Loretta LaRoche

Loretta is an international stress management and humour consultant whose wit, and irreverent humour, has, for over 30 years raised the humour potential in all of us. She is a member of faculty at the Mind/Body Medical Institute in Boston, writes a weekly newspaper column called, 'Get a Life' and is a contributing writer for Diane magazine. She is also featured as a stress management expert on LLuminari.com, a community wellness website.

LaRoche is founder and president of The Humor Potential, Inc, a company offering programs and products for life style management. Her special brand of optimistic psychology has an incontestable positive effect on the health of all that are exposed to her. Organizations worldwide use LaRoche's prescription for laughter to manage stress in the workplace and improve morale.

Her energetic meeting openings, trainings and keynotes serve to improve learning skills and put a room in an enthusiastic frame of mind. Corporate clients such as IBM, The New York Times, Fidelity Investments, Microsoft and NASA, just to name a few, have used her material to defeat stress in the workplace. LaRoche is also a well-recognized TV personality on PBS and best selling author. She has had seven one-women television specials air in 80 PBS stations across the country. She has been nominated for local and prime time Emmy Awards, has appeared on CNN, ABC and NBC affiliates. She has authored eight books, The Joy Journal, Happy Talk, Relax: You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left, Life is Not a Stress Rehearsal, Life Is Short- Wear Your Party Pants, Squeeze the Day, Kick Up Heels Before You're Too Short to Wear Them and her newest book Lighten Up! was released in August 2009.

• Kick Up Your Heels Before: You're Too Short to Wear Them

  (How to Live a Long, Juicy life)
  
  With her trademark humour and practical wisdom, Loretta LaRoche shows you how to live a long, healthy, and juicy life by mastering your body and mind—before you lose them! This event is filled with useful advice, spirituality, and (of course) loads of laughter. Live a life centered on learning, loving, and laughing. Create soul-stretching attitudes and trade old behaviours for bold behaviours—adding years to your life and "juice" to your years! Loretta provides an evening of exploration, creativity and fun. Come prepared to see a show filled with fun and discover the possibilities of a more powerful you. You'll leave revitalized, inspired, and with renewed passion for living a juicy life!

• Authentic Happiness: It Takes Courage to be Happy

  One of the most self-defeating concepts in the modern world is the pursuit of happiness. Not because it is not without merit. Since we all know that feeling good far outweighs feeling bad. It is "how" we go about it that has helped create the epidemic of self-entitlement, depression, lack of humor, and outbursts of anger that permeate the culture. We cannot buy, or demand happiness. Loretta LaRoche, a pioneer in the field of stress management using humor as a coping mechanism, now brings you her newest work..."It takes Courage to be Happy"... She brings newly discovered life-transforming answers to how we can change our lives, mentally, physically, and spiritually through a series of groundbreaking information and exercises that show the connection between happiness and human behavior...
  
  1. Discover how to reduce self-chatter - When unnecessary self-chatter subsides, you will become calmer, more attentive and content.
  
  2. Explore how to increase positive emotions in your life to counter depression. and stress..
  
  3. Become empowered by learning how to be authentically happy, which in turn creates a more prosperous life, better relationships, and a longer healthier life.

• Life Is Short- Wear Your Party Pants (10 Simple Truths That Lead To An Amazing Life)

  Loretta will give you the tools you need to not only reduce feelings of tension, but also bring joy, passion and gusto to your life She gives you dozens or proven techniques for recognizing the ten simple truths that will lead you to an intense, happy successful life: resilience, living in the moment, optimism, acceptance, humor, creativity, moderation, responsibility, meaning and connection. As Loretta says;" Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift- that's why they call it the present."

• Life Is Not A Stress Rehearsal (Bringing Yesterday's Sane Lifestyle Into Today's Insane World)

  For most of us life has become a pressure cooker of unrealistic expectations, information overload, relentless marketing and workaholism that we spend our days stressed out over being stressed out. Loretta makes us see the wisdom of a more civilized time when no one carried a cell phone during a peaceful walk on the beach. With her contemporary wit and a hearty dose of old-world wisdom Loretta brings a breath of fresh air for everyone who's suffocating in our techno crazed, germ-phobic, " go-go-go" world.

• Parenting with Humour (Is It Possible?)

  "Sit down, stop it, clean your room, don't use my good scissors!" Sound familiar? Can we raise a responsible human being using optimism, joy and good humor without resorting to awfulizing and catastrophizing? Explore the possibilities of having a family that laughs and supports each other.

• Whine, Women and Song (The Wit and Wisdom of Womanhood)

  "We are women hear us roar!" Is it possible to climb the corporate ladder, pick up toys, be a domestic goddess and not lose your mind? Discover the fun in the feminine as we share the wit and wisdom of being a woman.

• Love, Laughter and Lasagna (A Recipe for a Positive Outlook)

  Sick of being a "Human Doing?" Savor ways to elicit the past to reframe the present into a simpler lifestyle that honors families, friends, a sense of community and yourself.

• How to Prevent Hardening of the Attitude (Reducing Stress in the Workplace)

  Our work literally takes up most of our lives. Therefore, it would make sense for us to choose to enjoy it. Find out how to look forward to Monday instead of enduring until Friday! Discover how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors can affect work performance, relationships and our own selfworth.

• The Joy of Stress

  Join Loretta in discovering that "stressed spelled backwards is desserts." Explore the possibilities that can help us use stress as an ally rather than the enemy. Learn to become more resilient, creative and joyful.

• Once you see and hear Loretta you will never forget her! Those words may be an Understatement.
  Rockland Trust Company
• Your talk opened our eyes to how beneficial humor can be to help reduce stress. Laughter was truly infectious during your presentation and many of us walked away with a more positive outlook.
  Dun & Brandstreet
• No guest speaker has ever made such an impact, and a lasting impression in the hearts and minds of all as you did. Your presence has made our mission more attainable and has paved the way for change.
  Federal Aviation Administration

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  August 2009

  Lighten Up!: The Authentic and Fun Way to Lose Your Weight and Your Worries

  Loretta LaRoche is sick to death of diets and diet books. Not a day goes by without an article appearing in the media that reveals some food that could be harmful or helpful to our health. Food has become either demonic or divine. We’ve forgotten how to be in “right relationship” with one of the greatest pleasures we have in life: eating. As a result, we’re fatter than ever and more stressed out about being fat! In this humorous and informative book, Loretta cuts through the nonsense, disclosing the wisdom she has accumulated from having gained and lost a tribe of people. She also shares her expertise as an international stress consultant, former aerobics instructor, and owner of a wellness center.

  
  
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  August 2009

  Juicy Living, Juicy Aging: Kick Up Your Heels Before You're Too Short to Wear Them

  Our parents, our schools, and the media should all be teaching us that aging is a process that begins at birth... not something to be feared and avoided. Those who continue to be hardy and live long and healthy lives understand that the real path to vitality requires connection, playfulness, flexibility, grace, tenacity, resiliency, curiosity, learning, and good humor. With her trademark humor and practical wisdom, Loretta tackles how to live a long, healthy, juicy life; using herself and many of her friends and mentors as metaphors. Filled with practical advice, lifestyle skills, wisdom, and spirituality, Kick Up Your Heels... is a mental health spa that will inspire you and your family to live with joy, harmony, and peace while you still have the time!

  
  
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  August 2007

  Kick Up Your Heels... Before You're Too Short to Wear Them: How to Live a Long, Healthy, Juicy Life

  or the past 20 years, Loretta LaRoche has delighted readers, audiences and PBS viewers with her wacky and wise insights about life, love and modern world insanity. In her most deeply personal work yet, LaRoche addresses the most exciting challenge that we all face--one that she now finds herself facing. How do we age well? And can humour, dignity and wisdom ease the path? Our society is youth-obsessed. Beauty products, special exercises, designer vitamins, plastic surgery and certain medications are promoted as "the" ways to enhance life. But these formulas are not enough to prepare us to have a rich, authentic life filled with passion and juiciness.

  
  
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  March 2004

  Life is Short - Wear Your Party Pants

  Loretta LaRoche's techniques are a brilliant blend of Old World common sense and contemporary research in brain chemistry, psychology and mind-body studies. With specific exercises, her new book-a tie-in with a PBS special-gives readers dozens of proven techniques for developing the nine most important traits needed for a happy, successful life: resilience, optimism, connection, mindfulness, humour, respect, integrity, creativity and purpose.

  
  
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  April 1998

  Relax: You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left: Using the Power of Humor to Overcome Stress in Your Life

  Loretta uses humor to teach practical and common sense approaches to keeping positive and healthy.

  
  
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  December 1997

  The Joy Journal

  Loretta brings us a working journal that we can read and use as our own personal diary for bringing more joy into our lives. Filled with ideas, thoughts and quotes to help you get started.

  
  
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  December 1996

  Happy Talk: Fun Ways to Talk to Yourself