EDUCATION and HEALING SUPPORT FOR Narrative Focused Trauma Care · Somatic Work · Coaching

Your story is worthy of being engaged.

You were made for more than carrying it alone. The work begins when someone helps you turn and face it with care.
Master Certified Life and Business Coach·NFTC Practitioner·Somatic Practitioner
Welcome
Welcome to Storied Living, Education & Healing Support.

However you arrived here, you are welcome. Start small, go deep, or simply stay close. There is a way in for you.

Where to begin
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Step One
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Start with Beginnings

The front door into the work. Storied Living Beginnings — 24 guided lessons that gently walk you in, yours for free.

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Step Two
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Go Deeper with Courses

The full library of courses and workbooks, or the whole collection together with monthly time with me.

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Become a Patron

Walk alongside this work in a deeper way. Host an intimate evening of story and song with me.

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For Practitioners

Are you a coach with training and nowhere to put it?

You did the work. Now build the business that holds it. I can help.

Step One · Free

Storied Living Beginnings

The front door into the work. A gentle, guided beginning for anyone ready to engage their story with honesty and care, wherever they are starting from. Twenty-four lessons, yours for free.

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Each lesson comes with its own guide book — a readable transcription with guided questions to support your journey.
Inside the Bundle
Twenty-four guided lessons
Week 1
Welcoming Our Whys
Week 2
The Self-Consult
Week 3
Welcoming Our Wounds
Week 4
Welcoming Our Objections
Week 5
Welcoming Our Coping
Week 6
Welcoming Our Body
Week 7
Welcoming Our Story
Week 8
Welcoming Our Story: Family of Origin
Week 10
Welcoming Our Story: Context
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Week 11
Welcoming Our Story: Characters
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Week 12
Welcoming Our Story: Generational Patterns
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Week 13
Welcoming Our Story: Our Health
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Week 14
Welcoming Time
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Week 15
Welcoming Our Attachments
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Week 16
Welcoming Our Resilience
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Week 17
Welcoming Our Arousal
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Week 18
Welcoming Our Style of Relating
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Week 19
Supporting Our Failures
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Week 20
Welcoming Our Grief
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Week 21
Welcoming Our Settledness
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Week 22
Welcoming Our Present Self
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Week 23
Nurturing Our Past Self
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Week 24
Welcoming Our Future Self
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Learn & Grow with Storied Living

Guided courses on the foundations of Storied Living — engaging your brain, your story, your body, and your healing. Each course is three 90-minute videos with a workbook.

Every course is priced for accessibility. All proceeds go directly toward creating new resources for our shared work of healing and growth.

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Best Value · The Full Collection

The Storied Living Course Bundle

Every Course · 3 × 90-min videos & workbook each

Every course in one place. The complete path through engaging your brain, your story, your body, and your healing — with lifetime access and a monthly recorded Q&A where I answer students' questions about engaging their story.

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Engaging Your Brain

3 × 90-min videos · Workbook

How your brain and nervous system shape the way you feel and respond. Learn to notice neuroception, tend your body, and believe your brain can heal.

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Style of Relating

3 × 90-min videos · Workbook

Understand how your family of origin, roles, triangulation, and arousal structures shape the way you show up in relationships.

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Family of Origin & Matrix of Support

3 × 90-min videos · Workbook

Map the roles and relationships that formed you, and build a matrix of support that resources your life and your healing now.

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Your Story Through the Lens of Attachment

3 × 90-min videos · Workbook

Anxious, avoidant, disorganized, and secure. Learn how attachment was formed in you, and how it can be repaired toward security.

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Coach Yourself to Know

3 × 90-min videos · Workbook

Learn to notice your thoughts and patterns with honesty, building the self-awareness that any real change begins with.

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Coach Yourself to Grow

3 × 90-min videos · Workbook

Take back agency and self-coach toward the change you want to create, turning what you know about yourself into growth.

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What You Must Feel in Order to Heal

3 × 90-min videos · Workbook

The link between sensation, emotion, and attachment. Learn to allow feeling, with somatic and meditation practices to support your body.

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Somatic Story Work: Healing Arousal Structures

3 × 90-min videos · Workbook

How stress arousal structures form and how to settle them in real time. Body-based practice woven with story, for lasting change.

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Grief

3 × 90-min videos · Workbook

Grief cannot be treated, only moved through. A tender, guided space to let sorrow be present and to move through it with care.

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Engaging Your Story

3 × 90-min videos · Workbook

Turn toward your own story with honesty and kindness, to name what happened to you, and to engage it in a way that opens the door to healing.

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Triangulation

3 × 90-min videos · Workbook

Understand triangulation — the use of a child to soothe or regulate a parent at the expense of the child's sense of self — and how to see and heal its patterns.

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Masterclass · 90 min

Curses, Agreements, Vows & Soul Ties

A deeper teaching on the spoken and unspoken bonds we carry, how they form, how they hold us, and how to name and release what no longer serves your healing.

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Masterclass · 90 min

Triangulation Masterclass

An in-depth teaching that goes further into triangulation, tracing how these patterns took root in your story and walking through the work of healing them.

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Masterclass · 90 min

Integration & Signification

A teaching on bringing the pieces of your story together and making meaning from them, so the work of healing becomes a coherent, lived whole.

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Lora is a grounded teacher with an expansive presence that helps me learn even through a screen.
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Be a Patron of Storied Living

Want to be a patron of Storied Living and support the continued work of producing content and courses for the collective, at an accessible price?

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I'll come play for you, your people, and an evening of story and art.

Become a patron and I'll come to you for an intimate acoustic house show. We'll spend an evening together with music, talking about story and art, and meeting you, your friends, and the people you love. As a patron, you'll also receive access to every Storied Living course for the year.

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*Plus travel, meals, accommodations, and related expenses.

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Lora Kelley
About Lora

I've done the work I'm inviting you into.

I'm a Master Certified Life and Business Coach and a Narrative Focused Trauma Care® Practitioner. I'm also a somatic practitioner, an artist, a poet, and a songwriter. I've spent years learning to sit with people in their stories with skill and care.

I serve as an Allender Center advisor and a topic instructor on Shame and Flourishing. Storied Living shaped my own life before it became my vocation. I offer it now the way it was offered to me: with honesty, with tenderness, and with the belief that your story is worthy of being engaged.

Allender Center NFTC Practitioner
Allender Center Advisor & Topic Instructor, Shame and Flourishing
Master Certified Life and Business Coach
Somatic Practitioner · PPN Educator in Training
SLB Mastermind · by Lora Kelley

Are you a practitioner who feels afloat in business?

You are an NFTC practitioner, a coach, a therapist, someone formed in this work. You know how to hold others. I am here to help you build the business that holds you.
Master Certified Business Coach
NFTC Certified Practitioner
Somatic Practitioner
Allender Center NFTC Advisor & Topic Instructor
Lora Kelley
In Their Words

What students are saying about Storied Living Courses & Education

Engaging Your Brain
The course on Engaging Your Brain increased my awareness of my own feelings and showed me I have real power in tending to my thoughts. It gave me hope that my brain can heal.
Storied Living Student
Engaging Your Brain
Engaging Your Brain helped me see that I have ownership of my own mind. That felt so simple and yet so profound.
Storied Living Student
Engaging Your Brain
The teaching on engaging your brain is so nourishing and hopeful. Lora's presence as a teacher is calming. This work feels like a safe and sacred space.
Storied Living Student
Style of Relating
The Style of Relating course brought familiar ideas to me in such a fresh way that it moved the needle in my life.
Storied Living Student
Style of Relating
Style of Relating gave me something so practical it has already helped me in my marriage.
Storied Living Student
Style of Relating
The work on style of relating was revelatory. Lora's grounded and expansive presence comes right through the screen.
Storied Living Student
Family of Origin & Matrix of Support
I have done years of family of origin work, but this course approached it in a way that felt fresh and changed my brain.
Storied Living Student
Family of Origin & Matrix of Support
The Family of Origin course gave me the house analogy that helped me see myself as my own, and showed me I can move my interior from chaos to harmony.
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Family of Origin & Matrix of Support
This course helped me put language to the roles I've played, so I could begin, with compassion, to free myself from them. It was the most impactful work for me.
Storied Living Student
Family of Origin & Matrix of Support
The course on the family of origin and matrix of support was excellent, honest, well paced, and deeply relevant. It has become my lifeline.
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Attachment
The Attachment course offered kind orientation for my life and spoke directly to what I was wrestling with.
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Attachment
Learning about attachment gave me the idea of a compensation system, which let me reinterpret my past with kindness instead of shame.
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Attachment
This teaching named the experience of anxious attachment so well that I felt seen, without it feeling like my fault.
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Coach Yourself to Know
Coach Yourself to Know is the most helpful and powerful work in my life right now. The wisdom, and the practical application of it, is empowering and equipping.
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Coach Yourself to Know
This course taught me not to outsource my brain. I saw where I'd been handing others responsibility instead of taking it back for myself.
Storied Living Student
What You Must Feel
This course surprised me with what my body told me, and with the emotion that came up.
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What You Must Feel
The somatic practices in this course gave me thirty minutes to truly nourish my body. Such a kind offering.
Storied Living Student
Somatic Story Work
Somatic Story Work was revelatory. The teaching on arousal structures, paired with a real story of living it, brought it home.
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Somatic Story Work
This course was a recalibration of my whole system.
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Somatic Story Work
The work on arousal structures supports me in multiple layers, personally and in my own work with clients. Thank you so much.
Storied Living Student
Grief
The Grief course set a beautiful table for my sorrow to be present. That was a rare gift.
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Grief
In the Grief course I felt close to tears the whole time, which is unusual for me. I had been searching for my grief for so long, and this gave it a way through.
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Storied Living Membership
There is a safe space to be seen and heard, with intimate thoughts handled with love, respect, and compassion.
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Storied Living Membership
The consistent weekly support has been an anchor for me. It created a place to let my guard down and get care for myself.
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Storied Living Membership
You are not showing us an exceptional life, but a life that is an example.
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Storied Living Membership
God has done so much in my life through Lora and her work. I return to it to support me.
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Storied Living Membership
Every session has been helpful, personally and in my work with clients. I feel supported in multiple layers.
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Storied Living Membership
Lora forged a path for us to follow. I find myself using the breathing and grounding when I am overwhelmed, and the kind parent in me is coming up to allow myself the space I need.
Storied Living Student
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