Lauren West Coaching

The name? Lauren West.

The game? Acting as your Spiritual Side Kick on the journey to embracing your Wild Heart and your Wild Life.

Pull up a chair, pour yourself a cuppa coffee, and let me tell you the story of how I learned to love myself and my life like Kanye loves Kanye.

A chronic perfectionist and overachiever growing up (can you relate?), I did everything I could to fit myself into everyone else’s idea of what life should look like.

Got straight A’s? Check.

Act like a nice Catholic girl? Check.

Graduate college early? Check.

If you were on the outside looking in, you’d have handed me a medal and told your kids to be more like that nice girl Lauren from down the block.

Education & Credentials

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Because trying to be perfect is exhausting (not to mention impossible), my favorite escape was toxic AF weekend benders full of EDM shows, club hopping, raves, and after partying.

Lauren West

Growing Up

Letting Go of The Past

Because trying to be perfect is exhausting (not to mention impossible), my favorite escape was toxic AF weekend benders full of EDM shows, club hopping, raves, and after partying. From scene kids in neon wigs to stilettos in the club, I had my bases covered.

I filled my spare time with partying, clubbing and going bananas. I had pills in my purse and champagne in my hand, and I was always down for a good time with my party people.

When I moved home after college, I knew this was my moment to heal, ditch the fake friends, and figure my shit out.

Lauren West is an award-winning Executive Contribtor.

Holistic Mindset

HEALING MODE

So I became a certified Holistic Health Coach from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. I figured if I wanted to sort out my life, I needed to start with my body.

I learned that everything in life is connected, and that your health isn’t just the number on the scale — it’s the sum total of your physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.

Inspired, I started to nourish myself on every level...and uncovered the root cause of my obsessive cycles of calorie counting followed by DGAF mode.

Self-Made Celebrity

“Good enough” was no longer good enough for me.

Once I got my body up to speed, I started applying all of the same holistic principles to the rest of my life. I manifested all of the things - the apartment, the boyfriend, travel, the social life, etc.- in Chicago and a new career as a UX designer that I had been craving.

I hustled for the next few years and tried it all. I was an intern, freelancer, salaried employee, side-hustler, and now business owner. I worked in tiny branding studios, small agencies, huge corporations, and experienced two mergers.

There was a lot of activity and growth. When I hit my goal of being a Product Designer working with a group of strong, smart, and kind women and felt deeply unfulfilled, I knew that something had to change. I was getting raises, promotions, and opportunities to travel. I felt grateful, but I didn’t feel passionately about my work. My heart wasn’t in it, so I changed my mind.

Like the Universe loves to remind us, when we’re ready, the teacher appears.

Her book “The Universe Has Your Back” serendipitously made its way into my inbox, and my spiritual side started to crack open like a piece of yummy hard candy.

This is the moment I truly met my own Wild Heart. More important? I listened to her.

Growing Up

Letting Go of The Past

One by one, all of the things that didn’t make me happy began to fade away. My boyfriend unexpectedly broke up with me, I let go of my best friend of 7 years, and I made myself the biggest priority in my life.

I learned how to meditate. My journal became my new best friend. I cried and healed a lot. I released a ton. I forgave and thanked and released all of the garbage and pain that I had been holding on for so long.

“Good enough” was no longer good enough for me.

I craved meaningful work, deeply fulfilling relationships, and a life that felt better than any drug.

I’d already been coaching friends, co-workers, boyfriends on how to get new jobs, tune into themselves, feel into what they really wanted, and then work with their energy and thoughts to manifest it. It was like I had this whole co-creation thing on lock!!

One Wild Ride

SPIRITUAL MODE

I hired coaches, energy healers, bought courses, and invested over $30,000 in myself and business. At first it felt terrifying. The good things always do.

But every day, I’d take one more unapologetic leap towards my desires, and I let the Universe meet me halfway.

Now I am blessed to help others heal themselves and their lives, so they can consciously create their heart’s strongest, deepest and juiciest desires.

And baby, it’s been one wild ride.

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*I predicted my and their future in 2020.

I was forced to make a powerpoint presentation of my ideas and future for my adoptive parents, because they demanded information and input power like spies and tyrants, as per usual. I made a deck for the Christmas Presentation of my and Christian's future...

Were we engaged?

He was on his phone the whole time.

*Hindsight is 2020.