Meet Laura
Welcome! I’m so glad you’re here! It is my joy and passion to encourage women and provide practical ways to experience the hope, peace, and freedom Jesus Christ died to give us in the middle of our real-life worries, stress, and relationships.
I hope you enjoy learning more about my speaking and writing ministry. Most of all, however, I hope that while you’re here you will be reminded how deeply the Lord knows and loves you.
In Jesus’ Love,
Laura
Transparent – Humorous – Challenging
Christian Author, Speaker & Blogger
“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him;
he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.”
Luke 15:20b
Now Available!
Four Weeks to Fear LESS: Tired of being paralyzed and feeling imprisoned by fear and anxiety? Embark on a transformative journey with this empowering journal written especially for women aged 17 and up. Learn to recognize the barriers that keep you from experiencing more peace. Once you start to identify the walls your fear has created, you’ll have opportunities to practice dismantling them by wrestling with and reflecting on what Scripture says about fear. Based on the author’s own experiences with anxiety and eventually finding freedom from a lifetime of panic attacks, this journal will help you start the journey to fear less.
Where’s Jesus When I’m Scared?: Where’s Jesus When I’m Scared is about a Japanese-American girl named Natasha, who learns that even when she struggles to make good choices, Jesus’ unconditional love and presence are a help and comfort. Based on the author’s childhood struggles with anxiety, this beautiful book with hand-rendered illustrations, includes characters based on both the author’s and illustrator’s adopted, multi-racial children.
Laura’s keynote session, “When Faith Fails.”
Where I’ll Be Next
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From the Blog
That Wasn’t the Kind of Joy I Wanted
What if your broken marriage, struggling kids, or that job you hate, never gets better? Would Jesus be more than a cliché of “enough”? Could you have joy? I’ve been asking myself this a lot lately. I love that song, “You’re never going to let me down.” I abstractly...
A Trip from Hell
“If only I could find a trace of evidence that it was really possible for a Ghost to stay – that the choice was not only a cruel comedy – I would not go back." In C.S. Lewis’ book, The Great Divorce, a man boards a bus from hell bound toward heaven. He and the other...
How God’s Presence Helps with Panic
I’ve been struggling with anxiety lately. Although my ever-evolving relationship with Jesus has freed me from a lifetime of anxiety attacks and debilitating fear over the course of the past twenty-five years, I still get afraid. The irony of my latest battle with...