Healing is Hilarious with Rachel LaForce

If you've been following me on Instagram then you know I am - ahem - WE ARE - embarking on a new journey. Fit and Famous by Forty. 21 months. That's it, friends. That is the timeline for us to create a new story for ourselves about who we are and what we want in this life. For me, FAFBF is very personal. This journey is about uncovering my true sense of worthiness. Full embodiment. So much...

Congratulations. You've leveled up. So that means August is literal fresh territory. You've arrived and now it's time to decide where it is you want to go.  We have been chipping away at this piece of marble for a few months now - years really - but who's counting. LOLZ. And well - this new energy, this "quantum leap", this "portal" has arrived. I don't typi...

Y’all we made it! I am so delighted to share this message today. Our ability to strengthen and choose our responses to old triggers is nothing short of miraculous. What an absolute pleasure to begin to live lightly. Even cooler - OUR NEW RESPONSES CREATE NEW OUTCOMES! And the confidence of repeating these steps, gives us the alignment, and calm nervous system to begin taking HIGH ACTION. And highe...

First up and off the top, I added an addendum to the beginning of the episode and explain my dyslexia and acknowledged I pronounced sympathetic incorrectly pretty much the entire episode lolz. In other news, this episode packs a PUNCH! I connect the metaphorical tissue from our Acceptance episode to the power of our nervous system. Our bodies are wildly complex systems built to help us thrive. I w...

I am excited to introduce a three-part series: “IT’S YOURS: The Business of Leveling Up and Overcoming Self Sabotage”. Y’all the further you climb, the sneakier self-sabotage becomes. In this series, we will discuss what it means to truly ACCEPT our soul’s path, how to retrain our NERVOUS SYSTEM and learn a new course of RESPONSE AND ACTION. Today we begin with what it means to fully surrender to...

WELCOME TO WHAT MAY BE THE MOST CALM AND TRANSFORMATIVE MONTH OF THE YEAR. Don't sleep on July y'all! Some of you may feel called to take action and some of you may be called to lock into all that you have created over the past year. 2024 is a bridge year. It links us from our old stories to our new life that awaits in 2025. July is our bridge month in our bridge year! We have done so much...

The time has come my friends! I am excited to share, now is the time to ENJOY the fruits of your labor. Enjoy your peace. Enjoy the person you have worked so hard to become. While everything you desire may not be "here" yet - you are here. Full and complete. There is such beauty in this respite. I beg of you, do not miss this. It may not feel like it now, but someday in the not-so-distan...

Y’all! She’s here! Two weeks ago I flew to Boston for an exclusive, LIVE podcast interview with the women behind Cal Verde Naturals! I sat down with their Owner, Kelly Tomasello and their CCO, Emma Thurston to hear about their experiences building Cal Verde. We discovered we had so much more to discuss! We dove deep into the shadow cast over women and cannabis; especially the shame facing mothers....

Welcome to your spiritual grab bag, where I pulled 5 different decks with 5 different intentions to give you a 5 card read to help aid in your current uplevel. We have been shedding, giving our old stories the finger and wow - this climb is much more steep than we accounted for! But lucky for us - we are PREPARED for our mission. I pulled with the following intentions. . . What do we need to surre...

Woof! Y'all. This upgrade is no joke. This energy, these gifts, this abundance - the "breakthrough" - is birth. We are birthing something new, we have been born anew and well - that isn't always roses. You - we - me - are learning to adapt to new challenges, to accept what we asked for because it is here. This upgrade is steeeeep y'all. You may be experiencing a lot of uncomf...

It's June already??? Time seems to be moving too damn fast, there is too much to do and life just feels heavy. You know why? Because you aren't living in the present moment. June offers us the slower pace of summer. I challenge you to use this time to take advantage of the season's softness and to reflect on your journey through the year so far. Do not rush. Let life carry you. Fully e...

Y'all! I love Madeline. We did a podcast collab, which meant we got to sit down and chat two weeks in a row and I gleaned such powerful reminders in talking with her. Madeline is the host of Happiest Sober Podcast and also is a sober creator on Instagram. She is the type of account I would have needed when I first quit drinking. This episode flows much more like an interview than most. Madelin...

If you’ve been listening for a while, you know I love a conversation about Hollywood. Many of my friends and colleagues have found success as they define it. Actor/Writer, John Druska and I sit down to talk redefining our dreams and chasing that Sunset Blvd billboard. IYKYK. John is an old friend from my Hollywood sketch days. We reminisce about putting up sketches with some of the funniest people...

WOOF! Y'all. Buckle up for this one. I don't resonate with the term "quantum leap" because really it's just pushing to the other side of fear - although after saying that - quantum leap does sound fancier. LOLZ. Listen, if she's ever had one, it was this week. Pushing out a baby - my new half hour comedy special, TIRED MOM - has held lessons so deep in my core, I didn&#39...

Okay, so apparently - maintaining high energy levels is work? Ugh. IDK. I don’t like that myself. Lolz. This whole time - this whole six year “journey” - this whole time I have assumed - ‘well certainly I will get to a place where this will all be natural and I won’t have to be so focused’ Ahhh yeah - the cosmic verdict is in and that’s not how it works. SO YEAH, that’s the “bad news”. The “good n...

Y'all this episode is a long time coming. Today I break down our final block towards embodying this next version of ourselves. The block we come back to time and time again. Grand Acceptance means loving on what didn't work out, loving on your sore spots AND RECEIVING YOU in your highest expression. RECEIVING your success as you define it. No more attracting big things and backing away fro...

Okay - so the future is here. Now what. LOLZ. I know the feeling. Listen, relax. You, me, we; we worked really hard to meet this version of ourselves. And while some of us may be feeling like we're finding our sea legs, the truth is that's normal. You didn't hold onto survival patterns and behaviors for 10+ years of your  life overnight, that sh*t was steeped yall! So just for now, jus...

Full disclosure - because we're friends. I recorded this episode on Friday, April 5th and today as I write this - it is mere hours after the eclipse on Monday, April 8th and we're all new people now aren't we? LOLZ. Here's the deal - we aren't new people, we are slowly becoming who we have always been. And it's time. Drop your armor. Drop the struggle. And just allow. Heave...

Okay yall. I hope you’re ready for a very candid episode! Winter has been brutal, my body is begging me to slow down and I have discovered I may be too high functioning for my own good. Lolz. This episode is more serious than humorous - although how funny is that. Ha! This Spring brings new energy, but it requires a new version of us to TRULY step into it. My prayer for us all is that we may be wi...

This episode is so near and dear to my heart. I had the opportunity to interview my mother, who also happens to be a highly decorated Academic, Writer, and Professor, Dr. Susan Painter. We go deep in this episode and really talk through the journey of healing. The process. How our authenticity changes as we change and why all we have is our truth. I have always seen her work as healing work. Today...

There is nothing I love more than a good origin story. Liz and I met at a show in Cleveland in 2019, promising she was moving to LA. And well now? The rest is history. Liz is a touring comedian, Podcaster, Writer and  on the rare occasion, a substitute teacher. This is a great interview style episode about making space for creativity and ideas to come through and the discipline of comedy. Happy Li...

ALRIGHT SPRING, COME IN WITH YOUR HANDS UP. Woof! Winter has been a damn doozy for a lot of us and I know we're craving longer days, sunny mornings and a sense of ease. Knowing that what we have been so tirelessly integrating into our lives is - well - working. I believe March will begin to offer that to us, but first, we have some work to do. In order to move forward with the quickly approach...

Warning, I am fired up and offering off the cuff thoughts and feels this episode. Annnnd, I am also referencing JLO, a lot. LOLZ. What does it mean to "bare our soul" to share our "never before told story". Well I do know this, each of us have our own definition of what that may look or sound like. As I always say, the most Universal truths are hidden in the specificities of ou...

Oh boy yall! This is the second episode of the szn and it’s worthy of its own season! Spiritual Influencer, Advisor, Psychic and Medium, Mystic Rainn joins me today. Mystic Rainn shares about the learning curve of being a newlywed, and we bond over what it means to create aspects of our lives without mirrors. We rant on "smoothie retreats" and so much more. And by so much more I mean. we...

Annnd just like that - we're back! Welcome to SZN 4, the future is here. If you listened to the last episode of SZN 3, you'll know I left you with quite a cliffhanger. . . and well. . . we're still in it baby! It is too soon to see how it all works out. Winter has brought me a lot to navigate. Even more than I bargained for. So, as I climb this mountain with a boulder in my hands, I am...