Author Archives: Laurie Gerber

Head Coach

What Are You Smoking If Love Is Still a Pipe Dream?

You say you want love. Seemingly, you are searching hard for it. Your friends would all nod their heads in agreement that you are doing the right things, or, at the very least, complaining loudly about it and, therefore, must care. Alas, to no avail, because you have nothing but proof that there IS indeed […]

Make Yourself Sacred

 Usually I coach you to make yourself scared, because we know how cool it is to go up against fear and win, but today I am going a little new-agey on you and tell you to make yourself sacred. In other words, you are the source of your own experiences. Too often we erroneously think our […]

Daily Love of Your Job

 When was the last time you felt riveted by your career?Ever?The average American lifetime includes 90,000+ hours of work time. If you aren’t rating work an 8 or above on a scale on 1-10, it’s time to deal. Isn’t it time you confront the fact that nobody is coming to fix this problem but you? It’s […]

A Few Things You Might Not Be Getting From Your Spiritual Practice

Spirituality is an area of life we at the Handel Group® ask all clients to address. We don’t teach religion or promote any particular path, but spirituality has to factor in for any human being trying to better his or her life. I recommend yoga and meditation to most of my coaching clients. In fact, I […]

Just When You Think All is Lost with Your Love

Awhile back, my husband and I spent two days coaching a couple once so in love, now on the brink of divorce. We had already been working with them individually, with my husband coaching the husband and I coaching the wife. We were managing to help each one cope with the stress of a dissolving […]

Gravitate Towards What You Hate

 Have you noticed that the New Agers are telling you to go towards your bliss? To notice what you love to do, what gives you pleasure and joy, and do more of that? Pshaw, I say. Gravitate to what you hate.Here are some things I used to hate:– Carrots– Exercise that required sweating– My brother– […]

Defying Food

 Trust me, I have tried to defy this law, but I find it to be unassailable: You cannot have two thoughts at once. While I am busy thinking about FOOD, I cannot also be thinking about what I want to accomplish in life. I also can’t be tuned into the thoughts, words or feelings of […]

Does Food Talk to You?

 This doesn’t apply to all of you, only some of you. So you might want to stop reading if you can’t relate to the following statement: Food talks to me. If I let it, it can almost talk all day long. I have an excellent solution for how distracting this can be. It’s part of […]

Can’t Find Love? Here’s Help

Are you one of the millions of people out there searching for love, but can’t find it? Are you frustrated and annoyed with the dating scene? Is “all the good ones are taken” a popular line of thought for you? Here’s annoying but good news: It’s likely your inability to find love has little to […]

Debunking Your Dating Dumb Ass Theories

She is too funny for me not to “borrow” from. One of our coaches at Handel Group® Life Coaching, Marnie Nir, just published an article about dating mistakes and I just knew you’d be interested in her insights. It already has over 200 comments on Huffington Post, so I know people are really trying to figure out […]

The Real Reason You’re Single

If you are still single and wish you were done with the BS of dating, madly in love already or mercy killed, I’ve got good news and bad news for you. Okay, truth is it’s just bad news, but the realizing of it might just wake you up, in a good way. What if all […]