Loretta LaRoche

Loretta demonstrates seven simple truths to a healthier, happier life. The emotional challenges of living in a high stress society are taking its toll and we are paying the price. Discover easy, practical ways to “downsize your stress, and increase your ability to live a longer more fulfilling existence. Learn to let go of the stress and the things beyond our control and let Loretta LaRoche make you laugh and contemplate all the good in your life.

Here are the 7 Simple truths in “Mind Your Stress”.

1. Mind your thoughts
2. Power down
3. Go outside
4. Embrace stillness
5. BE where you are
6. Take a news fast
7. Lighten UP!

A life that is fulfilling is predicated on discovering how to use thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to enhance our mental and physical well being. Many of us go day to day hypnotized by internal dialogue that leads us down the path of negativity and unhappiness. It is often the result of parental and societal messages, but it can also be an inherited predisposition towards depression and/or anxiety. Optimism, which is a resiliency based model, can be taught. It is not the fairy tale concept of simply thinking “positive thoughts”, but rather an explanatory style. When we add the ingredient of humor, our ability to handle life’s inevitable ups and downs becomes more accessible.

(Wisdom, Openness, and Wonder as a benchmark for living well)
We’ve all met enthusiastic, energetic people that leave us wondering what they could possibly be “on” to be the way they are. Most individuals today report fatigue and stress as a way of life. There are a myriad of causes, but the most prevalent problem is the notion that life is a constant series of tasks that need to be accomplished and expedited quickly. As a result taking care of one’s health and happiness becomes secondary to making sure everything is done by the end of the day. Ironically this mentality actually drains our resources and dampens the very thing we need to have a productive life which is energy, or a feeling of “WOW”. Our ability to use our wisdom, be open to new ideas and experience wonder in the everyday is exchanged for a robotic mentality based on forging ahead. When we are in a “WOW” mode relationships flourish, success is more attainable, and we tend to feel more energetic.

(Reducing Stress in the Workplace)
Our work literally takes up most of our lives. Therefore, it would make sense for us to choose to enjoy it. Find out how to look forward to Monday instead of enduring until Friday! Discover how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors can affect work performance, relationships and our own selfworth.

This is a 90 Minute Program.

Over the years Loretta LaRoche has been asked by many of her workshop participants to develop a training program to instruct them in her pioneering techniques on how to use humor as a coping mechanism for stress management. Her model incorporates years of study and experience which melds psychology, philosophy, science and her innate humor which has made her a leading expert in her field.
This program can be done as a one day or a weekend.

Participants Will:

• Explore who is on their committee. A lot of our expectations around humor begin with messages we get from parents, teachers and the culture we live in. They often inhibit our ability to laugh at ourselves and to be judgmental of others.
• Discover the physical and mental attributes of humor and how valuable it is to our ability to heal our mind/body and spirit
• Learn how to understand the need to catastrophize and awfulize and their correlation to the stress response. Discover how to see the inherent humor in the majority of them.
• Engage in exercises that allow you to become more mindful of irrational thoughts and how to reframe them through the use of paradoxical intention.
• Become more lighthearted through the use of the inner smile and other techniques that Loretta has created with thousands of participants over the years.
• Receive a certificate of completion certifying that you have attended this course in humor is serious business.

This program can be either 90 minutes or 3 hour Workshop

Loretta LaRoche has helped millions of people find ways to lighten up and overcome stress. Now, in Life Is Short—Wear Your Party Pants, she gives you the tools you need to not only reduce feelings of tension, but also to bring joy, passion, and gusto into your life. Her techniques are a brilliant blend of old-world common sense and the most contemporary research in brain chemistry, psychology, and mind-body studies. Loretta gives you dozens of proven techniques for recognizing the ten simple truths that will lead you to an intense, happy, successful life: resilience, living in the moment, optimism, acceptance, humor, creativity, moderation, responsibility, meaning, and connection.