Author Archives: Laura Benko

About Laura Benko

Holistic Feng Shui Expert, Author, CEO of The Holistic Home Company.

My Intent: To Have Mallika Chopra Write The Foreward For My Book

I’ve never written a post before that was just directed toward one person only. But it’s my intention that this one individual will read this and feel inspired to write the foreward for my upcoming book, The Holistic Home: Feng Shui Your Mind Body Spirit Space and understand why she is a perfect fit. Mallika, I hope you are reading this, because this is for you, my Intent Mentor.


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Filming Feng Shui Segments for About.com

Yesterday a production crew from About.com came to my home to film twenty Feng Shui segments. I’m excited to be their new expert on the topic. The crew was amazing, fun, respectful of my home, focused with their tasks and I enjoyed their company all day. The segment topics were picked mostly from the algorithms of what people were looking for on this topic – which I find very interesting. Here are some of the titles:


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The Power and The Beauty of Essential Oils

Essential oils are more than just a heady, intoxicating, concentrated scent that transports you to other worldly places. Each drop contains molecular DNA information from the plant, leaves, roots or flower they are steam distilled and cold pressed from. That means, if processed correctly, the plants intelligence is alive and active and can really have an impact on your state of mind, health and mood.


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My Interview In Healing Lifestyles & Spas

Recently I was interviewed by Bess O’Connor for an article on color therapy that was featured in Healing Lifestyles and Spa’s. Bess asked some great questions. Read on to discover ways that color is effecting you.
By Bess O’Connor


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Don’t Forget To Clean The Energy of Your Home!

With the New Year here, most people feel motivated to start it off by doing a deep cleaning of their home. Organizing and cleaning the dirt, grease and grime are all essential, but have you thought about cleaning your home’s energy? Over time, the predominant emotion that occurs in your space gets imbued in the energetic matrix of your home. Whether thats illness and arguments or love and laughter or a mix of both, your home’s atmosphere could use a deep cleaning and the New Year is a perfect time to do so.



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The Holistic Home Company is the Top Choice for Best Holiday Gifts. Here’s Why:

The Holistic Home Company makes beauty products with meaning. Every step of the way. From the pure ingredients (the scrubs have no fillers, synthetics or additives) to the quality of essential oils to the fact that YOU get to choose the top, middle and base notes. That’s right. Go to “Choosing Your Scents” at the bottom of each aromatherapy product page and discover what speaks to you. If you need more energy, more focus, more joy or to release anger and negativity. There are essential oils that help with every malady you can think of. And it doesn’t stop there. Your scrubs are made while holding a positive intention for you.


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Losing Your Confidence? Look Inside Your Home For Help

When I have clients that suffer from a lack of confidence, an inability to speak up or they struggle with their own identity, I always look inside their home for specific ways these issues are physically manifesting in their surroundings.
Each and every time, I am able to point out the connections between their challenges in life and how it shows up in their intimate environment. I’d like to give you these tools of empowerment and show you what to look for in your home.


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The Holistic Home Company Has Launched!

So happy to say that The Holistic Home Company has officially launched! It started with my daughter Lulu and I wanting to make handmade Christmas gifts with meaning for friends and family. When mass feedback arrived “you should seriously consider making these professionally” I laughed. I didn’t have the time – especially with my book coming out next year. After being in development for a TV show, suddenly potential investors came around for meetings with me that left me feeling


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A Lesson In Letter Press & Life

Within five minutes of meeting Peggy Vance, I had to tell her that she had great energy. She is something special. Peggy is a woman with an easy breezy conversational style that exudes both warmth and interesting information on any given topic . You immediately feel at ease around her.


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How My Bone Marrow Cancer Became A Blessing

In 2001 I came down with a bad upper respiratory cold and upon a routine doctor visit, my blood work indicated something more serious was going on. After quickly being diagnosed with a rather grave prognosis, my head was in a WTF spin when 24 hours later my primary care physician was suggesting an “inevitable” bone marrow transplant and a maximum of four years left to live.


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