Loretta LaRoche has helped people deal with everyday stress for over thirty
years. With irreverent humor and an innate sense of the absurd, Loretta helps
people see how needlessly complex and stressful our lives can become.
Loretta's wit, wisdom and humor is a common-sense view of life that leaves
audiences inspired, motivated and roaring with laughter. Often
irreverent,always hilarious,keynote speaker and lecturer Loretta helps people
discover how thoughts, feelings and behaviors can affect work performance,
relationships, success and self-worth. Loretta shows how humor can benefit the
health of an organization and its employees and improve productivity in the
workplace.
An international consultant and lecturer in the field of stress management,
Loretta is widely known as star of six award-winning specials on PBS, including
favorite titles, The Joy of Stress, Humor Your Stress, How Serious is This,
Relax! You Only Live Once, Get A Life and her newest addition, Life Is Short! -
Wear Your Party Pants. She has appeared as a guest expert on the CNN, ABC, CBS
and NBC networks.
Through hilarious anecdotes and practical exercises, Loretta's best-selling
books Relax - You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left, introduces the
power of humor to overcome stress in everyday life and Life Is Not a Stress
Rehearsal brings yesterday's sane wisdom into today's insane world so we
can slow down, smell the roses and learn to laugh at ourselves again. Her
newest book, Life Is Short! - Wear Your Party Pants brings her
one-of-a-kind perspective for living an optimistic and resilient life in these
challenging times.
Every year, Loretta conducts over 100 lectures, seminars and training
workshops, for healthcare professionals, hospitals, Fortune 500 companies,
government agencies and nonprofit organizations.
Clients include NASA, FAA, IRS, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, MD Anderson Medical
Center, IBM, Hewlett Packard and Dun & Bradstreet. At the Kripalu Center for
Yoga & Health, Loretta teams up with Joan Borysenko, Mind/Body scientist,
clinician and teacher for a series of weekend conferences for women.
Loretta LaRoche is an adjunct faculty member at The Mind/Body Medical
Institute of Boston, affiliated with Beth Israel and Harvard Medical School and
is a contributing writer for The Wellness Book by Dr. Herbert Benson, Mind/Body
Medical Institute. She has been published in many magazines and newspapers,
including USA Today, The Boston Globe, First, Woman's Day and Self. Her weekly
column, Get a Life, is published every Monday in The Patriot Ledger's Lifestyle
section.