Dr Laura Holland
Preventative Health, Nutrition, Integrative Medicine & Human Capability.
Beyond your body, personality, life circumstances and conditioning, there is a greater part of you, your true Self, one may say. And this is the source of your creativity, wisdom, health and highest potential.
When you are connected to this greater part of yourself, you know it! You feel strong, energised, clear and grounded. You trust yourself, make better decisions, and naturally move towards the lifestyle choices, foods, supplements, practices, people, experiences and opportunities that best support you.
Your health and highest potential are natural consequences of being connected to, and living in alignment with, your true self. Wellbeing, therefore, is not something to continually pursue, but something to allow, and the essential foundation upon which your health and highest potential naturally emerges, and evolves.
It’s time to stop chasing and to start Being. This is the philosophy at the heart of BeU.
BeU, and come back to yourself…
Wellbeing changes what becomes possible.
When we feel well, we don't simply have fewer symptoms, we have more energy, clarity, creativity, better judgement, greater emotional intelligence, and a deeper capacity to connect, lead, contribute and create.
And yet health and wellbeing are still too often treated as something to address when they go wrong, or as initiatives sitting at the edges of how we think about our lives, organisations and societies.
I believe they belong much further upstream, because the level of wellbeing a person experiences directly relates to how much of their potential can be fully expressed and realised, which not only serves the individual, but all of humanity.
And it starts earlier than we think.
The same philosophy that underpins BeU also shapes my work as Co-founder of Vegemi, helping children build a positive relationship with food, health and their own inner world from an early age.
Because agency in our wellbeing isn't something we should have to discover in adulthood. It needs to be nurtured from childhood.
One philosophy. Three ways of working.
My work spans individuals, organisations and the wider systems that shape our health.
The context may change, but the question at the heart of it remains the same: What creates the conditions for people to genuinely connect with their greatest Self, and make choices that are supportive of their wellbeing, as a gateway to realise their highest potential?
PRIVATE
Highly personalised, confidential health and wellbeing support for individuals who want to understand their health more deeply, whether navigating a specific concern, recovering from sustained pressure, or taking a more considered approach to their long-term health and vitality.
CORPORATE
I work with founders, senior leaders, executive teams and organisations to bring wellbeing further upstream, towards a deeper understanding of human capability. Confidential executive wellbeing advisory where every engagement is shaped around the people, culture and context involved.
ADVISORY
I advise businesses, investors, organisations, family enterprises and government within preventative health, human capability, behaviour change and wellbeing. Bringing together economics, health, human behaviour and entrepreneurship to guide ambitious ideas into approaches that make an impact.
Modern life disconnects us.
Our health and wellbeing are influenced by everything we repeatedly expose ourselves to.
The food we eat. The stimulants we rely upon. How we sleep. How much we move. The information we consume. The pace at which we live. Our relationships. Our thoughts. Our emotions. The beliefs we hold about ourselves and the meaning we attach to our experiences.
Each can either support our connection to ourselves, or interfere with it.
Too much caffeine can leave the nervous system overstimulated. Too much sugar can destabilise our physiology and therefore how we feel. Constant negative information can alter our internal state. The wrong relationship can slowly diminish us. Unresolved experiences can shape beliefs and behaviours long after the experience itself has passed.
Eventually, symptoms of disconnection show up everywhere.
In our energy, mood, relationships, creativity, work, sense of purpose, and in our health and wellbeing.
Disconnection is the root of dis-ease
Health challenges and symptoms are ultimately a signal of this disconnection, and an invitation to delve deeper. Because health and wellbeing isn’t something we force, it’s something that emerges when we stop living in quiet conflict with ourselves and begin creating the conditions that allow us to reconnect with who we really are.
When we feel well, physically, mentally and emotionally, we have access to a greater part of ourself.
To our energy, intuition, creativity, wisdom, and our capacity to love, lead, create and contribute. To follow our heart's desire and bring more of who we are to the life we are here to live.
The medicine is reconnection.
Our natural state is one of wellbeing, but modern life can continually pull us away from it. What we eat. How we sleep. The pace at which we live. The information we consume. Our relationships, emotions, beliefs and experiences, all can either support our connection to ourselves or quietly interfere with it.
BeU is about understanding those influences and creating the conditions for reconnection.
It is about learning to make choices that genuinely feel good and supportive for you, physically, mentally, emotionally and at the deepest level of who you are. From what you eat for breakfast and the supplements you may take, to how you move your body, how you rest, the information you consume, the people you spend your time with, the environments you inhabit and the mental narrative about yourself that you have running on repeat.
Because every choice can either bring you into closer alignment with your greater self, or quietly move you further away. BeU is about developing the awareness and wisdom to know the difference.
Whether I'm working privately with an individual, advising organisations, or contributing to preventative health initiatives, my work is guided by the same belief: true wellbeing allows us to access, embody and express more of who we really are.
BeU exists to help people see health differently and, perhaps, themselves differently too, because when we reconnect with who we truly are, wellbeing and the fullest expression of our human capability are a natural consequence.
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