Coming October, 2025!

The Curiosity Quotient

A Renegade Pathologist’s Detour Guide to the Morgue

Are You Living…or Just Managing Your Way to the Morgue?

Dr. Sabine O’Laughlin—renegade pathologist turned functional health rebel—delivers a provocative guide to waking the hell up.

While studying death throughout her career, Dr. O’Laughlin learned a lot about life. The Curiosity Quotient isn’t just another self-help formula or woo-woo wellness plan. It’s a fierce, funny, and deeply personal invitation to explore what’s been killing your energy, your joy, and your sense of possibility. Through sharp insights, irreverent stories, and the groundbreaking Health Matrix™ Success Navigator, you'll uncover the unconscious patterns, systems, and family dynamics that keep you stuck—and how to get unstuck.

Forget perfection. Forget pleasing. Forget waiting until it’s “bad enough.”

This is your call to curiosity, to freedom, to vitality. Because the real diagnosis is this:
You’ve been playing dead.
Now it’s time to come alive.

I’ve dedicated my professional career to studying death, and along the way I’ve learned a lot about life. My new book will either make you laugh or cry (or both) while I explain the vital role curiosity plays to help you restoke your life force. Sign up below for a FREE excerpt, “You Are Not (Always) Your Label,” plus bonus materials and other updates.

  • Leah Benson, LMHC, author of Emotional Utopia

    One of things things I love best about Sabine, besides her incredible intellect, is her natural skepticism. When you read this book, you'll learn how she turned that skepticism onto herself to flourish and thrive, and how she can teach you to do the same.

  • Fellow Curious Colleague

    Sabine O’Laughlin has written the ultimate field guide for living fully awake. Part memoir, part roadmap, the book had me laughing, reflecting and -- most importantly -- questioning the patterns that have kept me small. It’s the rare book that blends science, storytelling and soul work into something you can actually use to change your life! It also does not hurt that I have worked with Sabine both in private and group settings over the years. Definitely changed my life.

  • Elaine Benson, President, The Courtyards of Mayport1

    This brilliant, brave woman saved my life, and taught me to ask the right questions and to not accept my failures and to see the real doors finally open. She is intense, and probably the most probing individual I’ve ever met, but you won’t walk away without answers. You won’t walk away unchanged. I highly recommend this book and exceptional human being for a complete change for a complete you. Run don’t walk.

  • Eric L. Diamond Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Founder and Director of the Gainesville Men’s Center 

    Sabine has written a remarkable book that combines her vast medical knowledge with her powerful personal experience. She teaches us that awareness and intuition can bridge the mind body gap, and guide us into lasting and meaningful healing. In a world of trendy and superficial self help and health books, this one stands out for its depth and sophistication.

  • Joan Horn, MBA/Broker/Owner

    The Curiosity Quotient is a triumph! Sabine O’Laughlin’s offbeat sense of humor adds just the right amount of levity to the very heavy topic of your own mortality. Sabine’s real-life stories will make you laugh, a few will make you shed a tear, and in the end the book will make you reflect upon your life, and motivate you to follow your curiosity to uncover what you really want to do with the rest of it. In her book, you get to meet this extremely intelligent medical doctor, caring and compassionate therapist, the wise spiritual guide and the unleashed comedian.

  • Skyler Hamilton, PhD., psychotherapist and author of Empower Your Child to Heal

    I love Sabine’s 'detour guide to the morgue’ and how adopting curiosity is the key to transformation. So often, we’re raised believing that ‘curiosity killed the cat,’ but Sabine’s book explains it’s just the opposite. Her health matrix offers a great starting point to investigate the patterns, beliefs and systems that may be holding you back from your best self, and best life.

  • Uttam Sinha, MD, author of Hope For Cancer

    Among the many pathologists with whom I have worked, Dr. O’Laughlin distinguishes herself as truly exceptional. Her intellectual curiosity, coupled with a disciplined skepticism, has consistently led her to explore questions that others might leave unasked. This rare combination of rigor and openness has broadened perspectives within her field and enriched those who have had the privilege to collaborate with her. Beyond her scientific contributions, her spirit of inquiry and commitment to discovery stand as a model of professional excellence and integrity in medicine.

  • Mike Dow, Psy.D, Ph.D, author of Brain Fog Fix

    I found The Curiosity Quotient to be both entertaining and insightful. It’s hard to imagine a pathologist writing something so intriguing, but Sabine O’Laughlin proves she’s as comfortable helping readers get the most from life as she is studying death under a microscope. I applaud this work!

  • Leigh Vinocur, MD., author of Never Let Them See You Sweat

    Sabine’s premise is that by studying death, she’s learned a lot about life. I think that’s profound and found her insights and dark humor to be a refreshing take on how to restore your life force. I’d recommend this to anyone in their second half of life or career and find themselves on autopilot.

  • Wendy Anderson

    In reading this book you will discover patterns in your thinking and behavior that have usurped your energy and held you back from discovering your true self - and freedom. If you want to learn more, I can think of no greater life coach than Sabine O'Laughlin, MD who will guide you as you use her Health Matrix Success Navigator to uncover your blind spots and grow past them. Dr. O'Laughlin is exceedingly brilliant and insightful, and she is the most non-judgmental and open minded person I know.

  • Jamy and Peter Faust, authors of The Constellation Approach: Finding Peace Through Your Family Lineage

    The Curiosity Quotient is one of those rare gems that arrive once a decade. Through personal honesty and a raw sense of humor, Dr. O’Laughlin blends fresh approaches to wellness into a work that is authentic and inspiring. Her masterful yet straightforward Health Matrix will empower anyone curious about maintaining health and happiness.

Curiosity is the match that sparks the fuse of transformation—without it, even the most explosive potential for change just sits waiting in the dark.

I have dedicated my life, education and career to studying death. In the process, I’ve learned a lot about life, and too often see masses of “walking dead.” While my pursuits explore physical death, I’ve become more and more curious about the mental constructs that are killing our life force, strangling opportunities, and keeping so many living small and crippled. I’ve discovered that curiosity is the elixir that makes change possible. As a life coach, I’ll help you:

  • Uncover Blindspots

  • Unstick Your Growth

  • Unveil Your True Self

  • Answer “Why Do I Always Do That?”

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Every moment is an opportunity to be curious about what is possible and how to know what is just right for you!

Currently, I weigh 130 lbs. But it was not always that way. At one point, I weighed more than 280 lbs. I didn’t care or really believe there was anything wrong with me. That’s just who I was. I needed a breakthrough but had no idea I needed one.

I want to save you from your own fate. And, I’m not talking about the number on the scale. I’m referring to blind spots, problems that reside beneath the surface and prevent us from breaking through any circumstance. It’s the reason I developed the Health Matrix Success Navigator approach -- actually it probably developed me -- which helps investigate and solve deeply-rooted problems that manifest in a myriad of ways on the surface. You may need a breakthrough, but the solution remains hidden under many layers, both literally and figuratively.

Once I discovered how my past impacted my present, the extra weight and related bad habits started melting away. Losing weight was not my intention. It was a byproduct.

How I started as my own best customer.

Discover. Experiment. Navigate.

Chances are you’ve never heard of the modalities listed below. That’s okay. I’ve done the research for you, and practiced on myself. As your life coach, we will investigate your current challenge, experiment with possible reasons, and navigate toward a solution.

This is my Health Matrix Success Navigator, and it goes way beyond your expectations.