Laurie Anne King

04/26/2026

A new Substack piece, and it is tender.
It is about grief before death, love that reaches beyond time, and the quiet inheritance we leave in one another.
Make a tea and have a sit and a read.

Subscribe for free to follow along with my writing and the deeper stories behind my life and work.

https://open.substack.com/pub/laking1111/p/the-love-that-blesses-what-it-cannot?r=12mqa9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

On anticipatory grief, legacy, and the brutal tenderness of loving what will outlive us

04/19/2026

Some people have always known they were not built for a surface life.
They may have tried to fit.
Tried to be practical.
Tried to keep their sensitivity, their knowing, and their gifts tucked into acceptable forms.

For a while, that can work well enough.

Then comes a point when the cost of that arrangement becomes harder to carry.
The old ways of managing start to feel thin.
What once seemed necessary begins to feel untrue.

I think many people are standing in that place now.

We are living in a time of massive change.
A lot is loosening.
A lot is being revealed.
A lot is asking for a more honest kind of participation.

I wrote a new piece about this on Substack for those who have always known, and who can no longer live by leaving themselves behind.

If that sounds like you, you're welcome to read it there.
https://laking1111.substack.com/p/is-this-you

04/07/2026

April 7th.
I woke early and went to the front of the house.
Snow had settled over ground that had already begun to open.
Not dramatic. Not heavy. Just enough to shift everything.
There's a moment in this work where you think you've moved through something.
Where things start to loosen.
Where your system begins to soften.
And then… it goes quiet again.
Not because anything has gone wrong.
Not because you've slipped.
But because something deeper is taking hold.
This is the part that isn't often named.
The pause.
The stilling.
The place where movement slows and asks you to stay.
I wrote a short piece this morning from that space.
If you're in a season where things have gone quiet, it may meet you there.

04/01/2026

April 1 is supposed to be light. It isn't.
I noticed myself trying to move past this date quietly this year.
No marking.
No pause.
No opening the door to what I know waits on the other side.

That didn't hold.

It has been eight years since Darryl died. And nothing about that has resolved as people tend to suggest it should.

What has happened is something else.

Grief has changed position.
It no longer floods in the same way, but it has not left. It lives alongside everything else.

I wrote something I hadn't planned to write.
A personal reflection.

If you prefer distance from stories of death, dying, and grief, leave this one.

If you are already inside that landscape, or circling it in your own way, this may meet you somewhere real.

Here is the Blog:
https://www.laurieanneking.com/blog//eight-years-living-with-what-remains

03/18/2026

Before you scroll, this may be exactly what your system needs today.
There are moments in the year where something shifts in a way that can be felt.
This equinox is one of them.

The Earth moves into balance.
Light and dark come into an equal relationship.

At the same time, solar activity has been elevated, amplifying the electromagnetic environment we all share.

Many are feeling this as intensity, sensitivity, or a quiet sense that something is reorganizing beneath the surface.

This is not just seasonal. It is systemic.
A recalibration.
An invitation to return to coherence.

I've created a guided equinox ritual meditation, layered with neuroacoustics, to support your nervous system, energy, and your ability to return to a steadier internal state.

I'll be sending it out shortly as a gift through my newsletter. Haste not!
If you join before it goes live, you'll receive it.

Sign up here:
https://www.laurieanneking.com/sanctuary-of-breath

Happy Equinox.
Take what you need.

P.S.
Join my newsletter and receive The Sanctuary Breath, a free 18-minute guided neuroacoustic meditation for calm, clarity, and self-trust.

P.P.S.
The March Equinox in 2026 occurs on March 20 at 03:46 UTC.

The exact moment is precise.
What matters more is the field surrounding it.
You can work with the 24 hours before and after, where the shift can be felt more gently and more fully. What matters most is your awareness.
Your intention.
Your willingness to be present with the transition.

Intuitive Integrative Coaching
www.LaurieAnneKing.com

03/11/2026

What in us still knows how to bend without breaking?
Today, my thoughts are with the trees.
The white pines. The cedars. The spruce. The fir.

All that living architecture, already taking the weight of ice in silence.

Environment Canada is warning of a difficult weather system now moving through parts of Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick, with freezing rain, ice pellets, snow, rain, and in some places, the kind of accumulation that can strain branches, damage trees, and leave people without electricity and vulnerable.

My prayer is simple. Join me.

May the living wood hold.
May the roots stay deep.
May only what is already dead or finished fall away.
May the rest remain green, supple, and strong.

And for us, there is a quiet instruction here too.

• Be careful
• Be neighbour available
• Check on someone who may need a hand
• Move slower than your plans prefer
• Let care outrank convenience

Some storms show us what is weak.
Some storms show us what is alive.

Haiku for the trees
Ice on pine boughs waits
let old weight fall back to earth
green life, hold your ground

02/17/2026

The Fire Horse Has Entered.
What Are We Saying Yes To?
Here are four grounded moves to set Fire Horse in motion!

February 17, 2026. The lunar year turns today, and we enter the Year of the Fire Horse.

It follows a different calendar from the Gregorian calendar.

Some of us feel that clock in our bones, even if we do not carry the culture or genetics in this particular life story.

Fire Horse is rare! Which is why I encourage us all to sit up and get intentional.

Summon your inner ritualist. Fire Horse returns on a 60-year cycle, with a reputation for heat, speed, and events that move quickly once they start moving.

Horse energy is forward motion, independence, and endurance. Fire amplifies the charge.

A Daoist way to meet this year is simple and gritty.
We stop bargaining with our own knowing.
We stop calling "waiting" a virtue when it is actually fear dressed up as patience.

If this year is for you, here is an intention to hold: Let the Fire Horse burn off the extra.

Let it leave the essential.

Four grounded moves for the week ahead:
1. Choose one decision you have delayed. Write it in one sentence. Make the smallest irreversible step.

2. Tighten one boundary where you have been "nice" at your own expense. Name the cost. Close the leak.

3. Offer your voice to the place you keep swallowing words. One honest conversation. One clean no. One clear ask.

4. Pick a single practice that stabilizes your nervous system. Do it daily for 9 minutes before you touch your phone.

This year requires a truer alignment between what we feel, what we say, and what we do.

01/29/2026

The Discipline of What Is Already True
Some truths are too steady to be dramatic. They don't crash through.
They stand, waiting, where you always leave them.

This is the year to realize which parts of you never stopped arriving.

The Tao says:
The Way is walked by walking it.
But it also says:
What is not walked cannot be known.

In a (2026) Year One, the danger is mistaking the clearing for a performance.

Mistaking readiness for a plan.
Mistaking soul coherence for branding.

This is a year of re-inhabiting.

Start with one thing:
a promise you keep privately
a breath you don't explain
a movement your body already knows

Let the Horse carry what is known.
Let (2026) One hold what is not yet spoken. Both are in motion.

What parts of you are already standing still, because they don't need to prove themselves anymore?

That is where the real root is.

01/27/2026

Let the Old Algorithm Fail
We are taught to begin the year with willpower. To task the future with carrying our unresolved past.

But this is a 1-year.
And in Taoist numerology, 1 is a withdrawal from the known into the uncarved.

The Horse listens through its hooves.
And your energy body is doing the same.

Here's what that means:
Old plans may feel lifeless.
Because you've outgrown them.

Momentum may feel off-kilter.
Don't adjust the frame; step out of it.

Time may stretch or collapse.
This is nervous system attunement, not collapse.
Stay with it.

This is a call to build your authentic architecture:
One that listens, before it leads.

Your inner world has already changed frequency.
Now the outer must reorganize to match.

When your intuition feels louder than your logic, it's time.
I walk with clients inside this phase shift.
You're precisely on time.

Book a Resonance Discovery Call. Let's begin where you actually are.

https://calendly.com/laking1111/discovery30min

01/22/2026

The Place Between Numbers
(For those who feel out of sequence)

There are moments when the number One (2026) doesn't land cleanly.
It echoes.

Instead of a new start, it feels like hovering between skins, no longer the past, not yet the future, and the now too slippery to hold.

Taoist numerology has a wordless place for this.
It is the breath between notes.
The muddy space between death and sprout.

One (2026) does not demand forward motion.
It offers the stillness from which form emerges.

And some souls need longer in the water before the step comes.

This post is a lantern for those who keep wondering why it hasn't clicked yet.

You're fermenting.

Self-inquiry:
What have I labelled "delay" that might actually be a deep arrangement?

What if presence, unproven, unproductive, is the next step?

Who would I be if I trusted the pace I'm already in?

This is a year that punishes hurry.
Let the form find you.

01/20/2026

The Shape of Right Timing
When Tao speaks through numbers, it uses rhythm.

In Taoist numerology, (2026) One is about original timing.
The pulse before the push.

This is a year to recognize where the conditions are finally compatible with the shape of your soul.

Even good things will slip away if pursued at the wrong time.

Even simple truths will remain hidden if asked too often.

This month, right timing is not a calendar date. It's a resonance check.

Listen for:
What feels slightly too soon but not too much? What returns to your body without explanation?
What softens when you stop chasing it?

You are meant to converge with your timing.
Let presence be the pace-setter.

Begin 2026 in coherence.
Book a Resonance Discovery Call and attune your direction to your deeper cadence.

https://calendly.com/laking1111/discovery30min

01/15/2026

The One that Isn't Empty:
Taoist Numerology as a Living Pulse

One is not a blank page. It is a pulse in the dark.
In Taoist numerology, the number One is the unhewn root, not a vacant starting line.

It is the field where potential hums, not yet visible, but vibrating.

This is the year to recognize where presence has already gathered… waiting for you to stop naming it as absence.

Your work? To trust the invisible build.

Energetic Marker: Notice where life keeps nudging. Just enough to make you pause.

Integration Prompt:
What already feels real, but you've been waiting for someone else to confirm it?

Let this be your cue.
You're no longer required to explain your becoming to the external world.