Helping Children and Youth Live the Heck Out of Their Life Experience

Lifelight is a research-based Personal and Social Development program that helps students understand themselves, build resilience, and navigate stress, relationships, comparison, and technology.

“Lifelight helps children and youth understand their inner world - and helps the adults around them guide them with greater clarity”

Introducing the Lifelight Program

What if we could help children and youth avoid years of needless suffering? Lifelight gives children and youth a practical framework for understanding themselves, navigating challenges, and building resilience. The stories, video lessons, and reflection activities also give parents, educators, and other caring adults a shared language for guiding them.

Lifelight Blog & Resources

Nobody ‘made you’ act or feel that way! (Books 1-4)

Puberty and menopause under one roof ?! (Books #1, 2 &3)

Triggers and thorns

Work with Laura

Lifelight can be brought into schools, colleges, community organizations, and family settings through the program, speaking engagements, workshops, and direct support for parents and educators.
Whether you’re looking to support one child, a classroom, or an entire community, we can find the format that fits your needs.

Experience & Testimonials

The lifelight program has offered me the tools to walk into adulthood without angst or anxieties. Throughout our teenage years we're bombarded with labels and titles and hierarchies, always feeling like we need something to help us fit in. Lifelight helped me find where I fit in, not through any kind of social hierarchy or labelling system, but through finding the common humanity between myself and my peers.

Laura Young is very gifted. We find she has the ability to reach all ages in the comprehension of her teachings. Laura helped our whole family understand ourselves, our feelings, and our uniqueness. From our sessions with Laura and her books, we are able to incorporate her teachings in everyday scenarios, whether it be family time or personal space. We use the philosophy and Laura's skills every day, and understand the simplicity yet intense work we have to do everyday

I have learned so much from Laura about things I would have never thought of or had the answers too, even the small things! She has taught me ways to better my parenting skills, For example "what do I do when my child slaps me in the face" to how to explain things in a child way for them to understand! She truly is someone I will always look up too! For her this route she chose for her career isn't just about the money. She really does apply all of these things into her own life. I could go on all day for the reasons you should try this out!

Hi, I'm Laura

I’m the creator of Lifelight, a research-based Personal and Social Development program for children and youth, and the adults who support them.
For almost 30 years, I’ve worked with children, youth, and families in schools, workshops, and one-on-one settings. My work brings together child development, attachment, and our stress and threat systems to help young people understand themselves and navigate the world they are growing up in with greater resilience.
I created Lifelight to help children and youth live the heck out of their life experience and reduce needless suffering- and to give the adults around them a clearer way to guide them.