Across the kitchen table with Janet Powers and Lauren Mackler

Lauren Mackler is a coach, psychotherapist, and author of the international bestseller, Solemate (spelled SOLEMATE): Master the Art of Aloneness & Transform Your Life. She has risen to international prominence by developing Illumineering, a groundbreaking method that integrates family systems work, psychodynamic psychology, and coaching to help people break free of their life conditioning and live the lives to which they aspire. Lauren’s work is frequently featured in the media, including CNN, FOX, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, London’s Daily Mail, Body & Soul, New York Daily News, and The Boston Globe. You can hear Lauren on her weekly Life Keys radio show on hayhouseradio.com, and find out more about Lauren and sign up for a free subscription of her Live Boldly newsletter at www.laurenmackler.com. Solemate Book International bestseller, SOLEMATE: MASTER THE ART OF ALONENESS & TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE by Lauren Mackler (Hay House, Hardcover April, 2009, Paperback April 2010) lifts the social stigma of aloneness and provides a groundbreaking roadmap for gaining mastery of your life, so you can achieve a sense of wholeness and well-being on your own or in a relationship. It’s about treating yourself well, shedding your self-defeating patterns, and becoming the person you were born to be. Rather than depend on someone else to complete you, Mackler suggests “becoming the partner you seek”—your own cherished solemate.