Lauren Roberts is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with her. She impressed us with her passion and kindness.
She knows what it feels like to run on empty. As a mum of three and clinical healthcare professional, Lauren Roberts has lived through burnout and identity loss firsthand.
She believes burnout is more than a mindset issue. It lives in the body and nervous system. Through Calm Working Mum, she combines NLP, breathwork, somatic work, and meditation to help women regulate, recover, and reconnect with themselves.
She helps women move from surviving to truly living. Her work is about rebuilding identity, creating healthy boundaries, and designing a life that works for the woman behind all the roles. Here is what she said…
Meet Life Coach Lauren Roberts:
Name: Lauren Roberts
Pillar: The Spirit, The Mind, The Body, The Heart
Who is this coach for: High achieving, deeply caring mothers who feel overwhelmed, exhausted, disconnected from themselves, or close to burnout.
How they can help: By using various tools and techniques like NLP, breathwork, somatic nervous system regulation, guided meditation, values based coaching, identity mapping, and her “Identity Reset” process.
First of all, how are you and your family doing in these “crazy” times?
Honestly? We’re doing really well, thank you for asking!
Life is wonderfully full and beautifully chaotic.
I’m a mum of three boys, I work in clinical healthcare, and I run my coaching business, Calm Working Mum, alongside all of that.
So “crazy times” is basically just… Tuesday in our house.
But that’s exactly why I do what I do.
I’ve lived the burnout, I’ve been in the thick of it, and I’ve found my way through.
That lived experience is everything.
How did the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?
At the time of the pandemic, I wasn’t yet a coach.
I was on the front line in domiciliary care.
No PPE provided.
No backup plans.
No support.
No paid hotel room to shield.
I was going into the homes of people with Covid every single day and then coming home to my own family, carrying that fear and that weight with absolutely nowhere to put it.
It was one of the most isolating and frightening experiences of my life, and it was also one of the most clarifying.
It deepened my commitment to serving vulnerable people, and it showed me, in the starkest possible way, how completely invisible and unsupported the people doing the most essential work often are.
Women, carers, healthcare workers.
The ones keeping everything running while the world fell apart around them.
For the women I now coach, the pandemic left a mark that many are still carrying.
The burnout that was already simmering hit boiling point.
The identity loss that comes with motherhood got amplified in isolation.
And we are all now watching how it has affected our children too, emotionally, socially, and developmentally.
The ripple effects are still very much being felt.
The Origin:
Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?
I came into coaching through my own healing journey.
I work as a specialist Clinical Support Worker in complex community healthcare, so I’ve spent years holding space for people in some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives.
Alongside that, I became a mum, and somewhere in between the clinical shifts, the school runs, and the relentless mental load, I completely lost myself.
I decided to do something about it.
I trained as a life coach, NLP practitioner, breathwork facilitator, and meditation coach, and I went on to complete a Master’s in Coaching and NLP.
I created Calm Working Mum because I couldn’t find a space that spoke honestly to women like me.
Women who are high achieving, deeply caring, chronically exhausted, and desperately trying to remember who they are outside of their roles.
So I built it.
What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?
Honestly, it was burnout combined with complete identity loss after becoming a mother.
I poured everything into everyone else and had nothing left for myself.
I stopped knowing what I wanted, what I felt, and even who I was outside of being needed by other people.
I also parent children going through AuDHD assessments, and I’m on my own neurodivergent assessment journey.
Understanding my own brain, the way I process the world, and the way I’ve been masking for years has been one of the most profound and liberating discoveries of my adult life.
It changed everything about how I coach.
What are the biggest lessons that you learned overcoming your greatest obstacle?
That rest is not a reward, it’s a requirement.
That asking for help is a strength, not a failure.
And that you cannot pour from an empty cup, but more importantly, it is not your job to keep pouring until you’re bone dry before you’re allowed to fill back up.
I also learned that healing isn’t linear and it doesn’t have to be pretty.
It can be messy and slow and confusing and still be absolutely worth it.
The Coaching Style:
How do you innovate with coaching your clients?
I don’t do cookie cutter coaching.
My approach blends NLP, breathwork, somatic nervous system work, and meditation because burnout isn’t just a mindset issue.
It lives in the body.
You can’t think your way out of a dysregulated nervous system, and I think a lot of coaching misses that.
I also bring radical honesty.
I’m not here to tell women to “just be more grateful” or “wake up earlier.”
I name the systemic stuff.
The patriarchal load.
The invisible labour.
The impossible standards.
We work with the whole picture, not just the surface level symptoms.
What’s unique about your coaching approach?
It’s whole human coaching.
I work with the mind, the body, and the identity all at once.
I bring breathwork and somatic techniques into every space because regulation has to come before transformation.
And I do it all as a real person who has lived these experiences, not as someone who has had it all figured out from the beginning.
I also refuse to pathologise being overwhelmed.
I help women see that their burnout makes complete sense given what society demands of them.
We name it, we process it, and then we build something that actually works for their real life.
What benefits do your clients get after working with you?
They come in running on empty and leave running the show.
They reconnect with who they are, not who they think they’re supposed to be.
They regulate their nervous systems so they stop reacting and start responding.
They find boundaries that feel good, not guilty.
And most importantly, they stop surviving and start actually living.
Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?
I use NLP techniques, breathwork protocols, somatic nervous system regulation practices, guided meditation, and values based coaching frameworks.
I also work with identity mapping and what I call the “identity reset” process, helping women rediscover who they are at their core, separate from their roles and responsibilities.
The Impact:
If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?
You are not failing at life.
Life is failing to account for everything it’s asking of you.
Stop shrinking.
Stop apologising.
And for the love of everything, please stop waiting until you’ve completely fallen apart before you ask for support.
What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?
That you are not too much…
You have never been too much…
You have just been in spaces that were too small for you!
Your final thoughts?
Burnout is not a badge of honour, and it is not a personal failing.
It is what happens when incredibly capable, deeply caring women are expected to give endlessly without ever being given anything back.
If you’re reading this and you recognise yourself, please know there is a way through.
You don’t have to keep going like this.
Where Can You Find Lauren Roberts?
If you liked this interview and if you would love to stop running on empty, rediscover your identity, and start running the show, schedule a Free Discovery Call here and see how Coach Lauren will help you.
Or feel free to explore her website and see all that she offers.
If you’d like to peak a glimpse into her coaching, follow her Instagram and TikTok accounts.
And if you’d like to connect with her more personally, you can do that through LinkedIn or by sending her a direct message to her Email [email protected]. It was an honor having this interview with her.