I help sensitive and introverted people create success on their own terms.
Through compassionate and creative coaching, find the path to your true worth.
Are you ready to embrace your uniquely powerful gifts?
about TLD
True Life Design Coaching (TLD) is a transformational coaching practice for deep thinkers, deep feelers, creatives, and caregivers. For more than 20 years, I have helped over one thousand highly sensitive and introverted women, men, and teens achieve incredible personal and professional change. Using a variety of creative approaches, we work together from the inside out, transforming mindset and thought patterns as well as external habits and actions to create a serenely successful way of living.
Through inventive and compassionate one-on-one and/or small group coaching, I help you envision the beautiful changes you want for your life. Together we create an action plan that will give you greater clarity, confidence, and calm as you make steady progress towards the goals that mean the most to you.
As an introverted highly sensitive person (HSP) myself, I personally share with you some of the challenges navigating what is often a fast-paced, overwhelming world. As a result of our highly attuned responsive nervous systems, we introverted HSPs can experience higher levels of stress, overwhelm, anxious thinking, and self-doubt. We may struggle to show up as effectively as we would like with others who are more outgoing or energetic.
But, as highly sensitive beings, we also have a greater capacity for empathy, appreciating the subtle beauty and magic of life, intuitive awareness, and deep insight. We have many amazing qualities to celebrate, develop, and share with the world.
In my work and in my own life, I believe in and support a type of success and leadership that is slower, softer, and deeper - more personally and less conventionally defined. I believe in being gentle and loving to ourselves, deep self-care, and aiming for inner and outer balance as we move towards making our cherished dreams a reality, and contributing all that we have
to offer.
Through the True Life Design Coaching work that we do together, I help conscientious, caring, and thoughtful people like you to better manage the challenges of your sensitivity and introversion, so that you can fully experience and express your unique gifts and quietly powerful way of being.
About Laura Conklin
As the creator and owner of TLD, I take an imaginative and compassionate approach to supporting the dreams of my wonderfully sensitive and introspective clients. Because I am myself highly sensitive and introverted (Myers Briggs INFJ, Enneagram 4, Pisces, and hopeless romantic!), I have a special understanding for both the challenges and the blessings of these unique personality traits. My wish and work for over 20 years now has been to empower, guide, and inspire gentle souls who want to create fulfilling, beautifully balanced, and quietly effective lives.
I am a former private high school and college English Teacher, on-and-off poet, visual artist, and lover of books, animals, and the sea. Originally from the East Coast, I have made my home in the gorgeous Pacific Northwest for over 25 years. I am trained and certified as a professional Master Coach and also hold degrees in English/Creative Writing and Aesthetics from Mount Holyoke College (BA) and Cambridge University (BA/MA). I hold certification in Enneagram teaching and counseling as well. I am a lifelong learner, constantly updating and deepening my knowledge and understanding of personal development, psychology, spirituality, creativity, communication, and the arts.
Services
I offer a variety of one-on-one coaching packages as well as individual sessions and group coaching workshops and seminars. Most of our work is done remotely via Zoom or over the phone, though I do offer some work in person. I offer a 45-minute free consultation to help you decide what's right for you. Together we'll create a plan that meets your needs. I look forward to hearing from you!
What You Can Expect
Depending on the specific focus of our time together, you may co-design your own one-on-one program with me, or choose from a variety of True Life Design Theme Packages, including;
Blissful Calm
Love and Cherishing
Confident Clarity
Creative Inspirations
Programs are also available for more sensitive times of change, such as menopause/midlife, adolescence, divorce, retirement/career transition, and empty nest.
True Life Design one-on-one programs generally take place over three months, and include three hourlong sessions per month with additional email and brief phone or text check-ins included.
Some individual sessions are also available. New group workshops and seminars are in development; please connect with me for details.
Pricing for services available on request.