POWERHOUSE GLOBAL MAGAZINE (PGMAG)
INTERVIEW WITH:
LAURA TOOP (LP) PGMAG: Laura, welcome to today's interview. LP: Thank-you for inviting me, I am both honoured and humbled to be here. PGMAG: So, talk us through your journey of becoming a 'grief & loss coach'. LP: 5 years ago, my life spectacularly imploded. I lost my husband, my health and my career in quick succession. Indeed, my then 4-year-old nephew said to me, ‘Auntie Lollipops (a.k.a. Me), now that Uncle Chris is dead, you have nothing1” He did quickly follow it up with ‘but I will look
after you for 100 days’. Okay, so if you’re four, 100 days is a long time, but at 42, it wasn’t going to get me much passed March! The world was so spinning so fast around me, my mind was in a washing machine mega spin cycle already, and needed no further pressure from the world beyond. I had to allow myself the time to rest, the space to breathe., and everyone else’s voices be quiet so I could hear my own. I desperately needed to hear my own, and reconnect with who I was and what was important to me now my life had been reduced to nothing. 5,000 miles away, on an island, ironically called ‘The Happy Island’ by the locals, I found that space. &
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Laura is a grief & loss coach, a mentor and emotional health expert.
