Welcome to My Blog
This blog is filled with personal stories and is designed to empower you with practical insights, methods, tools, and techniques to support your healing and personal growth journey. I hope you find some good takeaways you can apply in your life!
Blessings,
~Laura Rain

How to Stop Caring So Much About What Others Think & Be Authentically You!
Read about a technique that I used recently that helped a client stop diminishing herself to be liked by others. Themes of Self-Acceptance and Inner Child Healing.

My Journey of Helping People Heal for 20 Years!
My Story on how I became a Holistic Spiritual Counselor! This month I am celebrating twenty years of being in service in my healing arts business! This is a picture of me wih a piece of art I bought when I started out as a yoga teacher in 2005. Here are my reflections over the past 20 years. Themes of Adaptability and Finding Growth through Failures.

Finding Hope and Inspiration in Everyday Miracles.
How being present and mindful allows us to exprerience every day miracles. This is a picture of a rare white squirrel I saw on my walk! Themes of How to Be More Present and Mindful in Your Life.

How a Shift in Mindset Helped Me Learn to Ski!
How a Shift in Mindset Helped Me Learn to Ski!
Themes of Overcoming Self-Limiting Beliefs.

Hang In There! How To Move Forward in the Face of Fear and Uncertainty.
Sometimes, we just have to hang on! This is me- rock climbing in the Red River Gorge. Themes of How to Navigate Fear and Uncertainty.
Therapy Horror Stories: Scary, but True. Here is What We Need to Do.
In this blog post I share some stories I have heard from clients about negative experiences they have had in therapy. I include a bad experience I had a long time ago with a well-meaning therapist. Themes of what you should expect from a counselor or therapist.

The Zone of Genius; How to Know What Yours Is.
In this story I share a sweet conversation I had with my 9 year old son and his friend about our natural abilities. Themes of Self-Discovery and Unique Gifts and Talents.
How to Feel More Joy
A story of why we don’t feel more joy and how we can help ourselves feel it. Themes of letting go and releasing burdens.

How to Have a Higher Perspective.
This is a picture taken of me during a family trip to Shenandoah National Park. Theme is how to access our higher self or truth.

How Addictive Behaviors Can Be About Meeting a Need.
This blog is about the deeper roots of addictions. Themes are Self-Care and Getting our Needs Met.

The Importance of Taking the Time for a Spiritual Practice
This blog post is about how to cultivate a spiritual practice. Themes are Self-Care and Spiritual Rituals.

Push vs. Pause; How to Know When to Grit or Quit.
This blog is about how to identify when we need to push ourselves versus when we need to take a break, a pause, to reset. Themes are Self-Awareness and Mindfulness.
Spiritual Gaslighting Disguised as Support; Don’t Do It. Do This Instead!
This is a story of how a well intending spiritual person can unintentionally do harm through spiritual perspectives, which can at times lack empathy for the human experience. Theme: How to have empathy and be supportive to someone going through a hard time.

Claiming Your Strengths: Being Empowered, Humble, and Unafraid of Other’s Judgments.
This short and simple message is about how we can both be confident and humble. Themes are authenticity and personal power.
Mother’s Day is Not Always Happy.
Mother’s Day used to be a sad day for me. This story acknowledges how and why Mother’s Day can be a triggering day for some. Themes are Acknowledging and Validating all women’s experience on this day.

Anger: How to Manage it so It Does Not Manage You.
This is an imortant blog about how to manage and be in control of your emotions. Themes are anger management, nervous system regulation, mindfulness.

Feeling Strong; Having a Mind & Body Connection
This blog is about the mind-body-spirit connection. It is my story of how I best connect with my body and prompts to help you do the same. Themes are holistic health, mind-body connection.

You’re Not Crazy. Everyone “hears" voices in their heads.
This is a blog normalizes that we have different parts of ourselves that we can hear. Themes mindfulness and how to silence the inner critic.

Lessons from the Eclipse; How to Be in Alignment, Body, Mind, & Spirit
A blog about my experience with the eclipse. Themes are alignment and surrender.

A Walk on the Beach; Letting Go of Negative Emotions & Allowing Yourself to Be Calm.
This is a story of an experience I had while walking on the beach. It includes a poem I wrote that day. Themes are how to let go and surrender.