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Jay Shetty Podcast

Lauren London ON: Trauma, Spirituality & How to Recover From Loss

Jay Shetty chats with Lauren London about her spiritual journey and healing. She shares how the tragic death of her partner has helped strengthen her faith, dealing with things that are out of your control, using her pain to help and serve…

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Feb 28, 202249mWatch on YouTube

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Welcome and Lauren London's Spiritual Journey
Jay Shetty introduces Lauren London and her career, then asks how she found grace and spiritual connection. Lauren describes a traumatic childhood, an early connection to God, and a deeper personal relationship with God after Nip's passing.
- •Jay introduces Lauren's film and television work and her upcoming projects
- •Lauren had a traumatic childhood but felt very connected to God at an early age
- •She lost some of that connection growing up and was reintroduced to God in early adulthood
- •After Nip passed, she wanted to know God personally and understand her purpose
- •She chose to survive and thrive through the grace of God
Childhood Lessons on Betrayal and Depending on God
Lauren explains what she learned early about betrayal, being alone, and relying on God rather than the adults around her. She also reflects on the hard lesson that her parents were only human.
- •Her parents were very young and did the best they could with the tools they had
- •As an only child surrounded by violence, she learned she could only depend on God
- •Faith carried her through childhood and adulthood
- •Accepting that her parents were just humans was a hard lesson
Acting Out, Looking for Shelter, and the Dream That Changed Her Life
Jay asks about looking for shelter in the wrong places. Lauren describes how her faith dwindled, how she acted out in adolescence and got kicked out of high school, and how a dream at 19 led her to church.
- •She looked outside herself for validation and lacked self-worth
- •Around 14 or 15 she began expressing everything she had internalized, including drinking, smoking, and skipping school
- •She went from an honors student to being kicked out of high school
- •A dream at 19 in which she died led her to drive to church that Sunday, and her life changed
Divine Protection and Learning to Trust Being Alone
Lauren explains that ultimate comfort and protection come from a higher power, and that trauma challenges one's relationship with God. Jay discusses how we treat being alone as a weakness, and Lauren says she was pushed into real communication with God after losing her partner.
- •Lauren says ultimate protection is divine, even though she has family and friends who protect her
- •Trauma can challenge your relationship with God and your sense of being safe
- •Jay says being alone does not mean abandonment
- •Lauren says she had no choice but to trust God after her son's father passed
- •Applying what you read is different from just reading it
The Ultimate Lesson in Surrender and Control
Jay praises Lauren as a mother and asks what it feels like to have a picture of life torn apart. Lauren describes it as the ultimate lesson in surrender, letting go and flowing with the river.
- •Planning and setting intentions are good, but when plans are derailed it becomes a test of surrender
- •She still has a purpose and mission after losing the head of the household
- •She gave God her idea of how her life should be
- •Surrender is powerful rather than weak
- •She would rather flow with the river than fight the rocks
A Relationship Built on Spirituality and Community
Lauren shares what people didn't know about her relationship with Nipsey: a shared love of books, a bond rooted in the quest for truth, and an intention to contribute to their community. Jay says this makes a good North Star for relationships.
- •He was a spiritual intellectual and she a spiritual emotional person, seen in their books
- •They talked about their individual relationships with God and their purposes
- •Their relationship was more spiritual than anything else
- •They set an intention about how their union would contribute to the community
Masculine and Feminine Energy
Lauren talks about how everyone has both masculine and feminine energy and how she has been opening up to her feminine side. Jay shares a story about being told he was balanced, and Lauren describes feminine energy as creativity and intuition.
- •Everyone has both energies within them
- •Lauren often operates from her masculine side and is opening to her feminine side
- •It is okay to nurture one side more than the other
- •Feminine energy is creativity and intuition
Returning to Acting with Without Remorse
Lauren explains why she nearly stopped acting: the audition process, rejection, and politics no longer aligned with what she sought. She returned for Without Remorse because she could play the role authentically, and Jay describes this as turning pain into purpose.
- •The rejection and politics of the industry no longer matched what she wanted
- •She did not want to be fake or give less than her real self to a project
- •Michael encouraged her to just read the script
- •The role resonated because her character passes and keeps communicating with him spiritually
- •She wanted alignment rather than ease
Service, Healing, and Setting Intentions
Lauren describes working with Life Camp and how helping others who lost loved ones to gun violence made her feel less alone. She and Jay discuss giving when you feel you have nothing to give, small acts of service, and how Lauren sets intentions and protects her energy on set.
- •Lauren believes service is our purpose
- •Working with Life Camp showed her how connected people are through their stories
- •She wants to transmute her pain into purpose
- •Jay says small local acts of service change lives, including your own
- •On set she sets intentions and uses music, incense, sage, and prayer so her environment is influenced by her
Lessons from Her Sons and Parenting Values
Lauren says she has learned more from her sons than they will learn from her, citing Cam's vulnerability and Cross's fearless freedom. She shares the values she instills, including integrity, honesty, self-acceptance, and good karma, and Jay reflects on effort and results.
- •Cam's easy vulnerability shows her the strength in an open heart
- •Cross teaches her the freedom of being herself
- •She instills integrity, honor, honesty, and full self-acceptance
- •She tells Cam to show up and show out rather than worry about acing a test
- •She teaches the idea of a karma bank
Finding Joy in Simple Things and Meaningful Creation
Asked what excites her now, Lauren talks about creating inspirational content, her Puma clothing lines and the intention behind them, and the small everyday things that bring her joy. Jay chats about the Forever Stronger line.
- •She enjoys creating inspirational or motivational content
- •She wants the intention behind her Puma clothes to matter, not just the clothes
- •Sundays are for devotional service and learning about God
- •She finds big joy in a comfortable room with her kids, clean socks, fresh sheets, friends, and music
Celebrating Others and Letting Go of Competition
Jay asks how Lauren handles the competition and comparison that industries create. Lauren describes living in a spirit of celebration and abundance, and Jay offers a house-prices analogy for how a community wins together.
- •Lauren recalls Reverend Michael's teaching about the spirit of celebration
- •Celebrating others' wins invites more to celebrate in your own life
- •She believes there is enough to go around in an abundant universe
- •Jay says that when people in your space win, the space wins
- •A competitive mindset blocks your own blessings
Final Five and Closing
Lauren answers the show's Final Five questions in a sentence each, covering advice, purpose, values, and a law she would make. Jay thanks her and closes the episode.
- •Best advice: what you give out to the world, you keep
- •Worst advice: treating someone like a possession you must keep
- •Her current purpose is transmuting pain into purpose
- •She no longer values designer clothes the way she used to
- •She would impose much harsher punishment on child abusers

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