About Me
My name is Lauralu Bach, and this is a quiet space I tend under the care of The Liberation Artist, LLC. It’s where I sit beside the thresholds — between knowing and not, between falling apart and being made new, between the silence and the sacred.
Navigating life with a sense of gratitude and joy can be complicated, especially when it seems the world is descending into chaos, where we face loss regularly, and stand in the shadow of war and climate angst — and an all too prevailing anxiety. Too often, our hearts are tempted toward fear, rather than trust; toward urgency instead of peace. And yet, stillness insists us to listen differently — to lean into love and gratitude.
I’m not here to offer answers, or tell you how to live, or who to be. Rather, I am here to explore how we can learn to more fully hear God speak into our lives, as we learn to decipher the thread of meaning across the minutes and hours of our days — those which, when strung together, shape the story that is our Life.
Who Am I?
Who am I? Ah, just another simple human, here trying to figure it out. I’ve navigated deep, profound loss, and utter, mind-bending joy. I’ve lost everything, and I’ve experienced great gifts that fill my heart with awe.
My work has always lived near the thresholds. Before spiritual direction, I spent years as a birth and end-of-life doula, offering presence and witnessing in life’s most liminal hours. I also founded a boutique doula placement service, and a doula training program that served thousands of families and practitioners on the East Coast — quiet, sacred work that still echoes in much of what I offer now
Along the way, I trained in mindfulness meditation coaching, life, health, ADHD coaching, group fitness instruction, and laughter yoga. These practices deepened my respect for joy, the body’s wisdom, the integration of mind, body, and spirit, and for the strange, holy beauty that is being human.
Many years ago, I was ordained through the Church of Spiritual Humanism. My early studies were in physics, philosophy, and Comparative Religion, and more recently, I enrolled in both a Christian and an Interspiritual Seminary — though I’m currently on leave from both, due to health challenges. I’m also currently engaged in studying the ancient Biblical languages of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Biblical Greek.
My Journey!
I’ve loved and lost, and risen like a phoenix, only to crash and rise again. The one thing that has remained, is that I’ve never walked alone — and sometimes I’ve been carried — for God has been there at every turn.
I do have some ‘training’ and ‘experience’ – but as the years pass, I have learned that the greatest gifts come from what we unlearn along the way. To me, the greatest gift is learning to surrender certainty, and learn to stay present in the holy unknown as we live into the mystery. The true gift is learning to be deeply presentwith the unfathomably wondrous effulgence of life.
Those trainings, that experience – here’s a bit about it, if you’re curious: I’m a trained spiritual director and graduate of the Christian based Christos’ Tending the Holy program, and I’m a member of Spiritual Directors International. I’m also a companion with a lay Franciscan spiritual community that helps me remember how to walk gently, laugh often, and that the gift of growth lay in the experience of shared witness. This continually renews the truth that the greatest gifts find us when we let go of the need to know and have everything.
I’ve a passion for learning about life in the times of the historic Bible, up through and including the earliest Jesus communities after Jesus’ Ascension — as well as life in early religious community.
This space is not about mastery, but reflecting upon the mystery.
I’m so glad you stopped by, and hope you stay awhile.
You are welcome here, just as you are.