Living From Your Soul: Helen Lavretsky and Dawson Church in Conversation

Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS, is an integrative psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and a professor of psychiatry at UCLA. She directs clinical and research programs in integrative mental health. She serves as a Director of Research for the UCLA Integrative Medicine Collaborative. She is the author of Living from the Soul: The Neuroscience of Spiritual Awakening.

Here she and Dawson discuss:

When you bring in the soul it changes everything

Helen's background

How our bodies have the ability to express light

Why human awakening is happening in steps because it’s too much to handle

Self-regulation

Being open to the possibility of the existence of your soul

The ways caregivers realize that they’re never alone

Brain health

Encouraging psychiatry to include self-healing and soul perspective

Viewing stress and trauma as information for the soul’s evolution