Looking Ahead With Lauren: What’s Your Love Style?

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We all love someone, yet we love in different ways. Even the most miserable or hurtful people deep down have love for others. In the words of one of my favorite movies, “The Last Kiss”, “Every a**hole in the world loves someone, it is what you do to the people you say you love that [...]

Let Go or Be Dragged

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This quote appeared to me today. Not a surprise. It’s been an interesting time since I returned from India last week. I’ve had numerous people contacting me regarding things that have finally come up for them and that need to be released. We’ve been told for the past several years that with the coming of [...]

Getting Your Family On Board with Life Changes

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‘Men learn while they teach.’ ~Seneca the Younger It is a curious phenomena that when we try to change our habits — simplify our clutter, eat healthier, start exercising — the other people in our life don’t instantly want to be changed in the same way. It’s as if they had their own minds! Horrible [...]

How to Deal with Fiery, Passionate Relationships. ~ Shelly Bullard

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No one on the planet lights my soul on fire the way my man does. It’s a fiery relationship—for better and for worse. I get so activated in his presence. I light up. Quite literally, I buzz. A fire roars deeply and passionately in my heart, for him. And sometimes that fire takes over—a burning [...]

The Power of Fellowship

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I was recently interviewed for a magazine article and was asked, “Why do you think yoga is becoming so popular in our culture?” This question had me in inquiry for awhile, even after my interview. When I put the physicality of yoga aside (because I could go on and on about the physiological benefits of [...]

Life, Interrupted: Crazy, Unsexy Cancer Tips

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Every few weeks I host a “girls’ night” at my apartment in Lower Manhattan with a group of friends who are at various stages in their cancer treatments. Everyone brings something to eat and drink, and we sit around my living room talking to one another about subjects both heavy and light, ranging from post-chemo [...]

Walled-in: Life Without Facebook

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I quit Facebook because I wanted to live deliberately. Seventeen months ago, I deleted my Facebook account — not just deactivated it, but fully deleted it — and the relief was tremendous. No longer did I have to check for updates, deal with friend requests (is this someone whose updates I want in my life? [...]

The Art of Letting Go

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“Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.” – Thich Nhat Hanh “Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not [...]

Looking Ahead With Lauren: Take Time to Receive Love

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“We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Perks of Being a Wallflower I will admit to all of you, I’ve never been that great with accepting love. I’m good with showing love: buying special gifts for loved ones, giving compliments, telling people I love them regularly, etc. But accepting that someone truly means [...]

Unlock Your Heart To Flow In Love

Allow Your Heart to Flow in Love

” The highest love doesn’t keep score; it merely is the sound of the universe, it plays within us the music of the spheres unstruck (anahata), without cause, without asking anything in return, it lights our soul” The heart is essential for the function of our physical body as well as emotional. A block in the [...]