My Books
If you’re looking to get unstuck, make a change, and follow your heart into the life of your dreams, then it’s time to become your own Shero! Using pop culture, mythology, personal stories, and practical strategies, Laurie Morin has created a powerful roadmap to release what’s been holding you back and find your spark to make your vision for your life and work an everyday reality.
Shero’s Journey is a teaching memoir about my quest to stop people-pleasing and start embracing my purpose in life. It is a story passed down to many women of my generation by parents, teachers, and societal expectations.
If you’ve ever felt like you work hard, put everyone’s needs ahead of your own, and end up feeling resentful and unfulfilled, this book will show you a path to greater self-love and empowerment. Each chapter includes journalling prompts that guide you to connect with your inner child and discover your unique gifts.
Beneath every woman’s good girl mask is an inner shero longing for adventure, creativity, and a meaningful life. Join me to become the shero of your own life and finally start living your dreams.
Laurie Morin gives the reader a metaphorical Wonder Woman cape so she can fly to connect with her highest self. The powerful stories and reflection steps she shares in Shero’s Journey gracefully inspire us to become the Shero of our own life. If you want that, you’ll want to read her book.
Collaborative Books
Ask any spiritual entrepreneur. Starting a business is not a straight road. Finding your mission for becoming an entrepreneur is more like a winding country path with lots of detours and distracting scenery. This chapter tells my journey from a retired law professor to my current passion as a story doula, helping women bring their stories to life. Along the way, I learned that prospective clients don’t want you to be perfect. They want you to be authentic. The chapter shares a set of writing prompts that will help you write about your path to entrepreneurship as a S/hero’s journey.
You think it can never happen to you. Then you get diagnosed with the Big C, and life is forever changed. This chapter shares my journey from diagnosis to acceptance after being diagnosed with a rare bone marrow cancer. I went through stages of denial, grief, and acceptance, and finally emerged with hope and belief. In the process, I learned that how we live daily creates the legacy we will leave. The chapter shares a template I created for writing a legacy letter that will serve as a North Star to guide your life in the present moment.
Childhood labels can follow us forever unless we learn how to change the story. In fifth grade, Ms. Bean gave me a “D” in art to teach me that I wasn’t perfect. From that day forward, I believed the story that I was not creative. My creative writing teacher encouraged me to pursue a writing career in college, but I chose the law instead. When I retired, my lifelong love for writing re-emerged. That opened me to other creative pursuits, like mosaic painting and quilting. In this chapter, I share tools to help you discover your creative archetype and restore the joy of creativity in your life.
Coming Soon: Chasing the Seventies
Chasing the Seventies is a dual-timeline novel about the cultural and political juxtaposition of two divisive historical periods—the 1970s and the early decades of the 21st century.
In 2016, Law Professor Kate Gardner was devastated by Hillary Clinton’s loss in the presidential election. But the dramatic arc of history may be just the break she needs to save her career.
For the first time in her life, Kate has writer’s block. She has to write a law review article to apply for tenure next year, but she can’t find a blockbuster idea worthy of approval from the Dean and tenure committee. That is until she stumbles on an article written by Professor Liliana Cohen in 1974, analyzing Shirley Chisholm’s presidential run in 1972.
The article contains the seeds of an argument about unconscious bias and intersectionality that could form the foundation for a new gender discrimination theory. Kate decides to interview Professor Cohen and other second-wave feminists to help her formulate the theory. Now, she needs to track down the elusive Professor Cohen, who seems to have vanished after graduating with a Ph.D. from Berkeley.
In 1972, Liliana Cohen fled her privileged childhood in Westchester County, New York, to California, a political and cultural revolution hotbed. Born to a Cuban mother who married an American businessman, Liliana was on a mission to discover her Cuban roots. She became radicalized studying with Angela Davis and teamed up with the Black Panthers and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to protest the Vietnam War and racial and gender discrimination. Through Professor Davis, Liliana met many radical intellectuals who would become influential in her life, including the woman who would educate her about the Cuban Revolution, Roberta Salper.
The plot traces the intersections of two feminists of different generations seeking to navigate the culture wars of their respective times. Although some historical characters are accurate, the events are a figment of my imagination, based on my long career as a feminist law professor who came of age in the 1970s. Kamala Harris’s candidacy adds an exciting twist to the relevance of this topic. I’m not yet sure how it will affect the story, but I’m excited to see where it leads
