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Piper Lauri Salogga is a transformational coach, writer and teacher supporting her clients in co-creating love within themselves and with each other. Find her work at beautyofbeinghuman.com.

Articles by Piper Lauri Salogga

The Dragon is you

By Piper Lauri Salogga | April 24, 2024

The Beauty of Being Human

You may have heard 2024 is the year of the Dragon. What does this mean? Why should you care?

Astrology is a thousands-year-old study practiced all around the world, connecting the movement of planets and stars in the universe to their effects on Earth. In Chinese astrology, the zodiac sign attributed to each year shares the flavor, lessons and opportunities of the year. This awareness can help us focus our expectations and actions so we can live in greater harmony. ...

I am healing

By Piper Lauri Salogga | March 6, 2024

I am healing.

When I do this I disappear

deep inside.

Travel into dark tunnels

of my many selves.

Inundated emotion.

Untidy truth that calls.

I am healing.

Repairing, reworking, generating

cells and focus and feeling.

Creating what my body needs:

relaxation, nurturing to open.

What my heart wants:

kindness, safe-holding.

What my mind can help create:

curious, respectful, inner listening.

The Mechanics of Healing.

I consistently remind myself ...

Honoring our differences

By Piper Lauri Salogga | February 7, 2024

The Beauty of Being Human

We live in a world of wildly diverse opinions, beliefs and lived experiences. It is this diversity that enriches us all, but it can also make us feel unsafe — especially when we are expecting or demanding another to believe as we do.

A question I have often asked myself when facing a potential clash of opinions or beliefs is: How can I be me in the face of you? ...

New Hope for Better

By Piper Lauri Salogga | January 10, 2024

The Beauty of Being Human

2024 has begun. It’s a new year with new hope — for better. Better health, relationships, personal habits, more opportunity, greater peace and well-being for ourselves and others.

This desire for “better” is helpful and motivating when it comes from a balanced place in us. But our Western culture, that is constantly pressuring us toward perfection, is drowning us in messages about the need for big resolutions, great goals, and doing everything we can to achieve them. All this pressure too often becomes the abyss that swallows hope’s heartfelt inspiration and upliftment. ...

From loneliness to love for the holidays

By Piper Lauri Salogga | December 13, 2023

The Beauty of Being Human

The holiday season — this time of year — can be filled with so much pressure. Pressure around getting the right gift for folks, having the money to get gifts and having enough food and the time to prepare those holiday meals. But even greater is the pressure to feel happy, loving and, of course, loved.

The emotional pressure to feel loved, accepted by others and like we really belong can sometimes be the hardest part of this season. Sometimes we can have the feeling that everyone but us is surrounded by family and friends, feeling a sense of belonging and being loved. ...

The body amazing

By Piper Lauri Salogga | November 15, 2023

Piper Lauri Salogga: Aging has helped me appreciate the wonders of the human body that I took for granted

As my body is getting older, I have the opportunity to reflect on all it does for me. The pain and physical challenge that I encounter more than I used to helps me also see how resilient, beautifully functional, naturally flowing, creative and generative my body is, and all our bodies are.

Coming closer to 60 (still feeling 30 in my spirit), I can notice what I took for granted before. ...

You are worthy

By Piper Lauri Salogga | October 11, 2023

The Beauty of Being Human

I’ve recently been having deep conversations with my husband Michael, close friends and clients about feeling worthy — or not worthy, actually.

All of these conversations quickly culminate in all the ways we don’t feel enough: not smart enough; not healthy enough; not skillfull enough; not successful enough; not beautiful enough; not giving enough.

The list goes on. ...

Holding hands

By Piper Lauri Salogga | September 13, 2023

How many of us are moving distractedly, busily and disconnectedly through our lives, forgetting that we are part of a meaningful community, a caring pod of humans, in valuable relationships that need our love and attention? Forgetting, but needing to know we belong all the same? ...

No more ‘I’m fine’

By Piper Lauri Salogga | August 16, 2023

There’s a particular habit we humans seem to have that always gets under my skin. It’s the “How are you?”/“I’m fine” interaction. You know what I’m talking about, right?! That way we ask the question — “How are you?” — without really caring about the response.

We’re simply asking it out of habit, or because we think we should, or because we don’t know what else to say and silence doesn’t seem like an okay option. And for those of us on the responding end, it too often doesn’t really feel like we can tell the truth. ...