Begin by Saying Yes
to Yourself!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 energy, and your direction.
For women 40+, thriving often requires something different
than it did before. It’s no longer about pushing harder or doing more. Many women reach this stage
functional on the outside but running on empty inside. What once ‘bounced back’ now lingers.
Thriving, in this season, is a return to regulation.
It is rebuilding recovery capacity.
It is stabilizing energy.
It is lowering the stress load your system has been carrying for years.
It is creating rhythms your body can actually sustain.
Science and structure guide the process but the work itself is
subtle and personal.
It honors your lived experience, your pace, and your capacity.
Thriving is both a return
and a rising.
A return to steadiness.
A rising into a way of living that no longer costs you your reserves.
What does it mean to thrive?
About Me
Hi, I’m Laura, a Wellness Coach with certifications as a health and life coach, menopause coaching specialist and Certified HeartMath® Coach with BA in psychology and over 25 years in corporate human resources working with employees and their families in high stress situations.
Over the past 15 years, I’ve navigated fibromyalgia, chronic migraines, thyroid and adrenal challenges, and perimenopause while raising a family and maintaining a demanding career.
From the outside I was managing.
Inside, my system was overloaded.
What I learned through both personal experience and professional training, is that these symptoms appearing around midlife are often not random. They are signs of accumulated stress load and reduced recovery capacity.
The nervous system influences sleep, digestion, blood sugar stability, inflammation response, mood and pain perception. When the system remains in chronic stress patterns, the body becomes more reactive and less resilient. Recovery shortens. Sensitivity rises.
I stopped trying to “fix” isolated symptoms and began rebuilding capacity in small, structured steps:
Stabilizing energy.
Supporting metabolic consistency.
Creating nervous system regulation practices.
Reducing load before adding intensity.
That shift changed everything.
Now, through structured habit change and nervous system-informed coaching, I help midlife women rebuild steadiness from the inside out without extremes, without shame, and without powering through.
I had to learn this the hard way.
You don’t have to.
My Mission
My mission is to support women 40+ who are capable, caring for others and holding everything together yet quietly running on fumes.
Women who are:
Exhausted despite doing “all the right things”
Experiencing stubborn fatigue or stress-related pain flare-ups
Struggling with sleep disruption
Feeling overwhelmed and stretched thin
Not bouncing back the way they used to
I offer a grounded, compassionate path toward rebuilding recovery and resilience.
Together, we focus on three foundations:
Recovery Physiology
Restoring sleep rhythms, pacing output, lowering cortisol load.
Metabolic Stability
Supporting blood sugar balance, protein intake, and energy consistency.
Nervous System Capacity
Strengthening regulation skills, reducing reactivity, increasing resilience.
We build simple, sustainable routines that support your body and daily life so you can move through your days with greater steadiness, clarity, and strength.
You deserve to thrive — sustainably!
My Offerings
Together, we focus on three foundations:
Recovery Physiology
Restoring sleep rhythms, pacing output, lowering cortisol load.
Metabolic Stability
Supporting blood sugar balance, protein intake, and energy consistency.
Nervous System Capacity
Strengthening regulation skills, reducing reactivity, increasing resilience.
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 to build change that is 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 offers a supportive, judgment-free space to gain clarity and focus on the priorities that will help 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 peace 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
COMING SOON
An 8-week journey in building emotional safety, compassion, and self-trust in a small group setting.
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.
Schedule your 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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