
NEWSLETTER
Every month receive a letter from Laurel with insights, recommendations or resources. Scroll down for archived newsletters.

Unresolved Endings: Death Isn’t Tied Up In A Bow
In fiction writing we learn to tie up loose ends, resolve problems in the finale. But in reality endings often flip you upside down and shake you out for loose change then throw you in the spin cycle.

Rethinking Beauty: The Power Of Words
When the universe doesn’t conspire with you, do you give up? Or do you persevere despite the odds?

Learning To Fly
Throughout my life I have been striving for perfection. Today I am attempting to lean into vulnerable moments and accept my imperfections.

Emotional Eddies: How I Got Unstuck
The pain I experience is more about the spinning hurricane of stories I step into and tell myself over and over. And I can choose to step out of it.

Loosening My Grip
When the universe doesn’t conspire with you, do you give up? Or do you persevere despite the odds?

Progress, Not Perfection
Throughout my life I have been striving for perfection. Today I am attempting to lean into vulnerable moments and accept my imperfections.

The Backstory
In 2014 I was reporting on a string of accidental deaths in the Grand Canyon. I quickly discovered most of the fatalities were on self-guided river trips.