September 10, 2025 • 46 mins
Lauren is a behavior specialist, mental health counselor, trainer, & energy healer. With over 20 years of experience in special ed & a recent transition into mental health she’s deeply passionate about fostering community connection, education, & facilitating healing. She shares behavioral strategies to manage stress, trauma, mindfulness, reframing, self-advocacy & the need to regulate & in our daily lives to promote stability in ourselves, our families & communities. Sound bath sample included!
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Speaker 3 (00:56):
Hello, and welcome to It's Your Voice, the show that
hosts enrich conversations in diversity. My name is Bihil Jason.
I'm a core alainemic coach. I support individuals and groups
and organizations in discerning what they want, what their values are,
how to align their actions and their policies with their
values to create more inclusion and more belonging. And we
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can alternate, we can change patterns, we focus on what
we really want. If you're interested in seeing some of
the courses or classes I offer. You can go to
my website Know what you Want Coaching dot WordPress dot com.
Can also find me on Instagram. It's your Voice show.
I am very grateful for our guests tonight, Lauren Keeler, and.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I'll read details.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
But she's a healer among many other things, and boy,
I feel like we could really use her expertise today
every day actually, And the title of the show is
called Minding My Behavior And Lauren Keeler is my guest,
and she is a behavior specialist, mental health counselor, trainer,
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and energy healer with over twenty years of experience in
special education in a recent transition into mental health. She's
deeply passionate about fostering community connection, education and facilitating healing.
And we'll be able to get samples of a sound
bath she has pre recorded for us. It's beautiful four
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minutes that I want you to listen to and excuse me.
She also helps people learn strategies to manage stress, produce trauma, mindfulness, reframing,
goal planning, and self advocacy. She'll be able to describe
talk about regulating how we can regulate ourselves co regulate
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in our daily lives to promote stability for ourselves, our families,
our classrooms, our communities, and being self aware and practicing
self care. Lauren, thank you so much for coming. I'm
so glad you're here.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
This has been a long time in the making, so
I'm glad that we finally made it happen.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Thanks for your patients, Thank you for yours. I think
you know often when I start the show, I will
talk about current current events, and you courage people to
take action and ways that they can, whether it's making
phone calls or postcards or.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Speak, you know, talking to people who have different.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Views than them, just to start building more relationships. And
but I feel like if I started listing things today
that are concerns, it would would have to really help
me regulate even more same there's so many there's so
many things, and so I'm that are upsetting and disturbing
and sad.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
So I'm very happy.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I think your skill set is super timely our communities
and for listeners and viewers, And I just wanted to
thank you for all your work in special education.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
For twenty years I've seen you with your.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Behavioral specialist skill sets training people, and you're excellent. You
have worked with all kinds of populations. It takes a
really talented, patient, compassionate person to lead the trainings that
you do to support students who I've seen you support,
and I just I, you know, I really have to
thank you for that.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
Thank you, thank you. It's been been great. I don't
know how many years we've known each other, but I
would like to say that my time and interactions with
you and seeing you interact with others, you are so
kind and gracious and very calm and peaceful, and to
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just be out in the world how it is, it's
always appreciate, appreciated to exchange that type of energy with
someone else.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
So thank you.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
So I so want to dive into your expertise. But
what's really really important is for us to hear whatever
you would like to share about your journey. Like we
know you've had a lot of stress in the work world.
Like many others, you have experienced discrimination. It's discrimination hasn't stopped.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
No, and it hasn't mad now and you just want
to open the.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Floor for you to talk about your journey. Can you
want to share?
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Yeah, I'm from the Midwest originally, so I grew up
in Kansas, and I was raised by an amazing single
mother who strived very hard to put me in spaces
and places to create around a well rounded individual, and
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I appreciate that she also was very good about instilling
in me self confidence and keeping things plain and simple.
You know, I'm a black girl in a world where
being a girl and being black is not always the
best thing to be or consider the best thing to
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be to the mass majority and the state of the world.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Now, a lot of that is coming back into.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
The light about how people are seen and perceive just
simply for being who they are, who they were born as,
and having to basically fight to just be humanized. And
I think for me, I just kind of found my
way working into special education, and in certain districts that
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I've worked in, there's not a lot of diversity. So
I have experienced some challenges being a black woman in
the education field, and especially within my field of expertise,
which is behavior. There's not a lot of diversity, and
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that has worked in my favor in some places, and
I'm grateful to be there for students who look like
me or may also be brown or a minority of
some kind outside of their disabilities and seeing their light
and seeing their potential and just seeing them as human
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first and needing to be held and embraced and made
to feel safe and feel seen and feel understood, feel welcomed,
feel like.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Someone is in their corner and.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Sees all that they have to offer the world and
foster that and grow that and.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Love all parts of them.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
That's brought me where I am twenty years later. When
I was a little girl, I wanted to be like
a performer or a biochemist. I had all these wild,
crazy dreams of what I wanted to do, and somehow
the universe placed me here. And it's been a journey,
but I'm very grateful for everything.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Because all of.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
The challenges that I've experienced personally and the challenges that
I've seen others go through, It's made me more appreciative
of just kindness, empathy, finding ways to regulate my nervous system, to.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Advocate, and just connect.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
I really love connecting with other people from any and
every background.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
I just enjoy human Now.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Some of them can be a little, a little testy,
a little challenging, and said in their ways. We all
can be, but overall, like I really do believe that
it's humans. There's a lot of greatness in us that
with the right people around us or with the right support,
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we can really blossom into amazing individuals. And I'm continuing
to learn and grow every day. And yeah, I'm just
that's pretty much my story.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Wow, thank you, Oh my gosh, it's just such a
beautiful human being. Thank you for just like following whatever
you're wherever your inner voice brought you. And that's so
much to work against those negative messages that are just
fake and not real, but that we can internalize. And
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you've just really found a way of knowing the truth
and sticking with it. And I love that you said
talked about like surrounding yourself with people and the way
you validate students, it's like so beautiful seeing them with
such respect.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
We all deserve it. Yeah, we're all here.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
We all deserve to be loved and embraced, respected, honored,
given compassion and empathy. And really for me, it's communication,
having a voice and actually feeling heard and understood. Working
with kids that aren't able to talk, they communicate a
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lot through their behaviors, and so it's what are they
trying to tell us? What is it that they're saying?
What is it that they need? What is it that
they want to express? And so it's really it's really important.
I appreciate having a voice, and I appreciate feeling heard
and feeling understood and seen. And I just think if
we had that understanding as people wherever we.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Go, whatever, wherever we work, that the world would definitely
be a better place.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
So did you would you say that stress drove you
to transition to find healing as a new avenue.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Yes, I would say stress definitely. That comes with life.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
I think as we grow and we mature and we adult,
adult thing comes with its own challenges. You know, we
have to find ways to regulate. Life comes at you
fast and quick. You know, illness, death, the ends of relationships, work, stress, bills.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
All of it.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
You know, it comes at you fast. And I think
in my thirties I really got to experience a lot of,
you know, life challenges with family members falling ill and
having to take time off from work to be there
for family. Working in special education. For those who don't
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work in education, I think, you know, they have a
perception that it's just kids.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
How bad can it be?
Speaker 6 (12:22):
But when you work in education, a lot of these
kids are showing up and we're co parenting.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
In a sense.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
You know, we're nurses, we're social workers, we're counselors, we're teachers,
we're friends, we're family. So we have to show up
and wear so many different hats and really help shape
and form these little human beings into adults. So I've
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worked with students from the time they were in elementary
school all the way through high school graduation and seeing
them go through life and me experienced seeing my own
life challenges and advocating for them to receive supports and
services and teaching them coping strategy skills. I came to
an understanding that I can't just tell them like I
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have to demonstrate for them. I have to model I
am teaching them. And I started just pursuing different ways
of becoming a better person, of healing internally and externally,
and kind of I feel like when I started seeking
that it came to me, or it found me, that
community found me just naturally. I was introduced to people
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who introduced me to more people who were in healing networks,
breaking masters, sound healers, massage, therapists, therapists, all types of people,
and they lit something up inside of me, like I
had never attended to sound healing, and then I was
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invited to one. Then I was invited to another one,
and then one day I was handed the mallet and
said you try it, you play, and I'm like me what?
And then I struck that bowl and something inside of
me just lit up, And eventually, you know, I was like, hmm,
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if I'm going to invest in something, what do I want?
And I bought a set of bowls, and then I
bought a drum, and I bought chimes, and I just
kept growing it, and I was invited again to more
spaces to heal, help heal, and coregulate, and here I
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am today. I mean, that's really where I find my
piece is when I'm able to just share that with
other people and see them experience a lightness, to experience
some safety, some comfort, some relief and release. I've seen
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people fall asleep during sound healings. I've seen people cry.
I've had people come up to me after and go,
I don't know what that was or what happened, but
I went somewhere else, and it's like to be able
to disconnect from the chaos, whether it's the chaos that's
within your own life or just the chaos of the world.
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Even if it's momentary, it does something to you. It
lightens your load and you're able to be able to go, Okay,
this is hard, but I can make it through. Or
there's always a tomorrow. Just start seeing and feeling differently.
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We're positive experiences and that's what I've seen, and I
just that's what I've experienced personally, and I love.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
That for me.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
I love it that I get to do something awesome that
helps other people, but it also heals me, So I
love that.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
I love that for me.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
That's so important because you couldn't be healing other people
if you weren't healing yourself exactly.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
That's critical.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I'm so eager.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
But before we play that, before rebel Our Founded in
replays the video, the bowls are beautiful time. You do
an incredible job. It got to experience this person and
it's just very powerful. But can you just say for
listeners and viewers who are not familiar with the term
regulate and coregulate, I'm not sure it's completely common understanding yet,
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But what does that mean.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
When I speak with my students. I've we've simplified it
in a behavioral standpoint of how's my engine running? So,
how's your engine running right now? Are you a little anxious?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Are you? Are you? Is your engine running fast and hot?
You know?
Speaker 6 (16:58):
How's your whole body feel? Are you breathing normally? Are
you able to sit and relax? Are you able to rest?
When I say are you breathing? I don't mean like,
are you just alive? Because we all breathe to stay alive.
If we're not breathing, we're unconscious, possibly not alive. But
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are you able to take in a deep breath and
just feel your body relaxed and calm? And I'll tell
you that most people aren't able to report that their
engine is running or at a normal rate, or that
they're regulated.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
That's what I mean by that.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Our nervous system, our whole computer, our internal computer, you know,
tells us I'm safe or I'm not safe. I'm happy
or I'm angry. These are all signs of regulation or dysregulation.
We're animals, so you know, if we feel unsafe, we
tend to act out. We fight, we go into flight mode,
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we fawn, We freeze. These are all signs of dysregulation,
and for a lot of us, the triggers or what
sets us off can look very different. It could be
something in our environment. It could be a surprising event
or an expected event, a change in our.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Schedules or our routines.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
It could be someone being disruptive or aggressive, or something
towards you or around you. There's many ways that we
can become dysregulated. It could also be something simple like
not getting enough rest or sleep, not having enough food
in our bodies, being dehydrated. These are all signs that
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we are possibly dysregulated. So from a behavioral perspective, I
often go when a studentess have a rough day, well
are their basic needs being met? Have they eaten? Did
they get enough sleep? Have they had too much screen time?
Was their routine disrupted? And trying to figure out what
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it is, and then go, Okay, maybe we should give
them a snack, Maybe we should give them a break,
Let's give them some water, Let's offer them a walk,
let's model some deep breathing for them, Let's do a
sensory activity.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
And these are all great ways.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
To regulate in the moment, and as adults, I think
we just don't honor ourselves in the same way. We
just have all been kind of trained to just go, go, go,
go go, and it's like I'm grown, I should be
able to handle this, or I should be able to
do that, no problem. But there comes a time where
our engine goes nope, and it just stops and it
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shuts down. It could come in the form of illness,
it could come in the form of your back going out,
you know, something oftentimes will just sit us down and
force us to regulate.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Well, thank god, that's really helpful. Thanks so much. I
love the tangible examples you gave, and just to reiterate
what you said, we would all.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Benefit from any of those things.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Drinking at my thirsty drink water, of taking a walk,
am I hungry? Just tuning in and listening to your
body more than that, you said that very eloquently.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Yeah, I just really feel like to me, it's even
though I work in the field and I do this
on a daily day, day to day basis, it still
took a while for me to have that aha moment
of like I should be practicing what I preach, you know,
and find my coping strategies and how I can regulate
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and you know, and it helps me co regulate with
other people when I show up calm with my cup
is full. When I'm regulated, I can walk into a
setting or engage with someone who's disregulated and have them
instead of meeting them where they're at bringing them down.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yeah, it makes me better at anything anything else I
want to do.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
If I.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Remember to regulate or just calm down, I'm going to
be better no matter what I'm doing.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
I'm sure.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
I got to do that laundry. What could I do.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Better for everyone around me?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Well, let's ask Rebel to play the video of you.
Do you want to say anything about it? Before she starts?
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Yeah, I would just invite listeners to find a cozy spot.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
This is a short video.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
I typically do thirty to sixty minute sound healings, and
I don't have all my instruments here. I was only
able to play my bulls. But just settle in, take
a few deep breaths, close your eyes, and really just
be present.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
That's the best way.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
To experience sound healing and to benefit from it, school.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Or anything.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Oh that.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
That is very relaxing, Thank you, it is.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
I enjoy receiving the healings too. I love when I
get to lay down and close my eyes.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I have a couple of questions that came up by
experiencing that. One is wondering is each is ever sound
about different variation.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Yes, I don't have like sheet music or anything for it,
so it oftentimes is just me kind of getting in
the zone and playing to my audience and just moving
wherever the mallets take me. I again, have other instruments
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that I incorporate in my sound healings, such as a
wave drum which sounds like ocean waves. I have chimes,
I have a drum. So each instrument kind of speaks
to your nervous system and to your body differently. Each
bowl has its own sound, as you could hear, and
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they're meant to kind of tap into different chakras throughout
your body, starting with your crown all the way down
to your root. So yeah, they're they're all very different.
And I just let the bulls do the talking or
the singing.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I noticed the different colors of the bulls that was
connected to what is considered the colors of chakras.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Yes, yes, for the seven main chakras.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
And so then that's a system that sort of depicts
like would you say as chakras like an energy center,
how would you describe?
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Yes, I would say they were our energy centers throughout
our body, like tapping into different parts of ourself and
our psychees. So for like the crown chakra and the
third eye that taps into more of our spiritual selves,
our throat chakras are tied to our ability to speak
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our truth. Our heart chakra is more of our feeler,
just as the heart's meant to feel, so some of
our I don't know if the you or the audience
has heard of reiki, but reiki is kind of an
energetic healing or cleansing of the chakras, kind of clearing
things out that may be blocking your ability to see
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or feel clearly to be able to use your voice.
So that ties into with the chakras as well. But yeah,
there's different Different chakras represent different parts of ourselves that
need to be aligned so that we can operate as
our whole selves, our best selves in life and in
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this world.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Have you found that.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Sound healing is part of different cultures, doesn't originate from
one place.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Yes, a lot of different cultures use sound healing it's
mainly it comes from mainly the Asian culture. So there's
like the Tibetan bowls, which are the brass bowls.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
That a lot of people are familiar with.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
They have a different sound quality but also can be
healing and resonate with different parts of your system your body.
But several different cultures and I didn't know this, but
people from all around the world are very familiar with
these more holistic somewhat spiritual, depending on where you're at
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with your spirituality spiritual practices. So it's used for grounding,
for healing, for meditation, all of these things. Again to
write late and bring about some peace, some clarity, rest.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Do you find that you are receiving when you're giving,
like when you're creating a sound bath. Do you feel
that you yourself are experiencing the clearing and the regulating.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
I do. I feel like I co regulate with the group.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
The more I get into the instrument, I have different responses.
My favorite instrument outside of the bulls is the wave
drum that sounds like the ocean.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
I love hearing the.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Crash of waves against against the sand, against the rocks,
So it just kind of like brings me to a
space of a feeling present and just peaceful, and I
enjoy as I'm sound healing. Sometimes I'll step away from
the bowls and do different instruments, and I love seeing
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people breathe at a slower rate and experience some calm,
to see some of them actually resting or sleeping, probably
for the first time in a while, and that brings
about some calm for me as well. I find myself coregulating,
but there's nothing like just being able to lay there
or sit there and receive. It's the best thing ever,
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So I do enjoy that too. I enjoy those opportunities
as well.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Well.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Speaking of those opportunities, I'm curious about like how accessible
it is for people, which makes me think about asking
you an update on like a healing center that you
and your sister.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Yes, So I do collaborate very often with my spiritual
sister Ayanna Jennings. She has a a healing space in
downtown midtown Sacramento. It's called Nouvelle Healing nou the ell
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E Healing, and it's on Capitol and Nineteenth. It is
a smaller space and we're hoping to grow it, but
she offers reiki and massage and sound healings. We also
participate in different events together or separately to provide services
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or healing services. So we're in the process, still trying
to grow, but at the same time, we're still doing
things and I'm really proud of what she's doing currently.
She has a reiki class now and has a great
cohort of healers in there, and she is continuing to
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collaborate with different businesses throughout the Sacramento area. You can
find novel just by googling it Novell Healing. It's also
on Instagram as Nouvell Healing. And I myself am working
on creating a mobile service for sound healing, and I'm
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working under the name of Behavior Collective.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
So for more information and direct contact with.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
Me, you can go to but Behavior b e h
a v io r collective dot net, and my services
are listed there you can reach out for sound healing.
I also do some behavior slash empowerment coaching, so just
helping people kind of figure out where in their lives
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they'd like to regulate their behaviors and maybe create some
goals for behavior change and just support and empower them
to do so. And I also provide card readings as well,
So kind of card reading I do, oracle and taro
m hm.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
And can you say with that that means yes please.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
I don't often, I don't often advertise it a ton publicly,
but tarot reading it's something not for not everyone is
into it, but it's a way for us to use
tarot tarot decks to just kind of sort through what's
going on. It's a way of like taking a look
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in by pulling cards to see where it is that
you may have some blockages or where you see some
growth in some expansion happening in your life and consult.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
And it's more i'd.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
Say a spiritual practice for some. For others, it can
be gimmicky. It just depends on where your at in
your experience. And I do take pri in holding space
for people and giving them some clarity and some comfort
through card reading.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Oracle oracle decks aren't tarot decks.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
They're more there's all different types of oracles. Some of
them are more like spiritual so like angel cards or
numerology cards that type of thing. So I'll consult with
them and give a reading based on my intuition and
just what messages come across through the cards.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Yeah, I think I think for the for the skeptics,
which I'm I always start with the skeptics mind, which
I should rather just be beginner's mind. But maybe sometimes
it's the same thing. But I think if I find
myself like struggling whether or not to believe how something
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works or if it works, I can definitely still appreciate
that a card or a passage or a book or anything.
It's just helpful to have another human being witnessing and helping.
And I really believe in intuition and tuning what the
meaning of this could be. Yeah, you know, like like okay,
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draw a card if nothing else. And I'm not saying
it's so much more people who are more open minded,
I will be at least to be able to hear
what you think of it, you know, and will you
help me?
Speaker 4 (37:24):
It'll help.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
It'll help me see opportunities to help open uh choices.
Perhaps that it would not have considered so.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
More so than my experience doing card readings, especially for
those who are receiving readings for the first time. It's
not necessarily the cards because they don't understand what the
cards represent or they you know, if say for instance,
with Taro, there's a death card. If a death card
comes up, I'll explain to them it doesn't mean literal death.
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It means the ending of something, but also what comes
after death new life, Like life is sick. So when
something comes to an end, that means a new beginning
is on the horizon.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
And me being.
Speaker 6 (38:06):
Able to interpret and explain that and just offer wisdom
or insight into what I'm picking up from the cards.
A lot of people are then blown away from that.
So just the conversation or what comes up, a lot
of people are like, oh whoa like, or I'll say
something that they're go they'll go, oh my gosh, like
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I just heard that or I just saw that, or
I was just thinking that, And those are the moments
that are like okay. But I often preface my readings
with I come with love and light. I do not
intend any harm. This is something that I'm only doing
because you're open.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
To it or asking me to do it.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
And I don't force anyone to believe what they don't
want to believe or do what they don't want to do.
But I do offer that as an additional service and
offering for healing and connection.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
That's cool because that is a whole other depth of understanding,
like knowing what the symbolism is. That's like, that's like
a you know, canons of literature with symbolism that really
helps someone knows what they mean. Yeah, it can help
you interpret. So that's just a whole other set of
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knowledge that you have.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
Yeah, and check it out. I'm seeing my pictures. I
saw me flash up, but like, well that's me. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
We still we have seven more minutes and I know
we were towards the towards the end. We're going to
play an audio to in the show on but in
the next few minutes, what else would you like to
I mean, you have so much experience and so much compassion,
and you support so many people. What else would you
would you like to share with people right now and
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in this in this time of like I'm going to
struggle so many.
Speaker 6 (40:00):
I would say, be kind. That's my biggest message. Be kind,
show grace, give love. Those are very important things to do,
not only too and with the others, but too and
with yourself. Be kind with yourself, be kind to yourself,
give grace to yourself, show empathy. When you do that,
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when you can show up for yourself, you can show
up for others. And I think that's what more of
the world needs. We're so dysregulated and distracted and burnt
out and broken down because that's just the state of
our nation, our world right now. It's work, work, work,
do do, do, go, go go, And we have to
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be intentional about our health mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
Find community.
Speaker 6 (40:55):
Community is really important that fosters a lot of safety
and belonging. And just remember that, you know, we have
one life, and so you just have to be intentional
about finding places and spaces to be joyful, to just
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just breathe, to just relax. So if given the opportunity,
that's what I'd like to say, and cheer yourself on.
An Another thing that I'm still learning to do is
not to focus on the negatives all the time. But
if we can be so focused on things aren't going
to work out, or things they're going to continue to
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get get worse or go bad, we can also put
energy into believing that change is possible. Good change is possible,
good things can happen, good people still exist, that we're
worthy and we're deserving of love, joy, safety, happiness. So
pour pour into that bucket. Just do more of that
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and see where that shifts and change is. And that's
why I say empowerment coaching is really important because in
special education we look at deficis and we look at strengths.
So like, focus on your strengths too. Don't always look
at where you're lacking. And where you're lacking, there's always
an opportunity to grow, to learn, to do better, to
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be better. We're all human, we all fail, we all struggle,
but we can also triumph.
Speaker 4 (42:25):
So yeah, well that's beautiful. I want to replay that
every single day.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
I mean, I mean it's it's like in some ways
like oh yeah, I know to be kind to myself.
Oh yeah, you know, have grace, show grace including myself,
but it's so different when you actually do.
Speaker 6 (42:43):
It, really is. It's it's it's the proof is in
the pudding. Is that what they say, So it's it's
not just saying, it's doing. And sometimes like the world
can really get you, or life can put you in
a place where you're like no, nothing's possible. But that's
why a community is important to I have people in
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my corner that remind me of my light all the
time when things when things.
Speaker 5 (43:08):
Get dim, when they get dark.
Speaker 6 (43:10):
I have people in my life that remind me of
who I am and what I'm capable of and what
I've already done. They reflect that in me, so I'm
grateful and I try to pour back into them and
also pour back into the world with that same energy.
So I think it's it's really important for us to
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just keep trying.
Speaker 4 (43:35):
Oh, I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
I'm going to be intentional, whether it's abelut to surround
yourself with porn, to the love bucket and to the
good people bucket, focus on what you really want and yeah,
like flying places and spaces of joy. It's like, what
a good choice to make when when we feel like
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we can't do anything.
Speaker 5 (44:00):
Yeah, be mindful with your behavior.
Speaker 4 (44:02):
Yes, minding my behavior behavior.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
Yeah, I love that title that you gave us. Well,
what I'm going to do now we have like a
couple of minutes left is I'm gonna say my thank
you and my goodbyes, and then our engineer is going
to end our show with your beautiful sound audio of
some more of the found Healing sound bads.
Speaker 4 (44:25):
So thank you so much. Lauren Keeler.
Speaker 5 (44:27):
Great for showing up all your positive.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
Energy for your incredible work, for what you generate, for
your community, for the world.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
Also want to thank my honor and pleasure, thanks to
the listeners and the viewers so much for you know,
spreading the word, sharing this healing and thanks for Rebel our
engineer and our producer Dean. And maybe we all enjoy
enriching conversations and diversity and in community this week. And
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I am very grateful for our guests tonight, Lauren Keeler, and.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
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Speaker 3 (01:49):
But she's a healer among many other things, and boy,
I feel like we could really use her expertise today
every day actually, And the title of the show is
called Minding My Behavior And Lauren Keeler is my guest,
and she is a behavior specialist, mental health counselor, trainer,
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and energy healer with over twenty years of experience in
special education in a recent transition into mental health. She's
deeply passionate about fostering community connection, education and facilitating healing.
And we'll be able to get samples of a sound
bath she has pre recorded for us. It's beautiful four
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minutes that I want you to listen to and excuse me.
She also helps people learn strategies to manage stress, produce trauma, mindfulness, reframing,
goal planning, and self advocacy. She'll be able to describe
talk about regulating how we can regulate ourselves co regulate
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in our daily lives to promote stability for ourselves, our families,
our classrooms, our communities, and being self aware and practicing
self care. Lauren, thank you so much for coming. I'm
so glad you're here.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
This has been a long time in the making, so
I'm glad that we finally made it happen.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Thanks for your patients, Thank you for yours. I think
you know often when I start the show, I will
talk about current current events, and you courage people to
take action and ways that they can, whether it's making
phone calls or postcards or.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Speak, you know, talking to people who have different.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Views than them, just to start building more relationships. And
but I feel like if I started listing things today
that are concerns, it would would have to really help
me regulate even more same there's so many there's so
many things, and so I'm that are upsetting and disturbing
and sad.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
So I'm very happy.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I think your skill set is super timely our communities
and for listeners and viewers, And I just wanted to
thank you for all your work in special education.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
For twenty years I've seen you with your.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Behavioral specialist skill sets training people, and you're excellent. You
have worked with all kinds of populations. It takes a
really talented, patient, compassionate person to lead the trainings that
you do to support students who I've seen you support,
and I just I, you know, I really have to
thank you for that.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
Thank you, thank you. It's been been great. I don't
know how many years we've known each other, but I
would like to say that my time and interactions with
you and seeing you interact with others, you are so
kind and gracious and very calm and peaceful, and to
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just be out in the world how it is, it's
always appreciate, appreciated to exchange that type of energy with
someone else.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
So thank you.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
So I so want to dive into your expertise. But
what's really really important is for us to hear whatever
you would like to share about your journey. Like we
know you've had a lot of stress in the work world.
Like many others, you have experienced discrimination. It's discrimination hasn't stopped.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
No, and it hasn't mad now and you just want
to open the.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Floor for you to talk about your journey. Can you
want to share?
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Yeah, I'm from the Midwest originally, so I grew up
in Kansas, and I was raised by an amazing single
mother who strived very hard to put me in spaces
and places to create around a well rounded individual, and
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I appreciate that she also was very good about instilling
in me self confidence and keeping things plain and simple.
You know, I'm a black girl in a world where
being a girl and being black is not always the
best thing to be or consider the best thing to
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be to the mass majority and the state of the world.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Now, a lot of that is coming back into.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
The light about how people are seen and perceive just
simply for being who they are, who they were born as,
and having to basically fight to just be humanized. And
I think for me, I just kind of found my
way working into special education, and in certain districts that
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I've worked in, there's not a lot of diversity. So
I have experienced some challenges being a black woman in
the education field, and especially within my field of expertise,
which is behavior. There's not a lot of diversity, and
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that has worked in my favor in some places, and
I'm grateful to be there for students who look like
me or may also be brown or a minority of
some kind outside of their disabilities and seeing their light
and seeing their potential and just seeing them as human
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first and needing to be held and embraced and made
to feel safe and feel seen and feel understood, feel welcomed,
feel like.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Someone is in their corner and.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Sees all that they have to offer the world and
foster that and grow that and.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Love all parts of them.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
That's brought me where I am twenty years later. When
I was a little girl, I wanted to be like
a performer or a biochemist. I had all these wild,
crazy dreams of what I wanted to do, and somehow
the universe placed me here. And it's been a journey,
but I'm very grateful for everything.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Because all of.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
The challenges that I've experienced personally and the challenges that
I've seen others go through, It's made me more appreciative
of just kindness, empathy, finding ways to regulate my nervous system, to.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Advocate, and just connect.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
I really love connecting with other people from any and
every background.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
I just enjoy human Now.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Some of them can be a little, a little testy,
a little challenging, and said in their ways. We all
can be, but overall, like I really do believe that
it's humans. There's a lot of greatness in us that
with the right people around us or with the right support,
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we can really blossom into amazing individuals. And I'm continuing
to learn and grow every day. And yeah, I'm just
that's pretty much my story.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Wow, thank you, Oh my gosh, it's just such a
beautiful human being. Thank you for just like following whatever
you're wherever your inner voice brought you. And that's so
much to work against those negative messages that are just
fake and not real, but that we can internalize. And
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you've just really found a way of knowing the truth
and sticking with it. And I love that you said
talked about like surrounding yourself with people and the way
you validate students, it's like so beautiful seeing them with
such respect.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
We all deserve it. Yeah, we're all here.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
We all deserve to be loved and embraced, respected, honored,
given compassion and empathy. And really for me, it's communication,
having a voice and actually feeling heard and understood. Working
with kids that aren't able to talk, they communicate a
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lot through their behaviors, and so it's what are they
trying to tell us? What is it that they're saying?
What is it that they need? What is it that
they want to express? And so it's really it's really important.
I appreciate having a voice, and I appreciate feeling heard
and feeling understood and seen. And I just think if
we had that understanding as people wherever we.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Go, whatever, wherever we work, that the world would definitely
be a better place.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
So did you would you say that stress drove you
to transition to find healing as a new avenue.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Yes, I would say stress definitely. That comes with life.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
I think as we grow and we mature and we adult,
adult thing comes with its own challenges. You know, we
have to find ways to regulate. Life comes at you
fast and quick. You know, illness, death, the ends of relationships, work, stress, bills.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
All of it.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
You know, it comes at you fast. And I think
in my thirties I really got to experience a lot of,
you know, life challenges with family members falling ill and
having to take time off from work to be there
for family. Working in special education. For those who don't
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work in education, I think, you know, they have a
perception that it's just kids.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
How bad can it be?
Speaker 6 (12:22):
But when you work in education, a lot of these
kids are showing up and we're co parenting.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
In a sense.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
You know, we're nurses, we're social workers, we're counselors, we're teachers,
we're friends, we're family. So we have to show up
and wear so many different hats and really help shape
and form these little human beings into adults. So I've
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worked with students from the time they were in elementary
school all the way through high school graduation and seeing
them go through life and me experienced seeing my own
life challenges and advocating for them to receive supports and
services and teaching them coping strategy skills. I came to
an understanding that I can't just tell them like I
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have to demonstrate for them. I have to model I
am teaching them. And I started just pursuing different ways
of becoming a better person, of healing internally and externally,
and kind of I feel like when I started seeking
that it came to me, or it found me, that
community found me just naturally. I was introduced to people
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who introduced me to more people who were in healing networks,
breaking masters, sound healers, massage, therapists, therapists, all types of people,
and they lit something up inside of me, like I
had never attended to sound healing, and then I was
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invited to one. Then I was invited to another one,
and then one day I was handed the mallet and
said you try it, you play, and I'm like me what?
And then I struck that bowl and something inside of
me just lit up, And eventually, you know, I was like, hmm,
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if I'm going to invest in something, what do I want?
And I bought a set of bowls, and then I
bought a drum, and I bought chimes, and I just
kept growing it, and I was invited again to more
spaces to heal, help heal, and coregulate, and here I
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am today. I mean, that's really where I find my
piece is when I'm able to just share that with
other people and see them experience a lightness, to experience
some safety, some comfort, some relief and release. I've seen
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people fall asleep during sound healings. I've seen people cry.
I've had people come up to me after and go,
I don't know what that was or what happened, but
I went somewhere else, and it's like to be able
to disconnect from the chaos, whether it's the chaos that's
within your own life or just the chaos of the world.
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Even if it's momentary, it does something to you. It
lightens your load and you're able to be able to go, Okay,
this is hard, but I can make it through. Or
there's always a tomorrow. Just start seeing and feeling differently.
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We're positive experiences and that's what I've seen, and I
just that's what I've experienced personally, and I love.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
That for me.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
I love it that I get to do something awesome that
helps other people, but it also heals me, So I
love that.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
I love that for me.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
That's so important because you couldn't be healing other people
if you weren't healing yourself exactly.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
That's critical.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I'm so eager.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
But before we play that, before rebel Our Founded in
replays the video, the bowls are beautiful time. You do
an incredible job. It got to experience this person and
it's just very powerful. But can you just say for
listeners and viewers who are not familiar with the term
regulate and coregulate, I'm not sure it's completely common understanding yet,
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But what does that mean.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
When I speak with my students. I've we've simplified it
in a behavioral standpoint of how's my engine running? So,
how's your engine running right now? Are you a little anxious?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Are you? Are you? Is your engine running fast and hot?
You know?
Speaker 6 (16:58):
How's your whole body feel? Are you breathing normally? Are
you able to sit and relax? Are you able to rest?
When I say are you breathing? I don't mean like,
are you just alive? Because we all breathe to stay alive.
If we're not breathing, we're unconscious, possibly not alive. But
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are you able to take in a deep breath and
just feel your body relaxed and calm? And I'll tell
you that most people aren't able to report that their
engine is running or at a normal rate, or that
they're regulated.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
That's what I mean by that.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Our nervous system, our whole computer, our internal computer, you know,
tells us I'm safe or I'm not safe. I'm happy
or I'm angry. These are all signs of regulation or dysregulation.
We're animals, so you know, if we feel unsafe, we
tend to act out. We fight, we go into flight mode,
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we fawn, We freeze. These are all signs of dysregulation,
and for a lot of us, the triggers or what
sets us off can look very different. It could be
something in our environment. It could be a surprising event
or an expected event, a change in our.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Schedules or our routines.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
It could be someone being disruptive or aggressive, or something
towards you or around you. There's many ways that we
can become dysregulated. It could also be something simple like
not getting enough rest or sleep, not having enough food
in our bodies, being dehydrated. These are all signs that
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we are possibly dysregulated. So from a behavioral perspective, I
often go when a studentess have a rough day, well
are their basic needs being met? Have they eaten? Did
they get enough sleep? Have they had too much screen time?
Was their routine disrupted? And trying to figure out what
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it is, and then go, Okay, maybe we should give
them a snack, Maybe we should give them a break,
Let's give them some water, Let's offer them a walk,
let's model some deep breathing for them, Let's do a
sensory activity.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
And these are all great ways.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
To regulate in the moment, and as adults, I think
we just don't honor ourselves in the same way. We
just have all been kind of trained to just go, go, go,
go go, and it's like I'm grown, I should be
able to handle this, or I should be able to
do that, no problem. But there comes a time where
our engine goes nope, and it just stops and it
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shuts down. It could come in the form of illness,
it could come in the form of your back going out,
you know, something oftentimes will just sit us down and
force us to regulate.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Well, thank god, that's really helpful. Thanks so much. I
love the tangible examples you gave, and just to reiterate
what you said, we would all.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Benefit from any of those things.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Drinking at my thirsty drink water, of taking a walk,
am I hungry? Just tuning in and listening to your
body more than that, you said that very eloquently.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Yeah, I just really feel like to me, it's even
though I work in the field and I do this
on a daily day, day to day basis, it still
took a while for me to have that aha moment
of like I should be practicing what I preach, you know,
and find my coping strategies and how I can regulate
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and you know, and it helps me co regulate with
other people when I show up calm with my cup
is full. When I'm regulated, I can walk into a
setting or engage with someone who's disregulated and have them
instead of meeting them where they're at bringing them down.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yeah, it makes me better at anything anything else I
want to do.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
If I.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Remember to regulate or just calm down, I'm going to
be better no matter what I'm doing.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
I'm sure.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
I got to do that laundry. What could I do.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Better for everyone around me?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Well, let's ask Rebel to play the video of you.
Do you want to say anything about it? Before she starts?
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Yeah, I would just invite listeners to find a cozy spot.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
This is a short video.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
I typically do thirty to sixty minute sound healings, and
I don't have all my instruments here. I was only
able to play my bulls. But just settle in, take
a few deep breaths, close your eyes, and really just
be present.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
That's the best way.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
To experience sound healing and to benefit from it, school.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Or anything.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Oh that.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
That is very relaxing, Thank you, it is.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
I enjoy receiving the healings too. I love when I
get to lay down and close my eyes.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I have a couple of questions that came up by
experiencing that. One is wondering is each is ever sound
about different variation.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Yes, I don't have like sheet music or anything for it,
so it oftentimes is just me kind of getting in
the zone and playing to my audience and just moving
wherever the mallets take me. I again, have other instruments
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that I incorporate in my sound healings, such as a
wave drum which sounds like ocean waves. I have chimes,
I have a drum. So each instrument kind of speaks
to your nervous system and to your body differently. Each
bowl has its own sound, as you could hear, and
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they're meant to kind of tap into different chakras throughout
your body, starting with your crown all the way down
to your root. So yeah, they're they're all very different.
And I just let the bulls do the talking or
the singing.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I noticed the different colors of the bulls that was
connected to what is considered the colors of chakras.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Yes, yes, for the seven main chakras.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
And so then that's a system that sort of depicts
like would you say as chakras like an energy center,
how would you describe?
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Yes, I would say they were our energy centers throughout
our body, like tapping into different parts of ourself and
our psychees. So for like the crown chakra and the
third eye that taps into more of our spiritual selves,
our throat chakras are tied to our ability to speak
(29:11):
our truth. Our heart chakra is more of our feeler,
just as the heart's meant to feel, so some of
our I don't know if the you or the audience
has heard of reiki, but reiki is kind of an
energetic healing or cleansing of the chakras, kind of clearing
things out that may be blocking your ability to see
(29:34):
or feel clearly to be able to use your voice.
So that ties into with the chakras as well. But yeah,
there's different Different chakras represent different parts of ourselves that
need to be aligned so that we can operate as
our whole selves, our best selves in life and in
(29:56):
this world.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Have you found that.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Sound healing is part of different cultures, doesn't originate from
one place.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Yes, a lot of different cultures use sound healing it's
mainly it comes from mainly the Asian culture. So there's
like the Tibetan bowls, which are the brass bowls.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
That a lot of people are familiar with.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
They have a different sound quality but also can be
healing and resonate with different parts of your system your body.
But several different cultures and I didn't know this, but
people from all around the world are very familiar with
these more holistic somewhat spiritual, depending on where you're at
(30:48):
with your spirituality spiritual practices. So it's used for grounding,
for healing, for meditation, all of these things. Again to
write late and bring about some peace, some clarity, rest.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Do you find that you are receiving when you're giving,
like when you're creating a sound bath. Do you feel
that you yourself are experiencing the clearing and the regulating.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
I do. I feel like I co regulate with the group.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
The more I get into the instrument, I have different responses.
My favorite instrument outside of the bulls is the wave
drum that sounds like the ocean.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
I love hearing the.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Crash of waves against against the sand, against the rocks,
So it just kind of like brings me to a
space of a feeling present and just peaceful, and I
enjoy as I'm sound healing. Sometimes I'll step away from
the bowls and do different instruments, and I love seeing
(31:56):
people breathe at a slower rate and experience some calm,
to see some of them actually resting or sleeping, probably
for the first time in a while, and that brings
about some calm for me as well. I find myself coregulating,
but there's nothing like just being able to lay there
or sit there and receive. It's the best thing ever,
(32:19):
So I do enjoy that too. I enjoy those opportunities
as well.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Well.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Speaking of those opportunities, I'm curious about like how accessible
it is for people, which makes me think about asking
you an update on like a healing center that you
and your sister.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Yes, So I do collaborate very often with my spiritual
sister Ayanna Jennings. She has a a healing space in
downtown midtown Sacramento. It's called Nouvelle Healing nou the ell
(33:02):
E Healing, and it's on Capitol and Nineteenth. It is
a smaller space and we're hoping to grow it, but
she offers reiki and massage and sound healings. We also
participate in different events together or separately to provide services
(33:24):
or healing services. So we're in the process, still trying
to grow, but at the same time, we're still doing
things and I'm really proud of what she's doing currently.
She has a reiki class now and has a great
cohort of healers in there, and she is continuing to
(33:47):
collaborate with different businesses throughout the Sacramento area. You can
find novel just by googling it Novell Healing. It's also
on Instagram as Nouvell Healing. And I myself am working
on creating a mobile service for sound healing, and I'm
(34:10):
working under the name of Behavior Collective.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
So for more information and direct contact with.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
Me, you can go to but Behavior b e h
a v io r collective dot net, and my services
are listed there you can reach out for sound healing.
I also do some behavior slash empowerment coaching, so just
helping people kind of figure out where in their lives
(34:40):
they'd like to regulate their behaviors and maybe create some
goals for behavior change and just support and empower them
to do so. And I also provide card readings as well,
So kind of card reading I do, oracle and taro
m hm.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
And can you say with that that means yes please.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
I don't often, I don't often advertise it a ton publicly,
but tarot reading it's something not for not everyone is
into it, but it's a way for us to use
tarot tarot decks to just kind of sort through what's
going on. It's a way of like taking a look
(35:31):
in by pulling cards to see where it is that
you may have some blockages or where you see some
growth in some expansion happening in your life and consult.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
And it's more i'd.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
Say a spiritual practice for some. For others, it can
be gimmicky. It just depends on where your at in
your experience. And I do take pri in holding space
for people and giving them some clarity and some comfort
through card reading.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Oracle oracle decks aren't tarot decks.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
They're more there's all different types of oracles. Some of
them are more like spiritual so like angel cards or
numerology cards that type of thing. So I'll consult with
them and give a reading based on my intuition and
just what messages come across through the cards.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Yeah, I think I think for the for the skeptics,
which I'm I always start with the skeptics mind, which
I should rather just be beginner's mind. But maybe sometimes
it's the same thing. But I think if I find
myself like struggling whether or not to believe how something
(36:53):
works or if it works, I can definitely still appreciate
that a card or a passage or a book or anything.
It's just helpful to have another human being witnessing and helping.
And I really believe in intuition and tuning what the
meaning of this could be. Yeah, you know, like like okay,
(37:13):
draw a card if nothing else. And I'm not saying
it's so much more people who are more open minded,
I will be at least to be able to hear
what you think of it, you know, and will you
help me?
Speaker 4 (37:24):
It'll help.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
It'll help me see opportunities to help open uh choices.
Perhaps that it would not have considered so.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
More so than my experience doing card readings, especially for
those who are receiving readings for the first time. It's
not necessarily the cards because they don't understand what the
cards represent or they you know, if say for instance,
with Taro, there's a death card. If a death card
comes up, I'll explain to them it doesn't mean literal death.
(37:53):
It means the ending of something, but also what comes
after death new life, Like life is sick. So when
something comes to an end, that means a new beginning
is on the horizon.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
And me being.
Speaker 6 (38:06):
Able to interpret and explain that and just offer wisdom
or insight into what I'm picking up from the cards.
A lot of people are then blown away from that.
So just the conversation or what comes up, a lot
of people are like, oh whoa like, or I'll say
something that they're go they'll go, oh my gosh, like
(38:26):
I just heard that or I just saw that, or
I was just thinking that, And those are the moments
that are like okay. But I often preface my readings
with I come with love and light. I do not
intend any harm. This is something that I'm only doing
because you're open.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
To it or asking me to do it.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
And I don't force anyone to believe what they don't
want to believe or do what they don't want to do.
But I do offer that as an additional service and
offering for healing and connection.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
That's cool because that is a whole other depth of understanding,
like knowing what the symbolism is. That's like, that's like
a you know, canons of literature with symbolism that really
helps someone knows what they mean. Yeah, it can help
you interpret. So that's just a whole other set of
(39:23):
knowledge that you have.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
Yeah, and check it out. I'm seeing my pictures. I
saw me flash up, but like, well that's me. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
We still we have seven more minutes and I know
we were towards the towards the end. We're going to
play an audio to in the show on but in
the next few minutes, what else would you like to
I mean, you have so much experience and so much compassion,
and you support so many people. What else would you
would you like to share with people right now and
(39:55):
in this in this time of like I'm going to
struggle so many.
Speaker 6 (40:00):
I would say, be kind. That's my biggest message. Be kind,
show grace, give love. Those are very important things to do,
not only too and with the others, but too and
with yourself. Be kind with yourself, be kind to yourself,
give grace to yourself, show empathy. When you do that,
(40:23):
when you can show up for yourself, you can show
up for others. And I think that's what more of
the world needs. We're so dysregulated and distracted and burnt
out and broken down because that's just the state of
our nation, our world right now. It's work, work, work,
do do, do, go, go go, And we have to
(40:46):
be intentional about our health mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
Find community.
Speaker 6 (40:55):
Community is really important that fosters a lot of safety
and belonging. And just remember that, you know, we have
one life, and so you just have to be intentional
about finding places and spaces to be joyful, to just
(41:16):
just breathe, to just relax. So if given the opportunity,
that's what I'd like to say, and cheer yourself on.
An Another thing that I'm still learning to do is
not to focus on the negatives all the time. But
if we can be so focused on things aren't going
to work out, or things they're going to continue to
(41:36):
get get worse or go bad, we can also put
energy into believing that change is possible. Good change is possible,
good things can happen, good people still exist, that we're
worthy and we're deserving of love, joy, safety, happiness. So
pour pour into that bucket. Just do more of that
(41:57):
and see where that shifts and change is. And that's
why I say empowerment coaching is really important because in
special education we look at deficis and we look at strengths.
So like, focus on your strengths too. Don't always look
at where you're lacking. And where you're lacking, there's always
an opportunity to grow, to learn, to do better, to
(42:19):
be better. We're all human, we all fail, we all struggle,
but we can also triumph.
Speaker 4 (42:25):
So yeah, well that's beautiful. I want to replay that
every single day.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
I mean, I mean it's it's like in some ways
like oh yeah, I know to be kind to myself.
Oh yeah, you know, have grace, show grace including myself,
but it's so different when you actually do.
Speaker 6 (42:43):
It, really is. It's it's it's the proof is in
the pudding. Is that what they say, So it's it's
not just saying, it's doing. And sometimes like the world
can really get you, or life can put you in
a place where you're like no, nothing's possible. But that's
why a community is important to I have people in
(43:03):
my corner that remind me of my light all the
time when things when things.
Speaker 5 (43:08):
Get dim, when they get dark.
Speaker 6 (43:10):
I have people in my life that remind me of
who I am and what I'm capable of and what
I've already done. They reflect that in me, so I'm
grateful and I try to pour back into them and
also pour back into the world with that same energy.
So I think it's it's really important for us to
(43:32):
just keep trying.
Speaker 4 (43:35):
Oh, I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
I'm going to be intentional, whether it's abelut to surround
yourself with porn, to the love bucket and to the
good people bucket, focus on what you really want and yeah,
like flying places and spaces of joy. It's like, what
a good choice to make when when we feel like
(43:58):
we can't do anything.
Speaker 5 (44:00):
Yeah, be mindful with your behavior.
Speaker 4 (44:02):
Yes, minding my behavior behavior.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
Yeah, I love that title that you gave us. Well,
what I'm going to do now we have like a
couple of minutes left is I'm gonna say my thank
you and my goodbyes, and then our engineer is going
to end our show with your beautiful sound audio of
some more of the found Healing sound bads.
Speaker 4 (44:25):
So thank you so much. Lauren Keeler.
Speaker 5 (44:27):
Great for showing up all your positive.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
Energy for your incredible work, for what you generate, for
your community, for the world.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
Also want to thank my honor and pleasure, thanks to
the listeners and the viewers so much for you know,
spreading the word, sharing this healing and thanks for Rebel our
engineer and our producer Dean. And maybe we all enjoy
enriching conversations and diversity and in community this week. And
(44:58):
on that note, we'll allot on your healing sounds.
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