Laura Purnell Coaching

Laura Purnell Coaching Welcome, I'm Laura Purnell, Ph.D., ACHT
Retired school superintendent and certified hypnotherapist.

Integrating leadership experiences and skills with several healing modalities, and work focused on physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual growth.

My work is not theoretical.That sentence continues to feel important to me.I have lived inside the questions I now help ...
09/14/2026

My work is not theoretical.
That sentence continues to feel important to me.
I have lived inside the questions I now help other people explore.

Questions like:
Why do I keep repeating this pattern?
Why does my body react before I understand what is happening?
Why can I know something intellectually and still struggle to live it?
Why does healing sometimes feel like remembering something I forgot?

For many years, I thought the work was about figuring myself out.
Now I see it differently.
The work is not always about finding the perfect answer.
Sometimes it is about learning how to stay close enough to yourself to hear what is true.
To listen beneath the noise.
To meet the wounded places with compassion.
To notice the body’s wisdom.
To allow healing to be a process instead of a performance.
That is the kind of space I try to create in my work.
Not a pedestal.
A path.
Not a performance.
A return.

I’ll place the website link in the first comment.

Miracles“And increasingly, I think this may have something to do with what a miracle actually is.Not necessarily an inte...
09/14/2026

Miracles

“And increasingly, I think this may have something to do with what a miracle actually is.
Not necessarily an interruption of the laws of nature.
Not magic.
Not getting the outcome I requested.
A miracle may begin when I become available to participate differently in the circumstances that are already here.
The situation may not immediately change.
But the participant does.
And when the participant changes, something becomes possible that wasn’t possible before.”

-by my friend and teacher Michael Malone

What if your body is not the problem?What if the sensations, patterns, contractions, cravings, exhaustion, or restlessne...
09/11/2026

What if your body is not the problem?
What if the sensations, patterns, contractions, cravings, exhaustion, or restlessness are not signs that you are broken?
What if they are doorways?
So often, we are taught to override the body.
Push harder.
Think better.
Try again.
Fix the habit.
Control the reaction.
Manage the symptom.
But the body often carries wisdom long before the mind has words.
Sometimes what we call resistance is protection.
Sometimes what we call a pattern is an old survival strategy.
Sometimes what we call “too much” is actually a part of us asking to be heard with compassion.
This is one of the central invitations in my work:
Begin with the body.
Not to shame it.
Not to force it.
Not to make it perform healing on demand.
But to listen.
To notice.
To wonder, gently:
What is my body trying to tell me?
That question can become a doorway.
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Have I mentioned that I no longer experience symptoms of complex PTSD? Do you know that many educators have bodies that...
09/09/2026

Have I mentioned that I no longer experience symptoms of complex PTSD? Do you know that many educators have bodies that respond at work in ways similar to our first responder heroes?
I’ve been practicing, publishing, and teaching about HeartMath tools and technologies for 13 years. Coherence matters. Your energy matters. Grateful to be a HeartMath certified Resilience Advantage Trainer. Grateful for our bodies’ ability to heal.

www.laurapurnellcoaching.com

As this launch month comes to a close, I want to leave you with this invitation:Choose the doorway that feels right for ...
09/09/2026

As this launch month comes to a close, I want to leave you with this invitation:

Choose the doorway that feels right for you.

Download the free guide.

Read the book.

Join the free community.

Explore a workshop.

Request a consultation.

Begin with one question.

Begin with one breath.

Begin with one honest moment.

You do not have to force your way back to yourself.

You can begin gently.

You can begin where there is light.

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Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to visit my new website, share a kind word, or celebrate this launch with m...
09/07/2026

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to visit my new website, share a kind word, or celebrate this launch with me.

This site has been a labor of love.

It brings together my story, my book, my services, my workshops, my free guide, and the growing Feed Your Soul: Return to Love community.

But more than that, it brings together the heart of my work:

Healing happens when we stop treating ourselves like problems to solve and begin listening with compassion.

If you have not visited yet, I would love for you to take a look.

And if something on the site reminds you of someone you love, please feel free to share it with them.

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Not sure where to begin?That is okay.You do not have to arrive with the right words.You do not have to know whether you ...
09/04/2026

Not sure where to begin?

That is okay.

You do not have to arrive with the right words.

You do not have to know whether you need coaching, hypnotherapy, HeartMath, a workshop, the book, or the community.

You only need to notice that something in you is ready for support.

A consultation is a simple place to begin.

We can talk about what you are navigating, what kind of support may be helpful, and which doorway feels most aligned right now.

There is no pressure to have it all figured out.

Just come as you are.

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“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.” Carl JungAnd this is pr...
09/03/2026

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.” Carl Jung

And this is precisely where Awaken → Heal → Create → Embody → Shine begins— the moment you turn toward the hidden inner currents shaping your energy, emotions, and choices, and discover that your fate was never fate at all, but the doorway to your awakening.

Join the free community and we'll walk through the doorway together.

www.laurapurnellcoaching.com


Heading home from Glacier National Park. Grateful for the sunsets in the Rockies and the invitation to pause and breathe...
09/02/2026

Heading home from Glacier National Park. Grateful for the sunsets in the Rockies and the invitation to pause and breathe deeply. As a retired educator, I’ve never had the opportunity to travel in late summer and early fall.
To my educator colleagues beginning a new academic year, may you feel held by the earth, comforted by calm, and ready to release what no longer needs to follow you forward.
When you find yourself seeking stillness, reflection, and the grounding rhythm of the nature that surrounds you at the end of the day, consider joining Feed Your Soul: Return to Love, a growing community of like minded and like hearted people living and leading through love. Your energy matters.

www.laurapurnellcoaching.com

Awaken. Heal. Create. Embody. Shine.

Behind the scenes of this website launch, there has been a lot of reflection, refinement, and listening.I came into this...
09/02/2026

Behind the scenes of this website launch, there has been a lot of reflection, refinement, and listening.

I came into this process with so many pieces of my work already alive: my book, my healing work, my workshops, my community, my love of teaching, my story, my spiritual path, and the deep thread that connects it all.

But sometimes when you are inside your own work, it is hard to see how all the pieces belong together.

Working with Kimmy at Pivot2Boss helped me bring those pieces into a clearer, more coherent online home.

This was not just about building a website.

It was about creating a place where people can understand the heart of my work, explore the different doorways available to them, download free resources, learn about my book, join my community, and take the next step when they are ready.

We are also preparing for the next layer: a private white-label app experience for my community, similar in feel to Skool, but branded for Feed Your Soul: Return to Love. I am so excited for the way this will support teaching, reflection, connection, and deeper community.

If you are a wellness professional, healer, coach, practitioner, teacher, or guide who has a body of work that feels bigger than your current online presence, I cannot recommend Kimmy and Pivot2Boss enough.

Sometimes you do not need to start over.

Sometimes you need someone to help you gather what is already there and turn it into a home people can actually enter.

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