Laura Day is a longtime best friend of Demi Moore, bestselling author, intuitive advisor and consultant to billion-dollar corporations.
She has quietly helped some of the world’s most powerful people make their biggest decisions – from CEOs and studio heads to top-tier creatives and celebrities.
Now, among her teachings in a new book The Prism, Day distills three core principles she believes can transform anyone’s life: focus on intuition, focus on healing and focus on human connection.
She believes these aren’t abstract ideas, rather they’re learnable skills grounded in decades of personal experience, scientific inquiry and client success.
Speaking with the Daily Mail, Day breaks down these principles to help readers get a better understanding of her work and what they can do to shift their lives.
Focus on intuition
Before she gained international recognition, Day was a young girl left to manage chaos in a New York apartment, relying on instinct to navigate her mother’s mental health crises and the demands of raising her younger siblings.
‘I think I developed my intuition as a survival skill, both to predict my mother’s suicide attempts and just to know how to deal with emergencies,’ she said.
Intuitive advisor Laura Day has helped celebrities and CEOs tap into their instincts for decades – with a no-nonsense, science-backed approach
Laura Day (left) and her best friend, actress Demi Moore (right), have supported each other through career highs and personal challenges for over 30 years
Raised largely without supervision, Day developed a heightened sensitivity to her environment. Two of her siblings would later die by suicide. ‘I really am, in a sense, the survivor – and not just surviving, thriving,’ she told the Daily Mail.
That survival instinct blossomed into something much more: an intuitive brain uniquely tapped in to the unseen.
In the early 1980s, Day became a subject in military and university experiments on extrasensory perception, or ESP.
‘I got passed around to a bunch of different researchers, which was fun for me, because I wanted to understand how my brain worked,’ she said. One televised segment led to an instant following.
Unlike many self-proclaimed psychics, Day didn’t enter the field through mysticism. With a lineage of doctors – her father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all physicians – her approach to intuition has always been grounded in science and verifiable results.
‘Intuition is not a belief, it’s a tool – it gives data. You can prove or disprove data,’ she said.
That pragmatic view is the foundation of her new book, The Prism: Seven Steps to Heal Your Past and Transform Your Future – a step-by-step guide to rewiring the ego, reshaping behavior, and creating the life you want through small, external shifts.
‘The Prism is really about the reality that we are, in a sense, mechanical beings in a mechanical world,’ she explained. ‘There are tiny changes that we can make, that change everything. But they don’t happen from within us.’
Focus on healing
Day argues that conventional self-help has it backward.
‘There’s this big thing of “look for your trauma, search within,”‘ she said. ‘If the answer were within, you wouldn’t be asking the question. And reliving your trauma? That just re-traumatizes.’
Instead, her method is action-based, built around the simple premise that change happens externally first.
‘Everyone says, “change yourself to change your life” – but you are the box, you can’t think outside of it,’ she said. ‘Sometimes, making a tiny change and getting exactly what you want is the greatest healing – because then you have to adapt to it.’
Day calls the ego ‘the Prism’ because it refracts experience into form.
‘The Prism is the structure through which a human being takes the energy we share and creates in the external world,’ she said.
Whether it’s building a relationship, forming a habit or navigating a crisis, she believes the key is not mystical alignment but mechanical redirection.
‘Celebrating my wise, inspiring friend @lauradayintuit and the launch of her spectacular new book ‘The Prism” said Moore in an Instagram post dedicated to her longtime intuit friend
Day’s new book, The Prism, offers a step-by-step guide to creating real-life change through small, intentional shifts
‘Energy does nothing until you channel it – into a chair, a job, a body, a relationship.’
She trains people to identify patterns formed before the age of seven, which she believes lock us into repetitive cycles unless disrupted.
‘You don’t see what you don’t see,’ she said. ‘We repeat our patterns over and over again, just dressed up a little differently.’
Her solution? Interrupt the cycle.
‘Pick that one suggestion you think is ridiculous, that makes you roll your eyes. Practice it for a day. Notice what changes. If something changes and you like it, then you’re on the right road.’
Despite her mainstream appeal, Day doesn’t shy away from challenging woo-woo thinking.
‘Spirituality that isn’t practical is called fantasy,’ she said. ‘Positive thinking – if a bullet’s coming at you and you don’t move, it’s going to hit you; I don’t care how positively you’re thinking.’
Instead, she embraces what she calls ’empowered, realistic thinking.’ In her words, ‘I can’t do this yet; I don’t have this yet; that’s scary information – but let me find empowered solutions.’
She’s tested her theories on thousands of students and clients over decades.
‘I have two companies I’ve worked with for over 30 years,’ she said. ‘I don’t want to be fringe. I work with doctors. I work with scientists. I’m not interested in making people believe – I’m interested in what works.’
Focus on human connection
Her clientele includes celebrities, though she declines to name names. One of her closest public friendships is with actress Demi Moore, who has credited Day with helping her navigate personal upheaval and life transitions.
‘They come to me with the same concerns everyone else does,’ Day said of her famous clients. ‘Should I take this job? Who should I hire? And just like everyone else, they don’t listen to what they don’t want to hear.’
Lucy Hale (left) joined Laura Day in a book signing and discussion
Jennifer Aniston (left) supporting Laura Day at her launch party for her book The Circle
Still, she understands their unique pressures.
‘Celebrities are just like us, but under a microscope. I love my life because I get all the privilege of celebrity and none of the risk. I can go to the bathroom in peace.’
Day says people need to tap in to the people they have around them to achieve success.
‘Know that you don’t have the answer – it’s not inside of you. You know, do something that’s safe but doesn’t resonate with you at all at the suggestion of someone who you usually disagree with, because that will challenge your old structure.
‘Also have at least one goal. Because goals contextualize all the experience that comes to you. It also contextualizes everything you see around you. It is a formatting system, and we tend to have worries and fears and fantasies, but not goals. Goals are really important.’
She gave an example of someone who is looking for love and advised them to ‘Find a group, a person, a situation of people who already have it.
‘If you’re looking for love, don’t go to a singles event. Go to dinner with five happily married friends. Absorb that energy.
‘It’s really, really important also to not make it a solitary process. I mean, one thing intuition teaches us is we’re never alone.’
Her work also addresses the tension between spiritual aspiration and real-world implementation.
Corporations worth billions have turned to Day for insight – though she insists, ‘I’m not interested in belief. I’m interested in what works’. Laura has appeared on The Jennifer Hudson Show to speak about her book
‘What is more spiritual than being in love, than creating a company that employs people, than creating a body that interacts with your environment?’ she said. ‘Spiritual tools that don’t produce real-world results? That’s fantasy. Fantasy tools give you fantasy results.’
Day applies this philosophy to her own life. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer following the suicides of her sister and brother, she held a public healing service just before her surgery.
‘I asked the audience for their healing energy – and I expected it to work,’ she said.
Her tumor shrank by a third.
‘But I still had the surgery. I wanted to do everything. And by the way, I got the t*ts of a 20-year-old because I insisted on a double mastectomy instead of a lumpectomy.’
For Day, even success demands adaptation. ‘The real work isn’t getting what you want. The real work is becoming the person who can live with it.’
And that, ultimately, is the core of The Prism: not self-improvement for its own sake, but transformation through action.
‘Creating what you want in the world is your job,’ she said. ‘And once you’ve done that, your next job is to help others create it too.’
The Prism: Seven Steps to Heal Your Past and Transform Your Future by Laura Day is out now published by Penguin Publishing Group.
