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Lauren Vaknine
Following her unique journey from severe disability to complete wellness, Lauren Vaknine helps organisations unlock better workplace wellbeing and performance from the inside out, blending holistic health coaching, nervous system regulation, and mind-body healing with the neuroscience of self-perception and identity design. Endorsed by Jay Shetty and featured in major news outlets, Lauren draws on three decades of lived experience and training in nutrition, life coaching, NLP, and CBT to help global audiences rewrite the stories that hold them back and step into self-sovereignty.
Lauren Vaknine is a master holistic health and life coach whose work centres on one of modern wellness's most remarkable recovery stories: from severe disability to complete remission.
Lauren built her practice on almost three decades of lived experience with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, developing a whole-person healing framework that blends neuroscience, somatic therapy, neurolinguistic programming, spiritual healing modalities, and nervous system regulation. She hosts the Reconditioned podcast and has spoken at TEDx and Gaia. Her debut book, I'm Fine, is forthcoming, and she will feature in Kelly Gores's upcoming Feel documentary, the follow-up to the highly acclaimed Heal.
Lauren's coaching methodology addresses the root causes of stalled healing rather than its surface symptoms. By integrating identity work, trauma processing, and holistic health coaching, Lauren helps people rebuild their relationship with their body and sense of self to overcome their personal blockers.
Audiences who attend Lauren's sessions leave with practical tools for nervous system regulation, identity reconstruction, and a replicable framework for applying her healing principles to physical, emotional, or professional challenges.
Endorsed by Jay Shetty, Bruce Lipton, and Kelly Gores, Lauren brings powerful lived experience and knowledge to holistic wellbeing.
Topics, sessions and talks
Diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis as an infant, Lauren Vaknine had lost the use of every joint in her body by 18. Three decades on, she lives in complete remission and has gone on to build a global wellness platform, helping people to lead healthier, happier lives. In this session, Lauren shares the holistic, identity-led principles behind that journey, leaving audiences with a renewed sense of what's possible and the belief that their own challenges, however entrenched, are not the final word.
Most people aren't stuck for lack of ambition. They're stuck because they're pursuing change from within an identity that was never truly theirs. Drawing on her own transformation from severe disability to full wellness, Lauren Vaknine explores how a false self forms, how it quietly shapes every decision, and how to move beyond it. Combining neurolinguistic programming, somatic healing, and identity design, she gives audiences the deeper framework that explains why goals slip and what to do instead.
The way people work today keeps most of them in a near-permanent state of stress activation, and no amount of productivity strategy changes that from the outside in. Lauren Vaknine draws on decades of somatic and holistic practice to explain how an unregulated nervous system quietly undermines focus, decision-making, and resilience, and what it actually takes to shift it. Audiences leave with a practical understanding of nervous system regulation and the tools to build it into everyday working life.
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To book Lauren Vaknine, email lauren.vaknine@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Lauren's availability and speaking fee. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and about your audience.
Lauren Vaknine structures her sessions around her own recovery narrative — from losing the use of every joint in her body by age 18 to achieving complete remission — using it as a through-line to introduce a layered framework combining neurolinguistic programming, somatic healing, and nervous system regulation. Rather than presenting these as abstract concepts, she grounds each element in the physiological and psychological mechanics she applied to her own case, giving audiences a replicable model they can map onto their own circumstances.
Lauren Vaknine speaks on identity-led transformation, nervous system regulation, and recovery from adversity, drawing on her journey from severe disability to complete remission. She delivered the TEDx talk Breaking Barriers: My Story of Healing from Severe Disability and founded RISE, described as the world's number one women's wellness platform.
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