MetaMinds
®
Lauren Taub Cohen,
M.S. Ed., SEP
Founder of MetaMinds® &
Creator of Mindfulness Aloud®
Change is possible!
For most of my life, I had a chronic tendency to appease and please. I would meet just about everything with a friendly, reflexive “yes,” even when I knew something didn’t fit or feel right. The desire to stay connected often came at a great price… abandoning myself. This behavior was just one of many adaptive strategies I developed in childhood as a way of trying to avoid conflicts, keep the peace, and stay connected. Yet knowing that didn’t shift my behavior one bit…I still kept doing it, and I beat myself up for doing so. Sound familiar?
Thankfully, during my Somatic Experiencing (SE) Practitioner training, I was introduced to Inner Relationship Focusing (IRF). IRF’s gentle and empowering process helped me untangle that habit and start voicing what I call my knowing no. What once seemed unshiftable had finally begun to shift. And, that was only the beginning!
I went from being highly self-critical to more on my side…from reactive and anxious to more steady and resilient. These invigorating, beyond-what-I-thought-possible shifts inspired me to become a Certified IRF Professional and Trainer.
And, I continue leaning into the steadying support of SE and IRF because, as a friend recently put it, "Life keeps life-ing." It's not about getting rid of how we feel, fixing it, changing it, or shushing it but rather being with with our experience, just as it is, so it can shift naturally and we can move forward.
Over the years, I’ve discovered this amazing truth and that is, What's in the way that guides the way.
The experience of having a problem is actually your body’s way of communicating something is missing and something is needed so you can live more fully and be more YOU.
Life is predictably unpredictable but it is possible to meet what comes your way without getting knocked over or pulled under…to have your feelings without being them. Curious to learn how? Click here to learn more about individual sessions.
Prior to the formation of MetaMinds®, I worked at 60 Minutes and was a teacher in NYC.
I have a B.A. in English Literature from Boston University and an M.S. Ed. from Bank Street College of Education. In addition to being a Certified Inner Relationship (IRF) Professional & Trainer as well as a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, I'm also a Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield.