Loretta LaRoche
Health, Happiness and Humour
Style
Hilarious — at times outrageous!
Books
Profile
Loretta Laroche has helped people deal with everyday stress for more than 30 years. With irreverent humour and an innate sense of the absurd, Loretta helps people see how needlessly complex and stressful their lives can become. Loretta’s wit, wisdom and humour reflect a commonsense view of life that leaves audiences inspired, motivated and roaring with laughter. Often irreverent and always hilarious, Loretta helps people discover how thoughts, feelings and behaviours can affect work performance, relationships, success and self-worth. She shows how humour can benefit the health of an organization and its employees and improve productivity.
Loretta is widely known as the star of six Emmy Award-winning specials on PBS: The Joy of Stress, Humour Your Stress, How Serious Is This, Relax!, You Only Live Once, Get a Life, and her latest, Life Is Short!: Wear Your Party Pants. She has appeared as a guest expert on the CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC networks. Loretta is an adjunct faculty member at The Mind/Body Medical Institute of Boston and is affiliated with the Beth Israel and Harvard medical schools.
Clients Comments
"The CEO of Rockland Trust Company introduced Loretta LaRoche to an audience of over 400 employees at the annual employee meeting, with the comment, "once you see and hear Loretta you will never forget her!" those words may be an understatement."J. E. Dugan, Assistant VP, Rockland TrustCompany, Rockland, MA
Topics
- KICK UP YOUR HEELS BEFORE: YOU'RE TOO SHORT TO WEAR THEM!
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Loretta shows you how to live a long, healthy, and juicy life by mastering your body and mind—before you lose them! This event is filled with useful advice, spirituality, and (of course) loads of laughter. Live a life centered on learning, loving, and laughing. Create soul-stretching attitudes and trade old behaviors for bold behaviors—adding years to your life and “juice” to your years! Loretta provides an evening of exploration, creativity and fun. Come prepared to see a show filled with fun and discover the possibilities of a more powerful you. You’ll leave revitalized, inspired, and with renewed passion for living a juicy life!
- LIFE IS SHORT-WEAR YOUR PARTY PANTS
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(10 Simple Truths That Lead To An Amazing Life) Loretta will give you the tools you need to not only reduce feelings of tension, but also bring joy, passion and gusto to your life. She gives you dozens of proven techniques for recognizing the ten simple truths that will lead you to an intense, happy successful life: resilience, living in the moment, optimism, acceptance, humor, creativity, moderation, responsibility, meaning and connection. As Loretta says;” Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift- that’s why they call it the present.”
- THE JOY OF STRESS
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(Finding the Bless in this Mess) Join Loretta in discovering that “stressed spelled backwards is desserts.” Explore the possibilities that can help us use stress as an ally rather than the enemy. Learn to become more resilient, creative and joyful.
- HOW TO PREVENT HARDENING OF THE ATTITUDE
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(Reducing Stress in the Workplace) Our work literally takes up most of our lives. Therefore, it would make sense for us to choose to enjoy it. Find out how to look forward to Monday instead of enduring until Friday! Discover how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors can affect work performance, relationships and our own selfworth.
- PARENTING WITH HUMOUR
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(Is It Possible?) “Sit down, stop it, clean your room, don’t use my good scissors!” Sound familiar? Can we raise a responsible human being using optimism, joy and good humor without resorting to awfulizing and catastrophizing? Explore the possibilities of having a family that laughs and supports each other.
- LOVE, LAUGHTER & LASAGNA
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(A Recipe for a Positive Outlook) Sick of being a “Human Doing?” Savor ways to elicit the past to reframe the present into a simpler lifestyle that honors families, friends, a sense of community and yourself.
- LIFE IS NOT A STRESS REHEARSAL
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(Bringing Yesterday’s Sane Lifestyle Into Today’s Insane World) For most of us life has become a pressure cooker of unrealistic expectations, information overload, relentless marketing and workaholism that we spend our days stressed out over being stressed out. Loretta makes us see the wisdom of a more civilized time when no one carried a cell phone during a peaceful walk on the beach. With her contemporary wit and a hearty dose of old-world wisdom Loretta brings a breath of fresh air for everyone who’s suffocating in our techno crazed, germ-phobic, “ go-go-go” world
- AUTHENTIC HAPPINESS: IT TAKES COURAGE TO BE HAPPY
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One of the most self-defeating concepts in the modern world is the pursuit of happiness. Not because it is not without merit. Since we all know that feeling good far outweighs feeling bad. It is "how" we go about it that has helped create the epidemic of self-entitlement, depression, lack of humor, and outbursts of anger that permeate the culture. We cannot buy, or demand happiness. Loretta LaRoche, a pioneer in the field of stress management using humor as a coping mechanism, now brings you her newest work..."It takes Courage to be Happy"... She brings newly discovered life-transforming answers to how we can change our lives, mentally, physically, and spiritually through a series of groundbreaking information and exercises that show the connection between happiness and human behavior... 1. Discover how to reduce self-chatter - When unnecessary self-chatter subsides, you will become calmer, more attentive and content. 2. Explore how to increase positive emotions in your life to counter depression. and stress.. 3. Become empowered by learning how to be authentically happy, which in turn creates a more prosperous life, better relationships, and a longer healthier life.
- HOW TO BE A WILD, WISE AND WITTY WOMAN
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(The Wit and Wisdom of Womanhood) “We are women hear us roar!” Is it possible to climb the corporate ladder, pick up toys, be a domestic goddess and not lose your mind? Discover the fun in the feminine as we share the wit and wisdom of being a woman.