In this episode of, The Expansion Room, Shervon explores the future of mental health — one that transcends symptom management and embraces whole-self healing. Discover how science, spirituality, and soul work are converging to create a new model of wellness rooted in alignment, embodiment, and expansion.
For so long, our mental health systems have focused on symptom management — reducing anxiety, treating depression, addressing trauma — but what if true healing isn’t just about quieting the noise in our minds? What if it’s about aligning the mind, body, and soul so that we experience true healing and can therefore live from a place of authenticity, creativity, and wholeness.
Shervon Laurice, MS, LCPC, RYT
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In this episode of The Expansion Room, host Shervon Laurice introduces the concept of a “new paradigm” in mental health that moves beyond symptom management toward holistic healing. She discusses how the traditional medical model focuses too narrowly on treating acute issues and prescribing medication, while chronic mental health challenges require a more integrative approach.
In the second segment, Shervon continues exploring the “new paradigm” of mental health, emphasizing a shift from symptom management to whole-person healing. She introduces the idea of “Soul-Aligned Mental Health,” where well-being comes from aligning one’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors with their authentic self and core values. Shervon explains the overreliance on medication, advocating instead for lifestyle changes, self-awareness, and inner reflection as pathways to transformation. Through personal examples and insight, she illustrates how living out of alignment—with one’s truth, purpose, or work—can manifest as anxiety or depression, and how reclaiming agency and authenticity leads to healing and empowerment.
In the third segment, Shervon discusses the “pathways to soul alignment,” built on three pillars: conscious awareness, embodiment, and expansion. She explains that conscious awareness involves monitoring and reshaping one’s thoughts and staying present; embodiment means reconnecting with the body through movement, breathwork, and music; and expansion centers on community, ancestral healing, and integrating transformative experiences
Shervon begins the final segment by discussing how shifting from the traditional model of symptom management in mental health toward a holistic approach that honors the whole person and their inner wisdom. She emphasizes cultivating the “inner listener” through reflection, journaling, and mindful practices, and moving energy through the body with breathwork, movement, or dance to achieve soul alignment. Ultimately, she reminds listeners that healing is not about fixing oneself but remembering the wholeness that already exists within.
00:01:09.180 --> 00:01:17.790 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Hello, and welcome back to the Expansion Room. I'm your host, Siobhan Larisse, and this is the space where…
00:01:18.010 --> 00:01:20.460 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Inner work meets impact.
00:01:20.970 --> 00:01:32.369 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And today, we are going to be talking about a subject that I think has been evolving, not only in the mental health community.
00:01:32.490 --> 00:01:38.230 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But also in the medical community, at large.
00:01:38.790 --> 00:01:47.530 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And… Since there's been so much change in the medical health and mental health.
00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:53.469 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Communities over the last 5 years, pretty much since the pandemic.
00:01:53.750 --> 00:01:58.979 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We are starting to see more and more of these conversations coming about.
00:01:59.190 --> 00:02:11.430 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so, what I'm calling this episode, and the conversation that we'll have today, is this is, like, the new paradigm
00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:13.439 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: of mental health.
00:02:14.990 --> 00:02:26.470 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: because… The industry itself is shifting and changing, but also because there's a need for a new paradigm.
00:02:26.700 --> 00:02:38.260 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: If we're going to be able to move forward and help the people that most need the kind of help, and the kind of help that they deserve.
00:02:39.350 --> 00:02:43.370 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, for so long, our systems…
00:02:44.030 --> 00:02:54.950 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: particularly our mental health system, but medical as well, have been focused on symptom management. And if you have any kind of a chronic illness.
00:02:55.050 --> 00:03:06.519 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: You know how frustrating it can be to get the kind of care that you need to manage a chronic illness.
00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:12.890 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So I've said, oftentimes, If you get into a car accident.
00:03:14.480 --> 00:03:20.870 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: You're shot, or some sort of acute thing happens to you.
00:03:21.180 --> 00:03:34.399 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Going to the hospital is the best thing that you can do, especially if you're in a city. So, I'm outside of DC, and our hospitals are pretty good, right, in Maryland, DC, and Virginia area.
00:03:34.760 --> 00:03:39.780 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so, if you have some sort of an acute injury.
00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:45.449 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Going to hospital, or even going to a doctor, urgent care.
00:03:45.630 --> 00:03:54.809 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: It's going to be a very good experience in the sense that they are equipped to take care of acute issues.
00:03:55.080 --> 00:04:07.949 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But mental health issues are not necessarily acute, right? Unless you are having a psychotic episode that puts you in danger of harming yourself or someone else.
00:04:08.170 --> 00:04:13.970 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Generally speaking, mental health issues are chronic and ongoing.
00:04:14.470 --> 00:04:17.700 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Like, depression, anxiety.
00:04:17.990 --> 00:04:23.200 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: symptoms of trauma, right? These are things that people tend to…
00:04:23.390 --> 00:04:27.000 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Live with for years at a time.
00:04:28.190 --> 00:04:39.990 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And… What we are seeing is this continual focus around symptom management.
00:04:40.130 --> 00:04:46.510 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: from our medical system. Reducing anxiety, is…
00:04:46.710 --> 00:04:57.409 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: a key model, and treating depression, another key model. And, especially in the last 20 years, addressing trauma.
00:04:57.510 --> 00:05:10.570 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Alright? But all of those, we have started to see a little bit of a paradigm shift, but not really from the top down as much as people on the ground
00:05:12.190 --> 00:05:27.519 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Taking the time to look at what research actually is showing them, and what other practices that they are bringing into mental health treatment is actually doing for people.
00:05:28.690 --> 00:05:44.080 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So… What if… True healing, Isn't just about Quieting symptoms with medication, Or even basic talk therapy.
00:05:44.910 --> 00:05:45.760 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right?
00:05:46.820 --> 00:05:55.160 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: What if… It's really about aligning Mind, body, and soul.
00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:08.020 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: For each person, So that we can live from a place of authenticity, Creativity, and wholeness.
00:06:10.030 --> 00:06:15.380 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: What would that look like in our society if we had that kind of a shift?
00:06:17.220 --> 00:06:26.450 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: to move from Going to your doctor and complaining about… Anxiety because of work.
00:06:27.710 --> 00:06:31.460 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And the doctor's simply writing you a prescription.
00:06:32.460 --> 00:06:35.510 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And telling you to get it filled at the pharmacy.
00:06:36.460 --> 00:06:43.839 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? Or… And I've had this happen to clients when someone… when a loved one dies…
00:06:45.080 --> 00:06:48.289 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And they see their doctor.
00:06:49.350 --> 00:06:56.189 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And they let them know that they've been feeling depressed because someone has passed away in their life.
00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:00.260 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And they offer them… A prescription.
00:07:01.580 --> 00:07:12.239 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Instead of… Having some time, or taking some time, to talk to them about what they're experiencing.
00:07:13.050 --> 00:07:20.630 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And suggesting some Alternative options that don't have anything to do with medication.
00:07:21.020 --> 00:07:26.560 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Some doctors will… refer for therapy.
00:07:27.470 --> 00:07:33.770 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But even talk therapy, by itself, doesn't always…
00:07:34.410 --> 00:07:38.360 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Get people to where they need to be fast enough.
00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:53.100 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So in this episode, we are going to explore what this new paradigm looks like, and how it is emerging through the fusion of science and spirituality.
00:07:53.440 --> 00:07:59.010 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And why the future of healing is really about alignment.
00:07:59.210 --> 00:08:03.940 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: More than it is about survival or symptom management.
00:08:04.960 --> 00:08:10.840 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: One of the things that's really interesting about the history of science and spirituality is that
00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:15.060 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: It used to be something that was talked about together.
00:08:15.200 --> 00:08:19.260 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: It was something that was understood.
00:08:19.540 --> 00:08:22.860 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: as… co… coexisting.
00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:26.920 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? People way back in the day.
00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:33.070 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Used to not only be scientists, but they were also quite spiritual.
00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:41.419 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And there, and I forget, in and around the time of our history where it happened, but…
00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:50.140 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: There was a point where… The church had risen to its power, And…
00:08:51.540 --> 00:09:00.269 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: the scientists that were also equating their findings with spirituality, or with religion, or with God.
00:09:01.380 --> 00:09:06.880 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Were either arrested, placed under house arrest, or lost their heads.
00:09:07.530 --> 00:09:12.590 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so, the generations of scientists after them.
00:09:12.970 --> 00:09:18.890 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Begin to really separate themselves from spirituality.
00:09:19.330 --> 00:09:24.890 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And our society, Western society, has evolved
00:09:25.310 --> 00:09:35.569 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: In such a way that we have much more language around science Than we do around spirituality.
00:09:36.780 --> 00:09:41.759 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And in my mind, the two work together.
00:09:42.280 --> 00:09:45.860 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We've gotta have the understanding of
00:09:46.550 --> 00:09:59.170 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: what these mental health diagnoses are, what the symptoms are, and how to treat them from a medical standpoint. But we also have to understand
00:09:59.350 --> 00:10:06.959 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: What are the spiritual… Aspects that we are missing in our lives.
00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:16.399 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And what are the steps that we can each take in order to step into more alignment?
00:10:16.660 --> 00:10:22.789 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: In that area, balancing both Science and the chemical.
00:10:23.010 --> 00:10:25.779 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: with our spirituality.
00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:31.820 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, we'll take a little bit of a dive into that today.
00:10:32.700 --> 00:10:39.770 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: there's so many limits, and I'm… I'm in this, right? I've been a therapist now for 22 plus years.
00:10:40.350 --> 00:10:48.089 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so, I'm in this on the science side. I was trained to think about these things scientifically, but also…
00:10:48.310 --> 00:11:02.450 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: I went to a university for my graduate degree that also valued the spiritual side of a human being in the mental health space and in the therapy room.
00:11:02.570 --> 00:11:05.160 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so we were trained to look at both.
00:11:05.500 --> 00:11:06.330 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right?
00:11:06.490 --> 00:11:09.339 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So the limits of the old model…
00:11:09.880 --> 00:11:19.799 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: the traditional psychiatry, as well as psychotherapy, stops with the symptom management. I think I talked about,
00:11:20.110 --> 00:11:40.070 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: how some of the psychiatrists treated me when I would ask certain questions when I was in my 20s, and I was working in the mental health space, right? Asking things like, how does nutrition affect one's mental health, and how does lack of sleep affect one's mental health, and these kinds of things.
00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:48.930 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We have to look at mental health From a holistic model.
00:11:49.800 --> 00:11:54.419 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: From a integrative care model.
00:11:56.070 --> 00:12:01.510 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And stop looking at… Body parts, if it's medical.
00:12:02.410 --> 00:12:09.920 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Or disease, and all the symptoms that are listed with a disease or a disorder.
00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:16.400 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And we have to start looking at the whole person that is before us.
00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:27.240 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Not only what their physical makeup is and their genetics, but also… what their…
00:12:28.150 --> 00:12:35.470 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: What are the ways that they nourish themselves, either with food, or with the environment, or…
00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:39.889 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: With social media or the news, how do they connect?
00:12:40.210 --> 00:12:49.959 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: in community, with family, friends, and the larger community, spiritually. Do they have a spiritual
00:12:51.010 --> 00:12:55.860 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Home in their community that they feel like they connect with.
00:12:56.940 --> 00:13:00.109 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: How do they manage their sleep?
00:13:01.020 --> 00:13:05.600 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: How do they manage moving their body?
00:13:05.970 --> 00:13:09.179 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: How do they manage stress?
00:13:09.800 --> 00:13:10.650 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right?
00:13:11.180 --> 00:13:15.800 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: The science is clear that stress can kill.
00:13:17.700 --> 00:13:18.720 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Stress.
00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:24.049 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: can actually Shift our gene expression.
00:13:24.270 --> 00:13:31.559 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? Epigenetics is… on the rise. The science of epigenetics is on the rise, and
00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:45.299 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: When we are stressed, or when we are in work environments that don't treat us well, or in relationships that don't treat us well, it affects us at a cellular level.
00:13:46.500 --> 00:13:51.529 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But when we go to doctors, we don't always get that kind of a question.
00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:54.850 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Of what the rest of our lives looks like.
00:13:56.060 --> 00:14:11.219 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, that's the shift, right, that we have to make, to move from this traditional model of mental health and psychiatry, of symptom management, and move to whole person
00:14:11.370 --> 00:14:18.170 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: management, right? Move to a space of whole person being taken into account.
00:14:18.370 --> 00:14:26.369 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And in doing so, finding the root cause Of someone's illness or dis-ease.
00:14:28.340 --> 00:14:33.499 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Finding that mind-body-spirit connection.
00:14:33.900 --> 00:14:42.399 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: When you can heal one area of one's life, right, when they can shift one area of their lives.
00:14:42.680 --> 00:14:45.929 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: All the other areas are effective.
00:14:47.020 --> 00:14:56.930 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, we're about to take a break, and so when we come back, we will talk a bit more about this rise and this new paradigm.
00:14:57.350 --> 00:15:00.220 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And shifting away from the olds.
00:15:00.370 --> 00:15:01.359 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So come on back.
00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:51.939 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Welcome back to the Expansion Room, and today we are talking about the new paradigm.
00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:54.010 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: of mental health.
00:16:54.610 --> 00:16:59.560 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And… In our first segment, we looked at some of the
00:16:59.730 --> 00:17:08.760 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Traditional or old model ways of, managing symptoms of mental health.
00:17:09.339 --> 00:17:11.980 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Rather than looking at the whole person.
00:17:12.130 --> 00:17:25.730 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And what we're noticing today, there is this rise in people craving Not just relief, But… transformation.
00:17:26.210 --> 00:17:35.829 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: True healing. Getting to the root of whatever the issue, the diagnosis, the problem is.
00:17:35.930 --> 00:17:40.139 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: People wanting to be more embodied.
00:17:40.460 --> 00:17:44.920 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And have more of a sense of meaning and purpose in their lives.
00:17:45.280 --> 00:17:51.450 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And… All of that affects one's mental health and well-being.
00:17:52.950 --> 00:18:01.650 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So what has been missing I feel like in mental health is the inclusion of
00:18:02.020 --> 00:18:09.139 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: The whole person, and inviting the whole person to be a partner
00:18:09.260 --> 00:18:11.920 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: In their own mental health care.
00:18:12.170 --> 00:18:25.990 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? Inviting them in to make lifestyle changes, real lifestyle changes that can affect their overall well-being and help to move the needle
00:18:26.420 --> 00:18:30.740 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: On their, mental health expression.
00:18:33.100 --> 00:18:43.659 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: we don't always think about that in America in particular, the land of, just give me a pill, and I will be fine.
00:18:44.300 --> 00:18:49.270 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: A lot of us have been, raised to believe
00:18:49.420 --> 00:18:56.280 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: It can be fixed with some sort of prescription or medication that's out there, or that has been created.
00:18:56.890 --> 00:19:04.610 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: The problem with that is it takes away some of the agency of the individual, for one.
00:19:04.990 --> 00:19:16.739 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But number two is, Our pharmaceutical, pharmaceuticals in general can be very expensive and cost prohibitive.
00:19:17.670 --> 00:19:23.570 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: When there are the kind of lifestyle changes that can be made that won't cost
00:19:24.210 --> 00:19:42.480 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: any money or minimal money, right? And so, the idea of the whole person being taken into account or offering integrative care means that you invite the person in.
00:19:42.980 --> 00:19:46.859 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: For their own healing and restoration.
00:19:48.040 --> 00:19:54.909 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, in the realms of holistic care and spiritual psychology.
00:19:55.900 --> 00:20:04.950 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: This term has been kind of floating around called Soul Aligned Mental Health.
00:20:05.840 --> 00:20:20.000 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And that resonated with me when I stumbled upon it, and it's kind of floating out there with some articles. And so when I stumbled upon it, I was like, yes, soul-aligned mental health.
00:20:21.350 --> 00:20:28.400 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: It describes a state of well-being where an individual's inner life
00:20:28.540 --> 00:20:41.310 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? How they're connected to themselves through their thoughts, emotions, and behavior are all in harmony with their deepest, most authentic self.
00:20:41.590 --> 00:20:45.739 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? Their deepest, most authentic purpose.
00:20:46.320 --> 00:20:48.880 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: They're deep values.
00:20:49.860 --> 00:20:56.850 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? So… When we have… The experience of…
00:20:56.980 --> 00:21:02.840 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Turning inward, and understanding our own inner landscape.
00:21:03.320 --> 00:21:08.470 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We can affect change in our mental health landscape.
00:21:09.890 --> 00:21:15.110 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But there are so many of us that have been…
00:21:15.890 --> 00:21:19.880 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Either tricked into thinking a pill will save us.
00:21:20.950 --> 00:21:26.159 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Or something outside of ourselves will save us.
00:21:26.370 --> 00:21:32.240 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: That we don't have The inner experience of knowing
00:21:33.190 --> 00:21:36.529 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: I feel a little off today, or…
00:21:37.620 --> 00:21:42.320 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: how do I feel when I eat this certain food?
00:21:43.770 --> 00:21:47.970 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Well, how does it affect my emotional or mental state?
00:21:48.470 --> 00:21:53.269 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: How does engaging with certain people in my life
00:21:54.280 --> 00:21:58.989 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: affect my emotional or mental state, and how can I change that?
00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:05.819 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: How can I set… myself up for success.
00:22:06.670 --> 00:22:14.479 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: based on what I know arises in me when I am doing this or that.
00:22:15.630 --> 00:22:20.329 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So… That's the part that we…
00:22:20.550 --> 00:22:27.030 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: can start to think about in our own mental health, is, what is my own inner landscape?
00:22:28.390 --> 00:22:32.099 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: What does my own inner life look like?
00:22:34.330 --> 00:22:37.909 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And how does that affect my behavior on the outside?
00:22:39.080 --> 00:22:51.790 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: A state of genuine, integral integrity, where one is living, thinking, and enacting in a consistent way.
00:22:51.980 --> 00:22:56.780 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: With their innate truth, is really key.
00:22:57.170 --> 00:22:59.260 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: That is alignment.
00:22:59.850 --> 00:23:07.689 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And when we are in alignment in our lives, we experience far less anxiety.
00:23:08.800 --> 00:23:15.489 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: far less… Depressed moments, or intensely depressed moments.
00:23:16.530 --> 00:23:24.380 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: we… Can turn down the knob… the knobs on… Trauma response.
00:23:25.070 --> 00:23:26.260 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Triggers.
00:23:28.250 --> 00:23:32.160 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We have to know what our own innate truth is.
00:23:35.440 --> 00:23:45.749 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So this suggests that anxiety, the experience of anxiety, the experience of depression, and chronic dissatisfaction with life
00:23:46.070 --> 00:23:53.030 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Even aspects of trauma itself, Is a sign of…
00:23:53.320 --> 00:23:59.980 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: A disconnect between one's own conscious conditioned self.
00:24:00.260 --> 00:24:05.980 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And your authentic, deeper self, or your innate truth.
00:24:07.310 --> 00:24:18.610 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, for example, when one stops trying to be all things to everyone in their lives, Anxiety often decreases.
00:24:20.680 --> 00:24:33.120 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: When we choose to stop working a job that is running us into the ground with their expectations, depression.
00:24:33.280 --> 00:24:34.320 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: lifts.
00:24:36.360 --> 00:24:44.850 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: When we decide to stop living solely from The default network
00:24:45.030 --> 00:24:57.119 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Of beliefs that were… and ideas that were handed down to us from either our family of origin, maybe even from our school systems, from our…
00:24:57.480 --> 00:25:04.500 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: culture overall, when we stop doing that, then…
00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:10.540 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We can feel how we come alive.
00:25:11.530 --> 00:25:17.100 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And feel like we have more of a… control, or…
00:25:17.220 --> 00:25:21.710 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Sense of effectiveness in our own lives.
00:25:23.150 --> 00:25:27.800 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But all of that takes Time for us to…
00:25:29.070 --> 00:25:32.870 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Check in on a regular basis with our inner life.
00:25:34.510 --> 00:25:38.049 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Our lives are so busy nowadays.
00:25:38.170 --> 00:25:42.140 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Busy with work, Some of us have long commutes.
00:25:42.930 --> 00:25:47.879 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Busy with family and our responsibilities in our families.
00:25:48.350 --> 00:25:57.640 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: busy with… It's maybe taking care of someone who is ill in our family.
00:25:58.650 --> 00:26:05.579 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Social media, the news, takes up some psychic energy and time in our lives.
00:26:06.340 --> 00:26:17.100 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We don't always give ourselves the time that we need for rest, And… Restoration.
00:26:17.310 --> 00:26:29.970 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: For repair. For just a moment to turn inward and ask ourselves some key questions about the thoughts that we notice pop up in our minds.
00:26:31.080 --> 00:26:35.090 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And sometimes just needing to ask, is that my belief?
00:26:35.680 --> 00:26:38.090 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Or is that someone else's belief?
00:26:39.070 --> 00:26:51.890 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? We've… I've definitely been there where… I've been working a job, no longer aligned with… who I am.
00:26:53.110 --> 00:26:58.039 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But feeling like I had to stay for financial reasons.
00:26:58.670 --> 00:26:59.480 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right?
00:27:01.200 --> 00:27:05.680 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: I have had a lot of friends in the federal government
00:27:05.840 --> 00:27:10.930 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And I left the federal government more than 10 years ago, 12 years ago now.
00:27:12.290 --> 00:27:19.959 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And some of the people I know who are still working there still feel like they have to work there.
00:27:20.710 --> 00:27:21.570 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right?
00:27:22.060 --> 00:27:25.389 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And… I knew…
00:27:25.520 --> 00:27:36.490 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: somewhere along the line, that last couple of years that I was there, that it no longer aligned with who I was, or who I was actually becoming.
00:27:38.020 --> 00:27:40.629 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But the fear of leaving…
00:27:41.090 --> 00:27:48.370 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: was so big for a while. And what began to happen is my body began to respond
00:27:48.710 --> 00:27:52.300 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: to the fear that I had moving through me.
00:27:53.900 --> 00:27:56.429 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: There was a spike of anxiety.
00:27:56.820 --> 00:28:03.709 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: I would catch myself so tense that I could feel my body aching.
00:28:03.950 --> 00:28:07.159 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: I didn't always sleep well.
00:28:08.340 --> 00:28:15.029 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And I tell you, the mornings were the worst, because… waking up…
00:28:15.250 --> 00:28:19.059 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: to an alarm. Always hated that. I no longer do that.
00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:27.740 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But waking up to an alarm to go to a place that I didn't really want to go felt dreadful.
00:28:29.880 --> 00:28:36.269 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: since I'm outside of DC, there used to be this commercial that ran every January.
00:28:36.610 --> 00:28:44.229 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And it was the job section, so people would, you know, start their year off looking maybe for a new job.
00:28:44.460 --> 00:28:59.809 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And it was always huge, so they always would advertise it. And the commercial was the same year after year for a long time, where this guy comes in in his suit and tie, comes home, drops his suitcase and whatnot.
00:28:59.850 --> 00:29:04.630 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And he's just like, not another day. Not another day.
00:29:05.950 --> 00:29:08.530 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: he just… was over it.
00:29:09.310 --> 00:29:12.129 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so many people live that life.
00:29:12.570 --> 00:29:16.849 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But that… living that kind of life is affecting our mental health.
00:29:17.390 --> 00:29:21.160 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So that's just one or couple of examples.
00:29:22.100 --> 00:29:24.730 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so, when we can…
00:29:24.930 --> 00:29:31.339 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Step in and start to ask ourselves key questions, which we'll talk about in our next segment.
00:29:32.250 --> 00:29:42.280 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: On how we can affect change in our own lives to become the creator in our own lives that we're always meant to be.
00:29:43.370 --> 00:29:59.100 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: That's when things shift, and that's when things change. And those are the kind of conversations I love having with my clients that I work with. When they're in that space of feeling stuck, either in a job, or in a relationship, or…
00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:03.670 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: A connection with someone, even a place that they live.
00:30:04.390 --> 00:30:13.349 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: The questions are… Really about affecting change, inviting them in
00:30:14.030 --> 00:30:17.660 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: to be the creator in their own lives.
00:30:18.360 --> 00:30:26.429 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So we're going to take a break, and when we come back, we'll talk about the pathways to soul alignment.
00:30:26.660 --> 00:30:28.729 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, come on back and join us.
00:32:01.990 --> 00:32:04.830 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Welcome back to the Expansion Room!
00:32:05.200 --> 00:32:10.749 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And in this segment, we're gonna be talking about pathways to soul alignment.
00:32:11.040 --> 00:32:26.020 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: The little things that we can do on a day-to-day basis that add value to our lives and help us to shift the needle a little at a time, or maybe even in big ways in your life.
00:32:26.610 --> 00:32:39.040 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So… there are 3 pillars to this new approach, right? And… It's really about… Conscious awareness.
00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:42.739 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Which is about mindset and mindfulness.
00:32:43.290 --> 00:32:50.239 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Embodiment, like, how do we physically embody this new paradigm?
00:32:51.220 --> 00:32:54.330 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And… Expansion.
00:32:54.670 --> 00:33:06.439 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? How do we… From this grounded place, expand out into Fuller version of ourselves.
00:33:07.840 --> 00:33:14.890 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So… In looking at conscious awareness, which is mindset and mindfulness.
00:33:17.070 --> 00:33:20.139 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: I encourage people to pay attention to their thoughts.
00:33:21.430 --> 00:33:24.729 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: What are the thoughts moving through your mind?
00:33:27.690 --> 00:33:32.609 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Taking a moment to notice the thoughts that you entertain.
00:33:34.680 --> 00:33:37.790 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Where attention goes.
00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:54.530 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Energy flows. Always remember, if you're entertaining negative thoughts, negative thought patterns, whether they're just running in the back of your mind, or they're right up front in the forefront of your mind.
00:33:55.310 --> 00:34:05.840 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: You're setting yourself up To add to the symptoms of whatever mental health issue might be going on.
00:34:06.540 --> 00:34:17.110 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, paying attention to thoughts, and when you catch yourself, Asking yourself, Oh, is that true?
00:34:21.389 --> 00:34:23.089 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Is that kind?
00:34:23.670 --> 00:34:31.869 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Sometimes we talk to ourselves in ways that we would never talk to our best friends, or partner, or a child.
00:34:32.739 --> 00:34:33.610 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right?
00:34:33.810 --> 00:34:35.580 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Is that kind?
00:34:36.710 --> 00:34:39.080 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Is that… good for me?
00:34:39.949 --> 00:34:44.820 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And… If the answer is no, what is…
00:34:45.380 --> 00:34:50.010 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: A healthier, more positive thought that can be
00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:53.009 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: In line, or placed of that.
00:34:53.260 --> 00:34:54.179 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right?
00:34:54.510 --> 00:34:57.760 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: If you're, say, learning a new thing.
00:34:58.010 --> 00:35:02.059 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And most of us are not good at something
00:35:02.180 --> 00:35:06.160 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: The first time or few times that we try it.
00:35:06.740 --> 00:35:07.590 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But…
00:35:08.110 --> 00:35:18.100 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: when we feel like we have failed at something, we beat ourselves up. Oh, I'm an idiot, or I'm not good at this, or I'll never get this.
00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:25.039 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: I know I'm like that oftentimes with technology. I'm not great with technology, but…
00:35:25.780 --> 00:35:34.980 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: shifting the thought process around that is, well, I'm learning a new thing, and so if I keep doing it again and again.
00:35:35.540 --> 00:35:38.040 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: I will eventually get better.
00:35:38.760 --> 00:35:42.339 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Or, I can always ask for help.
00:35:45.060 --> 00:35:50.670 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Alright? And so, paying attention to our thought process.
00:35:51.830 --> 00:35:55.660 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Is a huge step in the right direction.
00:35:55.950 --> 00:35:58.909 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Of creating soul alignment.
00:36:00.370 --> 00:36:10.440 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Living in the present moment as much as possible is another way of having that conscious awareness.
00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:21.440 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We tend to either live our lives, our mental lives, our inner landscape, In the past…
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:27.309 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Ruminating and rethinking about things that we…
00:36:27.820 --> 00:36:34.220 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: done, or we feel like we wish we could do over, that didn't go right.
00:36:34.440 --> 00:36:35.540 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Worry.
00:36:35.670 --> 00:36:44.510 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Or leaning into the future, worry and anxiety about something that has not happened yet.
00:36:46.540 --> 00:36:53.910 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: The only thing we have right now is this present moment.
00:36:54.870 --> 00:36:57.520 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: is… the now.
00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:02.070 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And when we are… stuck in…
00:37:02.450 --> 00:37:15.080 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Our past in our thought process, or in the future in our thought process, we cannot be fully present for our lives.
00:37:15.270 --> 00:37:16.880 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: for ourselves.
00:37:17.170 --> 00:37:20.259 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: For anything that is going on in this moment.
00:37:20.740 --> 00:37:28.139 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And our bodies, our physical bodies and brains, don't know whether we are…
00:37:28.380 --> 00:37:39.540 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: in that situation we're thinking about, or if we're just thinking about it. So, if we're in a state of worry, anxiety, despair, distress.
00:37:40.140 --> 00:37:43.359 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: About something in the past or in the future.
00:37:43.630 --> 00:37:52.750 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We are… Stirring up those chemicals, mostly cortisol in particular, in our systems.
00:37:53.030 --> 00:37:57.870 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: That is, having an effect on ourselves.
00:37:58.650 --> 00:38:07.450 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But when we can commit, To this pillar of living in the present moment, bringing ourselves back.
00:38:07.850 --> 00:38:09.839 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: To the present moment.
00:38:10.130 --> 00:38:12.240 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We start to affect
00:38:12.610 --> 00:38:20.350 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Not only change in our physical body, but change in our mental health, our mental health expression.
00:38:21.020 --> 00:38:23.169 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And our overall well-being.
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:26.649 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So that's conscious awareness.
00:38:28.050 --> 00:38:36.510 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Embodiment is about in becoming… Comfortable in your own body.
00:38:37.700 --> 00:38:39.420 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: coming home.
00:38:40.120 --> 00:38:43.109 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: To your own body in this moment.
00:38:43.550 --> 00:38:48.270 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Not allowing yourself to live from the neck Up.
00:38:48.770 --> 00:38:54.900 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But really inhabiting The full, physical being that you are.
00:38:55.740 --> 00:39:01.050 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And that is… Affecting our nervous system.
00:39:01.640 --> 00:39:03.890 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: As well as our physical body.
00:39:04.390 --> 00:39:09.870 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so that can be accomplished with movement, right, which we've talked about on this show.
00:39:10.170 --> 00:39:13.360 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Getting out and going for a walk.
00:39:13.800 --> 00:39:20.700 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: In nature, preferably, but if the weather is not… Cooperating?
00:39:20.930 --> 00:39:24.730 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Maybe doing that in a gym or on a treadmill if you have one at home.
00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:32.620 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Yoga, getting on the mat and moving your body, moving and breathing at the same time.
00:39:34.200 --> 00:39:39.930 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Breathwork is another way to embody Who you are.
00:39:40.190 --> 00:39:50.110 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And that can be any type of breathwork, right? It can be the 5-count ratio breath, where you inhale to a count of 5,
00:39:50.270 --> 00:39:59.410 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Exhale to a count of 5. Or, my favorite breathwork practice, inhale to a count of 4. Exhale to a count of 6.
00:39:59.640 --> 00:40:03.159 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Because that activates the parasympathetic nervous system.
00:40:04.620 --> 00:40:06.989 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? And feels grounding.
00:40:07.650 --> 00:40:19.739 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We talked in the last, episode about the 5-4-3-2-1 practice, so that you feel more grounded in the body.
00:40:20.690 --> 00:40:24.969 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Where you… Sit in a room, in stillness, and just…
00:40:25.770 --> 00:40:28.459 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Count 5 things you can see.
00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:31.110 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Four things you can touch.
00:40:32.050 --> 00:40:34.920 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Three things that you can hear.
00:40:36.100 --> 00:40:42.220 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: You know, keep… and keeping going from there, just allow yourself to just ground.
00:40:45.020 --> 00:40:51.260 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: One of the other things that's very embodying and doesn't get a lot of,
00:40:52.180 --> 00:40:55.419 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: airplay, I would say, is singing.
00:40:55.650 --> 00:40:58.410 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Singing, chanting, humming.
00:40:59.240 --> 00:41:04.019 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: All three help to shift Your nervous system.
00:41:04.650 --> 00:41:07.350 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Helps you to be present.
00:41:07.640 --> 00:41:09.090 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: in your body.
00:41:10.420 --> 00:41:14.330 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: It helps to reset your frequency.
00:41:15.330 --> 00:41:24.240 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: One of the things I talk with my clients about, and I've done so many times in my own life, is to use music to…
00:41:24.490 --> 00:41:26.429 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Reset my mood.
00:41:26.620 --> 00:41:32.780 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Help them to pick the kinds of music that they would want to reset their mood.
00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:45.809 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And we all vibrate at our own frequency, so what music might be helpful for you may do very little for me. But I always encourage people to create a playlist.
00:41:46.530 --> 00:42:02.030 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? Something that is uplifting, or happy, or what I call hype music. So, being from New York, hype music, I have two playlists of hype music, so that if my mood
00:42:02.870 --> 00:42:04.999 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: It's off, in some way.
00:42:05.250 --> 00:42:14.940 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And there's really no reason for it. I usually will incorporate one of my playlists to help me shift my frequency.
00:42:15.490 --> 00:42:25.909 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? And there is never a time I'm playing a playlist that I've created that I'm not singing along with it, or humming along with it.
00:42:26.940 --> 00:42:41.220 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Chanting is one of those things that I love from the Eastern philosophies, particularly yoga philosophy. In Bhakti yoga, there is chanting. And chanting is a…
00:42:41.630 --> 00:42:45.479 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: especially in Bhakti, is a call and response
00:42:45.900 --> 00:42:59.700 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: process. Very much like in the Black church, where you have the gospel choir in there, or people singing hymnals, there is a call and response during the praise time.
00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:08.739 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: All of those things help to Help you to feel embodied.
00:43:09.350 --> 00:43:19.230 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so, that brings about more of that, feeling of soul alignment.
00:43:20.040 --> 00:43:25.950 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And thirdly, expansion incorporates community.
00:43:26.540 --> 00:43:28.399 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Who are you in community with?
00:43:29.050 --> 00:43:36.210 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Who do you connect with on a regular basis that feeds your soul and you feed theirs?
00:43:36.740 --> 00:43:41.260 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Who do you engage with who you know love you?
00:43:41.990 --> 00:43:43.170 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: No matter what.
00:43:43.780 --> 00:43:46.940 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Who do you love, no matter what?
00:43:48.940 --> 00:43:56.040 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: That could be a family member, partner, dear friends, People in your spiritual community.
00:43:57.130 --> 00:43:58.040 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right?
00:43:58.750 --> 00:44:12.709 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But community… the research has shown that people who have Deep community connections, live longer, And live happier lives.
00:44:13.080 --> 00:44:15.079 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So who are you in connection with?
00:44:16.360 --> 00:44:18.739 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: It helps your expansion.
00:44:19.270 --> 00:44:20.499 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And your growth.
00:44:21.460 --> 00:44:25.050 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Ancestral healing of Trauma.
00:44:25.270 --> 00:44:27.150 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So many of us have…
00:44:27.420 --> 00:44:40.280 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: trauma in our ancestral lines. And some people experience anxiety or depression in ways that they are not able to explain because
00:44:40.680 --> 00:44:43.920 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: When they look at their own personal lives.
00:44:44.080 --> 00:44:53.159 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: They don't feel like there's anything that caused that level of anxiety or trauma, or depression, rather.
00:44:53.320 --> 00:44:59.300 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so, we have to sometimes look back into our family history.
00:44:59.850 --> 00:45:05.509 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And look at the family trauma that may have been somehow passed down.
00:45:05.980 --> 00:45:11.119 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: through… Our genes, epigenetics talks about this.
00:45:11.390 --> 00:45:16.100 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: 7 generations back, Can affect our genes today.
00:45:16.340 --> 00:45:24.910 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Or can be passed down in conversations, or in how grandparents and parents
00:45:25.440 --> 00:45:28.949 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Reared you, and brought you up in the family.
00:45:29.170 --> 00:45:42.129 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? And so, really looking at how our ancestral history has affected us, and asking the questions of, do I need to hold on to this?
00:45:43.020 --> 00:45:45.329 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Can I let this go, and how?
00:45:46.560 --> 00:45:54.180 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And there are definitely therapists out there and practitioners out there who can help with ancestral healing.
00:45:55.300 --> 00:46:01.129 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And then integrating… the integration of altered states.
00:46:01.430 --> 00:46:16.149 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: With, like, holotropic breathwork, psychedelics, cannabis as a psychedelic, as well as other highly spiritual experiences. When we have these altered states of consciousness.
00:46:16.530 --> 00:46:19.079 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: There has to be integration.
00:46:19.340 --> 00:46:22.690 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So that that expansion takes root.
00:46:23.690 --> 00:46:26.850 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, very key to think about.
00:46:27.320 --> 00:46:40.739 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, we're going to take our next break, and when we come back, we will bring this all together and talk about how to bring this soul alignment into your day-to-day life.
00:46:41.080 --> 00:46:43.319 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: In… in other ways.
00:46:43.650 --> 00:46:44.690 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So come on back.
00:48:18.430 --> 00:48:25.870 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Welcome back to the Expansion Room, where today we have been talking about the new paradigm of mental health.
00:48:26.090 --> 00:48:30.649 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And ways that we need to shift
00:48:31.470 --> 00:48:49.110 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: From the old model of symptom management, particularly with prescriptions, to the whole person being invited into their integrative care process.
00:48:49.290 --> 00:48:56.460 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And in doing so, Moving to a place of wholeness.
00:48:57.260 --> 00:49:00.000 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Healing and expansion.
00:49:00.670 --> 00:49:11.159 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, in this segment, we're gonna be talking about ways that we can, move towards soul alignment.
00:49:11.610 --> 00:49:23.270 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: in small steps and big steps. So in the last segment, we talked about community connections, ancestral healing, singing, chanting,
00:49:23.270 --> 00:49:42.120 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: I would also add dancing in there for more embodiment. And also, we talked about, conscious awareness practices, like mindfulness, and, and, mindset states. Really checking in with your thoughts.
00:49:42.510 --> 00:49:47.490 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And checking in with your thoughts is also about checking in with your beliefs.
00:49:47.790 --> 00:49:54.200 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Beliefs are just thoughts that we thought over and over again, and that we now hold on to.
00:49:54.340 --> 00:49:59.639 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, really taking a step back, And asking yourself.
00:50:00.420 --> 00:50:05.990 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: what am I believing right now? And is that… Mine.
00:50:07.550 --> 00:50:11.730 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Or, do I actually believe something else?
00:50:12.340 --> 00:50:24.839 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, those are things we can do as we're moving towards this more holistic model and inviting ourselves to take the reins and become the creator of our own lives.
00:50:25.180 --> 00:50:32.080 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so, in moving towards soul alignment, we have to do 3 things.
00:50:32.730 --> 00:50:35.689 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Cultivate the inner listener.
00:50:36.910 --> 00:50:42.430 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And allow ourselves time for reflection.
00:50:43.050 --> 00:50:47.579 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And then move energy in our bodies.
00:50:48.150 --> 00:50:50.370 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So that we get unstuck.
00:50:51.590 --> 00:50:58.300 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And so… How do we begin, right, in this moving towards soul alignment?
00:50:59.260 --> 00:51:02.490 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Cultivating the inner listener means that
00:51:03.500 --> 00:51:06.860 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We take time on a daily basis.
00:51:07.070 --> 00:51:08.180 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: That can be…
00:51:08.340 --> 00:51:14.479 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Just 5 minutes, if that's what you feel like you only have. Can be 15 or 20 minutes.
00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:27.130 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: If that's more time… if that's the time you have. But it's… it's really about pausing, coming to stillness, and using your inner ear, so to speak.
00:51:28.210 --> 00:51:33.040 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Because the soul speaks through our intuition.
00:51:33.890 --> 00:51:38.519 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: The soul speaks in quiet nudges.
00:51:38.850 --> 00:51:43.500 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: When I was growing up, they always would talk about the still, small voice.
00:51:44.030 --> 00:51:46.350 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: That is what we're listening for.
00:51:46.940 --> 00:51:51.770 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: The soul speaks in our emotions.
00:51:52.130 --> 00:52:01.570 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So when we have emotions arise around something, and those emotions get the label of, negative emotion.
00:52:03.410 --> 00:52:07.830 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Or, we get a… we feel like we've been triggered.
00:52:08.690 --> 00:52:18.180 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: That is a moment where we can pause and ask ourselves, what is this emotion Here to teach me.
00:52:19.700 --> 00:52:23.950 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: What is this anxiety showing me right now?
00:52:24.630 --> 00:52:25.480 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right?
00:52:25.900 --> 00:52:30.279 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: If you're working a job that feels less than optimal for you.
00:52:30.660 --> 00:52:36.200 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And you're experiencing anxiety every day going to that job.
00:52:36.780 --> 00:52:38.749 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: What is that anxiety?
00:52:39.190 --> 00:52:40.809 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Trying to tell you.
00:52:43.030 --> 00:52:50.440 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: It doesn't necessarily need to be medicated away, Maybe you need to hear
00:52:50.690 --> 00:52:54.359 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: What that anxiety is trying to tell you.
00:52:55.490 --> 00:52:56.360 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Alright.
00:52:57.190 --> 00:52:59.590 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So take some time each day.
00:52:59.830 --> 00:53:02.200 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: For quiet reflection.
00:53:02.400 --> 00:53:05.690 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Meditation, or even concentration.
00:53:07.400 --> 00:53:13.040 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: The other is really… an activity of…
00:53:14.640 --> 00:53:18.970 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Sitting down, listening to those thoughts, and taking a pen to a paper.
00:53:19.870 --> 00:53:26.670 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Journaling, just taking a moment to write down a few words about what comes up for you.
00:53:26.950 --> 00:53:37.219 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: I say this, and I talk about journaling so much with clients and with you all on this show, because sometimes, especially as we get older.
00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:40.310 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: We have a thought that arises.
00:53:40.470 --> 00:53:44.219 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Or even an emotional experience that arises.
00:53:44.640 --> 00:53:47.160 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: It causes an effect in us.
00:53:47.500 --> 00:53:49.209 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And we go, huh…
00:53:49.610 --> 00:53:54.849 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But if we don't write it down, we often don't have something to come back to
00:53:55.380 --> 00:54:00.939 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So that we tease that out, and can then make some change
00:54:01.100 --> 00:54:04.020 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: To our behaviors, or our environment.
00:54:04.160 --> 00:54:11.100 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, writing things down helps the brain to hold on to a little bit more information around that.
00:54:11.210 --> 00:54:17.280 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: It helps us to then, problem solved better.
00:54:17.700 --> 00:54:18.580 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right?
00:54:18.970 --> 00:54:27.890 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Remember… more, when we can put pen to paper. So, write down what comes up for you.
00:54:28.380 --> 00:54:34.120 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Or what you notice in these reflections, in these meditations.
00:54:34.680 --> 00:54:49.989 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: If you're connecting or experiencing pain, ask yourself, what is this pain, or this discomfort, or even dissatisfaction, trying to show me about myself?
00:54:51.450 --> 00:54:57.260 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And… what can I shift or change…
00:54:57.490 --> 00:55:03.570 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: In order to be aligned more authentically with myself.
00:55:07.010 --> 00:55:16.079 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Two questions there. What is this pain, discomfort, dissatisfaction trying to show me about myself?
00:55:17.670 --> 00:55:19.860 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And what can I shift?
00:55:20.030 --> 00:55:27.820 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: or change… To be a more aligned, authentically, with myself.
00:55:30.430 --> 00:55:34.810 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And then the next is to move energy through the body.
00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:42.069 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And that can be exercise, but that can just be mindful stretching.
00:55:43.070 --> 00:55:45.820 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: That can be intuitive dance.
00:55:46.490 --> 00:55:52.379 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Right? You put on some great music in your house, that playlist, and you move your body.
00:55:53.580 --> 00:55:56.429 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: It could be going for walks in nature.
00:55:58.030 --> 00:56:05.000 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Moving that kind of energy That kind of stuck energy out
00:56:05.400 --> 00:56:08.680 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So that you can feel more grounded and embodied.
00:56:09.330 --> 00:56:14.410 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Conscious breathing is another way to move energy.
00:56:16.150 --> 00:56:24.350 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Your breath… Is the bridge between conscious and the unconscious.
00:56:24.750 --> 00:56:31.289 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: It is the bridge between the physical and your energetic state.
00:56:32.350 --> 00:56:37.509 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Your breath offers the central nervous system regulation.
00:56:38.140 --> 00:56:42.920 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: and deep, energetic release.
00:56:43.650 --> 00:56:54.980 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So if you want to do more energetic release, you want to do more of a very vigorous breath practice. There's so many out there. Holotropic breathwork, circular breath.
00:56:55.190 --> 00:57:00.370 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: But if you want to get more regulated and grounded, then…
00:57:01.150 --> 00:57:06.259 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: The 5 to 5 ratio count, the 4 to 6 ratio count.
00:57:07.280 --> 00:57:08.909 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: are good options.
00:57:09.080 --> 00:57:14.880 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So think about ways that you can move the needle a little bit every day.
00:57:15.590 --> 00:57:22.520 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: To find yourself in more soul alignment around your mental well-being.
00:57:23.470 --> 00:57:31.049 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: As we step into this new mental health paradigm, I want to remind you that healing is not linear.
00:57:31.560 --> 00:57:34.400 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: It doesn't follow a straight path.
00:57:35.170 --> 00:57:39.419 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And it is not about fixing yourself.
00:57:39.930 --> 00:57:47.910 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: It is really about remembering what is whole already within you that wants to come forth.
00:57:48.860 --> 00:57:51.920 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And it's about remembering who you are.
00:57:53.420 --> 00:58:00.750 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: So, my invitation to you is to pause this week and ask yourself those key questions.
00:58:00.980 --> 00:58:06.670 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And maybe even asking yourself, where in my life am I managing symptoms?
00:58:06.950 --> 00:58:13.980 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And where can I… Align more with my true self.
00:58:15.290 --> 00:58:24.969 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: If this episode resonated with you, I hope that you share it with someone in your life that you feel can benefit from it.
00:58:25.510 --> 00:58:33.560 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: And I'd also ask you to like and subscribe on whichever platform that you are watching.
00:58:33.770 --> 00:58:40.220 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Or listening. And so, until next time… Please really think about…
00:58:40.970 --> 00:58:45.339 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Pausing, taking a breath, and rooting in your own truth.
00:58:46.260 --> 00:58:49.039 Shervon Laurice | The Expansion Room: Take good care, I'll see you next week.
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