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Leading Into the Unknown: The Courage to Trust Intuition Over Safety w/ Corissa Saint Laurent

• Corissa Saint Laurent • Episode 109

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This is the last episode recorded from Corissa’s home studio before she embarks on a nomadic journey around the world with her husband and son. But this isn't just a travel update…it's a masterclass on why we cling to the familiar and how to break free from the frame of safety that limits our reality.

In this intimate solo cast, Corissa explores the terrifying but necessary act of stepping into the unknown. She argues that staying at home base isn't preservation…it's stagnation. By moving into unfamiliar territory, we force ourselves to stop living on autopilot and start engaging with the raw truth of the world.

Corissa dives deep into the metaphor of Life as a Creative Act. She compares the modern human experience to Artificial Intelligence, warning that if we aren't careful, we spend our lives just prompting our past traumas and repeating old loops. This episode is a call to pick up the pen and write a new character for yourself.

In this episode, we cover:

  • The Nomadic Shift: Why Corissa is trading a settled life for a life on the road, and why travel is the ultimate tool for stretching your concept of truth.
  • The Frame of Safety: How we build prisons out of comfort, and why the messy parts of creation are where true aliveness exists.
  • The AI Metaphor: Why most people live like machine learning algorithms, simply copying the past, and how to break the loop to become a true Creator.
  • Authorship vs. Character: Moving from being the subject of the story to the writer of it, actively deciding where the character goes next.
  • The Messiness of Creation: Why the messiness of life isn’t a sign of failure, but a necessary part of birthing a new version of yourself.

Notable Quotes:

  • "If in the living of that life all you're doing is copying the past, you are not truly creating." — Corissa Saint Laurent
  • "The contrast is where the juiciness of life really is. If there was no contrast... we wouldn't know the joy." — Corissa Saint Laurent
  • "We are not just that subject of the story. We're also the author." — Corissa Saint Laurent

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Corissa Saint Laurent:

Hey, beautiful souls. This will be the last podcast recording from this place, this city, this state, this country, because soon, and actually, as this one is being released, we will have left on our year-round travel adventure. Could turn into more than one year, but we're starting out with a year. And my husband and son and I are traveling in the world, experiencing life from the road, I guess is one way to say it. Uh, living a nomadic life is another way to put it, and being in the flow of what we feel is our divine calling to go out and live experiences outside of normal convention, live experiences that are mirroring our own inner joy and our own sense of adventure, and be able to learn about life and ourselves more deeply through all of those experiences. And that to me is what travel is and what it does. It's not just consuming an experience and being able to check it off, you know, on your list of places that you've been, but to go to a place that's unfamiliar and feel into it. Actually learn more about yourself by feeling into a place and resonating with it, by stepping out of the comfort zone of a familiar town, city, state, country place, and being in more unfamiliar territory. We stretch our own sense of what we know is true and get to experience truth, get to experience the authenticity of the world rather than getting it filtered through a book, a documentary, someone else's story. Actually be able to live it and experience it. My husband and I have always lived this way, meaning have been driven to live this way. We've traveled to many countries already. I studied abroad in New Zealand, lived there for a year, and he studied abroad in Australia when he was in college. And we both have been served and transformed through travel. And we've taken our son from, you know, when he was a baby to now on many trips. But what we're embarking on is different than a trip. It's a new lifestyle, a new way of living. And countless people before us have done this as far as being or becoming or living a nomadic life. But for us and the way we've been living, we've been slow, slowly working up to this because we've been nomadically living across the country over this last five years. And now being able to go and live that way in the world is a new expression of that for us. You're listening to The Everyday Mystic, where we share advice and stories grounded in the practical and supercharged by the spiritual. I'm your host, Carissa St. Lauren, and I'm on a mission to demystify the mystical and transform your everyday life into one of greater meaning, higher purpose, and true joy. If you're ready to tap into your inner wisdom and the energy of all that is, you're in the right place, and we're so happy you're here. Let's get this party started. As we live into our true nature, ourselves as divine beings, ourselves as part of the oneness of source consciousness, we listen to those calls that are made of our soul to go and experience or go and do something, go and create something, go and be something. Those calls, when we listen to them, end up leading us into sometimes unknown foreign places. And that doesn't have to be necessarily a foreign country, but it can be this unknown place of, well, I was employed my whole life and now I'm gonna strike out and be an entrepreneur, or I've been in a relationship with somebody since I was 13 years old and never not had a relationship. And now I'm going to be on my own, single for a while and see what that experience is like. And we can strike out and go out in the world in a lot of different new and exciting and unfamiliar ways. Travel's just one of those ways that we can go and do that unfamiliar thing and live in this way that provides countless unfamiliar experiences. And within that, we're creating the familiar. So within that, it is an alchemizing of the unfamiliar into something that is familiar, that can be known, that is understood, that is felt and experienced until that is fully felt and experienced, and then moving on. And the way I've been feeling lately is trapped in this place of where everything's familiar. Not everything is known. I don't think that's possible to know everything, but we can know enough about a place, its people, its customs, its values, to the point of where we feel like, okay, I get it. I've learned those lessons. I understand what this is, and I'm ready to move on. Again, that could be a workplace, a relationship, a country, a set of activities that you've been doing for a while and go, okay, I'm done with this. This there's this feeling of completion. Now, it doesn't mean that that thing won't open up again and become anew in some way for you. Maybe you had a hobby that you came to completion with at some point, and then you pick it back up again 10 years later, and it's a new you experiencing that thing. But we can look at the time in between. Well, what is it that happened between when you stopped that hobby to when you picked it back up? What changed within there? What transformed in you within there? What created that new version of you that now that thing that you're experiencing is new? Something would have. And that's the living of life. That's the experiencing of the fullness of life that we get to have to where we can be moving into new versions of ourselves all the time to experience life in a fullness that can only be felt through a new avatar. The changing of an environment by moving to another country is just a catalyst for the changes or the transformations, the new versions of ourselves that we're creating. So travel's not the answer. The new job is not the answer. The new relationship is not the answer. None of these things are a silver bullet or the thing that becomes our new focus. They're merely new expressions of how you're living, how you're expressing and how you're experiencing life. And therefore, there are opportunities for you to transform and become and unfold into these new versions of ourselves, to go into a limitlessness because of this vast place of possibility. If we stay within the confines of a narrow and limited life experience, thinking, being, feeling, doing, if that's where we live from, then what we'll experience of ourselves, and therefore what we experience of this human experience and this human life is that limited perspective. There's nothing wrong with that perspective. But my husband and I both feel, thankfully, we both agree on this, that we want to open up into this limitless sense place being of possibility here that is experienced through taking off those blinders, moving out of that narrow corridor of experience, removing the shackles of our own programmed identities. I am a this, I am a that. Your citizenship is a big part of that, of that identity. We're not giving up our citizenship, at least not yet. But even saying that you are an American has a certain set of connotations, values, all sorts of cultural norms and specific things are tied to that. And that can be a wonderful thing to hang your hat on, as can I'm an architect. And so much, you know, is wrapped up into what that means to say I'm abyss. Our path, however, is moving away from those identities of I am a fill in the blank and into living a life of possibilities that are beyond that limited identity and into the limitless potential of our soul. Ourselves as divine beings. What we create from there is limitless. What we create from there is what I believe we're doing here. We can come here and just consume life and then get consumed by it. Or we can come here and experience the fullness of life through creating these new versions of ourselves, creating new experiences and opportunities, creating new relationships and objects, even if we want to create something that we leave uh around and leave in our legacy. But creation is the thing that we are so gifted with in this life to be creators and co-creators with the universe, that we get to be a being here that has the consciousness to create and then also the means, meaning our physicality to create as well. Then a consciousness that can go beyond that to understand what it is that we're doing here and what we're creating, at least from the understanding that you have at the current present moment. That understanding, of course, can evolve and grow and change too as new versions of ourselves are created and new timelines of ourselves in our lives are laid out as we live it and as we create it. So we are not just that subject of the story. We're also the author, the creator writing the story as we go. What is this character gonna do? Where is this character gonna go? What's gonna happen to it? What's gonna unfold? Who are they gonna meet? Where are they gonna go? What are they gonna experience? What are they gonna feel? What are they gonna do? All of that is within the power of each and every one of us to do, to create. So what if you don't do that? We've got the power and the ability to do that, to write our own story. So, what happens in our lives, in our stories, if we don't take the pen, if we don't grab the keyboard, um, take the paintbrush, right? If we just allow life to happen to us, it will start to become more narrow and narrow and limited because we're no longer coloring outside the lines. We're no longer creating a and painting a picture wider, bigger, more vast than what is presented to us in our frame, the frame at which we've decided we're gonna live here in this frame of understanding, of knowing, of what's true, what's feels safe. Usually it is about safety and comfort and about fear that keeps us within this limited frame. And sometimes it's just ignorance, it's just not knowing that there's more outside of that frame. But whatever it is that keeps you within the frame of your life being a limited perspective. We all have limits on us. It's not uh going and, you know, accepting that we are divine beings and living a life that's in flow with that, and where we're following the calling of God and source, and we are flowing in this way in our lives. Still doesn't mean we don't have limits. We do because we're here on earth. This is a limited place on purpose, I believe, that these limits are set and that we set them in order for us to learn what it feels like to break through those limits, to learn and gain certain lessons from the experience of working both within and then breaking free from those limits. The contrast is where the juiciness of life really is. If there were no contrast, if there was no limitation, we wouldn't know the joy of the other. For those of you tuning into this podcast, you most likely are people who have already seen outside of that frame, who want to break free from that frame even more, who know that that's not all you're here to live. And I can only say to you that you have this one life, not that we only have one life, but you have this one life that you're listening to this podcast in at the moment, to go forth, live in the fullness of the frame. There's still a frame, but it is more vast and wide and spherical and multidimensional than you may have been told, or that we have been taught, or that we have experienced up until a certain point. When we start to break free of this two-dimensional frame, and then we start to see it's oh, it's three-dimensional. Well, I actually it's four, five, six multidimensional. It's a prism of reality that we are living in, and then therefore creating at any moment, we get to really start to live into the fullness that this life has to offer, into the truth of who we really are, and get to merge and meld and integrate that with our human, our human who's lived certain experiences, had certain things happen, have lived a story up until now that maybe wasn't written by them. When you start to take the pen and write your own story, then we can either continue to write and just copy over the past because that's what's familiar to us. So we go, okay, I'm conscious, I get it. I'm an adult now, I can live my own life. But if in the living of that life all you're doing is copying the past, you are not truly creating, right? It's just it's the same as if you were to look at an artist who creates an original work and then one who is a copycatter and they take that piece and right, there's this copycat art all over the world. And, you know, people can sometimes get duped and buy, you know, what they think is an original painting and it isn't, it's a copycat of that thing, and that that can be said, you know, for everything. And now with AI and all that's going to be created through artificial intelligence, we have to be even more discerning with both what we see and experience, but we don't really even need to worry about that so much as what we're creating from within. This is an even more precious time right now to step into that creator role, into the role of yourself as the author of your own life, because we are now up against, if you will, or just experiencing the contrast of an artificial intelligence creating. And they're writing their own stories, if you will. I mean, yes, it's prompts by humans that are putting that information in there. But the fact that it's an artificial intelligence, a machine learning intelligence in the machine is learning from every single prompt that they receive to the point of questioning, and obviously many futurists have questioned this of will that machine gain its own consciousness eventually because of everything that's being fed into it. So we can either spend our time feeding a an artificial intelligence, feeding a system with the prompts and then allowing it to create, essentially just copying over the past and copying over what's already been done and said and experienced, or we can go out and live our true lives. We can go out and write our own stories, we can create our everyday experience and our life as a whole, consciously, beautifully, proactively, and do this with intent. Do this with the gusto of this is the only life we've got. It's the only life that this human soul combo has, if we want to look at it that way. If you do believe that we're we come back again and again, and that we're soul traveling through space and time, and that this is just one of millions of lives that we'll live, or that one of millions that we're living it right now, if you believe. Even quantum timelines and the fact that we're living in different dimensions at this moment. Even if you do believe all that, even if that's all true, the experience, the visceral embodied experience of you as a human being living with this combination of your soul and this body and this life and this experience, are just having this now. This is what we've got. And we have the choice, the free will. It's just about intent and desire at that point of are you gonna go out and be that creator? Are you going on and living the story of what was fed to you, what was given to you, what was written for you, or are you going to turn the page, fresh sheet, and start to write? Start to create, start to fully live. It's messy, that process. There's a lot of bumps and things that you run into because living your own true life that hasn't been laid out and prescribed by someone else or a system is a lot of creation and creation's messy. If you've had a baby, you understand and you know what this looks like and feels like. It is a messy process, but it's the most beautiful, life-affirming process that we can be involved in. So that's what we're going out and doing. We're gonna go out and live this beautiful, messy life and live this creative birthright that we have to create our days and to live them in a new way each time. I'll share more about the experience and the unfolding of all of that on this show, but we'll, of course, also continue to release episodes talking to guests and other everyday mystics and their lives and their practices and their ways of being here in the world as a divine being. And we'll continue to create whatever we can to help you along your journey in this process that we're all in because we are in this together. Some of us have just experienced some aspect that can help inform others. And that's what I truly believe my role here is to share the things that are unfolded, have unfolded for me and become conscious and known to me to then help you in some way for people that have not yet been opened to this particular information. And then there's people that open me up to new aspects and new understandings, new knowings. And we get to do this for each other and get to be in this together. So we're creating a series of guidebooks that will be available on the everydaymystic.org, which will help you along certain aspects of this journey. So those will be available on the website soon. And the podcast will continue to go on as it is. We'll just be recording from around the world. I am excited to take you along on our journeys, and I'm excited to hear about your journey as you move through this incredible, beautiful life that we all have in front of us. This book to write, this canvas to paint, this sculpture to create. Don't worry about whether it looks good or whether it's perfect. Nothing is. The process of what you learn about yourself and experience and get to experience of life is what it's all about. So we'll see you next time from wherever we're recording from and are always sending you so much love.