A guided year for eight women who are ready to stop growing alone.
Apply for a seatThis is a community for women who love the Lord and long to keep becoming…
more
grounded in their God-given identity.
deeply connected in their relationships.
emotionally free.
More transformation. More connection. More purpose.
We’ll do more than read together. We’ll practice becoming.
This is a group of 8 women who will read material together that targets their hearts and emotional and spiritual growth.
I will guide the group through the book with assigned chapters, provide prewritten reflection questions, meaningful discussions, and prayer/meditation exercises. It will be a safe, supportive, and confidential atmosphere.
Doing it alongside others gives you a landing pad, a launching pad, and the encouragement to keep going.
This is so much more than reading a book together, it’s transformation together.
Dr. Alison Cook’s newly released book, The Secure Soul — finding inner strength and connection when trust doesn’t come easy.
The fall session will focus on connecting to ourselves and engaging our stories in a way that builds connection, not disconnection.
I believe connection is the gift God wants to give his daughters, and it’s a mark of his Kingdom happening here right now.
You want more freedom, but feel derailed by past pain, relational patterns, and old lies that keep showing up in your life today.
You’ve worked on so much of your story—perhaps you’re even super knowledgeable in this arena—but you know there is more healing and joy for the taking.
You love the Lord and want to claim His freedom, but there are places in your life where you’re hurting and not experiencing His peace or redemption yet.
You work for the good of others. Maybe you’re a leader, pastor, parent, grandparent, entrepreneur, friend, mentor—or some combination of the above.
You’re willing to look inward—to examine pieces of your story and your heart—and you’re not too afraid of what you’ll find, because you know there is something worth pursuing on the other side.
You can listen as well as share. You’re willing to make room for other women’s stories without needing to fix them, and you’re willing to let yourself be known too.
You’re ready to come prepared and take the journey seriously… while taking yourself a little less seriously. Glasses and wet hair are allowed. Furry friends are allowed. Funny self-disclosures will be encouraged.
And maybe most simply: your heart is longing for some care and some community to join you on your journey.
That sounds like me→I am a girl who was born into a Christian family and raised in the church, literally perhaps you might say, because I am a pastor’s kid. I’ve loved the Lord my whole life, but am still someone who has been subject to pretty compelling lies about my worth and struggled with attachment.
After performing my way through my young adult life, getting married to my high school sweetheart after college, running a kids ministry in a thriving church for a season, Jesus invited me to lay down the ministry I thought of as mine, to raise our babies full time. What he was really inviting to do was to get off the treadmill of worth making and insecure relationships, and join him on this journey of wholeness.
In the space and seasons that followed, I would begin to uncover how my own pain and my misconceptions about my good Father God were shaping me into someone who needed to give, but didn’t deserve to receive.
I ran headfirst into some deeply hard seasons in my marriage, where God revealed both the healing ahead of me and, in His kindness, gave me life rafts to begin doing it.
I discovered patterns of overfunctioning, deep fears of abandonment, and a little girl inside of me who needed some TLC.
And in His goodness, He has brought me on a healing journey—one I expect to be forever on—that has both ministered deeply to me and trained me up to walk alongside others.
I trained in and was led through a Genesis Change Group. I started a small-but-mighty program called Done With Stuck with my husband who was in the world of pastoral care, which eventually led me to the Neurocycle, where I became a Certified Neurocycle Facilitator through Dr. Caroline Leaf’s pilot program and remained certified for four years.
Through these programs I saw something beautiful happen.
Because, when the best of mind management and great clinical tools from authors, clinicians, and speakers met with the power of Jesus, my inner life began to transform. And more so when I did the work in the context of other women who were investing in me, cheering me on, grieving or rejoicing with me, and doing the work themselves, everything changed. In the context of a loving community, Jesus did so much more.
Listening for Jesus’ voice and faithfully utilizing incredible resources he puts in front of us.
And in all of this, the intersection became clear:
I’ve led many groups before, but this time I need to form the content based on the last 4 years of witnessing women’s stories and struggles. I need to form a tribe like my own for the sake of others — a group for women who are working their own healing journeys, walking with the Lord, and connect them to each other.
Through this group, I am not interested in telling you exactly what your healing should look like. I’m interested in gathering women who are hungry for it, giving you resources I know will touch the core of what most women like you (and I) are struggling with, and helping you do so together.
These are the moments I live for. This. This is going to be so good.
I feel like our sessions were just as they needed to be. You do such a great job of balancing listening and coaching. You always came prepared and smiling which I greatly appreciate! I loved bringing God into my neurocycles and you always encouraged that too!
I chose Lauren because she was openly a Christian and had a background in ministry which helped me connect with her. I trusted her because she showed she was really listening to understand my experience, provided great coaching guidance, and was also willing to be appropriately vulnerable herself in order to support and guide me.
Choose Lauren! She will be the supporting coach you’ve always dreamed of for your life. She is full of the wisdom, love, compassion, and joy of God. These make her an amazing facilitator who helps you come through this process with true, lasting change at the end.
The Higher Calling Cohort is the first time this work is being offered as a group.
Thursdays, 7:30–9:00pm central, on Zoom.
You can commit to roughly 2–3 hours of reading, reflection, and other homework each week—done however and whenever works best for you.
You can prioritize our scheduled 90-minute virtual gatherings, attend as consistently as possible, and be truly present when you’re there.
You can sign up for one session at a time, or commit to the full year scope of transformation. I have the fall, winter, and spring sessions material picked out, but am holding space still for what the summer session book will be or what that session will be shaped like.
Eight seats. Fall begins September 24.
Fill out a short application — it takes about five minutes. I read every one, and I may reach out for a quick conversation. If it’s a fit, I’ll send you a payment link.
You aren’t charged anything when you apply.
This helps create a safe container for the group. Applications help me use my discernment to make sure everyone has a great experience.
We will miss you dearly! I’ll write up a summary of the helpful reflection points, since I won’t be sending a recording of everyone’s personal reflections.
Summer is deliberately still open, so it can be shaped around what this particular group needs by the time we get there. My goal is for there to be less reading in the summer, and more practicing presence and beholding beauty.
No, and it isn’t a replacement for it. I’m a coach and a Certified Neurocycle Facilitator, not a therapist. I won’t diagnose you or build you a treatment plan. Plenty of women do this alongside their own counseling.
Never. The group is confidential and you set your own pace. You’re asked to make room for other women’s stories and to be willing to be known over time — not to arrive with everything on the table.
Ninety minutes together on Thursday evenings, plus roughly two to three hours of reading, reflection, and homework across the week — done however and whenever works best for you.
Yes, two ways to manage payment! You can pay $1,500 up front for the whole year to lock in your seat for all four sessions, or sign up for a 3-month automatic payment plan of $500/month — that also locks in your seat for the year. If you want to decide session by session, you can pay $450 per session.
First off, I’ll connect with you one on one to make sure we do what we can to address any discomfort and identify whether it’s truly a bad fit, or if this is a potential healthy growth edge for you. Growth and community like this can feel uncomfortable, but that doesn’t always mean it’s not the right thing. If you pay per session, I won’t be able to refund you. But if you pay annually, and something changes between sessions and you let me know at least 3 weeks before the next session begins, I’ll gladly shift you to per-session pricing and refund you the remainder of your original payment.
I am not a therapist and this does not replace therapy. I am a coach, a Neurocycle Facilitator through Dec 2026, and am getting certified in Narrative Focused Trauma Care through the Allender Center, because stories are where it’s at. I will never diagnose you or give you a clinical treatment plan. I will give you direction, guidance, amazing information, and offer discernment that is yours to take or not. I will also point you back to your own God given genius and the Holy Spirit inside of you.