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Growing beyond trauma

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From the microcosm of personal transformation to the macrocosm of global healing, Growing into the Gray is equal parts life story and social prescription.

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Hi! I’m Laurie

I’m a bit of an outlier and like to challenge the status quo. That’s because one of the greatest learnings of my transformation has been that I’m not inherently broken, and neither are you. Our individual and social struggles can be seen as symptoms of the dis-ease of our traumatized and disembodied culture. Thankfully, by starting with ourselves and bringing our own greater wholeness to the necessary work of change, we each hold the power to help heal the world. And we must.

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Dancing Queen, or Dancing Fool, or Maybe Both

Those first two words, evoking the Abba song by that title from way back in 1976—the year I graduated from high school—are a blast from the past, aren’t they? While I may no

I’m All Wet

Sixty years ago, at age three, I jumped in my neighbor’s swimming pool and have never really dried off. I took to water instantly, feeling at home there, and have spent much of

Shift Happens

Welcome to my blog! I’m so glad you’re online with me. At one point, I wasn’t sure I’d ever make it here. I started on this project two full years ago but got massively

"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

-Howard Thurman

"The body heals the mind.”

-Gloria Gonzalez

"Look closely at the present you are constructing; it should look like the future you are dreaming.”

-Alice Walker

"Listen to your heart and trust the direction you are being pulled. Something inside you already knows what to do.”

-Spring Washam

"Only when we’re brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”

-Brené Brown

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

-Maya Angelou

"We need connection and stories and experiences that help us transcend our own lives to connect with others and ideas bigger than ourselves.”

-Julia Taylor

"We feel like separate water droplets but we are also ocean.”

-Jane Hirshfield

"If your compassion does not include yourself it is incomplete.”

-Jack Kornfield

"Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart.”

-Joanna Macy