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What if your intuition was the key to rewriting your story?

In this illuminating episode of The Big Silence, Karena sits down with bestselling author and renowned intuitive Laura Day, whose new book The Prism: Seven Steps to Heal Your Past and Transform Your Future offers a groundbreaking roadmap for change. From a traumatic childhood and family loss to becoming a sought-after healer for global leaders and celebrities, Laura opens up about how she turned survival into spiritual alchemy, proving that transformation is not about escaping your past. It’s about learning to use it as your light source.

How Do You Heal the Parts of You That Formed Before You Could Choose Them?

Our early experiences shape us long before we’re aware of them. Laura shares how understanding the ego’s formation can help us rewrite our internal programming.

(1:00) The Prism and the Power of the “I”

• The Prism is about reclaiming the much-maligned ego, the “machinery” that allows us to create our world
• By age seven, our ego is fully formed; from there, every challenge becomes a catalyst for change.
• Why change should be taught in second grade
• The ego isn’t the enemy of spirituality; it’s the structure that gives creation shape.

(06:00) Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and the Parentified Child

• Becoming the adult at age five for her younger siblings
• The difference between being a motherless child and a parentified child, and how early responsibility shapes identity
• Normalized a chaotic environment 
• Building resilience through trauma, and observing life rather than collapsing into it

(14:00) Intuition, Empathy, and Doing the Work

• Why empathy is “a psychiatric illness”
• True healing comes not from identifying with others’ pain but from finding solutions for them.
• “Understanding comes five years after you’ve solved the problem.”
• Small, tangible shifts, the “doing”, over endless introspection

(21:00) Moving Through Pain: Tiny Goals and Practical Healing

• When life feels unbearable, start with small, manageable goals
• “Deal with the mammal first.” Care for your physical body before chasing spiritual breakthroughs.
• Hope doesn’t precede healing; it follows it. You don’t have to feel better to start acting better.
• “You won’t find hope in the depths of your misery. You’ll find it in movement.”

(29:00) Love, Trust, and Boundaries

• Love is a choice, not blind faith: “Trust means belief without evidence. I have evidence of my love.”
• Learning boundaries later in life and how porosity versus structure is a lifelong balance.
• Avoid “magical thinking” in relationships. Build proof, not fantasy.
• The healthiest relationships are co-created and constantly evolving

(31:00) Turning Intuition Into Impact

• How predicting major business outcomes and aiding in medical breakthroughs became her life’s work
• Intuition is not mystical — it’s mechanical: “We are machines in a mechanical world. Change how you operate, and your world changes.”
• The Prism offers practical exercises for identifying where you feel discomfort and taking one small, different action.
• You don’t need to understand your trauma to heal it. You just need to do something new.

(48:00) Living What You Teach

• How she lives in constant creation, even after surviving deep trauma and loss.
• Transformation doesn’t come from perfection. It comes from doing one tiny brave thing differently each day.
• “What you want is the indicator, not what’s happened to you.”

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Guest Resources

• Read the book: The Prism: Seven Steps to Heal Your Past and Transform Your Future
• Visit her website: LauraDay.com
• Find her on Instagram @lauradayintuit
• Send an Email: [email protected]

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