Zero Gravity Coaching wants to make a real difference in people’s lives by giving clients the tools they need to integrate back into their own lives.

The road to recovery for many people is a lifelong challenge and one fraught with many difficulties along the way. For most, the hardest part is reintegrating back into society, especially when their environment is the root cause of their problems.

There is a huge gap through which many people fall, says Lauren Laventhal, lawyer and former addict turned life coach. Laventhal started Zero Gravity Coaching after her experiences during her own recovery process. “There cannot be a blanket approach to help people integrate back into their respective realities after they leave treatment in a rehab or detention centre,” she says.

Laventhal believes that if you have coaching before and after you reintegrate back into your environment you are more capable of building emotional muscle; a term she uses to describe when someone is empowered to be the best version of themselves by making better life choices and decisions. She adds that careful consideration must be made as to what each client’s reality is and what is realistic in terms of avoidance of people, places and things, upon their release.

Laventhal has been coaching for 3 years but has had a lifelong passion for helping people. After a 15-year battle with addiction herself, she found that the tools that helped her were desperately needed by many other people coming out of recovery too.

As a lawyer by profession, Laventhal has found her life’s passion to be life coaching and helping others on the road to recovery and reintegration. Today the primary focus of Zero Gravity Coaching is to work with substance abuse centres, correctional services facilities, juvenile detentions, and reformatories.

For Laventhal, life coaching is integral to a person’s road to recovery but adds that not everyone is coachable, “Your need to change must be greater than your need to stay the same.”

While many people think about changing, the actions of doing so is completely overwhelming and more often than not, the necessary steps are not followed through. It is in these cases when help should be sought, adds Laventhal.
Once the need for help is realised, the most important thing a person can do is to find a coach they can trust. A lot of people feel they cannot open up to their coach if they cannot trust their coach and this often happens when a person is forced to rehabilitate.

“The objective of coaching is to help someone shift. Even the most miniscule shifts have a major ripple effect. Every small change makes the most fundamental difference in a person’s life.” Those shifts come in small changes with someone you trust says Laventhal.

There are substance abuse centres that offer advice and there are many life coaches you can reach out too for help, but a peer support specialist should be your first port of call. A peer support specialist becomes involved before any treatment or rehab centres get involved. They help you identify where you are and the best steps to take to recovery.

Zero Gravity Coaching puts a lot of its focus on juvenile detentions and prison systems. Laventhal says there is opportunity to make real difference in the lives of people before they are released.

Helping families cope is another big part of the equation and it is the reason why Laventhal also focusses on systemic coaching, helping the families and loved ones deal with the trauma of reintegration.

By entrenching herself into the areas where help is needed most, Laventhal believes that Zero Gravity Coaching can make real difference in the lives of people who need it the most.

Lauren Laventhal can be contact on for help or guidance on reintegration coaching, as a peer support specialist or a wellness coach.

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