Calling artists, writers, leaders, culture-makers:
What if your work is bigger than how you make money in exchange for your time?
(the narrow, capitalist-industrial definition of “work”)
It’s time to be who you want to be, and do the Big, Beautiful Work* you were born to do.
*Being Yourself + Sharing Your Gifts = Your Big, Beautiful Work
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★ From inner criticism to self-trust ★
“When I started my journey with Lara, I had already done a lot of work on myself but had somehow hit a plateau. I was struggling with huge waves of doubt and attacks from my inner critic. Lara’s gentle, wise, and powerful support guided me to find my own steps forward. The result for me personally was a quantum leap into trusting my own inner compass.”
–Melanie Gritzka Del Villar,
Visual Artist, Spain
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★ I can face my fears and stay grounded ★
“As someone who is career-driven, I loved Lara’s approach of connecting different aspects of my life and inspiring me to think about MY purpose in life. Drawing from her rich life experiences and her natural ability to quickly grasp my lived experiences, she always tailored her coaching specifically to what I needed. I’m grateful to her for showing me how to face my fears while staying grounded!”
–Lyn H.,
Arts Leader, New York
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★ From stressed and overwhelmed to capable ★
“Thank you for your incredibly powerful coaching, Lara! I’ve just had the best day in months. Every time I look at the clock I think ‘I am capable’ instead of stressing and overwhelming myself. I got everything on my work list done even though I took that bonus hour to be coached by you. Talk about a wiser investment!
–Jules Clancy,
Author, Australia
You’re an artist, writer, changemaker, or innovator.
Vision and ambition are your middle names.
You know life’s more fun when you’re lushly supported.
You’re ready for coaching magic so you can:
Be who you want to be
Feel how you want to feel
Do your Big, Beautiful Work
You’re on the cusp of creating something that doesn’t exist yet: a book, a new body of work, the next chapter on your life’s path…
But even though on one level you’re more than ready…
You keep getting stalled because something in your unconscious mind is telling you it’s not safe to take your next step…
And while a part of you feels excited because you’re in touch with your soul’s calling — aka what you really give a f**k about doing in the world…
You notice your self-trust wavering, your nervous system gettng dysregulated (hello, anxiety)…
And your brain defaulting to unhelpful thoughts and feelings of pressure as you come up against other people’s opinions and second-guess your own decisions
You love getting things and done and making things happen…
But you’re used to doing things the “hard way,” hustling and pushing yourself to meet your goals…
So you tense up and forget to breathe and end up feeling tired and close to burnout instead of celebrating the incredible things you’ve already accomplished…
And even though life is good, you can’t always feel how good life is, in your body…
You think you need to “earn” the right to rest, play, or just be…
And you find it hard to carve out time for yourself unless it’s somehow tied to your work, productivity, or financial gain
You long to feel deeply present and anchored in your creative work and identity…
But instead you’re drowning in a list of to-do’s…
Getting pulled in multiple directions, running from one urgent task to another…
Your calendar is filled with things you’re doing because you think you “should,” instead of things you actually want to be doing…
And you feel like you’re scrounging for scraps of time to create
You know your creativity is the reason you’re on this planet…
…so you’ve probably tried all the things:
Yoga
Therapy
Meditation
Spiritual retreats
Scheduling hacks
Productivity apps
Changing your “mindset”
Scrolling (and scrolling) on Instagram
Reading or listening to personal development books
…but they’re Just. Not. Working.
Here’s the thing: it’s not you.
You’re up against generations of social conditioning rooted in colonialism, patriarchy, and industrialism…
…wounded systems of supremacy that have given you some curious beliefs.
For example:
Body and mind are separate
Human worth = human productivity
The “brain” / conscious mind is supreme
These beliefs have turned into habits – default survival mechanisms that run on a set of old, unconscious programmes* you’ve learned through social conditioning or inherited from your ancestors.
*These programmes are stored in your brain and your body’s nervous system – a complex, ancient operating system developed over millennia.
Unconscious survival mechanisms you might be running on autopilot:
Thinking of yourself as a brain on legs, disconnected from a body
Focusing on how your body looks instead of how your body feels
Not prioritising joy, resting, pleasure, creativity, or play
Believing you need to do everything yourself instead of leaning on others and allowing yourself to be supported
Putting others’ needs before your own in an effort to feel valuable and be accepted
Relying on external praise and society’s “gold stars” as a source of self-worth
And the beautiful truth is…
You:
are so much more than your conscious mind
are not a “Brain in a Jar” (thanks but no thanks, Descartes), separate from your body and the life force that animates you
have a source of deep wisdom and inner knowing in your body
have access to the wisdom of your body through your unconscious mind
Indigenous cultures and wisdom traditions have known this for millennia.
Neuroscience is finally catching up.
Today, neuroscience has shown:
You can update unconscious habits that keep you stuck in the past…
…and choose new ones that support your becoming.
That means working not just with the limited conscious mind…
(where just 5% of your thoughts live)
….but your incredible, deeply generative unconscious mind
(the source of your creativity, where more than 95% of your inner processing happens)
Rewiring your unconscious mind allows you to think new thoughts, feel new feelings, make new decisions, and take new actions.
This is how you create your future, in partnership with your deepest inner knowing.
Introducing Coaching Magic
The What
You’ll gently, tactically, and powerfully rewire new patterns of thinking, feeling, and doing in your beautiful brain + nervous system, with magic* based on neuroscience over a series of personally tailored, 1:1 deep transformational coaching sessions.
*Magic = coaching that works on your conscious and unconscious levels, aka an experiential blend of life coaching, somatic and nervous-system work, deep transformational techniques, and evidence-based tools based on the “Meta-Pattern” – the deep structure of change that underlies human transformation.
The Result
You’ll:
Discover what makes you really tick and The Why behind your why, so you can make powerful choices that move you closer to what you want instead of staying stuck in circles of indecision.
Be empowered to skilfully shift your nervous-system state so you can move through your emotions, create how you want to feel, and bring that feeling to what you want to create (so: more confidence and inner safety, less anxiety and self-doubt).
Change your beliefs about who you are – and what you're capable of – on a profound level, and build new habits of self-friendship, self-compassion, and positive regard that ripple out into every area of your life.
Let go of unhelpful patterns of overwhelm, people pleasing, and playing small, so you can go after those big opportunities that scare-cite you, feel more peace about your decisions, advocate for yourself from a place of connection and grounded confidence, and have more time and energy for the things that matter to you.
Deep transformation from coaching flows into every area of your life — creativity, confidence, career, and relationships*
*with self, source, other
Why It Works
Because this coaching works on your conscious and unconscious levels, it helps you:
Open the doors to profound, lasting change by shifting habituated patterns of behaviour and “limiting” beliefs from the place where they come from (your unconscious mind), so you can choose who you want to be, and take courageous action to support your becoming;
Trust yourself to have your own back no matter what, so you no longer see challenging emotions as a problem, and you alchemise obstacles into springboards from which to create;
Tap into your deepest wells of creativity and unlock the kind of flow states that artists, painters, musicians, and elite athletes live for and dream about;
Bring a spirit of lightness to even the harder parts of the human experience, because you know how to love, nurture, and embrace all levels of your magnificent self.
Hi! I’m Lara (she/her), your coach.
I came to coaching almost two decades after recovering from post-viral fatigue that left me so severely sick I had to be hospitalised.
Even after I fully recovered my energy, I came up against old, wounded patterns again in my 30s, working in high-pressure work environments and ignoring my body’s signals.
My professional work won awards and got quoted in books – all fun! – but I also had miscarriages, experienced long stretches of feeling “flat” and uninspired, spent wayyyyyyy too long sitting in meetings, and regularly put my body’s needs and personal creative work last.
Today, I’ve built a career that works for me and my family; I’m writing a book about family, roots, ancestors, and making home; and I create things that help people be who they are, as they are, so they can do their Big, Beautiful Work – in life, art, literature, and leadership.
Current offerings
BIG BEAUTIFUL WORK
BIG BEAUTIFUL WORK
Private coaching with Lara
6 months: AU$6,000
★ You receive ★
2 transformational sessions per month (50 mins each)
Two bonus sessions (50 mins each) that can taken as single sessions or as a two-hour “deep dive”
…PLUS…
★ Ongoing support ★
Tailored resources, custom practices, and guided meditations for use between sessions
Option to record sessions for your personal archive
NOTE:
Coaching hours are on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, Adelaide time, between 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. (convert to your time zone). Sessions take place over Zoom.
Optional check-in.
Ready for coaching and want to ask questions or talk through next steps in a collaborative way?
Fill in this form and I’ll personally be in touch to set up a 15-minute, human-to-human chat.