Free your mind, heal your heart...
We are passionate about normalising conversations about grief, supporting you on your grief journey and helping you to grieve more healthily.
If you feel weighed down with grief, anger or isolation, a loss of sense of self, struggling with conflicting emotions, feel stuck in the past or fearful of the future, whatever your personal circumstances, we are here to help.
We have extensive experience working with and supporting vulnerable people and those who have suffered trauma.
Our legal background and experience in the coaching industry means we are able to support you by:
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Holding a safe space
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Not just listening but really hearing you
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Being comfortable with the uncomfortable
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Navigating sensitive situations
A little bit about us...
Lauren Goom
Grief, Loss and Mindset Coaching Support
Edu-Therapy and Coaching Specialist
Qualifications
- Trained Coach, Educators Coaching Academy
- Edu-Therapy (grief, loss and bereavement) Specialist
- CACHE Level 2 - Mental Health First Aid
- CACHE Level 2 - Mental health Advocacy in the Workplace
- BVC Inns of Court School of Law 2007
- LLB Law Degree
Work
- Life Coach and Director at GL Mindset Group Ltd
- Human Rights Lawyer
My brother Grant died when I was 9 years old. His death was completely unexpected and overnight my family’s life changed. At that time there was little support provided to families or children who were grieving. I was never really given the space to grieve or to process my trauma and as a child I felt alone with my loss. Unable to understand the effects that grief was having on me, I had to rely on my own ways of coping and for nearly 30 years I thought that I was. That was until covid reared its ugly head and my father came close to becoming another of its victims.
In that moment, all of the coping strategies that I had founded at the age of 9 years old came tumbling down and I realised that I had not truly grieved the death of my brother, nor had I processed my pain and loss. What I had done was to suppress those feelings because I had never been taught the skills to grieve in a healthy way. Instead, I made sure that everyone else around me was ok, without really taking the time to check in on myself because in a nutshell, I was definitely not ok.
What I came to realise was that grief and loss does not disappear no matter how many times people tell you that ‘time is a healer’ and that unless we learn to process our grief in a healthy way, it will always be there, weighing us down and affecting our lives. I also realised that processing my grief and learning to heal did not mean that I was letting go of my brother (one of the things I feared the most) but that I was learning to move forward.
Then came the biggest decision of my career and my decision not to return to law. I always knew from an early age that I was at my happiest when I was helping people. I loved becoming a Human Rights lawyer because I got to help people and give those people a voice to be heard. After I took a career break to raise my family, there was still a desire to help people and after the death of my very dear Uncle to cancer, I realised that I wanted to help and support people on their grief journey, to listen and truly hear them so that no one else would need to feel alone with their grief like I once did.
It was then that I decided to retrain as a coach and an Edu-Therapy specialist, and I have not looked back!
Contact: lgoom@glmindsetgroup.co.uk
