Author, Minister, and Spiritual Mentor
Laura Bedford serves as a contemplative guide, minister, author and co-founder of The Worthiness Project. Her work is shaped by a lifelong devotion to truth, love, and the deeper reality beneath fear, and by a deep trust in true listening, intuitive discernment, and the silent language beneath the surface of thought, emotion and sensation.
From an early age, Laura has been drawn to questions of origin, remembrance, and why human beings can lose sight of one another’s hearts. Over time, inquiry deepened through lived mystical experience and devoted practice, becoming less about seeking and more about learning to recognize the difference between fear’s distortions and the presence of Divine Love.
Her sometimes deeply visceral recognition of worthiness, wholeness, and holiness as beings begotten of love, rather than of fear, supports others to restore awareness of true identity. Laura suggests our first language is light and supports beings to experience this awareness directly so that we can ground deeply in pure being, while experiencing life as human.
The Worthiness Project grew out of ongoing devotion. Since 2007, Laura has offered private sessions, guided gatherings, meditation, inquiry, and contemplative support for those drawn to rest more deeply into what is true. She is the author of The Mix Up, completed a Pilgrimage Supporting Inner Peace across the USA, and has long been devoted to creating spaces where people can soften, listen inwardly, and reconnect with the love and wholeness that have never actually been lost.
Dr. Andy Schraegle, PhD is a clinical and forensic neuropsychologist, speaker, and co-founder of The Worthiness Project, and serves as Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Neurology at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin. His work is shaped by a longstanding devotion to understanding the meeting place between neuroscience, suffering, identity, and the human capacity for healing.
For much of his life, Andy has been drawn to the question of what is true. That search led through both science and spirituality, and over time became less about self-improvement and more about direct encounter, with reality, with suffering, and with the deeper ground of being beneath fear and striving.
The Worthiness Project grows out of that ongoing exploration. Andy’s work is rooted in the understanding that worth is not something to achieve, but something to remember. He is especially interested in how the nervous system learns fear, protection, and disconnection, and how experiences of safety, presence, and love can begin to restore a more grounded sense of wholeness. Through speaking, teaching, and reflective dialogue, he seeks to make these ideas accessible in ways that are both psychologically grounded and deeply human.
He continues to live this inquiry in daily life, as a husband, father, friend, and professional, and is grateful for every opportunity to support others in remembering what has always been here.
Dr. Andy’s work bridges neuroscience, psychology, and contemplative practice to help people reconnect with their innate sense of worth.
