About Us

GreatDoor Life Coaching LLC was formed to assist people who are interested in designing and creating a more satisfying life. Most people operate under the assumption that the best they can do is react to a world that is fixed and occurring outside themselves. Life Coaching helps you get clear about your wants and desires and then assists you in developing a plan to go after them. The goal of  GreatDoor Life Coaching is to enable clients to take the reins of every aspect of their lives using the 12 Success Strategies from Falling Awake (Dave Ellis, 2002) which are listed below, as a framework. 

1. Determine what you want.  Trust your desires and create a bold, detailed vision for your future.
   
2. Tell the truth.  Speak candidly, make promises and align your actions with your words.
   
3. Move towards love.  Be willing to release antagonism, and embrace problems as a step toward solving them.
4. Take responsibility.  In any situation ask, How did I create this? and How can I create a new result?
5. Lighten your load.  Move towards bliss by letting go of your attachments and expectations, and by choosing new ways to manage distress.
6. Focus your awareness.  Release mental distractions and pay exquisite attention to moment-to-moment choices.
7. Listen fully.  Open up to receiving any message -compliments, criticisms, or whatever the world is sending you in the moment.
8. Choose your conversations.  Understand the role of conversations in creating your world and enter conversations with care.
9. Change your habits.  Take the mystery out of personal transformation by following three simple steps to make consistent changes in your behavior.
10. Persist.  When faced with a problem, look beyond the first solutions that occur to you, and stay in action until you get what you want.
11. Contribute.  As you get more of what you want in life, find added joy by assisting others to get what they want.
12. Celebrate.  Constantly notice what you enjoy about your life right now, and go for fun.

Meet Laura Luykx

Laura Luykx has been a life coach since 2006 and in 2008 she completed a training program certified by the International Coach Federation. She studied in Sonoma, California with Dave Ellis in the Falling Awake model of coaching. This style is very non-directive and is intended to empower clients to find their own solutions and make their own decisions. In the process the client begins to discover what will make them happy today and in the long range future and to trust their own inner-knowing. As you fill yourself to overflowing you are in the best position to give yourself to others. Laura has also studied Reiki, Acutonics and Emotional Stress Defusion and uses these practices as a powerful adjunct to coaching.

Laura spent time as a child in upstate New York, Bangladesh, Michigan, Hawaii, and Virginia. She graduated from the Pennsylvania State University in 1986 with a BA in Labor Studies. She has worked in the law library of the U.S. Supreme Court, for the patent and trademark firm of Arnold, White and Durkee, and in the personnel department of The United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. Uncovering her own authentic self has led Laura to pursue a path where the ephemeral and the practical merge to achieve balance, peace and joy.  She has lived in Winston-Salem, North Carolina since 1999 with her husband and son. Laura is an avid reader, tai chi student and cook. She loves animals and has two cats and a dog. 

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                              Please contact me for a FREE Coaching Session

Phone: (336)416-0606
Email: info@greatdoor.org

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