Discover why slowing down, grounding your nervous system, and honoring your roots creates the foundation for authentic growth and expansion.
Join Shervon Laurice and her guest Sarie McGlone for this lively discussion on the ways we can reconnect with our bodies, values and ancestry in order to raise our vibration. Whether you are seeking more energetic stability in your life or are moving through a big life transition, this conversation will guide you to creating more harmony, strength and clarity.
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During the first segment, Shervon explores the seasonal shift into fall and how it invites us to slow down, turn inward, and root ourselves through grounding practices. She shares personal reflections on how her energy naturally shifts in autumn, leading her back to meditation, journaling, and mindful routines that stabilize the nervous system and prepare us for the challenges of winter.
During the second segment, Shervon explains the meaning of the phrase"Rooting to Rise", emphasizing the importance of grounding practices like breathwork, meditation, ritual, and self-reflection to connect with one’s roots. She highlights how honoring cultural, spiritual, ancestral, and intuitive wisdom helps foster stability, purpose, and personal growth. Through examples like creating rituals, ancestral altars, journaling, or simply listening to the body, Shervon encourages listeners to reconnect with their foundations to expand into their fullest selves.
In the third segment, Shervon explores the concept of "rising into expansion" by doing deep, intentional inner work to support personal, spiritual, and professional growth. She emphasizes grounding practices, journaling, and reflection as essential tools to help individuals connect with their true selves and rise with clarity and purpose. Shervon explains that whether through therapy or coaching, real transformation begins within.
Shervon begins the final segment by discussing the importance of grounding practices—like meditation, nature walks, and breathing exercises. These practices help us stay connected to our values, traditions, and inner wisdom, so we can face daily challenges from a place of peace instead of stress. Shervon also introduces The Expansion Room online community and an upcoming women’s retreat focused on rest, reflection, and renewal. The key message: the deeper you root, the higher you rise.
00:01:08.980 --> 00:01:21.850 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Hello, and welcome to the Expansion Room. I'm your host, Siobhan Larisse, and I'm glad that you're back and returning with us. Today's topic is…
00:01:22.030 --> 00:01:30.330 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: A lot about fall, and how… I usually approach
00:01:30.460 --> 00:01:49.119 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: coming into this season of cooling temperatures and shorter days. And so, in our online community, also called the Expansion Room, our topic of the month is Route to Rise.
00:01:49.360 --> 00:02:00.470 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And the idea being, and it's not a term that I created, it's been kind of floating around for some time. And the idea is…
00:02:00.820 --> 00:02:04.930 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: About turning your attention more inward.
00:02:05.300 --> 00:02:14.999 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And engaging in… Practices that feel grounding, stabilizing, and restorative.
00:02:15.160 --> 00:02:25.229 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So that you have the energy and capacity to rise up for whatever challenge comes your way, or
00:02:25.320 --> 00:02:37.069 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Projects that might be on the table for you, or transition periods that might be, presenting themselves in your life.
00:02:37.510 --> 00:02:47.870 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, I was supposed to have a guest with me today, my colleague, but she had an emergency, so she will not be joining us for this, conversation.
00:02:47.870 --> 00:03:01.620 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But she is active also in the community, and so if you choose to investigate, the expansion room on the Circle platform, you will see her also engaging in these conversations.
00:03:01.670 --> 00:03:10.289 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, grounding practices can help us stabilize our nervous system.
00:03:10.980 --> 00:03:29.719 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And in some previous episodes, we talked about the ways that our nervous system can get hijacked, particularly by stress, keeping us in fight, flight, or freeze, when we need more of relax and rest.
00:03:32.920 --> 00:03:37.340 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Rejuvenation, restoration, and digest.
00:03:37.850 --> 00:03:53.280 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And when we're actively engaging in grounding practices, we can activate more of that relax and restore side of our nervous system, which is called the parasympathetic nervous system. It helps us
00:03:53.690 --> 00:04:00.589 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: When we're in that space… So that creativity can flow.
00:04:00.710 --> 00:04:05.099 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Problem solving can be more easily accessed.
00:04:05.260 --> 00:04:13.059 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We're in… when we're in that rest, relax, and restore, we also…
00:04:13.610 --> 00:04:26.390 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: feel more like we have capacity to engage in the things that we might feel, are harder to engage in, right? Because you feel like you're a little bit more energized.
00:04:27.130 --> 00:04:40.129 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: One of the things about fall, and I love summer, I will put this out there that I love the heat, I love the sun, I love the long days that go into short nights.
00:04:40.130 --> 00:04:55.980 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: I'm born in the middle of winter, and so everything about summer speaks to me. For those of you who study Ayurvedic medicine, I have more vata energy, so I am often just cold.
00:04:55.980 --> 00:05:02.859 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so summer is something that I look forward to every year. But I've noticed something since…
00:05:03.140 --> 00:05:07.749 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: my early 30s, early to mid-30s, that…
00:05:08.110 --> 00:05:14.619 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: started to happen without me consciously doing anything, was that
00:05:14.770 --> 00:05:18.720 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: come fall, usually about now, October.
00:05:19.470 --> 00:05:22.600 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: My energy starts to slow down.
00:05:22.880 --> 00:05:42.779 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: As in, I don't get out as much, right? Because in summer, I am more outward-facing, engaging with my world, traveling, visiting with friends, hanging out with friends. I tend to actually meditate less in the summertime, just by this natural
00:05:43.030 --> 00:05:49.020 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: energy that I have, and I will journal less. But come October.
00:05:49.380 --> 00:05:53.129 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: I notice that my energy starts to slow down a bit.
00:05:53.880 --> 00:05:56.850 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: I desire to stay home more.
00:05:57.380 --> 00:06:10.969 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And I actually begin to engage again in a very daily practice of meditation, journaling, or some other mindfulness practice, like getting on my yoga mat.
00:06:11.390 --> 00:06:30.289 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And I started to notice this in my 30s, and started to lean into it a little bit more, and noticed that when I engage in such practices much more consciously and regularly, that it seemed to set me up better
00:06:30.670 --> 00:06:49.489 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: for the colder months. So, some episodes ago, we talked about preparing for winter, particularly the shorter days and colder temperatures, which lead to seasonal affective disorder.
00:06:49.870 --> 00:07:04.239 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: For a lot of people. And in that episode, we talked about getting out into the sunshine every morning for a walk, or every evening for a walk, so it helps reset your circadian rhythm.
00:07:04.830 --> 00:07:13.270 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And we talked about engaging in mindfulness practices that almost… Are designed to shore up.
00:07:13.900 --> 00:07:22.150 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: your… Personality, your mood, your energy for the colder, darker months.
00:07:22.230 --> 00:07:36.149 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so, for me, it's like this natural thing that automatically starts, where I'm seeking out more of an inward focus, intentional focus.
00:07:36.390 --> 00:07:38.350 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: That starts my day.
00:07:38.910 --> 00:07:44.189 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And in doing so, I feel more grounded.
00:07:44.840 --> 00:07:50.879 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And since winter is not my jam, I want to really feel as much…
00:07:51.030 --> 00:07:57.939 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Of a grounding sense of being as I move through it as I possibly can.
00:07:58.500 --> 00:08:07.640 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So… when we think about grounding, and this is, like, the season of rooting, right?
00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:10.450 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: I often think about trees.
00:08:10.660 --> 00:08:18.769 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: The really big trees… have… Deep, long, and…
00:08:18.940 --> 00:08:29.190 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: wide roots. So, as big as a tree is, often you can find that their roots are almost as big underground.
00:08:29.190 --> 00:08:39.380 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And that's what I am inviting here in this conversation, is a way to get rooted in who you are.
00:08:39.549 --> 00:08:58.279 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Rooting also takes on, another, aspect besides, stepping into maybe more mindfulness practices, but consciously noticing the ways that you want to slow down and maybe turn inward for you.
00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:03.749 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And honoring those things for yourself. So maybe it is doing less.
00:09:04.140 --> 00:09:17.630 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Whether that's at work, whether that's in your personal life, whether that's in your social life. But if there's this call for you to be more, nestled up on your couch under a blanket with hot chocolate.
00:09:17.630 --> 00:09:31.590 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: then honor that, rather than being out and about, right? Or if there's a call to begin your day with that early morning walk with a nice big sweater or jacket on, in the sunshine, honor that.
00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:37.060 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: If prayer… or meditation.
00:09:37.340 --> 00:09:39.460 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: or journaling.
00:09:39.700 --> 00:09:42.050 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Is calling you at this point.
00:09:42.410 --> 00:09:47.200 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Heed that, listen to that. Because that is something within you
00:09:47.380 --> 00:09:51.410 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: That is beckoning or calling you to…
00:09:51.610 --> 00:09:58.050 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: take roots, right? To really allow your roots to grow.
00:09:59.610 --> 00:10:07.339 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: There are some practices that we'll talk about today that help in this process of rooting.
00:10:07.400 --> 00:10:19.929 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But that's the start of it, right? It's the slowing down, it's the turning inward, it's the doing the practices that stabilize your nervous system and supports you in your growth.
00:10:20.160 --> 00:10:24.609 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And you're rising into your full expansion.
00:10:25.450 --> 00:10:35.369 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: The meaning for me, when I think about rooting, is, like, getting stable so that I can shoot upward.
00:10:36.930 --> 00:10:39.420 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: In autumn, our…
00:10:39.450 --> 00:10:57.219 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: if you're in an area where autumn is now, in the northern hemisphere, you notice that the trees are starting to turn, right? They turn beautiful, vibrant colors, and then shed their leaves, and they turn dormant. They turn inward.
00:10:57.590 --> 00:11:05.799 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So that they actually… the nature around us takes rest in a lot of ways. And so, that is what…
00:11:05.980 --> 00:11:21.439 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: I feel like we are called to do. We are part of nature. We're not outside of nature. So if you feel those longings, start to listen to those.
00:11:22.660 --> 00:11:29.499 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: One of the things that I've also noticed at this time of year is that I tend to do a lot more reading.
00:11:29.750 --> 00:11:31.429 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: I can…
00:11:31.500 --> 00:11:48.949 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: finish books a little bit more easily at this time of year than I do in the summertime, late spring, early, and through the summer, early fall. And so, that's another way to start to feel grounded, especially depending on what you're reading, right?
00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:55.070 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: being intentional about what you're reading. And so…
00:11:57.120 --> 00:12:03.849 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: one of the practices that I mentioned is meditation, or getting on your yoga mat.
00:12:04.490 --> 00:12:09.370 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Prayer, any of these things, walking in the sunlight, but there's another practice
00:12:09.580 --> 00:12:22.959 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: that helps people to feel grounded in their bodies, in their physical bodies, that I think is really key, and I used to use it a lot in therapy with clients.
00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:36.610 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And I'm starting to, like, reuse it again. We have an upcoming women's retreat in which we'll probably offer this practice as well. And it's called the 5-4…
00:12:36.680 --> 00:12:42.969 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: 3, 2, 1… Grounding practice, or grounding breath practice.
00:12:43.210 --> 00:12:48.980 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, I'll offer it to you here, and see if you can apply it in your life
00:12:49.110 --> 00:12:52.610 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Where you feel like it would be helpful.
00:12:53.520 --> 00:12:55.880 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So take a moment, take a seat.
00:12:59.450 --> 00:13:06.490 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And once you're seated, Allow yourself to take a slow, deep breath.
00:13:07.730 --> 00:13:11.109 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Inhaling to the count of 4.
00:13:14.760 --> 00:13:18.990 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And exhaling to the count of 6.
00:13:27.420 --> 00:13:30.929 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And just check in with yourself for that moment.
00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:40.020 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: pause… And then, notice 5 things that you can see.
00:13:40.840 --> 00:13:43.710 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: In the room where you're seated.
00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:52.940 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Whether shapes, colors, items, lights… Just notice… Five things.
00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:54.230 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: You can see.
00:13:54.690 --> 00:13:58.510 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And then notice 4 things that you can touch.
00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:00.940 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Immediately in your vicinity.
00:14:01.140 --> 00:14:03.390 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Maybe the chair you're sitting on.
00:14:03.500 --> 00:14:08.240 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Maybe if there's a table nearby… Something on that table.
00:14:08.690 --> 00:14:11.590 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Your clothing, on your skin.
00:14:13.540 --> 00:14:15.069 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Even the air.
00:14:15.990 --> 00:14:17.460 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Across your skin.
00:14:21.140 --> 00:14:24.539 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Now, notice 3 things that you can hear.
00:14:24.920 --> 00:14:27.370 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Distinct sounds in your room.
00:14:28.380 --> 00:14:30.340 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Your own breath, maybe.
00:14:31.100 --> 00:14:36.300 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: The hum of the… Heating or cooling system.
00:14:36.410 --> 00:14:37.830 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Where you're seated.
00:14:38.450 --> 00:14:41.690 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Or even subtle background noises.
00:14:49.150 --> 00:14:52.979 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And then notice two things that you can smell.
00:14:56.350 --> 00:14:59.289 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Something that you can smell in your room, whether you have
00:14:59.750 --> 00:15:02.789 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Just the smell in the air, candles…
00:15:03.870 --> 00:15:07.420 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: A hint of the tea or coffee.
00:15:08.900 --> 00:15:13.929 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: If you have your window open, what's the smell wafting into the room?
00:15:15.310 --> 00:15:17.340 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Just two things you can smell.
00:15:19.410 --> 00:15:22.620 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: maybe… Your own perfume or cologne.
00:15:27.060 --> 00:15:32.259 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And finally, notice one thing That you can taste.
00:15:38.750 --> 00:15:43.840 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And even if it's just the taste of this moment, just notice.
00:15:54.420 --> 00:15:58.430 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And then go ahead and take one more deep inhale in.
00:15:59.930 --> 00:16:02.580 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And a long, slow exhale out.
00:16:07.130 --> 00:16:09.439 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And that is the practice.
00:16:10.380 --> 00:16:16.480 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Just notice… how you feel… After doing that practice.
00:16:16.770 --> 00:16:20.080 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And we'll take a break right now, and when we come back…
00:16:20.660 --> 00:16:26.519 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We'll talk a little bit more about grounding, And… how to rise.
00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:27.770 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Come on back.
00:18:18.340 --> 00:18:25.970 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Welcome back to the Expansion Room, where today we are talking about Rooting to rise.
00:18:26.220 --> 00:18:37.229 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And we just completed a brief exercise that was grounding, called the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding breath practice.
00:18:37.690 --> 00:18:42.649 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And hopefully you noticed within yourself a shift.
00:18:43.220 --> 00:18:46.800 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: If you worked with that practice, with me.
00:18:47.330 --> 00:18:50.110 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so, we'll go on to talk about
00:18:50.540 --> 00:19:01.069 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: how we honor our roots, right? And so, there are practices like that one that we can do. Meditation, breathwork, prayer.
00:19:02.320 --> 00:19:09.819 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Reading, things that we can do on a regular basis to help us feel more grounded in our bodies.
00:19:10.050 --> 00:19:13.330 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: more grounded or centered to this earth.
00:19:13.780 --> 00:19:22.119 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But we can also talk about the importance of acknowledging And honoring our roots.
00:19:22.250 --> 00:19:32.370 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Whether that's cultural traditions, spiritual traditions, values, ancestry, and even…
00:19:32.740 --> 00:19:37.570 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: More importantly, I think, is the wisdom of our own bodies.
00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:53.409 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Most of us in the West have been raised to, ignore our intuition, so to speak, especially those born in, female or women's bodies.
00:19:53.580 --> 00:19:58.630 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: To just flat out ignore That little gut instinct.
00:19:59.580 --> 00:20:04.839 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: That little inner voice… That tells you something.
00:20:06.570 --> 00:20:13.109 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And then we wonder why, in adulthood, we struggle to make life decisions.
00:20:13.390 --> 00:20:15.100 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But we've been…
00:20:15.210 --> 00:20:25.079 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: culturally taught to just ignore the intuition, or the inner voice. But that inner voice is powerful, and there for a reason.
00:20:25.670 --> 00:20:34.019 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so, when we can honor our roots, that includes the wisdom of our bodies.
00:20:34.180 --> 00:20:38.029 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: That inner voice and our own intuition.
00:20:38.150 --> 00:20:42.500 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We can step more easily into our own power.
00:20:42.990 --> 00:20:52.489 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: and rise more fully, or expand more fully into the person, the creator we're meant to be in our lives.
00:20:53.350 --> 00:21:01.219 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So… thinking about… How we become disconnected.
00:21:01.630 --> 00:21:08.509 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: From our roots. It's something to really, pay attention to.
00:21:09.110 --> 00:21:16.350 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Because it leads to stress, and as we know, stress has a detrimental effect on our health.
00:21:16.520 --> 00:21:24.710 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Burnout, Instability, and this sense for a lot of people, of feeling lost.
00:21:25.480 --> 00:21:28.900 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Feeling like they don't really have a purpose.
00:21:29.390 --> 00:21:42.869 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: to move forward with in their lives. And when we don't have a sense of purpose, life becomes very much so mundane about routine and
00:21:43.550 --> 00:21:49.500 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: dare I say, boring. But when we have a sense of purpose, the thing that
00:21:50.320 --> 00:21:54.710 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: makes us want to get out of bed, right? Because we love it.
00:21:55.100 --> 00:22:09.330 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We love to engage in it, then that helps to keep us connected, helps to keep us moving, helps to keep life interesting, and to help, us
00:22:09.490 --> 00:22:15.989 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Put out something into the world that is, helpful, life-changing.
00:22:16.150 --> 00:22:23.429 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? And so, when we don't have that sense of connection to ourselves.
00:22:23.750 --> 00:22:25.760 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: All of that can be lost.
00:22:27.290 --> 00:22:35.280 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, when we think about rooting or honoring our roots,
00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:39.600 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: with certain practices. This could be…
00:22:39.750 --> 00:22:48.069 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: How we journal or use journal prompts in order to bring that into focus for ourselves.
00:22:48.490 --> 00:22:55.500 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: mindful movement, rituals. I'm a huge fan of ritual.
00:22:56.010 --> 00:22:59.400 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Rituals are something that we do…
00:22:59.600 --> 00:23:02.140 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: To bring us back to ourselves.
00:23:04.750 --> 00:23:16.970 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We can do a ritual as simple as your morning ritual. You get up in the morning, you turn off your alarm, you head downstairs, you turn on the coffee, and you have your first cup.
00:23:18.050 --> 00:23:23.199 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: For most people, there's nothing really spiritual about that, but yet it is a ritual.
00:23:24.270 --> 00:23:35.199 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Most of us have a nighttime routine that includes brushing our teeth, probably washing our face, putting on our PJs, going to bed at a certain hour. It is a ritual.
00:23:36.450 --> 00:23:41.189 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: When we can build in conscious rituals.
00:23:41.380 --> 00:23:57.010 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: With the intention of reconnecting to ourselves, rituals become powerful. They honor the origin of who we are, And…
00:23:57.120 --> 00:23:58.650 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: ourselves.
00:23:59.000 --> 00:23:59.940 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right?
00:24:01.380 --> 00:24:06.440 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: I think of a ritual called Release and Fire Renewal.
00:24:07.140 --> 00:24:24.569 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: When there's something in your life, maybe, something from your childhood, a trauma, or an event that happened that was negative, that you realize comes to the forefront for healing and release.
00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:29.880 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: The process of writing it down on paper, pen and paper.
00:24:31.240 --> 00:24:38.529 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And folding it, putting it in a bowl or container, And setting it on fire.
00:24:38.700 --> 00:24:46.090 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And allowing that Smoke to carry whatever that was away.
00:24:46.800 --> 00:24:50.859 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Allowing you to release it from your heart.
00:24:51.760 --> 00:24:55.479 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? And so, another way to honor
00:24:55.750 --> 00:25:04.439 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Your roots is to have an altar, an ancestral altar, in your home of the ancestors that you know or know of.
00:25:05.290 --> 00:25:13.820 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: For most people, and that's in their blood lineage, but it could be also those who are not directly in your blood lineage, but that you honor.
00:25:14.710 --> 00:25:19.139 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? There's something about them and the connection that you have with them.
00:25:19.250 --> 00:25:24.690 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: That, helps to rise… raise you up.
00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:28.720 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so having an altar is another.
00:25:29.290 --> 00:25:39.940 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: you would have to think about for yourself what rituals would you want to bring into place, into your life. I used to have a client many years ago
00:25:41.510 --> 00:25:59.700 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: who was not that connected to family, ancestry until she started asking questions, right? We were having a session one day, and I said, hey, how about you talk to your grandmother, your older aunties, find out
00:26:00.230 --> 00:26:14.620 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: A little bit more about your family history. And she was able to find out a lot of things, and one of those things was just culturally, where her lineage came from.
00:26:17.850 --> 00:26:31.929 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: which was in Europe, and she found out a practice that, her ancestors used to do that really spoke to her, and she started doing that, and it added so much to her life.
00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:42.799 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: There was another practice that she came up with, I don't think it was ancestral, but it was listening to her own wisdom of her body.
00:26:43.030 --> 00:26:49.429 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: She starred… she had a garden, And she would go out, After a good rain.
00:26:49.940 --> 00:26:56.669 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: To the muddiest part of her garden, take off her shoes and just bury her feet in the mud.
00:26:56.900 --> 00:27:06.010 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: She felt rooted and grounded In those moments. And it did so much for her mood.
00:27:06.300 --> 00:27:14.149 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But she listened… Right? Inwardly to her body's whispers of what it needed.
00:27:15.690 --> 00:27:19.990 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? And so that's how we honor our roots.
00:27:20.680 --> 00:27:28.199 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: That's how we can bring that grounding into day-to-day activity.
00:27:29.530 --> 00:27:48.029 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: One of the things… one other thing, that I want to invite you all as listeners to do is to reflect, right? Making time for these kinds of practices also means you make time for self-reflection.
00:27:48.030 --> 00:27:52.599 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And this would be a reflection that you can write down in your journal.
00:27:52.610 --> 00:27:55.760 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And it's almost like, it's basically a journal prompt. It's…
00:27:55.950 --> 00:28:01.019 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: It's asking yourself, where do I come from?
00:28:02.050 --> 00:28:02.930 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right?
00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:21.079 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Some of that can be literal DNA bloodline, but it may not be. It might be just cultural. It could be spiritual or religious, or the values that were held in the community that you were raised in.
00:28:21.140 --> 00:28:25.710 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Where do I come from? What are the values
00:28:25.870 --> 00:28:31.220 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: That give me my foundation of growth.
00:28:33.730 --> 00:28:38.330 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: What are the values that give me my foundation of growth?
00:28:39.340 --> 00:28:46.170 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, taking time to reflect more deeply on…
00:28:46.840 --> 00:29:01.450 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: How to honor your roots, and practicing these grounding practices can help you get to a place where you feel like you feel more stable and can rise from wherever you are.
00:29:01.750 --> 00:29:12.370 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So we're about to take our next break, and when we come back, we'll talk more about rising, right? Rising into expansion.
00:29:12.560 --> 00:29:14.570 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So come on back and join me.
00:30:51.020 --> 00:30:58.159 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Welcome back to the expansion room, and let's talk a little bit about rising.
00:30:58.510 --> 00:31:09.600 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Into expansion. Rising into… Being the creator of your life that you were meant to be.
00:31:11.270 --> 00:31:18.370 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, doing these kinds… of practices.
00:31:18.600 --> 00:31:24.560 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: When you are feeling like you're, creating space.
00:31:24.970 --> 00:31:32.359 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Consistently, and going into these practices consciously. They support your authentic growth.
00:31:32.810 --> 00:31:36.629 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And they help you to know who you are.
00:31:37.360 --> 00:31:48.829 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: When you feel more grounded, you can rise with clarity, you can rise with confidence, and with purpose.
00:31:50.900 --> 00:31:52.180 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So…
00:31:52.660 --> 00:32:03.970 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We talk about, like, there's this, saying that the deeper you rise… the deeper you ground, the higher you rise, when you talk about rooting to rise.
00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:14.910 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And it's really about intentionality. It's really about Not allowing yourself to…
00:32:15.020 --> 00:32:21.439 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Be surface level with the work and the practices that you do.
00:32:21.610 --> 00:32:38.919 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: It's about really taking the time to go deep, really taking the time to go inward, whether that's with the journal prompts, the grounding practices, and the, honoring your root practices.
00:32:41.520 --> 00:32:52.650 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And the more you do those things consistently, and the deeper you go, the higher you expand, kind of like trees, right? Like we talked about in the first segment.
00:32:53.150 --> 00:33:00.510 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And you begin to grow personally, spiritually, and professionally.
00:33:00.940 --> 00:33:09.149 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So a lot of the work I do, especially on the therapy side, people are coming for personal growth.
00:33:09.570 --> 00:33:20.660 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? To work out maybe some issues from their past, their childhood, want to understand themselves or their families better, so that they can then
00:33:21.320 --> 00:33:23.660 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: move forward from that point.
00:33:24.450 --> 00:33:39.090 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: When I'm working with people on the coaching side, there is usually a business or a career involved in their desire to come for coaching, right?
00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:52.769 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And it's still personal growth, right? There are things that we have to do for ourselves as individuals in order for us to be able to grow
00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:57.960 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Personally, spiritually, and professionally.
00:33:59.060 --> 00:34:10.029 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? And so the commitment has to be there for ourselves to really do that inner work so that we can expand and rise
00:34:10.290 --> 00:34:11.600 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: outwardly.
00:34:12.139 --> 00:34:20.779 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So that we connect more freely and more from a space of love in our personal lives.
00:34:20.889 --> 00:34:28.639 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: With our family, partners, friends, and we feel more connected to…
00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:37.340 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: to the divine, God, source, higher power, whichever term works for you.
00:34:37.530 --> 00:34:48.330 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so that we can move our businesses or our careers forward in a way that honors the values that we hold dear.
00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:50.730 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? And…
00:34:51.389 --> 00:35:03.479 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Bring about expansion. Bring about something into the community that is helpful and useful and needed, and continue to expand in doing so.
00:35:06.170 --> 00:35:08.560 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Some of the…
00:35:09.330 --> 00:35:19.450 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: realizations that I've had in working with people on the career side, the coaching side, is that many of us want a blueprint.
00:35:20.600 --> 00:35:24.169 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Tell me what to do to make my business grow.
00:35:24.350 --> 00:35:29.279 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Tell me what to do to shift things in my career.
00:35:29.560 --> 00:35:37.159 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? Most of us who are business owners or career-oriented are very good at
00:35:37.910 --> 00:35:44.650 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Putting things into place that we know work, so that we can move forward.
00:35:45.230 --> 00:35:54.100 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: What I quickly learned when I became a conscious… business owner.
00:35:54.410 --> 00:36:00.179 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Was that the work wasn't necessarily for my business.
00:36:00.490 --> 00:36:04.210 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But it was more for me, the individual.
00:36:05.270 --> 00:36:09.860 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: how do I… Shift my mindset.
00:36:10.540 --> 00:36:20.870 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: how do I, get to a place where I can feel my most creative.
00:36:24.610 --> 00:36:28.180 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: how do I see myself in the role
00:36:28.640 --> 00:36:35.880 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: as not only business owner, but CEO of an actual business. I had to work on me.
00:36:36.090 --> 00:36:41.999 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: I had to ground and allow myself to go inward.
00:36:43.430 --> 00:36:46.310 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: to really know who I am.
00:36:46.630 --> 00:36:59.710 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: In order to then step forward in a bigger way in my business, and work with a more diverse population of clients as a coach.
00:36:59.950 --> 00:37:01.760 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And as a therapist.
00:37:02.370 --> 00:37:07.100 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so… That, for me, has been my…
00:37:09.600 --> 00:37:17.119 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: expansion, and when I work with people on the coaching side, that is where I start, is with them.
00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:18.909 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: with the person.
00:37:19.090 --> 00:37:20.490 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: What is the growth?
00:37:20.710 --> 00:37:33.850 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: that needs to happen personally in your life so that you can expand spiritually and expand professionally. So that is…
00:37:34.170 --> 00:37:37.130 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: In large part, the process.
00:37:39.690 --> 00:37:54.890 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, some of the practical tools that, I have often used with people is, particularly for business, is this problem solving, right? This noodling…
00:37:54.980 --> 00:38:00.640 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: That a lot of, entrepreneurs might be doing on a problem.
00:38:01.580 --> 00:38:02.760 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And…
00:38:03.180 --> 00:38:13.570 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: we will think something, think something, think something over and over again, almost to the point of rumination. Sometimes people are still thinking about it in their sleep.
00:38:15.400 --> 00:38:23.639 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: what I know, and I think what researchers know now, is that you can think about a problem
00:38:24.120 --> 00:38:29.399 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: to death, basically, and you might not get a solution. You might not…
00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:35.920 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Get a creative solution, or even a solution that will work.
00:38:36.170 --> 00:38:41.130 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Until you allow yourself to take a step Right?
00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:47.740 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: To take a step back, Ground in the present moment.
00:38:49.150 --> 00:38:54.579 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And then just allow your mind, for a moment, to be offline.
00:38:56.640 --> 00:39:01.900 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, that could literally look like… you…
00:39:02.060 --> 00:39:05.929 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Turning off your phone, or at least putting it on mute.
00:39:07.550 --> 00:39:16.389 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: You sitting down and doing… say, that 5-4-3-2-1 grounding practice.
00:39:16.790 --> 00:39:18.390 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: In a park somewhere.
00:39:18.590 --> 00:39:21.500 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: On your deck, looking out at your backyard.
00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:29.200 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? Or in your living room, looking out the window at whatever scenery you may have.
00:39:30.300 --> 00:39:34.700 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And not thinking necessarily about the problem.
00:39:35.450 --> 00:39:40.210 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But allowing your mind to expand in a way that
00:39:40.830 --> 00:39:44.519 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: I believe it was called, like, Daydreaming,
00:39:45.400 --> 00:39:51.749 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Einstein had a term for it, and it's missing it right now. I'm blanking on it, but…
00:39:54.410 --> 00:40:06.520 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But Einstein, Nikola Tesla, and some of the great thinkers of our past used to allow there to be space and time to just…
00:40:06.640 --> 00:40:07.500 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: B.
00:40:08.190 --> 00:40:11.020 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: To what we would call daydream.
00:40:11.180 --> 00:40:19.049 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? And the solution to the problem that you've been noodling on…
00:40:19.380 --> 00:40:24.769 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Can, in that space, arise almost out of nowhere.
00:40:27.240 --> 00:40:34.520 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But we, in our modern day, do not allow ourselves enough time for that…
00:40:34.750 --> 00:40:41.329 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Relaxation of our brain to move from left brain to right brain.
00:40:41.490 --> 00:40:49.409 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: To get into that parasympathetic, relaxed state so that we can create.
00:40:49.580 --> 00:40:52.939 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We can have creative problem solving.
00:40:53.160 --> 00:41:04.719 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But that's some of the work that I do with my coaching clients, is to teach them how to create spaces like that for themselves, so that
00:41:05.900 --> 00:41:15.699 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: they can have creative, problem-solving moments. For some people, they're more able to do that with microdosing.
00:41:15.940 --> 00:41:25.410 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And if they're microdosing, and then have that quiet moment where they're sitting out and looking at nature.
00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:32.620 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: it is a process for them that's a little bit easier. Either way.
00:41:34.330 --> 00:41:42.849 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We've got to give ourselves space and time to just freely daydream.
00:41:43.140 --> 00:41:49.740 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Allow ourselves almost to be like kids again, where we just allow thoughts to run.
00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:50.950 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: and…
00:41:52.080 --> 00:41:59.119 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Be relaxed about it. Not beating ourselves up about it, saying, oh, I should be doing something else. Nope.
00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:13.389 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: This is a time for expansion. We have to reframe that, right? Allowing space for that creative thought process to be and to rise, and that is part of
00:42:13.620 --> 00:42:22.049 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: How we shift personally, spiritually, But in, in fact, professionally.
00:42:23.490 --> 00:42:42.519 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So that's some of the work on the coaching side that, I do. But when we think about this rising that we want to have, we need to make space for it. But it starts with those practices that we talked about in the first two segments, so that you can make space for this rise
00:42:42.560 --> 00:42:49.179 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Of clarity, rise in confidence, rise in purpose.
00:42:49.670 --> 00:42:55.880 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So we are about to take our next break, and so when we come back.
00:42:56.110 --> 00:43:05.020 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We'll talk about how to integrate These things into daily life.
00:43:05.170 --> 00:43:15.150 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: How to bring forth these… from these practices, shifts and changes, transitions in our daily life.
00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:16.620 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So come on back.
00:44:54.430 --> 00:45:02.710 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Hello, and welcome back! This is our last segment of Route to Rise, and we have talked…
00:45:05.390 --> 00:45:20.239 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We talked about grounding practices that we can engage in that help us to activate the parasympathetic nervous system, rest, restore, relax, digest side of our nervous system, so that we can
00:45:20.240 --> 00:45:30.799 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Rise more consistently in our lives to the challenges, in our personal lives, spiritually, and professionally.
00:45:30.860 --> 00:45:39.199 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And some of those practices are, like, the meditation, prayer,
00:45:39.510 --> 00:45:44.390 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: grounding practices, like the 5-3-2, 5-3…
00:45:44.590 --> 00:45:49.439 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: 5-4-3-2-1 practice that we did earlier, as well as
00:45:49.720 --> 00:45:56.870 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Getting out in nature, doing the things that we've been talking about over some of the episodes for this show.
00:45:57.060 --> 00:46:01.890 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And helping us to then, when we are grounded.
00:46:02.190 --> 00:46:09.719 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: to be able to then access more readily our values, right? From that stable place.
00:46:10.090 --> 00:46:16.529 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We're no longer feeling, stressed. We can access our values.
00:46:16.530 --> 00:46:31.230 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: turn into, or tune into our traditions that really feed our soul, and know the ancestral roots to those traditions. And in doing so.
00:46:31.580 --> 00:46:39.410 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Knowing who we are, we can then move from that space of… grounding
00:46:40.050 --> 00:46:45.890 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: To rise to whichever occasion that might be presenting itself in that moment.
00:46:46.030 --> 00:46:59.749 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so, when we're able to do these things consistently and consciously, we live a more authentic life, a more authentic way of being. Run more authentic businesses as well.
00:46:59.750 --> 00:47:11.160 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so, in the community, called the Expansion Room, which we have hosted on the Circle platform, we are just starting to talk about
00:47:11.160 --> 00:47:29.690 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: this kind of thing, right? Our topic this month is Root to Rise, and it really is, what are your practices that you engage in on a daily basis? Are you setting time aside, whether that's just 15 minutes, or you feel like you have more time for that?
00:47:29.690 --> 00:47:36.279 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: To start your day, From a space that is conscious.
00:47:36.440 --> 00:47:40.300 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Of the choices that you make.
00:47:40.650 --> 00:47:42.740 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so that can be…
00:47:42.860 --> 00:47:53.979 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Any practice that you feel resonates for you, and it doesn't have to be the same practice every day, but the goal here is to ground yourself
00:47:54.820 --> 00:48:00.820 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So that you're starting not from fight, flight, or freeze in your day.
00:48:01.240 --> 00:48:11.700 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But you're starting from a rested, restored, relaxed place to then move into your day.
00:48:12.310 --> 00:48:24.539 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? And so taking any of these practices, and honoring your roots through those practices, and then turning to the challenges.
00:48:24.830 --> 00:48:28.049 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: what… Is my day looking like?
00:48:28.300 --> 00:48:31.230 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? What do I have on my plate?
00:48:31.510 --> 00:48:40.120 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Do I just have work, or are there Family obligations in this day.
00:48:40.260 --> 00:48:43.399 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: That need to also be taken into consider.
00:48:46.080 --> 00:48:52.090 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: consideration. Is my schedule tight, or does it feel loose, and give me some wiggle room?
00:48:52.200 --> 00:48:58.920 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? And if you're looking at your day from this place of… Rest.
00:49:00.020 --> 00:49:06.049 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: then it… Probably won't feel nearly as stressful.
00:49:07.390 --> 00:49:13.760 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: As if you're looking at your schedule from a space of fight, flight, or freeze.
00:49:15.530 --> 00:49:20.400 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: It gives you a different perspective to start your day.
00:49:20.730 --> 00:49:25.110 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And when we can set our intention on our day.
00:49:25.900 --> 00:49:34.779 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: That you are intending to have a good day. You are intending to have a peaceful day.
00:49:35.020 --> 00:49:40.740 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: You are intending to have a day that feels purposeful.
00:49:41.890 --> 00:49:45.819 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? Whatever it is, That comes up for you.
00:49:47.310 --> 00:49:49.299 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: You move INTO it.
00:49:50.280 --> 00:49:52.480 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: With more conscious awareness.
00:49:52.840 --> 00:49:56.240 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: More present, centered focus.
00:49:57.270 --> 00:49:59.959 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And you can then achieve anything.
00:50:00.200 --> 00:50:02.070 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Solve any problem.
00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:11.560 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And complete all the tasks that need to be done. But you're starting from a place where you feel rooted and grounded.
00:50:11.750 --> 00:50:15.430 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So that you can rise to the occasion of your day.
00:50:16.580 --> 00:50:23.470 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so… I invite you… To really think about…
00:50:23.870 --> 00:50:32.840 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: What your schedule looks like, what your days look like, especially as we're transitioning to… through fall.
00:50:34.460 --> 00:50:39.259 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: How do you want to shift into this season?
00:50:40.010 --> 00:50:45.730 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: How do you want to… Ground for these coming weeks.
00:50:45.860 --> 00:50:52.830 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: How do you want to… honor… Your inner wisdom.
00:50:53.150 --> 00:50:54.959 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: That you already have.
00:50:55.730 --> 00:50:59.240 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So much wisdom within you already.
00:50:59.780 --> 00:51:02.410 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: is there, and…
00:51:02.910 --> 00:51:11.810 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: I or anyone else don't even have to tell you. You just have to tap into it. Pause, ground, and listen for it.
00:51:13.110 --> 00:51:17.200 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Your body, your heart, will tell you what you need.
00:51:17.460 --> 00:51:18.640 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so…
00:51:19.010 --> 00:51:30.800 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Setting yourself up for success for these weeks that we're transitioning through fall with your practices, and see how they affect your personal life.
00:51:31.490 --> 00:51:32.960 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Your spiritual life.
00:51:33.860 --> 00:51:36.120 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And your professional life.
00:51:37.700 --> 00:51:38.660 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right?
00:51:38.930 --> 00:51:56.210 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Now, we have some really cool things coming up for this season. As you… as I mentioned, we just started the online community of the same name, the Expansion Room, posted on the Circle platform, and it…
00:51:58.770 --> 00:52:02.410 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: It's a space for purpose-driven people who
00:52:02.560 --> 00:52:11.959 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Want to be able to connect with one another, and have these kinds of conversations, as well as to not feel like they're
00:52:12.020 --> 00:52:22.920 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: kind of alone in the world having these kinds of thoughts and practices in their life. And we're also hosting a women's retreat where
00:52:22.990 --> 00:52:25.959 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: The retreat will have this theme.
00:52:26.760 --> 00:52:30.190 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: The idea of taking two days…
00:52:31.320 --> 00:52:37.189 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: To step away from day-to-day life, to slow down.
00:52:37.970 --> 00:52:41.920 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And… be a little bit more inward focused.
00:52:42.330 --> 00:52:49.099 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: To ground, and then to come out of that retreat with a sense of…
00:52:49.580 --> 00:53:01.700 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: purpose, rejuvenation, feeling like you can rise to the occasion. So if you're… and it's a women's retreat, and so if you're interested in
00:53:02.400 --> 00:53:16.610 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: either the online community or that retreat, you can go to… the dash expansion-room dot circle.so.
00:53:16.940 --> 00:53:18.219 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And check us out!
00:53:18.380 --> 00:53:31.500 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: See if this is a space that feels like it resonates for you to connect with more like-minded people, and if the retreat speaks to you, then definitely check that out.
00:53:31.620 --> 00:53:42.559 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: If you have questions, there are spaces in there that you can ask those questions, and myself or my other moderator can answer those questions for you.
00:53:45.130 --> 00:53:45.920 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Thank you.
00:53:46.250 --> 00:54:00.619 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: It has been a pleasure to talk about this subject, because this is the turning point for me every year, is October, to turn more inward, so I'm grateful that I could share these, ideas and thoughts and practices with you.
00:54:00.940 --> 00:54:09.940 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So thank you for joining me on the expansion room, and I hope that something that I shared today resonates for you.
00:54:10.150 --> 00:54:21.280 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Remember, the deeper you root, the higher you rise. And if you continue your journey, With consistency and consciousness.
00:54:21.400 --> 00:54:28.159 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: You will continue to grow and expand into the person you're already meant to be.
00:54:28.550 --> 00:54:30.840 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: the Creator in your own life.
00:54:31.370 --> 00:54:34.219 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So come back and join us next week.
00:54:35.250 --> 00:54:45.120 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And I'd invite you to like, share, and subscribe on any platform that you're listening or hearing or seeing this. Thank you.
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