Celebrating its 16th year at Cornell, the 2023 Soup & Hope speaker series returns to Sage Chapel with stories that connect to the university’s new commitment as a health-promoting campus. Talks will reflect speakers’ diverse cultural, religious, political, and philosophical beliefs and experiences of hope.

Speaker: Lauren Free

Lauren Free (she/her) is a project manager working in the Division of Human Resources at Cornell. Outside of Cornell, Lauren owns a coaching practice focused on survivors of coercive control, narcissistic abuse, and those coping with high-conflict divorce and child custody issues. Lauren is an activist, an advocate, and passionate about connecting and nurturing heart-led leaders who want to play with the status quo like silly putty. She is also a meditation guide through Cornell Health's Let's Meditate initiative and a Certified Executive Coach (XCC) at Cornell. Lauren will share her experience being falsely accused of child abuse and separated from one of her sons. She will talk about her own turning point when she feared she would not be believed and how she grew to trust that she was her own safest asset.

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