There are some people who truly shine, don’t they? There’s a radiance about them we can’t quite put our finger on, and we turn to them, captivated by their spirit when we need guidance and positivity.
Laura Plumb is one of those radiant people, and I have wanted to invite her to be a Life Enthusiast for the wonderful years I have connected with her.
Between her incredible Ayurveda food blog, Food: A Love Story, her wellness courses and trainings, festival appearances, Ayurveda TV, and jet-setting to India, I wasn’t sure if Laura would have the time to join my wonderful band of enthusiasts on The Life Enthusiast Chronicles. In typical Laura fashion, she smiled warmly and made it happen.
I’ll let you check out her website to fully understand the way she inspires people to live more balanced, healthy lives.
She truly goes beyond what we often see in the yoga and Ayurveda world with her ability to embrace spirituality and make it accessible to others. That beautiful quality shines through in her Life Enthusiast words below.
Get ready to shine with Laura…
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Isn’t Britt wonderful to create a series that invites all of us, readers and writers alike, to consider what makes us enthusiastic about life? It’s like asking us, what do you love? Which feels to me like being asked…how can we unite around all that there is to love about life?
That is exactly what makes me enthusiastic about life. I love, love, love human creativity and inspired connections.
You know those times in your life when you were doing something random, everyday, ordinary, and suddenly you find yourself in a conversation with a complete stranger who opens your eyes to wonder—or speaks of enlightening truths, or hints at the hidden depths of your heart?
Or how about those times when you are simply walking along, minding your own business, and in a flash, on turning a corner, you come across a thing of such striking beauty you can’t but gasp in awe?
Nature is life and we as humans are part of that eternal pulse of nature, that dynamic circle of life. When we pay attention, we find beauty everywhere. Life replicating life everywhere. Creativity and inspiration everywhere. Love, simple and infinite, everywhere.
So i am enthusiastic about seeing. Seeing love. Seeing beauty. Seeing miracles. Seeing what makes a person special.
I want to be that person who makes a person feel seen, really truly deeply seen. I want to show the world to itself, to help all people see that the world rises up to meet and support you in every moment.
You are not alone. We belong to this world, this life, this one family of humanity. Everywhere at all times there is a power, a radiance, a beauty that wants to help us become more and more alive.
“To see with the heart” as Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote, and to feel fully seen for who you are in the heart, is one of life’s greatest gifts. To see the power and the light of life within all is en theos, the root of the word enthusiasm—to be with god.
I hope to always be enthusiastic, a Life Enthusiast, and forever will be grateful to Britt for this celebration of our humanity and our grace.
Britt Skrabanek 
I am delighted to meet another amazing, brilliant, compassionate, joyful “Life Enthusiast.” Thank you, Laura for living with vibrancy and hope!!
Thank you Rebecca. I enjoyed reading your Life Enthusiast Chronicle. You are so much sunshine, shining strong.
Thank you, Britt, for always finding shiny people like you and introducing them to us. It’s always such a deep pleasure to read the words of others and have them resonate with our own souls.
Thank you, Laura, for those words, for seeing the beauty and sharing it around you.
Thank you Juls! Britt is amazing and it is such an honor and joy to be part of her circle of enthusiasts.
Wonderful. So much enthusiasm and joy.
Thank you. I love your search for joy this holiday season, and finding “Let there be light, let there be understanding, let all the nations gather, let them be face to face.” I think there is so much deep joy in that.
God bless Baquer Namazi, and you for caring so deeply.
To see someone and to be seen, these are beautiful gifts indeed!
Right? It is almost the gift of life itself. Thank you Letizia for being a “seer.”
A wonderful reminder for us all to open our eyes and minds to everything and everyone around us.
Including Eating Bull and Chasing Bliss! Thank you Carrie.
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Laura is inspirational! What a wonderful post and what a great pick for your series, Britt!
Thank you Dannie. It was your Life Enthusiast story that inspired mine!
Laura is the best, Dannie! Such a renaissance woman of inspiration.
Laura’s radiance certainly comes through in this post, there’s such a sense of joy in it 🙂
Thought-provoking and radiant, for sure.
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