Carla R. Cannon-Lawrence (Coach C)
Trauma Recovery & Identity Reconstruction Coach helping women heal emotional wounds rooted in childhood trauma, break free from pain-shaped identities and realign, recalibrate and rediscover who they are beyond what happened to them.
About
Over here, there is no quitting darling. We roll up our sleeves and fight! But, not with our fist. We fight by raising our level of consciousness and learning how to regulate our nervous system so that no matter what is happening around us, we can remain centered within.
You don't have to arrive here with the perfect words for what you're experiencing. Instead, you are welcome to begin with what you know right now: something feels different, something needs your attention, or you're ready to understand yourself more deeply.
You May Be Here Because You...
• Are tired of recognizing the same patterns in your relationships
• Often second-guess yourself or struggle to trust your own instincts
• Have spent years prioritizing everyone else's needs above your own
• Tend to self-sabotage due to insecurities [fears]
• Are navigating a tough life transition and need support
• Feel disconnected from yourself and desire reconnection
• Are becoming more self-aware but struggle with self-expression
• Know something needs to change, but you're unsure how to do it
• Often second-guess yourself or struggle to trust your own instincts
• Have spent years prioritizing everyone else's needs above your own
• Tend to self-sabotage due to insecurities [fears]
• Are navigating a tough life transition and need support
• Feel disconnected from yourself and desire reconnection
• Are becoming more self-aware but struggle with self-expression
• Know something needs to change, but you're unsure how to do it
If something here feels familiar, you don't need to force yourself into a label or have your entire journey figured out before seeking support. We can explore this path together.
My Signature Framework Will Help You:
UNDERSTAND WHAT'S SHOWING UP
We'll explore the experiences, beliefs, emotional responses, and patterns that may still be influencing how you see yourself, navigate relationships and make decisions today.
RECONNECT WITH YOURSELF
We'll work on strengthening self-awareness and self-trust while examining the parts of yourself you may have learned to silence, question, or abandon along the way.
MOVE FORWARD DIFFERENTLY
We'll identify practical tools, healthier patterns, and intentional choices that better align with the life and relationships you're trying to create now.
3 Questions Guide Our Work
- WHAT are you carrying?
- HOW much is it costing you?
- WHAT do you need NOW?
Coaching Options That Best Fit Your Needs:
- Individual [1-on-1] Coaching - Personalized coaching for women ready to explore the patterns, experiences, and beliefs shaping their lives, rebuild self-trust and become more intentional about what comes next.
- Healing Conversations Community (HCC)- A guided, supportive community for women who are already doing the work and need somewhere to process the journey while they're actually living it.
Additional Resources for Your Healing Growth
Listen to Healing Conversations with Carla on Apple Podcasts
Listen to Healing Conversations with Carla on Spotify
Listen to Healing Conversations with Carla on Spotify
Additional Resources For Your Personal Growth
For Your Relationship Growth
Grab our Love Beyond Labels workbook for couples here
Get your copy of How to Talk So Your Partner Will Listen Here
Get your copy of How to Talk So Your Partner Will Listen Here
Disclaimer: Life coaching is not a substitute for psychotherapy, medical, or psychiatric care. I provide trauma-informed support, tools, and guidance, but do not diagnose or treat mental health conditions. If you are experiencing a crisis or need clinical care, please seek a licensed professional. By booking, you agree to these terms.
Packages
GO DEEPER Healing Worksheets [FREE Download]
The GO DEEPER Worksheets are designed to help you pause, reflect, and apply what you heard in each episode of Healing Conversations with Carla.
These guided worksheets turn insight into action so you can better understand what you’re carrying, reconnect with yourself and move forward with greater intention.
These guided worksheets turn insight into action so you can better understand what you’re carrying, reconnect with yourself and move forward with greater intention.
Available as an automatic download.
2026 Mental Health Journal [download]
Daily Support for Reflection, Regulation and Inner Clarity
The 2026 Mental Health Journal offers a steady, grounding space to pause, reflect, and stay connected to yourself throughout the year, especially during seasons of stress, transition, or growth.
Designed to support emotional awareness and mental clarity, this journal invites you to slow down, name what you’re experiencing, and respond to life with intention rather than overwhelm.
Designed to support emotional awareness and mental clarity, this journal invites you to slow down, name what you’re experiencing, and respond to life with intention rather than overwhelm.
Each page encourages gentle check-ins without judgment, offering space to process thoughts, release emotional buildup, and reconnect with your inner clarity, whether you have a few quiet minutes or time to reflect more deeply.
AFTER LOSS: A Guided Emotional Healing Experience
Loss changes more than what happened. It can change how you feel, how you think, how you relate to others and sometimes even how you recognize yourself.
Have you found yourself wondering...
- Why am I still feeling this way?
- Why am I so exhausted, irritated, anxious or emotionally disconnected?
- Why can I feel completely fine one moment and overwhelmed the next?
- Why am I grieving someone who's still alive or a life I thought I'd have?
Not every loss comes with a funeral. Sometimes you're grieving a relationship, a friendship, your health, a dream, your sense of identity or a version of yourself you no longer recognize.
AFTER LOSS is a 90-minute guided emotional healing experience designed to help you identify what you're grieving, understand how loss may be affecting your emotional well-being and discover practical ways to navigate grief while adjusting to your new normal.
During this experience, you'll begin to:
- Recognize different types of grief, including losses that are often overlooked
- Identify your emotional responses and personal grief triggers
- Explore practical coping strategies that support your emotional well-being
- Take intentional steps toward navigating life after loss
Household members are also welcome to participate with you.
1-on-1 30-Minute Power Session [Virtual Only]
Sometimes you need space to slow down, talk through what's showing up, and get clear about how you want to move forward.
Coach Carla’s 30-minute 1-on-1 coaching session provides a private, supportive space to talk through a specific emotional, personal, or relational challenge without feeling rushed, judged, or dismissed.
This focused session is ideal when you need clarity around an immediate concern, help identifying the deeper pattern beneath what you are experiencing, or practical guidance for your next step.
This focused session is ideal when you need clarity around an immediate concern, help identifying the deeper pattern beneath what you are experiencing, or practical guidance for your next step.
Drawing from her trauma-informed approach to recovery, identity reconstruction, boundaries, self-worth, and emotional healing, Coach Carla helps you slow down, make sense of what is happening, and reconnect with yourself. You will leave the session with greater insight, grounded support, and a clearer direction for moving forward.
Coaching services are not a substitute for clinical therapy or medical care.
**NEW** How to Talk So Your Partner Will Listen Paperback
Whether you’re navigating conflict, learning to express your needs, or preparing for a healthy relationship, this guide will show you how to communicate in a way that builds connection rather than distance.
If you’ve ever felt unheard, misunderstood, or frustrated trying to communicate with someone you love, you’re not alone. Truth is, most relationships don’t struggle because of a lack of love; they struggle because of a lack of effective communication.
If you’ve ever felt unheard, misunderstood, or frustrated trying to communicate with someone you love, you’re not alone. Truth is, most relationships don’t struggle because of a lack of love; they struggle because of a lack of effective communication.
How to Talk So Your Partner Will Listen was written to provide you with conflict resolution tools to incorporate during moments of high intensity to maintain grounded, centered and aligned with your truth while communicating effectively what you feel in a manner that your partner can receive.
Love Beyond Labels Workbook (Paperback)
Love Beyond Labels is a guided workbook created to support couples in strengthening connection, communication, and emotional intimacy without pressure, performance, or comparison.
Rooted in clarity and compassion, this workbook walks couples through four essential areas of relational growth: understanding love languages, exploring attachment styles, deepening emotional intimacy, and renewing connection through the principles of Commitment, Passion, and Respect (C.P.R.).
Rooted in clarity and compassion, this workbook walks couples through four essential areas of relational growth: understanding love languages, exploring attachment styles, deepening emotional intimacy, and renewing connection through the principles of Commitment, Passion, and Respect (C.P.R.).
Rather than offering quick fixes, Love Beyond Labels provides practical, reflective tools that help couples better understand themselves and each other, navigate challenges with intention, and build a relationship grounded in mutual care and respect.
Whether you’re seeking to strengthen an already solid foundation or reconnect after a season of distance, this workbook offers a supportive framework for cultivating a relationship that feels authentic, aligned, and sustaining.
Whether you’re seeking to strengthen an already solid foundation or reconnect after a season of distance, this workbook offers a supportive framework for cultivating a relationship that feels authentic, aligned, and sustaining.
Couples Communication Bundle
What if the problem in your relationship isn't what you're saying, but how and when it's being heard?
Our NEW Couples Communication bundle include practical, emotionally grounded guides for navigating conflict, repair, boundaries and connection wihtout defensiveness, shutdown or resentment.
This two-book bundle will help you strengthen communication, approach difficult conversations with greater intention, and build a relationship where both partners feel heard, understood, and valued.
Love isn't always the problem. Sometimes, couples simply need healthier tools to communicate, understand one another, and work through their differences.
Love isn't always the problem. Sometimes, couples simply need healthier tools to communicate, understand one another, and work through their differences.
How to Love Yourself When Life Keeps Hurting You (Paperback)
How to Love Yourself When Life Keeps Hurting You is an invitation into a gentle yet transformative journey of self-reconnection, healing, and inner resilience.
Through honest reflection, spiritual insight, and therapeutic wisdom, Carla shares how she learned to cultivate self-love during seasons marked by pain, uncertainty, and emotional challenge.
Drawing from lived experience and deep inner work, she offers readers a compassionate framework for rebuilding self-trust, restoring confidence, and anchoring their sense of worth, even when life feels unsteady.
This book reminds us that healing does not begin when circumstances improve. It begins when you learn to listen inward, honor your experience, and choose yourself with care and intention.
Through honest reflection, spiritual insight, and therapeutic wisdom, Carla shares how she learned to cultivate self-love during seasons marked by pain, uncertainty, and emotional challenge.
Drawing from lived experience and deep inner work, she offers readers a compassionate framework for rebuilding self-trust, restoring confidence, and anchoring their sense of worth, even when life feels unsteady.
This book reminds us that healing does not begin when circumstances improve. It begins when you learn to listen inward, honor your experience, and choose yourself with care and intention.
Therapy Taught Me This (Paperback)
Therapy Taught Me This is packed with powerful life principles you can apply in your everyday journey.
Written with readers in mind who may struggle with focus, attention, or reading lengthy books, each page delivers bite-sized wisdom designed to help you pause, reflect, and dig deeper.
Every principle serves as a tool to help you snatch back your power, elevate your consciousness, and shift your mindset toward wholeness.
Whether you’re navigating healing, growth, or transformation, this book offers practical and spiritual insight in an easy-to-digest format that speaks directly to your soul.
Written with readers in mind who may struggle with focus, attention, or reading lengthy books, each page delivers bite-sized wisdom designed to help you pause, reflect, and dig deeper.
Every principle serves as a tool to help you snatch back your power, elevate your consciousness, and shift your mindset toward wholeness.
Whether you’re navigating healing, growth, or transformation, this book offers practical and spiritual insight in an easy-to-digest format that speaks directly to your soul.
Journey to Finding Me (Paperback )
Journey to Finding Me: A Unique Path to Self-Discovery is more than a book; it is an intimate reflection on identity, healing, and the courage it takes to come home to yourself.
Through honest storytelling and thoughtful reflection, Carla shares her lived experiences navigating faith, identity, and belonging as a licensed minister and advocate for both the LGBTQ+ and mental health communities.
With clarity and compassion, she invites readers into the quiet, often unseen work of disentangling inherited beliefs, confronting internalized shame, and choosing authenticity over expectation.
Journey to Finding Me is an invitation to your own inner work: a gentle, courageous exploration that leads you back to who you are beneath conditioning, and forward into who you are becoming.
Through honest storytelling and thoughtful reflection, Carla shares her lived experiences navigating faith, identity, and belonging as a licensed minister and advocate for both the LGBTQ+ and mental health communities.
With clarity and compassion, she invites readers into the quiet, often unseen work of disentangling inherited beliefs, confronting internalized shame, and choosing authenticity over expectation.
Journey to Finding Me is an invitation to your own inner work: a gentle, courageous exploration that leads you back to who you are beneath conditioning, and forward into who you are becoming.
The Healing Bundle
For the Woman Ready to Release, Restore and Rise!
Sometimes healing doesn’t happen all at once, it unfolds one revelation, one release, and one restored truth at a time.
This Healing bundle brings together Coach Carla’s top bestsellers centered around inner healing, emotional restoration, and personal growth and transformation.
From healing father wounds and betrayal to rediscovering self-love and divine alignment, these powerful books serve as sacred companions on your journey from surviving to truly living.
Spiritual Growth Bundle
Experience a deeper connection with God and ignite the fire within your prayer life with the Burn for Jesus devotional and journal. This powerful duo is designed to support and enhance your spiritual journey, providing guidance, inspiration, and a space to notate your thoughts and prayers.
In the book, Burn for Jesus: A 30-Day Guide to Ignite the Fire in Your Prayer Life, you'll embark on a transformative journey of prayer. Each day offers insightful reflections, practical exercises, and empowering guidance to help you develop a vibrant and meaningful prayer practice.
Discover how to align your heart with God's will, deepen your intimacy with Him, and experience the life-changing power of prayer.
Discover how to align your heart with God's will, deepen your intimacy with Him, and experience the life-changing power of prayer.
The Entrepreneur Bundle
For the Visionary Ready to Lead, Build and Shine.
Step into your power as a purpose-driven entrepreneur with this transformational bundle. Designed for aspiring and emerging leaders, the Trailblazer Bundle equips you with the mindset, strategy, and systems to build, brand, and scale your vision with confidence.
These five powerful reads included in this bundle: A Trailblazer State of Mind, A Trailblazer’s Guide to Success, Launch Like a Boss, Girl Get Your Money Right, and The Entrepreneur Blueprint, give you the clarity and tools to turn your passion into profit while staying true to your purpose.
3-Pack Empowerment Journal Collection (Paperback)
The Empowerment Journal Bundle offers a quiet, intentional space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with yourself. More than a collection of journals, it is an invitation to slow down, create room for your thoughts, and gently tend to what is still healing and unfolding.
Each paperback journal is thoughtfully designed to support self-reflection, emotional processing, and grounding through the practice of writing. These pages encourage you to listen inward, honor your experience, and engage with yourself with care and honesty.
Whether you are reflecting on the past, envisioning what’s ahead, or grounding yourself in the present, this bundle provides space to write freely, release what no longer serves you, and move forward with clarity and intention.
Whether you are reflecting on the past, envisioning what’s ahead, or grounding yourself in the present, this bundle provides space to write freely, release what no longer serves you, and move forward with clarity and intention.
3-Pack Empowerment Journal Collection (Hardcover)
The Empowerment Journal Bundle offers a quiet, intentional space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with yourself. More than a collection of journals, it is an invitation to slow down, create room for your thoughts, and gently tend to what is still healing and unfolding.
Each hardcover journal is thoughtfully designed to support self-reflection, emotional processing, and grounding through the practice of writing. These pages encourage you to listen inward, honor your experience, and engage with yourself with care and honesty.
Whether you are reflecting on the past, envisioning what’s ahead, or grounding yourself in the present, this bundle provides space to write freely, release what no longer serves you, and move forward with clarity and intention.
Whether you are reflecting on the past, envisioning what’s ahead, or grounding yourself in the present, this bundle provides space to write freely, release what no longer serves you, and move forward with clarity and intention.
From Broken to Breakthrough Course
Transform Your Pain Into Power and Step Into Your Breakthrough
From Broken to Breakthrough is an empowering, clarity-building ecourse designed to guide you through a transformational journey of emotional healing, inner work, and personal growth.
In this comprehensive course, you’ll learn a simple yet life-changing 4-step process that helps you identify what’s hurting, feel it safely, release it intentionally, and open the door to deeper joy and fulfillment. This work allows you to move from emotional survival into a grounded sense of peace, freedom, and wholeness.
If you’re ready to stop carrying what has been weighing you down and step boldly into your breakthrough, this course will give you the tools to do the work, and transform your life from the inside out.
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Fervent. Electrifying. Transformative. Trailblazer. These are just a few of the words audiences use to describe Carla R. Cannon-Lawrence, a dynamic, trauma-informed speaker, bestselling author, and holistic transformation coach.
With over a decade of experience, Carla delivers soul-stirring, thought-provoking messages that bridge psychology, spirituality, and practical application, creating space for real healing and lasting change. Her work equips audiences not just to feel inspired, but to understand themselves, shift patterns, and take intentional action.
From conversations on faith and mental health, relationships, and personal growth, Carla meets people where they are and challenges them to rise, leaving audiences more aware, empowered, and ready to move forward with clarity and purpose.
*This package allows you to submit a request to book Carla.*
Testimonials
Working with Coach C transformed my life! I was a part of her Trailblazers Coaching Academy mentorship program that takes place over 12 months, and it was just what I needed! I gained a new sense of confidence and learned to love myself again!
- Kimberly Humphries (Texas)
Carla is a great coach and amazing soul who is full of wisdom! I love her authenticity and how passionate she is about seeing other women win! Under her leadership, I grew spiritually and personally as well as developed the courage to step out and launch my own business!
- Destinee Roundtree (North Carolina)
I’m so appreciative of this beautiful, strong, patient & motivating woman—my coach! These last 5 months wouldn’t have been possible without you, your guidance, tough love, and support. Thank you for always being so dedicated to me and my healing, and making it possible for me to have a clear mind to pivot my life. I’m forever grateful for you.
- Kayla Turley (California)
Carla has been an amazing business and life coach to me! She helped me gain self-awareness, become more productive with my time, and accomplish well overdue goals! Her transparency heals,s and she sincerely cares about her clients. I highly recommend her for business strategies and personal growth!
- Stacy Moore (Texas)
Working with Carla equipped me to become the leadership coach I always desired to be. Her work ethic and genuine love for her clients and the respect she has for her calling were truly refreshing to witness and experience!
- Danielle Palmer (North Carolina)
Do you find this time of the year tougher to get through and you're READY to break the cycle and RECLAIM your life?
Over 64% of people report feeling depressed compared to 45% outside of holidays, with women experiencing higher rates at 69% versus 58% for men. Holiday depression affects 41% of Americans who feel lonelier during December than any other month, peaking on Christmas Day.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I know if this is right for me?
If you’re feeling stuck, disconnected from yourself, or repeating the same emotional or relationship patterns, this work is for you. I help women who are ready to heal, break cycles, and rebuild their identity with clarity and confidence.
What’s the difference between coaching and therapy?
Coaching focuses on helping you move forward by breaking patterns, gaining clarity, and creating change in your life. While I am trauma-informed, I do not diagnose or treat mental health conditions. If you need clinical support, I recommend working with a licensed therapist alongside coaching if needed.
What results can I expect from working with you?
You can expect greater emotional awareness, stronger boundaries, clearer decision-making, and a deeper sense of identity. Most importantly, you’ll stop surviving and start living in alignment with who you truly are.
How does the coaching process work?
We work together through guided conversations, emotional processing, and practical tools designed to help you heal, shift patterns, and rebuild your identity. Depending on the offer, this may be through 1:1 coaching or structured programs.
How do I get started?
The first step is simple. Choose the package that best fits your needs. You can book a 1:1 session or enroll in my Journey to Finding Me experience to begin your healing and transformation.
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