like a tornado or hurricane. Somehow when such happens, time and time again we observe people having the courage and determination to reach down into their reservoir of resilience to deal with catastrophe. Where did all their courage, fearlessness, faith, determination come from, we ask ourselves. How were they able to do it?
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***Free At Last!
“Is the life I’m living the life that wants to live in me?” Parker Palmerrnr
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Money, What Is Your Story?
Many of our cultural beliefs about money are confusing and conflicted. In addition to cultural pressures, we have familial beliefs, that are unexamined, “hand me downs.” In the book “The Road Less Traveled”, Scott Peck alleges that parents give children a second hand God to worship, a God in keeping with their beliefs and practices. Money is another area where powerful beliefs, and myths are passed down. How many times have you heard; “well in our family we do it this way, or we do such and such,” as if it were the only way, with no room allowed for diverse ideas.
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It's That Time Of Year
The last two months of the year usually finds us in a frantic state of shopping, decorating, cooking and traveling, so is it any wonder we are more stressed than cheerful. Having so many "to do" lists, we are wound up and too exhausted to enjoy that which normally makes us happy, as in cherished traditions and intimate family gatherings. There is an underlying expectation at this time of the year, that everybody is supposed to be cheerful, and to some degree caught up in the frenetic activity. The external pressure of being merry creates an unrealistic goal for many of us.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Laura Young
Ring the bells that still can ring,
Forget your perfect offering,
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in. (by Leonard Cohen, Anthem 1992)
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.... (Mary Oliver, The Journey)
If you don't break your ropes while you are alive
Do you think ghosts will do it after...(Kabir, The Time Before Death)?
Jump into the experience while you are alive.... (Kabir, The Time Before Death)
.....this beginning has been quietly forming
Waiting until you were ready to emerge...(John O'Donohue, For a New Beginning)
"But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start the country I know best my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town, but my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No: my home: No my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself."(Elie Wiesel, Souls on Fire, 1973)
From where I sit, we are all in the same kettle of soup, nobody is without self-esteem and very few of us have enough. Whereas we may feel good about ourselves in one area, in another we may feel vulnerable and unworthy. Since our level of self-esteem has profound consequences in regards to the quality of our lives, I invite you to come on an adventure and learn to love, respect and accept yourself. I trust that over time I will offer something of sustenance that will help you grow into knowing that you are enough.
See you further down the road.
Laura