Loretta Douglas

TO DECIDE | Six years ago today, I made a decision.

The decision I made before I began this journey was the one that started it all and every decision I made after that is what kept the journey moving.

From NLP Practitioner…
to Clinical Hypnotherapist…
to NLP Master Practitioner…
NLP Trainer…
Hypnosis Trainer…
Time Line Therapy™ Trainer…
NLP Coaching Trainer…
and Master Trainer of NLP.

Every qualification, every room, every investment, every evolution of who I had to become along the way…

All began with one decision.

In less than a month, I embark on the final steps of completing that original goal: to Train Trainers.

Six years ago, I could not have fully recognised the life, business, depth and version of me that one decision would create.

I decided anyway.

I didn’t have every step mapped out or knew exactly how it would unfold I just knew intuitively it was time.

All it takes is one decision. The one true, brave, committed decision to create a ripple effect that changes everything.

Your future is asking for a decision. What will you choose?

DM NLP and that one decision will start your journey.

SLAP IN THE FACE | It’s been a funny old season for Loretta Douglas.

I met my victim and she slapped me like a b!t@h!

She stood there, bold as brass. I’m glad she did. She didn’t show up because she wanted me to stay small or for her to be right. She came out to play because there were layers of invisible patterns I had not yet been willing or able to see.

Patterns of all sorts were raising their head and eventually as my body got weaker those patterns got louder. As my health took a hit I had a choice. Make it MEAN something or LISTEN so she could show me the way home.

I listened. Took my time. Sat with my victim. This time we had conversations over coffee. We played and danced. I uncovered the architecture beneath these patterns, the foundations, the roots.

What had been and was keeping me safe was about to smack me in my face!

It felt so raw and untamed because I’d been doing this work for years now…surely my victim was done?

There is no shame in meeting your shadows. Only power and she’ll make an appearance without invitation.

Throughout all of this NLP has kept me grounded, rooted and gifted me the ability to sit with seasons like this for however long the return home takes.

When you can become the OBSERVER you can finally see the pattern and no longer be trapped inside it.

You can choose again.

You can create safety within yourself.

You can build a life that supports you.

And that’s what I continue to do.

This season was meant to be to ELEVATE and LIFT me into the next. I feel alive and more rooted in myself than ever. Until next time 🤪

Which brings me to the beginning of a new era.

A return home.

A return to the foundations.

A return to the inner architecture that creates lasting safety, security, expression and transformation.

All rooted in excellence, expansion and transformation.

Welcome home.

If you’ve felt your own life or body asking you to slow down and listen, maybe this is your invitation to come home, meet your victim and rise.

Your body is a temple and your mind is your guide. Without solid foundations you’re living on shaky ground. DM NLP if you are ready to build your new home.

TIME TO SPILL THE TEA ☕️ | Eight months ago, my body said no.

Last November, I woke up and something felt different. It had been building quietly for a few months and this time wasn’t going to be the same. This was deep, unmistakable, a Loretta’s not coming out today kind of moment.

At first, I thought it might be perimenopause. I then discovered I had a severe iron deficiency, one that had likely been quietly building for 11+ years and had gone unnoticed. More on this soon!

There was no thinking my way out of this one. At one stage I even questioned “Does NLP work?!?!” and this was the whole point because absofrickenlutley it does and this time I was going to use it differently…

NLP taught me this time there would be no performance, pushing through or any amount of “I’m fine, I’ve got this”.

Loretta was to return to her ROOTS and FOUNDATIONS and this was the LEARNING for this whole season.

My UNCONSCIOUS mind became vital: helping me stay steady, hold the vision and lead myself differently through a season I didn’t choose and one I deeply needed.

Because as my body asked me to slow down, I started seeing the foundations in my business that needed to change too.

The DESIGN.
The ARCHITECTURE.
The ROOMS.

Some days I was quiet. Some days I was wildly creative. Even when it looked like I’d gone quiet, I was building.

What I’m building now is mine.

More aligned. More spacious. More truthful.

I’ve crafted an art form and a new level of Loretta Douglas.

This season wasn’t easy.

It was necessary.

And now?

A new era of NLP training begins.

If your own foundations have been asking for your attention lately, this is your reminder. Slowing down doesn’t mean you’ve stopped building, in fact it’s in the slowing down where creativity meets your heart ♥️

I love you if you’ve been with me from the start and I’m ready to love you if you are new to my world.

KNOCK AT THE DOOR | At the weekend, my friend knocked on my door unannounced.

No arrangement or “are you in?” text. Her fleeting call and brisk cup of tea, on a Saturday morning was the highlight of my weekend.

It was an ACTUAL knock on the door like it was the 90s.

It made me laugh because it instantly took me back to being a kid, when you’d knock for your friend and their mum would shout down the hallway:

“She’s not coming out today.”

And for some reason, that sentence landed somewhere deep in me.

Because about 8 months ago, that was exactly what happened.

Only this time, it wasn’t my mum saying it.

It was my body.

Loretta’s not coming out today.

Not the performing version.
Not the pushing-through version.
Not the “I’m fine, I’ve got this” version.
Not the woman who holds space for everyone else.

She was not coming out today.

And at first, I thought it was just one of those days.

Only it wasn’t one day.

It became a season.

TBC

What season are you in right now? I’d love to know your thoughts below.

ONE YEAR AGO | I became a Master Trainer of NLP.

I missed the exact anniversary at the end of May and honestly, that feels fitting for what this year has been about.

I thought qualifying would feel loud. Big. Electric. Euphoric.

Of course I was so proud of myself. Most NLP Trainers never star their master program, many don’t finish and only the finest complete. I was so excited about the year ahead. I thought I had it all mapped out in my head.

What’s unfolded over the last year was something very different, profound and much DEEPER.

Deeper than anything I’ve experienced. It’s not all been pretty and some of it has been challenging, raw and heart-opening.

This year has taught me that mastery, for me, is not about performance or title. It’s been another true lesson of the UNBECOMING, I talk of this often.

I’ve shed layers of identity. I’ve grieved versions of me as seasons have thrown new experiences as I embraced being a master in not just business in life too.

It’s not been about arriving in a blaze of certainty.

It has been about slowing down, building foundations, reconnecting to myself, questioning the expected path, honouring my own direction and learning what it means to truly stand in my work.

I feel more connected to who I am, what I’m here for and the way I want to lead than ever before.

So maybe this first year of “mastery” wasn’t about doing mastery at all.

Maybe it was about learning to BE a master.

And that feels like the real milestone.

A quiet one.
A grounded one.
A true one.

This is also the beginning of a new chapter for me and I’ll be slowly sharing more of that here so stay tuned 🤍

LEADERSHIP TRAINING | Leadership starts within.

Through my leadership trainings, I support you, the VISIONARY LEADER to deepen self-awareness, build self-trust, enhance powerful communication, make empowered decisions and lead with authentic expression and confident leadership.

It all starts at the foundations of your first decision.

The Enhanced NLP Coach Practitioner, 4-in-1, internationally certified training. Here you develop from the inside out.

For me, visionary leadership isn’t just about what you build someday. It’s about how you lead now, how you walk yourself through challenge, how you hold your voice, your standards, your truth and your vision with integrity.

Then you move into the quantum world where infinite possibilities become limitless with your next level of leadership expansion.

The Enhanced NLP Master Coach Practitioner, 4-in-1, internationally certified training. Here you master mastery, start your journey into quantum thinking, possibly and catapult yourself into a dimension only a few leaders dare step into.

This work is about becoming the kind of leader who can see now with later in mind because universal law already has your destiny written.

As you step into your next level expansion here you know you are made for more and that more is your choice.

NLP Trainers Training your ULTIMATE destination training for VISIONARY LEADERS who are ready to take the stage and become trainers and charismatic public speakers. Here the difference really does make the difference.

It’s an easy question when will you DECIDE and HOW much expansion are you ready for?

DM ‘NLP’ for more information on NLP Trainings that open doors of infinite possibility 🚀

VISIONARY LEADERS | The beautiful humans I’m here for are bigger than a job title or label.

I speak to visionary leaders like you. You, the one with heart, depth, vision and the courage to create change.

You might be a coach, parent, teacher, entrepreneur, wellness professional, business owner, director, personal trainer or yoga and pilates teacher like other people who have trained as NLP Practitioners and Master Practitioners.

Your job title doesn’t matter to me nearly as much as your energy, vision and heart.

If you’ve ever felt like you don’t fit neatly into one box, good. Neither do the most powerful people I know.

You’re welcome here as a VISIONARY LEADER.

Welcome to the room.

DM ‘NLP’ if you are ready to curate the visionary leader in you.

OUTGROWING | You don’t just outgrow people, places and things.

You outgrow…
🤍 Identities.
🤍 Beliefs.
🤍 Habits & behaviours
🤍 Ways of thinking.

Including outgrowing…
🤍 You
🤍 Them
🤍 Relationships & Friendships
🤍 Careers. Businesses & Ideas.
🤍 Mentors
🤍 Dis-ease & addiction to Struggle.

When learn how to work with all of this consciously (maybe not all at once 🫨) EVERYTHING changes.

Why can I write this so confidently?

Because over the last 7 years since learning NLP and over my 44 years of life I’ve OUTGROWN all of the above and more and continue to do so because I’m calling EXPANSION.

Let me tell you it presents itself in so many fricken ways that’s twisted me in all directions, positions I never thought I’d find myself in and yet so grateful I get to experience a life so full.

A life that chooses me as a PRIORITY.

You will learn this when you experience NLP Practitioner Training.

Applications are open for the VISIONARY LEADER to apply because the foundations have been built and this is the knock on your door.

DM ‘NLP’ I know you are ready for more and you know this deep down.

HAPPY AS LARRY | What if happiness wasn’t something you had to chase? What if it was something you chose?

Today was beautifully simple. Blue skies. A long drive. Watching my daughter play netball. A quiet walk with my son. A bath. A brew outside.

Nothing extravagant. Yet it felt deeply rich.

Rich in love. Rich in joy. Rich in gratitude. Rich in wholesomeness.

So much of life is spent in “I’ll be happy when…
when this happens, when I have this, when I achieve that,
when life looks different”.

What if happiness gets to exist now? In the life you have. In the little moments. In the version of life that might look ordinary to someone else and feels beautiful to you.

This is the kind of happiness that isn’t dependent on conditions. It’s embodied. It’s present. It’s yours to choose.

If life already gets to feel this good now… just imagine how good it gets to be.

Become the OBSERVER of your life. Open your eyes wide. What can you start to see more of? What can you look for in each opportunity of the day that brings you to cellular happiness.

Give this a go…

Pause for a moment and ask yourself: What in my life right now is already rich, beautiful and worthy of being fully felt?

Strip it all back. Happiness isn’t in your car, house, relationship, family, salary, career it’s in YOU.

DM me NLP and I’ll guide you to internal happiness and from that moment your life will be changed forever.