ABOUT LORI
MY NAME IS LORI GRAFF HARRIS.
I am a holistic Health and Wellness Coach who is passionate about guiding women in their mid-life toward optimal health, vibrant lives, and feeling good RIGHT NOW...
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I have learned that despite the many physical and emotional changes, and sometimes the uncertainties, that can come with our middle years, we actually CAN feel great, and enjoy each step of the powerful journey toward getting there.
This work has profound meaning, because I’ve seen how it can change the lives of women and, in turn, the people they love. In fact, I have experienced it myself firsthand.
This work has profound meaning, because I’ve seen how it can change the lives of women and, in turn, the people they love. In fact, I have experienced it myself firsthand.
Several years ago, I felt caught in my own downward physical and mental spiral.
Hormonal changes, feeling increasingly ‘at odds’ with my body, my energy levels, my sense of self. It affected me on multiple levels, and often felt like it had taken over my life-- body and soul.
PHYSICALLY
I could no longer find my old self in this new middle aged body. I had trouble sleeping and was tired all the time. My nails were brittle, my hair was thinning and my weight was suddenly changing. What used to “work” no longer did. I was no longer so confident- in myself, in what to eat, or how to exercise to “fix it”. Overwhelm led to non-action, which led to feeling even more stuck and frustrated. |
EMOTIONALLY
I could feel my relationships changing; with my family, friends, career and with myself. I no longer felt entirely comfortable in my own skin, and that affected how I related to everyone else in my world. Grown children, aging parents and my own move to a new city required that I reach out to new people. But how? All this created loneliness and a feeling of ‘floating’ without many of my most trusted anchors. |
SPIRITUALLY
During this time, my niece, who was like a sister and best friend to me, passed away. She was so precious to me, and suddenly she was gone. The profound sadness and loss also sparked in me some deeper questions about life. Through all of the sadness and cloudiness, I kept asking myself one thing: Ultimately, what did I REALLY want to be experiencing in my precious time on this earth? What did I want MY story to be? |
When having close conversations with some female friends and coworkers, I learned that the fears and doubts I was experiencing were actually quite common among my peers. However, although grateful for the connection, I discovered that these conversations would all too often turn negative, spiraling into a litany of complaints, frustrations, fears and self-doubt -- hardly helpful to my spirit, and not at all the story of middle-age that I wanted to write for myself.
Fortunately, life’s biggest challenges can turn out to be its greatest gifts.
Fortunately, life’s biggest challenges can turn out to be its greatest gifts.
ALL of this helped me to stop asking “what is happening to my body?” and instead start asking a bigger, more potent question: “How can we, as women, shift this entire experience from one of frustration to one of empowerment, vitality and joy?”
THIS was the seismic shift.
THIS is what created the opening for me to find a path toward greater happiness, vibrant health, deep, loving care for myself, and ultimately, appreciating my age, my body and my life. (Really!)
It had always been my desire to connect with other women and support them through life’s many challenges. This period of life became my biggest motivation to become a coach, one who specializes in helping women change they way they experience mid-life, physically, emotionally and spiritually.
I became Certified as a Holistic Health Coach and then completed additional coursework in thyroid imbalance in order to provide my clients with specific strategies to balance their hormones while moving toward feeling and living their best lives.
THIS was the seismic shift.
THIS is what created the opening for me to find a path toward greater happiness, vibrant health, deep, loving care for myself, and ultimately, appreciating my age, my body and my life. (Really!)
It had always been my desire to connect with other women and support them through life’s many challenges. This period of life became my biggest motivation to become a coach, one who specializes in helping women change they way they experience mid-life, physically, emotionally and spiritually.
I became Certified as a Holistic Health Coach and then completed additional coursework in thyroid imbalance in order to provide my clients with specific strategies to balance their hormones while moving toward feeling and living their best lives.
My passion as a coach is to help you feel more control, ease and happiness with the changes you are going through, and shift the mindset around mid-life from one of frustration and fear to one of empowerment, health, confidence and joy.
Are you ready to create a mid-life story you LOVE?
If any part of my story rings true for you, or you want to start making positive changes to your own story,
click the button below to set up a free discovery session!
If any part of my story rings true for you, or you want to start making positive changes to your own story,
click the button below to set up a free discovery session!
MY CREDENTIALS
- CHC certification from The Health Coach Institute
- Completion, Mastering Thyroid Imbalance for Health Coaches from Full Potential Living®