About "Laughing Is Conceivable...And Humor Heals"

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About "Laughing Is Conceivable...And Humor Heals" 〰️

What are Laughing Is Conceivable…And Humor Heals & the “3C’s to Success” Program all about?

Guiding Beliefs:

Everyone experiences stress, anxiety; feeling depressed, overwhelmed, underappreciated… And Everyone—

Students, teachers, lawyers, nurses, principals, colleagues, mothers-in-law, rich people, poor people, religious people, atheists, meat lovers, vegans, pescatarians, really old people, really young people, tattooed people, tattoo-less people, the physically fit, the couch potato, CEO’s, cashiers, Republicans, Democrats, Europeans, Pacific Islanders, Southerners, Northerners, Midwesterners… Everyone deserves to feel better and live a more peaceful, joyful life.

Post-Traumatic Self-Growth

Whether it’s a personal tragedy we’ve been through or a global one, how do we come out the other side? Or don’t we? Do we spend the rest of our lives mired in the fear, anger, and sadness? Or are we able to rise out of it and take something from the devastation that actually helps us evolve and make our life better than before? Businesses did it during the Covid pandemic. Restaurants, out of necessity, created outdoor seating. Companies found a way to have meetings remotely and employees work from home. And what happened when the pandemic waned? Outdoor seating was so popular, restaurants created as much as they could. Companies wondered why they had ever spent millions on office space and business travel just for a meeting, and we all wondered why in the world we ever got dressed to sit in rush hour traffic. So, why go back to “normal”? What was so great about “normal”? We want to be better than that. We don’t want to be okay in spite of what we’ve been through individually and collectively. We want to flourish because of what we’ve been through individually and collectively.

Herd Healing

Remember at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic, once vaccines were introduced, that all you heard about was “Herd Immunity”? The idea was: Not every single person had to be vaccinated. If only enough people were vaccinated, we would all benefit.

Well, Herd Healing is like that. Every single individual at a company, organization, or school doesn’t have to learn these life skills for everyone to benefit. If a faculty meeting full of teachers, or a room full of parents, or a conference full of colleagues learn them— those people’s thinking and attitudes will begin to shift for the better. In turn, they will react and interact more positively with colleagues, students, bosses, employees, personnel… Little by little, the entire school, business, organization, community environment will be positively impacted.

So How Did LICAHH start, and oh yeah, What’s with the Crazy Company Name?

The driving aim always has been to de-stress people with humor. Not jokes, but human coping. Laughing at moments, experiences, thoughts, tough times— as small as dealing with horrible customer service or as huge as a death in the family— that all of us human beings go through. These have been the threads that have run through all of Founder / Owner Lori’s past work as a humor writer and performer, in her books and her bits and pieces that have appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Reader’s Digest, Washington Post, Carolina Woman et al.

Laughing Is Conceivable…And Humor Heals began in 2012. At that time, it’s limited scope focused on Lori’s blogs and books to support and de-stress those going through infertility, as Lori had done herself a few years before. It’s name then was simply, Laughing IS Conceivable— a play on words for those struggling with infertility.

The company evolved into Laughing Is Conceivable…And Humor Heals, combining Lori’s background as a humor writer and performer with the coping skills she had learned in 2002 and has been a practitioner of and built upon ever since. Not only did this combination of humor and solid coping skills help Lori put an end to a life-long battle with recurring anxiety and depression, it rescued her from the overwhelming emotional effects she experienced following 9/11. Now, Lori works with many people experiencing the emotional aftermaths of Covid-19… For so many, it is their 9/11.

LICAHH Goal

There’s no way to make this not sound cheesy, corny or any other State Fair favorite, so I’ll just say it: LICAHH’s founder / owner Lori went through a lifetime riddled with anxiety, depression, self-doubt and personal and professional self-sabotage. The Laughing is Conceivable…And Humor Heals program was created so others, hopefully, won’t have to. That’s it. I’ve said it. I gotta go now.