Transform Your Life & Rise Into Your Next Chapter
Welcome!
I Am Here To Guide You With Clarity And Grace
Laura Pastiva-Santos
The Art of Thriving Coach
The word "thrive" comes from an Old Norse root meaning "to grasp"—a reminder that flourishing is not passive.
It's an intentional, sacred act of taking hold of your life, your healing, and your purpose.
My coaching practice is built on this truth: that you are not here merely to survive, but to awaken to your power, grow through
what you've lived, and reclaim the peace and clarity already within you.
Thriving is both a return and a rising. It is remembering who you are, and stepping boldly into who you're becoming.
I see healing as an art— subtle, layered, and unique to every woman.
While science and structure guide us, it's intuition, presence, and lived experience that make the work whole.
What does it mean to thrive?
About Me
Hi, I’m Laura! I’m a mom of four humans and two pups, married for over 30 years, with a background in psychology (BA) and over 25 years in corporate human resources working with employees and their families in high stress situations.
Diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2015, I chose to become a fibro thriver—learning to listen to my body, rebuild energy, and redefine what wellness looks like. What I didn’t know then was that I was also entering perimenopause, creating a hormonal tsunami. Not once in all the healthcare visits since 2015 did anyone mention perimenopause or how it affects the body. I️ learned the hard way.
So, I reclaimed my power by rebuilding my body, mind, and spirit.
As a Menopause Coaching Specialist, and Life & Health Coach-in-Training, I bring lived experience and grounded guidance to every client.
My Mission
My mission is to support women who feel burned out, unseen, or dismissed. Let’s reconnect you with your body’s wisdom and find your way forward—without the pressure to hustle, fix, or perform. This isn’t about being perfect. It’s about coming home to yourself—body, mind, and spirit.
Stop trying to make yourself smaller, it’s time to build back stronger!
My Offerings
These offerings are designed to help you reclaim your energy, clarity, and confidence—guiding you to align with what truly matters so you can live and lead from your deepest truth.
Reset & Rebalance 90-Day Program
Reset & Rebalance is a gentle, structured beginning for women who want real, lasting change in their health and well being: body, mind, and spirit.
Over 12 sessions, we focus on what matters most: helping your body feel safe, building steady habits, and creating a clear path forward that aligns with your life, needs, and values.
Together, we create a personalized well-being roadmap and work with your nervous system so change becomes sustainable not overwhelming. We’ll strengthen core nutrition and lifestyle foundations, explore the beliefs that shape your choices, and develop habits that support true stability.
By the end, you’ll have less overwhelm, more clarity, and a repeatable rhythm of habits you can grow with long after our time together. Reset & Rebalance isn’t the finish line, it’s the grounded start that makes lasting change possible.
Balanced Living Session
A Balanced Living Session provides supportive, judgment-free space to find clarity and help to focus on the priorities that will have you start to thrive.
The Balanced Living Session is a focused, one-time session for anyone who could use grounded support without committing to a longer program.
Together, we’ll explore what’s currently affecting your well-being. Whether it’s stress, symptoms, habits, mindset, or life changes, working together, we will identify what deserves your attention most right now.
You’ll leave with 1–3 personalized next steps that feel realistic for your life, along with suggestions to support balance in your daily routines. This session is a compassionate, practical space to get unstuck and take a thoughtful step forward.
Heart & Nervous System Reset
A 6-session HeartMath journey for stress relief, inner steadiness, and compassionate resilience.
Heart & Nervous System Reset is a focused series designed to help you build personal resilience. Using the proven practices of HeartMath from the HeartMath Institute, we’ll work with the heart and central nervous system to reduce emotional overwhelm, calm reactivity, and create a deeper sense of internal safety. This reset isn’t about bypassing feelings. It’s about learning practical tools that support your physiology so the heart has room to influence how you respond, connect, rest, and make decisions.
Across six sessions, you’ll learn simple techniques to regulate stress in real time, not just during the session. You will develop heart coherence, build emotional capacity, and practice short, repeatable skills that make ease more accessible.
This reset gives you a repeatable HeartMath practice you can continue on your own, allowing you to breathe, pause, feel, and choose more freely.
Caring for Your Inner Child
An 8-week journey in building emotional safety, compassion, and self-trust in a small group setting.
COMING SOON
Caring for Your Inner Child is a gentle, supported 8 session experience for adults who carry emotional pain from unmet needs in childhood. Instead of revisiting painful stories, we focus on present-day self-compassion and nervous system support creating the safety that may not have been available to you earlier in life.
Together in a small-group setting, we explore the beliefs and protective patterns that once helped you survive but now feel limiting or self-critical. You’ll learn how to offer steadiness and understanding to the younger part of you that still longs to feel seen and protected.
As you practice caring for yourself in this way, anxiety softens, self-judgment loosens, and a new sense of safety and worth begins to take root, not because the past changes, but because you are no longer facing it in the context of a child.
You are not meant to do this alone.
Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is ask for guidance and take the first step toward change.
A complimentary 30-minute consultation to explore what's holding you back and what you truly want in your life.
Gain clarity, feel heard, and discover the your next best step towards thriving.
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