Embodied Love Podcast

In this deeply nourishing conversation, I sit down with the beautiful Cherisse Dahlia to explore the journey of healing, motherhood, sovereignty, and what it truly means to come back to yourself.

Cherisse shares her extraordinary story of navigating childhood trauma, autoimmune illness, burnout, infertility, and the profound initiations that ultimately led her home to her body, her truth, and the surprise blessing of motherhood.

Together, we explore:

• ​ The subtle ways we self-abandon to stay safe, keep the peace, and gain approval
• Why true healing often happens as a byproduct of deep self-connection rather than trying to "fix" ourselves
• Cultivating inner safety and learning to trust yourself through life's uncertainties
• Falling in love with the void and the seasons where life seems to be falling apart
• Motherhood as a powerful catalyst for remembering who you truly are
• Finding your voice, setting boundaries, and reclaiming your sovereignty
• The role of curiosity, play, and presence in creating a more alive and meaningful life
• How to hold both the discomfort and the beauty of the human experience at the same time

This conversation is a gentle reminder that perhaps you are not broken, lost, or in need of fixing.

Perhaps you are simply being invited to release what is no longer true, trust the unfolding, and remember who you have been beneath it all.

If you've been moving through a season of uncertainty, transition, healing, or motherhood, this episode will feel like a warm exhale and an invitation to embrace the fullness of your human experience.

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Monique Carmela is a conscious relationship and embodiment guide, supporting women to heal the patterns that keep them disconnected from themselves, their relationships, and their deepest truth. Through nervous system regulation, conscious communication, somatic healing, and heart-led living, she helps women cultivate deeper connection, emotional safety, self-trust, and authentic expression.

Connect with Monique: Website: ⁠moniquecarmela.com⁠⁠Facebook Community⁠⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠Facebook

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There comes a point on every growth journey where we realise that something no longer fits.

Not because it's bad. Not because anyone has done anything wrong. But because something within us knows that a deeper level of alignment is calling.

In this heartfelt conversation with Jannine MacKinnon, we explore the uncomfortable yet transformative space between knowing something needs to change and finding the courage to act on it.

Together, we dive into:

• ​How to recognise when something is no longer in alignment
• ​The hidden energy leaks that keep us feeling stuck, drained, and disconnected
• ​Why hard conversations often feel so difficult for the nervous system
• ​The freeze response and what to do when you physically can't find your voice
• ​Building self-trust through small, consistent acts of self-honouring
• ​Navigating conflict without abandoning yourself or the relationship
• ​The difference between seeking quick resolution and creating true connection
• ​Why discomfort can be a portal to deeper intimacy, growth, and authenticity
• ​Learning to trust your body's nudges and intuition
• ​Creating a life, relationships, and reality that genuinely reflect your values

This episode is a powerful reminder that self-trust isn't built in one giant leap. It's cultivated through the small moments where you honour your truth, listen to your body, and choose alignment over comfort.

If you've been sitting with a difficult decision, avoiding a conversation, or feeling the nudge that something needs to shift, this conversation is for you.

With love,

Monique Carmela

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What if the life you're longing for isn't found through fixing yourself, but through remembering who you truly are?

In this deeply expansive conversation, I sit down with Allura to explore her extraordinary spiritual awakening journey, including a profound out-of-body experience, a Kundalini awakening, and the insights that completely transformed the way she understands consciousness, trauma, healing, and human evolution.

Together, we dive into:

• ​Why so many people feel trapped in repetitive emotional and relationship patterns
• ​The deeper roots of trauma beyond mindset work and positive thinking
• ​The core wounds of feeling unloved, unworthy, and unseen
• ​Why your pain isn't the problem—it's often the doorway to liberation
• ​The difference between nervous system regulation and nervous system stretching
• ​How healing can become another trauma loop when we believe something is wrong with us
• ​The illusion of separation and our return to wholeness
• ​Spiritual bypassing, identity shifting, and the traps that keep us disconnected from ourselves
• ​Money, abundance, and why true fulfillment can never come from external achievements
• ​The power of community, conscious evolution, and learning to trust your own path

This conversation is a beautiful reminder that you are not broken, you do not need fixing, and there is no single "right" path to healing. The journey is one of returning to yourself, reconnecting with your innate wholeness, and allowing life to be experienced more fully.

Whether you're navigating a spiritual awakening, moving through old trauma patterns, or simply feeling called into a deeper relationship with yourself, this episode offers a powerful invitation to soften, explore, and remember the love that exists beneath it all.

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Monique Carmela is a conscious relationship and embodiment guide, supporting women to heal the patterns that keep them disconnected from themselves, their relationships, and their deepest truth. Through nervous system regulation, conscious communication, somatic healing, and heart-led living, she helps women cultivate deeper connection, emotional safety, self-trust, and authentic expression.

Connect with Monique:Website: moniquecarmela.comFacebook CommunityInstagram | Facebook

⁠Connect with Allura⁠:

Allura Halliwell is a consciousness mentor and transformational guide whose radical awakening in 2018 catapulted her into a lifelong mission: helping others reconnect with the truth of who they are.

Formerly a stay-at-home mother of three, Allura's life changed forever after a spontaneous out-of-body experience at a meditation retreat left her seeing the energetic fabric of reality. The experience dissolved her former identity and birthed a new purpose—to guide others to profound reconnection, which she does now through her signature modality, The Consciousness Method™.

Allura now helps spiritual seekers who feel "stuck" despite years of personal development, healing work, or spiritual practice. Her work sits in the pivotal space between internal healing and external creation—the "interface," as she calls it—teaching clients how to align with widespectrum consciousness to access sovereignty, clarity, and meaningful transformation in all areas of life.

Have you ever found yourself having the same argument with your partner over and over again?

You want to feel seen. You want to feel heard. You want to resolve what's happening and move forward. But somehow the conversation spirals, emotions escalate, and both of you walk away feeling even more disconnected.

In this episode, I'm exploring what is really happening beneath relationship triggers and why trying to resolve things in the heat of activation often creates more rupture instead of repair.

Inspired by a conversation with a client who found herself caught in a repetitive cycle of arguments, we dive into:

• ​ Why triggered conversations rarely lead to true resolution• The stories we create when our partner can't meet us in the way we desire• How unprocessed emotions keep repeating the same relationship patterns• The importance of pausing and creating space when activation is present• Learning to meet your own needs without abandoning your desire for connection• Why healing isn't about never being triggered again• How to move from blame, projection, and pressure into curiosity, compassion, and self-leadership• The hidden medicine available inside every activation

This conversation is a reminder that your triggers are not proof that something is wrong with you, your partner, or your relationship. They are invitations into deeper awareness, greater capacity, and a more loving relationship with yourself.

If you've been feeling frustrated by recurring patterns in your relationship, this episode will support you to slow down, soften, and discover a new way of relating to the contractions that arise on the path of love.

✨ Connect with me at moniquecarmela.com.

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Monique Carmela is a conscious relationship mentor, somatic healing facilitator, and guide devoted to helping women heal the patterns that keep them disconnected from themselves, their truth, and the love they desire.

Through her work, she supports people to regulate their nervous systems, deepen self-trust, cultivate conscious relationships, and lead from the wisdom of the heart. Through her programs, coaching, and the Embodied Love Podcast, Monique creates transformative spaces for healing, embodiment, authentic expression, and lasting inner change.

What if balance isn't something we achieve, but something we learn to dance with?

In this heartfelt conversation, I sit down with Hannah Corcoran—mother, entrepreneur, former lawyer, homeschooler, and freedom seeker—to explore the realities of navigating motherhood, business, relationships, personal growth, and the ever-changing seasons of life.

Together, we unpack the pressure many women feel to "hold it all," the conditioning that keeps us trapped in productivity and perfectionism, and the powerful shift that happens when we begin honouring the season we're actually in.

We explore:

• ​ Why balance looks different in every phase of life• The journey of becoming rather than constantly striving to arrive• Building self-trust and learning to follow your intuition• Navigating guilt, scarcity, and the pressure to do it all• The importance of support, community, and receiving help• Moving beyond martyrdom and victim consciousness• Creating a life by design rather than default• How motherhood can become a powerful catalyst for personal growth• Trusting your dreams and becoming the woman who can hold them

This conversation is a beautiful reminder that there is no perfect blueprint. There is only the next aligned step, the willingness to trust yourself, and the courage to create a life that feels true for you.

If you've been feeling stretched, unsupported, stuck between competing priorities, or questioning what's next for you, this episode offers a powerful invitation back to your own wisdom.

Your life doesn't need to look like anyone else's. You get to create a version that honours your values, your dreams, and the season you're in.

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Monique Carmela is a conscious relationship and embodiment guide, supporting women to heal the patterns that keep them disconnected from themselves, their relationships, and their deepest truth. Through nervous system regulation, conscious communication, somatic healing, and heart-led living, she helps women cultivate deeper connection, emotional safety, self-trust, and authentic expression.

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Hannah Corcoran didn’t just leave corporate law — she walked away from the entire script.After ticking every box society promised would lead to success, she found herself unfulfilled, burnt out, and questioning everything. What followed wasn’t a straight path, but a slow, radical reimagining of life, work, and motherhood — rooted in intuition.Since 2014, she has explored multiple entrepreneurial ventures — from founding a yoga studio to coaching programs, retreats, and network marketing — learning firsthand what doesn’t work.In 2023, everything changed.Hannah built a six-figure online business within her first year, in the margins of motherhood, finally replacing her corporate income and allowing her family to travel Australia by caravan before settling into a more grounded, nature-led lifestyle.She has lived the tension so many women feel — the pull between presence and ambition, freedom and security.Today, she mentors mothers and entrepreneurial women to build aligned online businesses, reclaim their time, and create lives rooted in freedom, family, and self-trust.Her work isn’t about escaping reality — it’s about creating a new one.

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Joining me today is the beautiful Amberlee Rose for a deeply honest and nourishing conversation, exploring what it really means to stay connected to yourself through the waves of life.

Together, we unpack the experience so many women move through — feeling untethered, caught in mental loops, disconnected from the body, overwhelmed by emotions, relationships, motherhood, business, expectations, and the pressure to always be “regulated.”

This conversation is a reminder that healing isn’t about becoming calm, perfect, or emotionally unshakeable. It’s about expanding your capacity to stay with yourself through the contractions and expansions of life.

Inside this episode, we explore:

• The difference between “losing yourself” and becoming ungrounded
• Nervous system regulation beyond the social media version of “always calm”
• Why emotional activation is often wisdom, not something to fix
• The pressure to be the “good woman” who is always easy, soft, calm, and agreeable
• Sacred rage, boundaries, truth, and honoring the body’s no
• The spiral of overthinking, dissociation, and emotional shutdown
• Motherhood, relationships, and the mirrors they reveal
• Deepening intimacy with yourself, life, and community
• Moving beyond chasing highs and learning to stay present with life as it is
• The importance of support systems, co-regulation, and stepping fully into the circle

This episode is an invitation to soften the perfectionism around healing and remember that the journey isn’t about never being activated again — it’s about learning how to return to yourself, over and over again.

To deepen this work with us, you’re invited to join our free Facebook community where we continue these conversations, share practices, reflections, and support each other in embodying this work more deeply.

And if you feel called into a deeper journey of nervous system healing, emotional intimacy, truth, boundaries, embodiment, and grounded self-leadership, you can join us inside Grounded In You — Monique’s immersive program devoted to helping women expand their capacity to hold themselves through the sacred rhythm of contraction and expansion.

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In this episode, I dive deep into the embodiment piece — the foundation of thriving in our life, relationships, love, intimacy, and connection.

I share more of my own journey from living in the mind… analyzing, learning, trying to “fix” and control everything… into the journey of coming back into the body, into feeling, into safety, into truth.

We explore:

• Why embodiment is so foundational for healing and transformation
• The journey from head to body
• Why so many of us struggle to feel safe in our emotions
• The nervous system, trauma, suppression, and the window of tolerance
• How numbness, anxiety, freeze, disconnection, and repetitive patterns are protective mechanisms
• Why we unconsciously sabotage joy, pleasure, intimacy, and connection
• Expanding our capacity to feel — both the uncomfortable and the beautiful
• Creating deep inner safety: “I’ve got me”
• Why healing was never meant to be done alone
• The power of community, support, mentorship, and being deeply held

This conversation is an invitation to soften, to reconnect to your body, and to remember that your emotions are not wrong — they are sacred energy in motion.

If this episode resonates with you, I’d love to invite you into our free Facebook community where we’re deepening this work together through conversations, reflections, embodiment, nervous system healing, conscious relationships, and self-connection.

Join the free community here:
The Community by Monique Carmela

And if you’re feeling called to go deeper into this journey of self-connection, emotional regulation, embodiment, inner safety, and coming home to yourself, I invite you into my program Grounded In You.

Grounded In You is a powerful embodied journey supporting you to expand your capacity to hold yourself through the waves of life, reconnect to your body and truth, and cultivate the foundations for deeper love, connection, intimacy, and authentic expression.

We begin with the foundations:
“I’ve got me. I am safe to feel. I can hold myself through this.”

Register here:
Grounded In You — Monique Carmela

With love,
Monique Carmela

In this heartfelt conversation, Monique is joined by Judith Beuel — a Motherhood & Self-Leadership Mentor devoted to supporting women to reconnect with the heart as a living portal to love, truth, and divine guidance.

Together, they explore what it actually looks like to source from the heart in everyday life — not as a lofty concept, but as a grounded, embodied practice that changes the way we lead ourselves through triggers, motherhood, partnership, and the intensity of the world around us.

This episode is a powerful reminder that you are not broken — you’re remembering. And that devotion isn’t perfection… it’s the willingness to keep returning to your truth, again and again.

In this episode, we explore:

• The heart as a portal to the Divine (and what it feels like in the body)

• Why slowing down is the pathway out of fear-based spirals and into clarity

• How triggers become invitations: moving from blame to self-responsibility without self-abandonment

• The ripple effect of heart-led living (in your home, relationships, and the collective)

• Motherhood, nervous system safety, and the power of returning to love in the small moments

• Monique’s relationship turning point: choosing truth, then choosing love — without bypassing reality

• What devotion really means as a lived path

A gentle invitation from this conversation:
Try taking one intentional pause today — hand on heart, one deep breath — and notice what shifts when you meet life from love instead of speed.

Connect with Judith:
Find her on Instagram: @judithbeuel

About Your Host

Monique Carmela is a somatic guide, feminine embodiment mentor, and space-holder for women devoted to healing, truth, and conscious relationships. Her work weaves nervous system regulation, inner child integration, embodiment practices, and devotional self-leadership to support women in coming home to themselves — not as a destination, but as a way of life.

Through her programs, community, and this podcast, Monique supports women to soften, deepen, and thrive — rooted in safety, self-trust, and embodied truth.

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Radical acceptance is not “positive thinking” and it’s definitely not bypassing... It's the pathway to LIBERATION and reclaiming your power.In this deeply honest, wildly nourishing conversation, I’m joined by Sami Garrett, founder of Good Enough Matrescence, to explore radical acceptance as a devotional practice — the kind that meets you in the grief, the rage, the resentment, the triggers, and the chaos of motherhood… without making any of it mean you’re broken.

We speak to the difference between acceptance vs condoning, and why so many of us get stuck in the endless loop of “I need to heal/fix myself” — not realizing that the chase can actually reinforce not-enoughness. Together we unpack what it looks like to tend to trauma without living inside it, to let emotions move through the body (not just the mind), and to reclaim aliveness in the very moments we’d normally resist.

We also bring this into partnership: how radical acceptance transforms communication, softens blame, supports nervous system safety, and helps you stop turning your unmet needs into criticism — so love, intimacy, and true support can grow.

Inside this episode, you’ll hear:

• ​Why acceptance is liberation, not complacency
• ​How to feel what’s here without bypassing (mind, body, heart, soul)
• ​The shift from “high vibe = happy” to high frequency = spacious aliveness
• ​A powerful inquiry: If you could do no wrong and would only be loved and supported… who would you be right now?
• ​Why community matters (and how support makes the journey lighter)

✨ Join the conversation inside The Devotional Woman Facebook community — bring your reflections and answer the inquiry with us.

Connect with Sami: @goodenoughmatrescenceSami is the founder of Good Enough Matrescence (GEM)—a global collective redefining motherhood support through real-time nervous system tools, mindset reframes, emotionally intelligent community, and evidence based resources from pregnancy to years postpartum and everything in-between.

Explore GEM (Sami’s community for mums) here: a resource-rich space for ease, support, and real-life motherhood without judgment. USE CODE MONIQUE20 for 20% off your membership

About your host:

Monique Carmela is a feminine embodiment mentor, somatic guide, and relationship & nervous system coach. She supports women (and mothers) to embody their authentic selves and embrace their fullest expression so they can experience great love, deep connection, and exquisite intimacy in life and relationships.

Monique weaves nervous system regulation, embodiment, breathwork, and somatic practices to create safety for deep remembering and integration.

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• ​Grounded In You
• ​The Sacred Art of Loving Yourself
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In this deeply embodied conversation, I’m joined by sexologist, educator, and somatic guide Kiki Maree for a powerful exploration of sexuality as a devotional practice.

We dive into fantasy, yoni massage, erotic safety, nervous system regulation, and the unlearning required to move beyond shame, performance, and obligation in sex. Together, we explore how sexuality — when approached with slowness, consent, and presence — becomes a pathway to healing, empowerment, aliveness, and deeper connection with self, lovers, motherhood, and even business.

Kiki shares her personal journey into sexology, the impact of poor sex education on our bodies and desires, and why so many women and vulva-holders struggle with pain, disconnection, and low desire — even without obvious “trauma.” We talk about fantasy as both a bridge into pleasure and a tool for safety, how to work with the nervous system rather than against it, and why devotion in sexuality is less about performance and more about listening.

We also explore:

• ​Why slowness is essential for pleasure and orgasm
• ​How fantasy can support arousal without bypassing the body
• ​The difference between tolerance vs true consent in intimacy
• ​Why penetrative sex doesn’t need to be the goal
• ​How yoni massage supports pelvic health, boundaries, and embodied voice
• ​Reclaiming sexuality from shame, fear, and cultural conditioning

This episode is an invitation to soften, slow down, and remember sexuality as sacred — not something to fix, perform, or endure, but something to meet with curiosity, compassion, and devotion.

✨ A deeply nourishing listen for anyone longing to feel safer, more alive, and more at home in their body.

Connect with Kiki Maree

Kiki Maree is a somatic sex educator, writer, and facilitator specialising in embodied sexuality, body image, and relational intimacy. Her work integrates sexual science with trauma-aware, body-based practices to support safer, more connected relationships. She teaches internationally and contributes to conversations on modern sexuality and embodied wellbeing.

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About Your Host

Monique Carmela is a somatic guide, feminine embodiment mentor, and space-holder for women devoted to healing, truth, and conscious relationships. Her work weaves nervous system regulation, inner child integration, embodiment practices, and devotional self-leadership to support women in coming home to themselves — not as a destination, but as a way of life.

Through her programs, community, and this podcast, Monique supports women to soften, deepen, and thrive — rooted in safety, self-trust, and embodied truth.

Website | Instagram | Devotional Woman FB Community

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