Becoming an Everyday Mystic

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Rev. Rose Hope: Our guest, on Spirit calls today is Corissa Saint Laurent. Carissa is a multi, passionate keynote speaker, podcaster, entrepreneur and transformational facilitator. She is the founder of the everyday mystic a portal to inspire support and celebrate your true nature, your whole and complete self, and help you live a life of greater meaning, higher purpose and true joy after a profound soul awakening at the age of 16, Carissa embarked on an inner journey to heal her heart, find her gifts and share them with the world. She's been creating and consulting businesses for over 20 years and supporting entrepreneurs in conscious expansion and visionary leadership. Carissa shares her wisdom and insight through multimedia content and speaking at events around the globe, her mission is to light the path for others so they can light up the world. Please help me welcome our guest. Corissa Saint Laurent today.

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Hey everybody, thanks so much for coming back and listening to an edition of When Spirit calls. You have just learned a little bit about my guest today, the lovely Carissa is in the house. Hi.

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Corissa Saint Laurent: Hi. So great to see you.

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Rev. Rose Hope: I'm so happy you're here, and what a blessing it's been. You know, I had the privilege of being on your podcast, and I thought, Oh my God, you've got to come on mine as well. So I'm so excited to dive in and really get to know you on a different level today. So I know that you're doing some really amazing things, but I want to know what that story was. How did spirit call you to doing the magic work that you're doing today? Can you let us in on that story?

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Corissa Saint Laurent: Yes, spirit called me with a harsh, very harsh reality of an accident. And I was 16 years old. I had experienced, up until 16, being abandoned in Korea and given up for adoption, adopted into a family at three years old here in the States, and that family was a bit unstable. And grew up with a very unstable mom, adoptive mom, and she left our family and at when I was 14 years old. So those are all the events, the life events that happened up until and all the while I was just moving through life, I was a fairly happy but also extremely dissociated child. I was achieving, and I was smiley, and I had a lot of friends, and I was outwardly successful looking, but inside just completely lost and crumbling and dying and had no idea who to turn to, what to ask, where to go. So Spirit came and gave me the gift of this accident, which was a cheerleading accident. I was a cheerleader in high school. I was the flyer, so I was the person that got, oh, usually caught, but this time I didn't get caught, and I landed and fractured my skull, major neck injuries, of course, and a traumatic brain injury. So when I was in intensive care at one point, and I don't really remember exactly when this happened, but a voice came through me and then spoke for me, and it was me, meaning I was the one speaking to the nurses, the doctors, and I was questioning everything they were doing. This wasn't my personality. I was very much a people pleaser. I was gregarious as a cheerleader and as a friend, you know, kid, but I wasn't the type of person that could speak up to adults who had any sense of herself as far as what to ask or get, what to even be in the position to question anything. And yet, there I was, I was questioning everything they were doing to me. What is that pill? What does it do? What are the side effects? Is it necessary for my health and healing? And that would just come out of. Eight, and they would say, Well, no one says, you know, doesn't it's not going to affect, it's just going to ease the X, Y and Z. And I would just say, I don't want it. And I would refuse these medications. And I was very conscious of this, but at the same time remove. It was like I was watching myself having this experience. Wow. Flash forward to when I get to go home, and the voice was with me still, and I had never questioned it. I was in full trust of it the whole time, I think, and I didn't tell anybody about it, but I was in full trust of it. And when I was home and healing, it guided me in my healing, and showed me how to visualize my healing and where to send my energy, because I had to lay there. And my dad created this upright bed for me that I would, you know, be in because I had a skull fracture, so I couldn't lay flat, so I would just be there all day, most of the day, just inclined and resting, recovering, and I would just close my eyes and be with this voice and be with the visualization that it was providing, eventually realizing that this was some aspect of me that was guiding this process. At that point, I didn't quite have the conception of, oh, this is bigger than just me, yeah, but I knew that it was connected to something greater. I knew that it was a force outside of me. I didn't call it God necessarily, but I knew that that's what it was. In some way, I grew up in a very Christian light household, so I went to church, but I didn't have a strong Christian background, so my concept of God was very loose. And after that accident and into my early 20s, I explored a ton of different religions and became the seeker that that called me the into,

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Rev. Rose Hope: of course, oh my gosh. Okay, I just want to highlight a couple things from the story to start, because I find it so fascinating that you chose to be the flyer, or were chosen as the flyer, and I see you with such wings even now in this day, and I want you to know that, because I think that you know you were guided to actually be in that role, to have the accident. On some level your spirit needed that to happen. Would you agree with that? That like that was like a big invitation to opening you to God within you, 100%

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Corissa Saint Laurent: because I needed that level of wake up call. I was so dissociated, so asleep, so far gone from the trauma of what I experienced and removed from that that I needed something big. And I, I don't think everybody needs that. Unfortunately, so many of us do wait for Yeah, because it's, it's so easy to not face the truth.

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Rev. Rose Hope: It's so we're so distracted, it's so easy to ignore that, and it's so uncomfortable for most people to be with themselves, but you were forced to be with yourself. You had no choice in that. And I think sometimes that's how God works, is like, Okay, you're not getting it, you're not listening. We're going to take all that away. We're going to strip it all away, and you're just going to have to get there. You're just going to have the space to be there. And I love that you were willing enough to listen to that, that beautiful higher self, or the God Self, that was showing up for you. So afterwards, you became the seeker, and now you're out there exploring. Continue.

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Corissa Saint Laurent: I was, I would say, seeking, and also still asleep. And I think that's a stage of the awakening for many people, is that you are truly in an active experience of awakening. And so part of me was running the programs completely asleep, still operating from reactivity and dissociation and using a lot of avoidance and just distracting activities, fell into addiction and was in a bad place in many respects, and yet also still seeking guidance understanding. I was asking the big questions, but I was getting ready for those answers, and I think that's part of it. It was this preparing me for. Or truth, and I needed to really get into a state of readiness, which led me down into deeper gutters and deeper darkness before I could fully emerge from that at 20 years old, at the height of my depression, and I would say addictive behaviors and patterns. I was called again by spirit into a study abroad office on my campus. I literally don't know how I ended up there. I just was kind of awoke and I was in there, and I'm like,

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Rev. Rose Hope: I'm just gonna look around, oh, here, here I am. Yeah,

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Corissa Saint Laurent: I am, yeah, it was very like I said, I was so dissociated that I think I was just kind of floating through a lot of life. And I ended up there, grabbed a brochure, and then I got the message that I needed to go and do this. Have this experience. You need to go do this. You need to and I was being pushed again. I was being guided. And this time, it wasn't through something harsh, like an accident, it was, it was a gentler nudge. And thankfully I listened, because I know that if I hadn't, I would have gotten a harder a harder hit later down the road that I did listen, I did everything I needed to do, to apply and to interview, and I got accepted and ended up in New Zealand for a year. Oh, when I was there. Oh,

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Rev. Rose Hope: it's just, isn't it such a magical world there? Oh,

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Corissa Saint Laurent: so incredible, so amazing. And I love when other people say it, because I had such an incredible experience there, personally that I sometimes don't know whether you know, is it the place? Was it me, me in the place and time and all of that, but all of the above? Yeah, yeah. But it is such a wild and beautiful place. And I was in one of those wild and beautiful environments on a mountainside, and I was hiking by myself. I ended up on a little Vista. Took my pack off. I was exhausted, very much, both physically and mentally exhausted. I had even though, made it to New Zealand and made it through the process of getting accepted and getting there. I was running myself ragged. Up until then, I was, I think, still, like drugs were probably coursing through my pain. Still, I was just like it was very much up until this moment of being in this place that helped, in some ways purify me. In other ways, I was still in the same patterns. But on this mountain side, I put my pack down, and I grabbed my water and my journal and a photo of my grandmother, who I passed a few years earlier, fell out of my journal, and I leaned over and picked it up, and when I came up, the entire world around me exploded in light, and I was floating in this light and in this love. The light was synonymous with love. I was embracing God's love, and I had never experienced that before, and it was the most blissful, beautiful. It's hard to put into words. You know what it if I like,

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Rev. Rose Hope: I can relate to that because and I'm feeling a bunch of emotion coming up in me. Because, you know that light and that love were one in the same for me, too. You know, when I had my second near death, I was floating in what I can only describe as love and bliss, like there was such a feeling, a euphoria even. And like you say, it's so difficult to even put into words.

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Corissa Saint Laurent: It is, but you know, and I'm experiencing the same emotion right now, because it's so beautiful. And in that light, I got messaging again, and this was also for my healing, but it specifically the voice said, You need to go and heal your heart, bind your gifts and share them with the world. And it just, it was repeating, heal your heart, find your gifts, share them with the world. And all of this like happened within seconds of human time, but it felt like I was floating in that forever, and then I came back down, and I'm sort of like in my body again, and on feet planted on the earth, and I just fell to my knees and burst into tears, and I couldn't Believe it. It was just it changed my trajectory again. You know, I think I was already on that path, but this helped propel the path. Gave me also a direction, because I had been guided in my healing of my physical and emotional and. History, but I wasn't given you know, I had basically closed off to what else then after that, and spent four years just doing the normal stuff, but this now was like a clear directive, Okay, go. And it was both scary as hell and exhilarating to get that kind of mission and and then I set off to go and do that.

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Rev. Rose Hope: Wow, oh, I love that. You, you know, you had this experience that was maybe a bit more traumatic. You leveraged that, you pulled what you could from. It got you to the next phase, and then you got to have this beautiful, loving experience that also worked as a catalyst, and I think that that speaks to our experiences in life. You know, it's so easy for us to get caught up into the story of the experience or the trauma of the experience, or feel like in order for us to have this, you know, epiphany, that we need to go through some big, traumatic upheaval or dark noise of soul, even, and this story that you're sharing shows us that there's many ways to Bliss, there's many ways to God, there's many ways to our soul. And I just felt like I needed to bring that to the surface for our listeners today, to remind us all that God can show up in the simplest, most subtle of ways, and God can show up with a big bang either way, our invitation is for us to receive whatever we can from those experiences, to let those experiences be our guide posts and show us the path. And so now you get to help other people.

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Corissa Saint Laurent: Yeah, I think they think is, you know, is really, I was on that path of healing my heart, which is still, am, it's, I think it's yes, is, I think, the lifetime journey, yeah, yeah, yeah. But the big beauty the concentrated period of that led me yes to discovering these gifts of healing and guidance that I could offer to others. And I think anybody who goes through something profound is typically called to then share that with others, to guide others like them, who are also going through or potentially going to go through something profound in that way. And we're all teachers in that sense of being able to teach for my our own experiences. So I felt very called to teach from the experiences that I've had and my career and professional life in my early, you know, mid 20s, was in healing, direct healing, doing physical and energy healing work. And then I built a business out of that, and a larger company. And then I got moved down into another path, which was away from that as work and focusing on the real 3d stuff, like marketing, business development, I work for tech companies very much following this other, let's say, normal, typical path, because there was still so much work that I was doing internally, and I wasn't in a space to share that professionally. Yeah. And then flash forward to 2020, and I think that was a big year for a lot of people, big catalyst for a lot of people. It reminded me of my truth. Reminded me of what I'm here for, really, here for all those other things I've done and have I'm also here for I don't believe I wasn't living my truth. I just believe that I was dimming my light to some degree, that I was and also learning other skills and picking up things I needed for this part of the journey. But I felt at 2020, ready again, beautiful, embark and do the harder, but also more fulfilling work of being a guide and really help people. In that respect,

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Rev. Rose Hope: it's so brilliant. I feel the same way about, you know, the experiences that we've had like at that point in my time, you know, when I was teaching in my 20s, in post secondary, like I was living my truth to the level of which I could see my own truth, you know. And as we peel back the layers and we continue to evolve, we see these deeper layers of our truth. Question for you, how does one go about healing their heart? What were the things that you did that you want people to know, if they are struggling or their heart feels heavy or there's some healing in there to do, what are some of the things that you help guide people on around that? Yeah,

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Corissa Saint Laurent: there's a lot of layers here. First thing. Is to let yourself feel it, and that involves a lot of crying, typically, yeah, and unblocking ourselves from feeling our heart is the first step to healing our heart. We've got to be able to feel it, and feeling it also remains removing the things that have numbed you from feeling it. So for me, that was alcohol and that addictive patterning. It was not letting my partner fully in because I was afraid, and therefore blocking the feeling that I could experience fully in my heart. So the healing of the heart is just allowing it to be its fullest expression, not broken. The heart doesn't need mending. Your heart is fully whole, fully present, the energy of love, and your heart doesn't need us to fix it. It needs us to get out of the way. I completely shine.

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Rev. Rose Hope: Love this perspective, because so many of us, you know, we hear, Oh, the broken heart or the wounded heart, and what you're saying is a totally different perspective. It's saying, No, your heart doesn't need to be mended and healed. Your heart needs to be allowed to fully express it.

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Corissa Saint Laurent: Yes, yes.

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Rev. Rose Hope: Oh so good!

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Corissa Saint Laurent: Yeah. So removing the things that we've done to block it, removing the numbing agents and the Practice Association agents and the distractions and all those blocks, that's an active and difficult process for some then we get to enter into a different relationship with the heart and actually see and feel and be with that the fullness of that energy and let it love us. And that's the self love stuff that you know we throw around as, Oh, do you? Self Love, self care, but truly basking in your own love is is different than go taking yourself to the spa. I'm not saying don't take yourself to the spa like worse. Those are great activities that can lead to this, but this is something simpler. It it's simpler but more profound in that you can just sit with yourself and allow an energy to emanate from you and engulf you in love. Just imagine this energy I have always pictured angel wings that embrace me in this grace and love that's the visualization that came to me, and whether that's one of my real angels or it was just a helpful visual for me, but to have these like golden wings wrapping themselves around me helped me to generate the love that's already there again. And we're not getting something from the outside we don't already have. We're not fixing something that's broken, but we are allowing and so those visual things just allow us to imagine something that we haven't imagined for a long time. We've forgotten it. We've been through the rigors of life, just, it's just been sort of beaten out of us, but it's still there, and those cues can really help.

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Rev. Rose Hope: Oh, I love this so much. Because, you know, as you're speaking, I'm feeling the angel wings coming around me, by the way, and that's also a visual for me too. And I'm being held in the arms of God. It's these angel wings that come around. So I love that we share that visual and what I find so fascinating, you know, I've done a lot of work. You know, I meet with God on the regular. I talk to my body, but I have never taken my heart and held my heart in such a loving way that I'm pouring love into it, and then allowing myself to receive that love back. So as soon as we get off this call, guess what I'm gonna do? I love that, because what you've done here is you've just take kick things up a notch of deepening this, this, these aspects of truth within ourselves, and allowing us to be the full, vulnerable expression of who we are. And there have been times when I've held back tears. I don't do that anymore. You know, I recently was, I was telling you, before we got on the show, I got bit by a spider in Mexico, which got infected, and so that, thankfully, I recovered very quickly. I caught it before it became very serious, but then it threw my whole system into a weakened immune system, so then I was got really sick. So now I'm traveling home, and I'm on the plane for six hours, and I'm sick as can be, and my kids are like, you know, tired. It's the middle of the night. We're traveling, and I. I am weeping on the plane, and I let myself weep almost the whole way home. And I'm sure people around me were thinking, What the heck happened to this poor woman? Because I just could not help myself. The tears were flowing. The snot was dripping out of my nose like it was not a pretty sight at all, but past versions of me, I would have held that in. I would have sucked it up, and instead, I just let myself be vulnerable. And you know what I did notice? I noticed the space that my children held for me. I noticed the space that even other people I didn't know in, whatever their look was towards me, or whatever that was, they weren't angry that I was, you know, snotting all over the place. I felt compassion. So in me, allowing my heart to be a full expression, I was able to receive compassion back. That's right. And so what you're telling me is exactly validating what that experience was for me. I just think it's so beautiful. Thank you.

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Corissa Saint Laurent: It is beautiful. I'm so happy that you were able to have that experience. And really, the tears are the cleansing, right? It's, it's the allowing energy to actually move through. And it moves through in this, this beautiful liquid tears, liquid crystal. Yeah, they are, and that crystal, that's a really great word, because the crystallization can happen to the hardening within if we don't let them flow in the heat of the moment. When they flow in the heat of the moment, it's us allowing that to just to do what it's meant to to cleanse. But if I hold it in, like you said you did in the past, and I most certainly have it, can crystallize and harden us within.

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Rev. Rose Hope: Yes, oh, so I love this conversation. So the other message you got, you got heal your heart, find your gifts. Was that the other the message. And so what do you consider the gifts? And how can we access those gifts,

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Corissa Saint Laurent: the gifts to see the truth in other people and to see beneath their traumas, see beneath their wounds and their stories, that I believe is the healing power. You know I, as I said, my first career was in doing both physical and and energetic healing. And I didn't really like to call myself a healer, because I wasn't the one doing the healing right. That person was healing themselves, just like you healed yourself from that spider bite. The healing is happening in that person. I'm just allowing them to see that I'm opening up the channel to be like, Hey, you got this, this, we're gonna, I'm gonna focus you here on this, and we're gonna, I'm gonna help you focus your energy. Wow, and that's it, yeah, not that. That's not nothing, but it, it's not me imbuing anything into anybody else, right? It's so the gift is in the allowing others to be themselves truly their truth, and to be that vulnerability and to be those tears and to be that channel, and to be the powerful person that they are, and to support that and to welcome that and also cheerlead that. That's, I mean, I absolutely am a cheerleader and in my spirit, yeah, a physical fun thing I did. It really is part of who I am as a person. So that's one of those gifts, too, of being able to cheerlead others and provide that inspiration to others, to say you've got this like, let's go and maybe share a bit of my energy with them, because I've got a lot of that to share.

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Rev. Rose Hope: I love this so much. Because really, what you're saying is we allow ourselves to see one another through the eyes of compassion, not judgment, but through compassion. And when we've healed our hearts and we've come into self love and deeper compassion for ourselves, it's so much easier than to just give it and hand it out into the world. You know, I've had people say to me sometimes, you know, like, how can you forgive that person for what they did? And it's like they had a role to play, just like I had a role to play. So rather than judging the experience, my job is to look at it with this compassionate lens, this loving lens, and say, what was in it for us? What did we get to learn? What did we get to grow from this experience? And it changes the whole dynamic, the whole energy shifts that way. So I. Love that you understand the gifts as being able to see beyond what's on the surface. And I think that that is something that I treasure in my life, because I can see beyond the surface. So I wish we had more time we're getting to our wrap up time, but any words of advice that are still on your heart, that you feel like you need to share with the rest of us,

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Corissa Saint Laurent: take the first step. Means for you, take that next step toward yourself, toward the reunion with who you truly are. We are all emanations of God. We are all these beautiful aspects of source, and we're made of the same stuff. We are creating with the same stuff. We are so beautiful in who we are as beings. Step away from the story. Step away from the traumas. Step away from the human aspects. To give yourself enough of a distance from them to see them for what they are, to then be able to see, as you were saying earlier, what's the gift here? What's the lesson here? What's What can I take from this? So that you can then take that and add it to your bag of wisdom, right? And add it to that toolkit that you use and carry around with you to move into your true life. So it takes a single step, and that single step doesn't need to be a massive leap. Some people think I've got to jump off a cliff to make that happen. It can be the smallest thing. Yes, yes. Take that step and then revel in the direction that it's taking you. And then take another one, and then take another one and enjoy it, Joy everything along the way. Yeah,

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Rev. Rose Hope: you know, I think this is so bang on, because so often we feel like we have to hit the ground running, so to speak. But really we can just take one little step, feel into it, revel in it, like you said, and then take the next step. When you feel called to take the next step, and I think that takes a lot of pressure off, right? Because, you know, there's we oftentimes put so much pressure on ourselves for things to be a certain way or to move faster than what they and maybe are, and it's such a beautiful reminder that we just need to take that one step in the right direction. That's it. Love it. How can people find out about you and what do you have to offer our audience in terms of connecting with you?

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Corissa Saint Laurent: My company is called The Everyday Mystic, and I have a podcast as well, like you said you were on, and you can go and tune into our episode other episodes there and connect into what we offer at the everyday mystic. We have a set of programs and retreats and ways to connect further into that remembrance of yourself beautiful. You can connect to me on my personal website, Corissasaintlaurent.com and I can include those, give those to you to include in the show notes, and eventually I'll have, and I think probably by the time this airs, I'll have a free masterclass, because part of what my missioneer is to do is to empower other people who are here to deliver this message, who are here to be the healers, the speakers, the inspirers, the motivators, the ass kickers, to get and help people to remain on this path of truth back to themselves, and so that what that looks like is helping people create viable businesses around this so they can both support themselves and then support others. So the newest program that we have is called Epic entrepreneur, and I have a master class I'm building around that so you can learn more about these seven months halves of epic entrepreneurship, because it's different than owning a business. It's different than just having a offering, being an entrepreneur, has a mindset and an energetic around it. And so that masterclass is teaching you all about that energetic and those must haves. So that's going to be available for your listeners as well, and I'm looking forward to connecting with them.

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Rev. Rose Hope: Oh, we're going to have that all in the show notes for you all. So don't you worry you'll find it there below this audio link. Oh Carissa, thank you so much for gracing us with your presence, with Your wisdom, with your mysticism. I am so grateful that we've come into each other's world, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking this time to be with us. And to share with us today. Thank you so welcome. Thank you and to all you listeners out there, thanks for tuning in yet again to another episode of when Spirit calls until next time. Be well. Bye, bye.

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