Meet your Guide, Lauren Abrams!

Mindfulness & Self-Compassion Teacher | Mom | Lawyer | Recovering Overachiever

Lauren Abrams

For years, I wore many hats—but I finally found the one that felt like home.

Lauren Abrams is a certified mindfulness and self-compassion teacher trained by Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, and other world-renowned teachers. She’s also a mom, podcaster, lawyer, and someone who’s lived through deep transformation.

Her teaching is warm, non-judgmental, and deeply human. She believes that when we pause, we create the space to heal, grow, and live with more joy, calm, and purpose.

There is power in the pause.

It taught her that answers emerge in the stillness, that grace lives in the present moment, and that we can quiet the inner critic long enough to hear our own truth. Now, she helps others come home to themselves.

About Lauren

Podcaster, lawyer, writer, and speaker Lauren Abrams is passionate about helping you take that leap of faith from the burnt-out overachiever to someone who’s living the life you really want to live. The life where you’re still making money plus you’re belly laughing again with friends. The anxiety’s gone. You light up from the inside about life. You learn answers emerge in the pause, and that breath is the way to well, everything!

As seen on GMA & ABC News, Lauren is also the founding member and managing partner of Employee Rights Law, exclusively protecting the rights of employees for over 24 years. She is also surviving life with 2 eye-rolling teenagers, 2 happy dogs, and a fabulous husband (not necessarily in that order!).

Through humor, compassion, and grace, you listen with me and get to learn:

  • How to stop feeling jealous of everyone else and take that leap of faith yourself; Align with what you know you’re meant to do.

  • Get rid of that feeling that life’s passing you by. And how to stop feeling lonely (even in a room full of people, yea, I get it).

  • Learning a new inner language (no more negative self-talk!). You get to have a nurturing, kind, and compassionate inner voice (go figure).

  • How to belly laugh again and stop living the burnt-out type-A overachieving anxiety-ridden life. You get to enjoy your kids and your life. 

  • How resilient you really are

  • What you need the most to persevere & thrive.

  • How to pause.

It’s never too late to live your purpose, do what lights you up, and create extraordinary things!

Lauren Abrams

Why I teach meditation
(And why it might matter to you, too)

  • I didn’t come to meditation because I wanted to be calm.
    I came because I was tired of holding everything together.

    On paper, I was doing it all—lawyer, mom, entrepreneur, mentor.
    But inside? I was running on fumes, navigating heartbreak, burnout, and a brain that wouldn’t shut up.

    Stillness wasn’t just foreign. It felt impossible.

    Until one day, I stopped. Just for a moment.
    And in that pause, I found something I didn’t know I’d lost: myself.

    Meditation isn’t about escaping your life.
    It’s about meeting it—with more grace, more honesty, and more compassion than you thought possible.

    It’s not about “clearing your mind.”
    It’s about getting curious about what’s going on in there.

    It’s not about fixing yourself.
    It’s about remembering you were never broken.

    I teach meditation and self-compassion because I know how painful it is to live on autopilot.
    I know what it’s like to take care of everyone but yourself.
    And I know the radical shift that happens when you learn how to pause—with presence, not punishment.

    I’ve taught lawyers, judges, educators, moms, women in recovery—and every single time, I see the same quiet unfolding:

    The breath gets deeper.
    The inner critic softens.
    And the truth you’ve been chasing... starts to rise.

    So no—you don’t need to be “good at meditating.”
    You just need to want something more than just making it through the day.

    That’s why I teach.
    That’s why I invite you in.

    Let’s begin—right where you are.

  • That’s exactly why we meditate. It’s not about having no thoughts—it’s about learning to relate to those thoughts differently. Even noticing a busy mind is the practice. If your mind wanders a hundred times and you gently bring it back a hundred times, that’s not failing. That’s meditating.

  • You don’t need hours. Even one minute of intentional breathing can reset your nervous system. Meditation isn’t about checking out—it’s about checking in. You’ll find you actually gain time when your mind is less chaotic and more clear.

  • Maybe you haven’t found the right way yet. Meditation isn’t one-size-fits-all. Some people sit quietly. Others walk, breathe, listen, or even wash dishes mindfully. It’s not about being a different person—it’s about being more you, more fully present.

  • Life can be loud and distracting—and silence can feel strange at first. But within the quiet, there's space. Space to breathe, to hear your own wisdom, to remember who you really are beneath the noise.