Releasing all that you no longer use, or need, is one of the best gifts you can give your family, saving time, energy, and money. Create a lighter healthier vision for your home and your life as you commit to “letting go” sessions. Consider 10 steps to lighten up and release your clutter and extra weight within and around. Donate to local charities for people and animals in need. $35 includes health coaching, inspiring handouts and a helpful e-book. Registration deadline Monday, September 29 @ 9 am.
Paper is necessary in our homes, but left untamed, it multiples on every flat surface and in every room. Discover steps, secrets and systems to minimize paper piles and efficiently deal with mail, receipts, newspapers, magazines, catalogs and books. Learn how to make clear decisions for recycling, shredding and organizing your well-established piles as well as daily actions and simple systems to eliminate paper piles for good. Leave with inspiration to tame your paper piles immediately. $29 included inspiring handouts and checklists. Thank you for registering and payment at least one week ahead.
Paper is necessary in our homes, but left untamed, it multiples on every flat surface and in every room. Discover steps, secrets and systems to minimize paper piles and efficiently deal with mail, receipts, newspapers, magazines, catalogs and books. Learn how to make clear decisions for recycling, shredding and organizing your well-established piles as well as daily actions and simple systems to eliminate paper piles for good. Leave with inspiration to tame your paper piles immediately. $29 includes inspiring handouts and checklists. Registration deadline Monday, October 20 @ 9 am.
Taming Your Paper Chaos - ISD 191 Burnsville-Eagan-Savage Community Education
Paper is necessary in our homes, but left untamed, it multiples on every flat surface and in every room. Discover steps, secrets and systems to minimize paper piles and efficiently deal with mail, receipts, newspapers, magazines, catalogs and books. Learn how to make clear decisions for recycling, shredding and organizing your well-established piles as well as daily actions and simple systems to eliminate paper piles for good. Leave with inspiration to tame your paper piles immediately. $35 includes inspiring handouts and checklists. Registration deadline Monday, October 27 @ 9 am.
https://slp.ce.eleyo.com/course/9233/senior-program-2025-2026/taming-your-paper-chaos#a247l25
If something happens to you tomorrow, will your loved ones be able to easily find and manage all your assets, finances and wishes? Be prepared with physical and digital worksheets to organize, preserve and share your household accounts, passwords, possessions, family history, photos and heirlooms, as well as health care directives and end-of-life plans. This hands-on class is essential for anyone of any age and will save your next-of-kin time and money. Leave fond memories instead of a mess. $29 includes handouts. A materials list will be provided with registration. Thank you for registering and paying at least one week ahead.
If something happens to you tomorrow, will your loved ones be able to easily find and manage all your assets, finances and wishes? Be prepared with physical and digital worksheets to organize, preserve and share your household accounts, passwords, possessions, family history, photos and heirlooms, as well as health care directives and end-of-life plans. This hands-on class is essential for anyone of any age and will save your next-of-kin time and money. Leave fond memories instead of a mess. $29 includes handouts. Materials list will be provided with registration. Registration deadline Monday, November 17 @ 9 am.
If something happens to you tomorrow, will your loved ones be able to easily find and manage all your assets, finances and wishes? Be prepared with physical and digital worksheets to organize, preserve and share your household accounts, passwords, possessions, family history, photos and heirlooms, as well as health care directives and end-of-life plans. This hands-on class is essential for anyone of any age and will save your next-of-kin time and money. Leave fond memories instead of a mess. $35 includes handouts. A materials list will be provided with registration. Registration deadline Monday, December 1 @ 9 am.
https://slp.ce.eleyo.com/course/9234/senior-program-2025-2026/just-in-case#a248l25
Tired of living with too much stuff? Need to downsize your or your parents’ home? This class will guide you in clarifying priorities in sifting through generations of clutter and memories. Consider what may be overstimulating along with the benefits of familiar and sentimental objects that can provide comfort in a healthy safe home. Discover the power of creating a “fond memories” photo album while reminiscing and honoring personal accomplishments and precious family history. $29 includes informative handouts and community resources to “right size” while donating, upcycling and recycling. Registration deadline Monday, December 8 @ 9 am.
Decluttering While Honoring Family Memories - ISD 191 Burnsville-Eagan-Savage Community Education
Tired of living with too much stuff? Need to downsize your or your parents’ home? This class will guide you in clarifying priorities in sifting through generations of clutter and memories. Consider what may be overstimulating along with the benefits of familiar and sentimental objects that can provide comfort in a healthy safe home. Discover the power of creating a “fond memories” photo album while reminiscing and honoring personal accomplishments and precious family history. $29 includes informative handouts and community resources to “right size” while donating, upcycling and recycling.
Welcome to Beautiful Necessity based in Apple Valley, Minnesota. I believe that each of us has abundant wisdom and creative vision to create life-enhancing health and happiness for ourselves and our world, but we often don’t take the time to dream, to clarify, and to “say yes!” to what we really want.
As a holistic health coach, energy healer, historian, researcher and writer, I am dedicated to co-creating soulful spaces for personal, community, and planetary health and sustainability. I artfully reconnect you with your intuitive wisdom and your heart’s desires so you can remember and return to your own brilliant radiance and optimum health.
Together we explore and implement visionary ideas, tools, processes and resources for you to reclaim a healthy body, mind, home, and life – one empowering step at a time.
My services are based on the principles of Cooperative Coaching™ inspiring you to uncover and utilize your wisdom, gifts and talents. We collaboratively design workable steps and solutions to reach the goals you envision and set for yourself. Changing for good requires a clear vision, ongoing commitment, accountability and practice, continually choosing to change long-established choices, habits and routines. With the passion and the tools to support and applaud as you choose one empowering successful step at a time, I look forward to coaching you towards all you desire!
As a graduate of Health Coach Training®, I am a Professional Health Coach and not a licensed health care provider. My services are not intended to diagnose, treat, prevent, or cure any disease or condition, nor substitute for the advice, treatment and/or diagnosis of a qualified licensed professional.
Skills and Expertise
■ Health Coach, Historian, Researcher, Writer & Community Educator, 2005-current
■ Changing Lifestyle Solutions, Wayzata, 2018-current: Collaborator with moving service owned by Cathy Matrejek, assisting clients move from one home to another, typically downsizing from a family home to a retirement community or smaller residence. Company services include planning, coordinating and/or supervising all aspects of the move, including 1) Creating floor plans, deciding what to keep, donate or sell, 3) Managing movers and other needed services, 4) Packing prior to moving day and supervising every part of the move, and 5) Getting settled in your new home, arranging furniture, unpacking, organizing, hanging pictures, mirrors, drapes, etc. See clsolutionsus.com.
■ Community Educator, Health Coach and Writer, 2005-current: Classes, presentations, and online / print articles and blogs for Valley Natural Foods in Burnsville and Mazopyia in Prior Lake; Adult Enrichment Classes in Dakota and Hennepin County School Districts, and other community organizations and businesses.
■ Health Coach Training® Graduate & Newsletter Editor, Hilton Johnson Productions, Florida, 2008–14: 12-month virtual program, including creating, writing and editing a monthly e-newsletter for 1,200+ health coach students and graduates worldwide.
■ Historian, Content Developer, Researcher, Writer and Cataloger in Museum Collections, Exhibits and Historic Sites, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, 1986-2005
■ Holistic Health Studies Certificate Program, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, 2000–01
■ Master of Science: Historic Textiles and Costume, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
■ Master of Arts Degree Program: Craft Design and Fiber Arts, Iowa State University
■ Bachelor of Science: Family Environment, Iowa State University
Independent Historian, Researcher, Writer & Archivist: Online and library research, interviewing, writing and editing for print and online articles; books; exhibits; films; magazines; newsletters; family, house, business, organizational and local histories & collections, 2005─ongoing.
~~18 years with the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul and Minnesota Historic Sites as a content developer and team leader for interactive exhibits, multimedia and outdoor trail experiences as well as a cataloger in Museum Collections, 1987-2005.
~~40+ years online and in-person research in diverse physical and digital archival collections at the Minnesota Historical Society as well as local, state and national museums and libraries in the United States and Canada.
~~Contract teacher at Iowa State University and University of Minnesota, 1980-1985; community educator in regional school districts, 2005-ongoing.
~~Professional education and on-job training in museum collections and archival preservation, including accessioning, classifying, physical organizing, creating finding aids, cataloging, creating collections databases and management, conservation and storage for a diversity of collections and materials.
Explore and learn about FOREVER® Permanent Cloud Storage, the only business that offers secure online preservation plus efficient tools to organize and share irreplaceable family history for your lifetime as well as keeping your history safe and available for generations beyond. We will review digitizing family photos, movies, film and documents online and locally, easily organizing and sharing photos and movies at full resolution and creating and printing custom-designed keepsakes. To learn more, please contact me for a personalized Zoom or in-person meeting.
"I am SO pleased with the work you have done. I handed copies of the book out at Christmas to my sons, and we sat around all night going through the stories and laughing and crying the entire time. My children and grandchildren have memories that I wish I had of my grandparents. This book I will cherish for the rest of my life as I will the memories of my mother and my father. You and Terry [graphic designer] have done an absolutely awesome job and putting this together in such a way that it reads quickly, and the pictures segue wonderfully. Thank you again for this wonderful work of art."
Mike Steinhauser in gratitude for "Memories of Clifford Steinhauser," an illustrated life history of his parents Clifford and Patricia (December 2022, 114 pages, self-published by Blurb.com)
“Over the past seven years, Loris has helped me research and write a book on ethnobotany of the Northern Plains. She has consistently shown imagination and initiative in tracking down obscure sources, making valuable suggestions, and expertly editing and writing text. She has been a gem and a terrific support through these many years, and I truly appreciate her many contributions. She has helped move my book from a dream to reality. I wholeheartedly endorse her as an expert editor and researcher.”
Dr. C. Thomas Shay, Senior Scholar, Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
Retired Archaeologist / Ethnobotanist residing in England
Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains, University of Nebraska Press, July 1, 2022, Under Prairie Skies: Nebraska Press (unl.edu)
“The shareholders [physicians/surgeons] are impressed and really pleased with the work that has been done so far. I can't tell you enough how great it has been to work with you on this book project. The quality of your work and professionalism has been exemplary. Your work was excellent and appreciated. The group just didn't think now was the time for the book. I hope we get to work together in the future.”
Dr. Andrew Thomas, Hand Surgeon, Summit Orthopedics, Woodbury, Minnesota
“I am most grateful and admire your research talents and experience. Of course, I would be happy to endorse your most efficient research!”
Arcadio Díaz-Quiiñones, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University, New Jersey
“Great work! You exceeded my expectations and moreover, were prompt in providing detailed results in a highly professional and well-organized manner. I’m extremely happy with this information that remained hidden for so many years but now adds to my family’s history. You are to be commended for this research and I can’t begin to explain how elated I am. Thank you so much!”
Michael Falk, New York
“Loris's detailed research culminated in a comprehensive history of a home in St. Paul where generations of our family lived in the 1920s and '30s. Thanks to her research, many doors were opened, and many memories rekindled. Family members from across the country were able to reconnect in person. Family papers, long thought lost, were found to be intact at the Minnesota Historical Society Library. Loris makes a personal investment in her discoveries as a historian and as a writer. Loris has a true gift and talent for telling family stories. The gifts Loris gave to our family are priceless!”
Joe and Connie Maas, Baltimore, Maryland
“We enjoyed working with Loris. She took great personal interest in our family and was very diligent about finding information that we hadn't previously found. She is very resourceful. I wouldn't hesitate to pass her name on to my friends and others.”
Anne Hamel Hickey Everett and Children, Mendota Heights, Minnesota
“Greetings, Loris! My apologies for taking so long to thank you for the superb history of our house! I should claim that I have had my nose stuck in it ever since you gave it to me and have hardly even stopped savoring it to take nourishment. It is so much fascinating detail and so exhaustive in so many directions that it has provided us with many hours of distraction. I know that the actual information about our specific house was sorely limited, partly because of the missing files, but you have a terrific talent for finding ways of tying in related information so that there is a real story or “history” there. I have only good, complimentary things to say about you, your professionalism, and your product. Thank you for the marvelous work. We are so pleased to have it, and Nancy was absolutely flabbergasted when she opened it. Once she made the connection to the architect’s drawing which I’d given her without explanation earlier, both took on extra significance. Best wishes!”
Richard Dana, Chair, Historic Preservation Commission, City of St. Paul, Minnesota
Archival Researcher & Rights Negotiator for “A Good Day to Die,” Award-winning documentary film focused on the life of Ojibwe Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and nationwide Native perspectives, created 2009-10; see www.agooddaytodiefilm.com.
To Tracey Baker, Head of Gale Family Library, Minnesota Historical Society, from Lynn Salt (Choctaw) and David Mueller, Filmmakers, Producers and Directors, LaQuinta, California:
“The other great service that MHS did for us was to connect us to Loris. She was invaluable to us and without her expertise, diligent attention to details and seemingly psychic abilities to find information for us that no one else could find, our film would have suffered. So, we are doubly grateful to you and MHS for the materials and to Loris, who was able to guide us to the best use of what was available to us in your collections.”
“You are a Godsend (or in Native terms, a Spirit-send)! We are so grateful for you and all your experience. We have other proposals out for more documentaries, which will call for research that is more extensive, and you are at the top of our list. Meanwhile, if anyone we know is looking for an archival researcher, you're the one!”
“Dennis and Tashina [Banks] are so grateful to you for all you have uncovered about his early days via these [Pipestone School] records and letters. So are we, as these letters will help us expand on the first act of his life, as there was so little to explore previously. Too much pain and misunderstanding about he thought his mother felt about him. You have helped uncover the truth of a mother's love, a 72-year-old man’s voice is now full of relief, and flooding with the natural love a child feels for his mother. Dennis thought she didn't want him anymore, a thought that changed the course of his life, but now, before he goes to Spirit world (in Dennis's words) he knows how much she loved him and how much she wanted him home with her. You have helped him so much and helped us all! We are so fortunate to have you with us on this journey. Blessings to our dearest archival detective.”
~Dennis Banks, Anishinaabe, Leech Lake Indian Reservation
~Tashina Banks, Lakota / Ojibwe, Albuquerque, New Mexico
~Lynn Salt and David Mueller, Filmmakers, Beverly Hills, California
“Loris Sofia combines her life experience, space clearing training and intuitive abilities to assist people in creating vital energy in their spaces. She has a gift for compassion, an understanding how space influences body, mind and spirit and a sparkling sense of humor that leads her in assisting people in making profound changes in their lives. I highly recommend her services.”
Eileen Kelz, Dynamic Environments, Marshfield, Wisconsin
"I want to thank you for sharing the class audio and the printouts. This information is very helpful for me as I tackle my storage closet in the condo. As I was listening to the class, I was going through my home and taking out items that I find "draining" rather than "nourishing." So even though I did a drop off at the Goodwill earlier this afternoon, I now have another donation bag started. Wishing you a very happy (and safe) holiday. "
Lynne Grey, Eagan, Minnesota
“Does your home, apartment or business seem cluttered or chaotic? You can embrace a joyful, radiant home, business, and life through organization and the peace it brings. Loris Sofia Gregory is a fitness coach for those who need a boost to gain control of their near environment through gentle encouragement, assistance, planning, and structure in clearing and organizing. She is a tremendous asset, a savior, a motivator and an inspiration to move forward.”
Gary Phelps, Walden Woods, St. Louis Park, Minnesota
“Going through the Beautiful Necessity Alignment ™ process in our home with Loris was enlightening as well as fun. It helped to start a process of clearing out and re-evaluating spaces that has been very beneficial. Loris shares a wealth of information about the process and, along with her strong intuitive sense and good listening skills; she makes it a rich experience.”
Hilary Toren, Golden Valley, Minnesota
“Loris, our session was so meaningful to me, and I have been meaning to write and thank you. Thank you for your artful listening and for sharing your calm nature. I felt like the energy work continued for hours. A couple of items manifested the very next day that I feel had a direct relationship to the clarity you facilitated. Today I went back over a room and closet I thought I had de-cluttered a couple of weeks ago and de-cluttered some more! I love your question: "Does this make me feel heavy or light?” And of course, “light” is truly “Light.” And that Light, connectedness to clarity and source is what I crave. I felt so relaxed and centered when the call was done. Thank you.”
Patricia Estes, Auburn, Maine
“Loris talked me through a few simple steps, asked me certain questions and as we dug down, we got to the core of something that I never knew was there. I was able to shed light on and figure out what I needed to do to let go of an issue that has been holding me back in my life. Thank you, Loris, your work is amazing and so simple. I would highly recommend Loris to anyone who is feeling stuck in any area of their life. You’ll be amazed to find out the issues that have been holding you back from moving forward towards a healthy life.”
Karen Beelman, Bloomington, Minnesota
“Wow!!! Did you ever hit a nerve! I really never made the connection before and now I can see what’s happening to my waistline and my home!!! Thank you already. This is a blessing. I have asked and it has been given! After making the initial connection between weight and clutter, I very quickly felt a sense of lightness in my body and in my world. I continue to make order in my life and am feeling much more in control and light! That sense of not understanding what is happening is very distressful. Now that I understand, I feel in control again. I have discovered that all three times my weight went up were times I lost relationships, with my father being the toughest. Priceless!”
Crystal, Los Angeles, California
“Loris is a wonderful health coach. She is a great listener and has helped me to pinpoint the energetic blocks that prevent my health and happiness. She has many strategies for releasing these blocks and unveiling the light within. Loris even released a migraine over the telephone! She is great at getting me to choose action steps and to stick with them. I know that with Loris’s loving support, I can achieve all that I want to build a happy, healthy, vibrant life.”
Jennifer Ripa-Edson, Ridgefield, Connecticut
“Your business services have a very loving, powerful and clear vibration. The work you do is very healing to people and the planet. Keep up your wonderful and beautiful work!”
Kathy Van Guilder, Heart Wisdom Communications, Burnsville, Minnesota
“I can hardly believe how quick my apartment transformed from a “work-in-progress” to a cozy, welcoming, cheerful, but peaceful home. I moved into my apartment two years ago and never felt comfortable in it. It never felt like “me.” Eventually I stopped having people over and found myself avoiding my own home as well. I felt stuck as every room just wasn’t quite right, but I couldn’t figure out what it was that was wrong. I had no vision. I knew what I wanted out of each room, but I couldn’t create it. Loris came over for about 90 minutes and led me into a relaxing “virtual tour” through my apartment, all from my couch. Finally, I had a vision. Just over a week later my apartment transformed from a perpetual work-in-progress to a sanctuary made just for me, a safe haven, and a home. I am forever grateful!”
Alicia Kornacker, St. Paul, Minnesota
“Through Beautiful Necessity Alignment, Loris’s questions and promptings called forward my own creativity and knowing, grounding my intentions into form. When we create spaces with clarity and sincerity, the space itself becomes the teacher and the healer, and that is exactly what I’ve been experiencing. Since beginning to work from my beautiful new healing office, I have experienced consistent insight and understanding about what will serve my most authentic expression, as well as what will best support my clients. I could not ask for more and feel eternally grateful to Loris for being the midwife who birthed me into this beautiful and necessary new healing space.”
Jane Ellen, Transitional Integration, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Are you challenged? Overwhelmed? Ashamed? Don’t know where to start or how to release, declutter, organize and beautify all that has accumulated in your home and your life?
ARE YOU READY FOR CHANGE AND A FRESH START? A BEAUTIFUL HEALTHY HOME? AN INSPIRING KITCHEN? A RESTFUL BEDROOM? AN EFFICIENT OFFICE?
Step 1: THROUGH A COMPLIMENTARY 30-MINUTE COACHING CALL and A REFLECTIVE ILLUMINATING QUESTIONNAIRE, we discuss and clarify your heart’s desires and inspirations for your home, your kitchen, office or whatever space you want to improve.
Step 2: THROUGH BEAUTIFUL NECESSITY ALIGNMENT, we take a deeply relaxing guided inner tour that aligns your deepest dreams for your space(s), the earth and your wise healer within. You will sense, feel and realize what is enhancing and diminishing your dreams, your health and your home. Beautiful Necessity Alignment® reveals what is keeping you from realizing your healthiest life and is designed for lasting change.
Step 3: TO CLAIM ALL THAT YOU ENVISION FOR YOURSELF, your Beautiful Necessity Alignment® session includes discussing action steps, or you may order a personalized report that includes a prioritized checklist of action steps for optimum health.
Step 4: WITH LOVING NON-JUDGMENTAL SUPPORT AT YOUR PACE, I offer coaching, clutter release, organizing and beautifying in your home, working with you or solo.
Step 5: I CAN KEEP YOU MOVING AHEAD THROUGH WEEKLY PHONE COACHING AND ACCOUNTABILITY SESSIONS. I always offer complimentary 30-minute coaching sessions on a topic of your choice, or we can review eight aspects of your health and discuss one challenge of your choice in a little more depth. Call today!
Connect, clarify, align, release, organize, create and enjoy…
· A soulful healthy home supporting your radiant health day-by-day.
· An inspiring kitchen brimming with healthy fresh delicious choices.
· A peaceful bedroom for restorative sleep every night.
· An efficient office for optimum organized workflow.
· The healthy radiant life you can imagine and are ready to create and claim.
Sessions by phone or online via Zoom:
Beautiful Necessity Alignment & Coaching $75 / 75-minute session
Beautiful Necessity Alignment “Action Steps” Report $45 (following BN session)
Beautiful Necessity Health Coaching $45 / 45 minutes
I offer discounts for pre-paid multiple sessions. Setting goals and committing to coaching sessions with scheduled dates and times keeps you moving forward and accountable for creating all that you desire. I look forward to collaborating and co-creating your healthiest more authentic life.
What does your home reveal about you, your life and your health? Is your home enhancing or diminishing your health and your family’s health?
Is your office and business space as prosperous and efficient as possible? What first impression does your business convey? What lasting impression does your business convey?
Beautiful Necessity Alignment sessions are relaxing guided visualizations designed to align your personal energy, intentions and health with your home, office and business. This process can help you to identify areas of your spaces that are not supporting optimum health and prosperity and that may be preventing you from healing or abundantly manifesting your deepest dreams.
Beautiful Necessity Alignment helps you to discover what your soul yearns for, which may be different than what you think you want or need. Touring your home, office or business as if for the first time and discovering your true heart’s desires helps to identify changes, additions or deletions to consider.
Through Beautiful Necessity Alignment, I assist you in tapping into your deepest insights and wisdom about your home or business.
Contact me to schedule a complimentary 30-minute session to explore your needs and discuss how Beautiful Necessity Alignment can assist you in creating a healthier lighter home and life. Sessions are by appointment and virtually via Zoom.