Laura Winston

Laura Winston is an elementary school teacher, author, lifelong learner, and passionate believer in one simple but powerful idea: perspective changes everything.

Since beginning her teaching career in 2001, Laura has spent 25 years more working with children—and learning just as much from them as she hopes they have learned from her.

After experiencing profound personal loss as a young adult, Laura made a conscious decision to keep learning, growing, and searching for ways to live a fuller and more meaningful life. Over the years, she became increasingly interested in how the way we interpret our experiences can shape how we feel about them. While adversity, disappointment, and injustice are very real, Laura believes that being willing to pause, reflect, and consider another perspective can help us better understand ourselves, other people, and the world around us.

An avid reader of books exploring habits, resilience, perspective, and human behaviour, Laura has been influenced by works including James Clear’s Atomic Habits, Angela Duckworth’s Grit, and Ryan Holiday’s The Obstacle Is the Way. Holiday’s modern exploration of Stoicism has been particularly influential in shaping the way she approaches life’s challenges. As an educator, Laura is especially passionate about finding ways to bring these ideas into the lives of children in ways they can understand and use.

Laura loves meeting people and hearing their stories. She strives to approach others with curiosity rather than judgment, remembering that there is almost always more to a person—or a situation—than we initially see.

Lily’s Perfect World… Interrupted is the first in a planned series of books built around this idea.

Through her writing, Laura hopes to spark curiosity, inspire reflection, and create meaningful conversations between children and adults. Above all, she hopes her books encourage readers to pause, consider another perspective, and discover that sometimes, seeing something differently can change everything.