A Magazine for Christian Women: Introducing Lauren Magazine

By Lauren Rose Correa, October 30, 2024

This magazine has truly been a long time coming. When I first graduated from college, I started an magazine for Christian women called The You Are Project. I had about eight columnists and I wrote many posts myself as well. To this day I am proud of what I put together. Despite this, I decided to put an end to the project. It wasn’t turning out to the level of quality I pictured in my head. Looking back, I see so many gaps in my knowledge that were limiting the growth of my magazine.

I started reading books on influence and seeking to understand how I could reach more people with my efforts. In the back of my mind, I always planned to return to the magazine one day. I started planning out the new magazine many times, but I never quite got around to launching it.

Years passed, and I ended up taking a job in marketing at a printer in King of Prussia. There I put my skills to use building their website and launching a new print blog. I also developed a print magazine called Best of Local. This featured interviews I conducted with businesses local to the area.

After a few years, I took a new marketing job in Bala Cynwyd. I wanted to be closer to my home in South Jersey. There I continued to write blog posts, and I also learned a vital new skill: search engine optimization.

During my time working for the printer, I encountered the biggest challenge of my life: I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. My first manic psychotic episode took place in public. Unfortunately, the people I was around jumped to some very unkind conclusions about what was going on. Most of my close friends from that period of my life ended up abandoning me during this struggle. I had never felt so low, and my dreams had never felt so far away as they did during this time.

It took me a few years and a couple more episodes to recover mentally and find healing. Today, I am stable mentally and I no longer need regular counseling. I must say that counseling was a vital part of my healing process). In the midst of healing from my trauma, I became close with my friend Juan. Juan and I were casual friends for a few years before I got diagnosed. Our friendship blossomed into a romance, and we were married in 2020 during the COVID pandemic. In 2023 we welcomed our daughter, Alexa, into the world.

A few months after returning from maternity leave, I left my job to become a stay-at-home mom. After months of learning and growing as a mama, I started thinking about my career again. I thought about being an interior designer and shadowed a sweet designer friend to see how she spent her days. Still, I didn’t quite feel like I had found my passion. I started staying up after my daughter’s bedtime to work on blogging. I viewed this as a hobby and passion project.

When I first began blogging I talked about design only. It was not long before I sprinkled in some more serious spiritual posts as well. I also kept adding new categories to my blog. I worried that not having a specific focus would keep me from growing my blog. However, I always received such positive feedback on my spiritual posts that I didn’t want to stop writing them. Eventually, I had a revelation: this needed to be an online magazine geared toward Christian women. I wanted to blog about a wide variety of topics, and I wanted to build something bigger than just me. It didn’t make sense for me to just be an interior designer or a design blogger. I needed to create a lifestyle magazine for Christian women. This would fulfill what has truly been my calling since I first launched The You Are Project.

I have big plans and oh so many ideas for this magazine for Christian women. I hope you’ll join me on the journey! You can sign up for my email list and follow Lauren Magazine on Instagram to keep updated on the latest posts and my newest ventures.