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THE REWRITE · A 12-WEEK IMMERSION.

What if you spent less time trying to become a better version of yourself and more time getting to know the woman you already are?

You can do the inner work and still come home to a life built around the old you.

Kim and I created The Rewrite to change both: the patterns you live by and the spaces you live in.

WE SEE YOU & WE GET IT

Your body says no.
Your mouth says, "Of course."

You leave the meeting replaying how you sounded, even though you were the one leading it.

You finally get an hour to yourself and fill it with things no one else noticed needed doing.​​

You look around your home and realize nearly everything has a purpose. Very little of it is for you.

FROM THE INSIDE OUT AND THE OUTSIDE IN 

Where your next chapter begins

WITH LAURA
I help you hear the story beneath the automatic yes, notice what happens in your body before the words come out, and practice the choice you want to make instead.

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WITH KIM
Kim sees your space as a tool that shapes how you live, feel, and grow within it. Through artistry, feng shui, psychology, and biophilic design, she looks at how your home feels and functions, then helps you make changes that support who you are now.

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TOGETHER
We bring what you discover into your conversations, your routines, and the place you call home. The new chapter gets a place in your real life.

THE REWRITE JOURNEY

The change happens in the moments 
you no longer lose yourself.

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The Foundation

You have changed ( or desperately want to), but parts of your life expect the old you. We look beneath that stuck feeling at the roles, beliefs, and experiences that shaped you, so you can understand how you got here, recognize who you are now, and know where to begin.

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The Witness

The woman who held it together wasn’t born knowing how. Neither was the one who kept the peace or learned to need less. We make room to see what each version carried, hear what she needed, and offer her some of the support she spent years giving everyone else.

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The Liberation

Someone else’s disappointment no longer has to become your emergency. You can feel guilt without handing it the decision. You can hear a request, check in with yourself, and answer honestly. The relief is realizing you can stay loving and connected without disappearing to keep everyone else comfortable.

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The Reclamation

Your needs no longer have to arrive as an apology. You begin to know what you want, say it without shrinking it, and make choices that give your energy back. Rest, joy, desire, and curiosity get a place in your days because your life is allowed to feel good to you, too.

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The Homecoming

Your life begins to make room for the woman you are now. The conversation sounds different. The calendar includes you. The home you walk into supports how you want to feel. You can recognize yourself in ordinary days, and that is what coming home means.

THE WORK WOVEN THROUGH THE REWRITE

You can know exactly who you are and still live in a world arranged around who you had to be.

What She said
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“She taught me how to stand up for myself and how to believe that my opinion matters too.  I am a chronic people pleaser since I was a kid.  I had become so used to keeping the peace all the time I felt like I lost myself.  Or maybe never knew me."

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INSIDE THE REWRITE

One day you look around at the life you have worked so hard for and realize you're not living in it. 

Something in you has been calling you home.

The Rewrite gives that part of you room to be seen, both within yourself and in the life you return to each day.

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WOVEN THROUGHOUT THE REWRITE

Your patterns aren’t just in your head.

They show up in what you believe, how your body responds, and the space you move through every day. Laura and Kim draw on these practices throughout The Rewrite, following what comes up for you and helping you bring change into real life.

 

STORYWORK & MINDSET COACHING 
We look at the beliefs and words beneath a pattern you keep repeating. Writing, values exercises, and creative work help you hear what you want and question the story that has been making your choices for you.

 

 

SOMATIC & NERVOUS SYSTEM WORK

Breath, grounding, movement, and guided attunements help you notice when your body braces before the automatic yes. You practice finding a pause and responding in a way that includes you.

 

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DESIGN PSYCHOLOGY & INTENTIONAL SPACE

With Kim, you explore how your home’s layout, light, objects, and daily rhythms affect how you feel and live. She draws on feng shui and biophilic design to help you make practical changes that support who you are now.

 

The twelve weeks have a structure. Your work within them is personal. Your assessment, private sessions, and weekly practices help us focus on what’s happening in your life. The work moves with you into your conversations, your choices, and the place you come home to.

Meet your guides

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Kim Colwell

Kim Colwell is a transformative interior designer who blends biophilic design with a multi-generational practice of feng shui to create highly personalized spaces that are saturated with signature style. Her transformational process is honed from her background as a fine artist, training at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, her extensive studies in psychology and design, and her lifetime as the daughter of a renowned shaman.

 

A celebrity designer, Kim has a diverse range of clientele including academy award-nominated artists and leaders in the film, fashion, music, tech and wellness industries. Kim has been featured in Interior Design, Livingetc, House Beautiful, C, WWD, the Wall Street Journal, DailyOM, and Purist, among others — and is recognized as a thought leader in the emerging discipline of design for well-being, regularly speaking at institutions including Cornell University.

 

Based in Los Angeles, Kim is redefining California design for a new, mindful generation with sublime, nature-reverent environments that resonate with bespoke beauty and powerfully restorative ambiance.

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Laura Southall 

Laura Southall is a San Diego based transformational life coach and mind-body practitioner who helps women in midlife reconnect with themselves when the life they’ve built no longer feels like theirs. Her work is personal and practical, shaped by more than 15 years in behavior change, movement, and mind-body practices.

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A Behavior Change Specialist certified in Somatic Breathwork and Enlifted Coaching, Laura brings storywork, nervous system awareness, breath, and creative practices into her work with women. She looks beneath the patterns that are easy to recognize but hard to change: the automatic yes, the need to hold everything together, and the beliefs that make a woman question what she wants.

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Laura’s approach is also informed by her own experience of grief, autoimmune disease, motherhood, and major life changes. She knows that finding your way back to yourself rarely happens all at once. Through private coaching, group experiences, and retreats, she helps women hear themselves more clearly and make choices that reflect the person they are now

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We guide chronically capable women back to themselves, moving past overthinking into a, grounded space where they know what's right for them. help break the cycle of self-doubt and return to their truest selves.

YOU KNOW SOMETHING NEEDS TO CHANGE.

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You’ve tried the routines. Read the wellness advice. Saved the posts. But the more there is to try, the harder it can be to tell what actually fits your life.

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Let’s talk about what’s going on and where to begin.

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Laura@myalignedlife.com

San Diego, CA 92110, USA

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