Embodied Love Podcast

What if the sensations you’ve been trying to “think your way out of” are actually asking to be moved?

In this conversation, I’m joined by movement teacher Manu, who shares the missing link so many of us don’t receive in healing spaces: the body.

Together we explore how trauma isn’t only a story in the mind — it can be a physical imprint in the tissues, the posture, the breath… the places we clench, brace, hold, or collapse.

We dive into:

• What trauma actually is (and why it’s not only “big” events)

• Big T vs little t trauma — and how resourcing changes everything

• How the body stores incomplete survival responses (fight/flight/freeze)

• Why shaking, trembling, sound, tears and movement can be deeply normal

• The truth about somatics (and why “anything body-based” isn’t necessarily somatic)

• How to build emotional intelligence through movement — without pushing or re-traumatizing

• The power of baby steps: pendulating between collapse and opening, safely

• Why this is emotional hygiene — not another thing to “perform” or perfect

If you’re ready to stop judging your emotions, soften the armour, and learn how to meet yourself with compassionate curiosity from the inside… this one is for you.

Manu Mitevova

Yogi, somatic mover, and trauma-informed teacher obsessed with the mind-body connection. Manu created the much-loved online course Hips Like Honey, helping more than 37k people get relief from tight hips, the holistic way. This year, she launched her new somatic membership, Kaya, guiding people to process their emotions through movement so they can regulate their nervous system and feel better.

Connect with Manu on Instagram

Website | KAYA App

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

Welcome to The Devotional Woman Podcast.

In this episode, I’m sharing the heart behind a powerful evolution — the transition from Good Girl Unleashed into The Devotional Woman. This shift isn’t just a rebrand. It’s a reflection of my own lived journey, and the collective evolution I’ve witnessed within this community.

Unleashing ourselves from old conditioning was never the final destination. It was the beginning.

This new era is about devotion — devotion to your body, your healing, your truth, your path. It’s about releasing the idea that healing is something to “finish,” tick off, or perfect… and instead anchoring into a lifelong, nourishing relationship with yourself.

We explore:

• Why healing isn’t a quick fix — and why that’s a relief

• The difference between pushing for growth and being devoted to your path

• How devotion creates sustainability, safety, and true transformation

• Why things coming up doesn’t mean it’s “not working” — it often means it is

• How to stay connected to yourself through discomfort, uncertainty, and change

• What it really means to trust divine timing, your nervous system, and your sacred yes and no

This conversation invites you to move beyond bypassing, striving, and self-pressure — and into a way of being where your inner work becomes nourishment, not another item on the to-do list.

The Devotional Woman isn’t trying to get somewhere as fast as possible.

She is present. She listens. She stays.She meets herself again and again — no matter what arises.

This episode is an invitation into that energy, that frequency, and this next chapter we’re walking together.

If this resonates, I’d love to hear how this shift feels in your body — and to welcome you into our free Devotional Woman community, where we’ll continue deepening these conversations, practices, and embodied devotion together.

Thank you for being here.This is only the beginning.

Ways to Work Together

✨ Grounded In YouA foundational nervous system and emotional regulation journey to help you feel safe, supported, and anchored in yourself and your relationships.

✨ The Sacred Art of Loving YourselfA deep, heart-led pathway into self-love, self-trust, inner child integration, and releasing shame, people-pleasing, and self-abandonment.

✨ The Embodied WomanA long-term devotional container for women ready to live, love, and lead from truth — integrating nervous system work, conscious communication, boundaries, relationships, and embodied feminine power.

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: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/

In this nourishing conversation, I’m joined again by sacred sexuality mentor Janine to explore what it really looks like to live a sensual, embodied life as a real woman in a very full season — business, kids, partnerships, responsibilities and all.

We unravel the pressure we put on ourselves to “do embodiment right” — the 3-hour practices, the perfect morning routine, the ideal conditions — and instead anchor into the truth that our power lives in the micro moments: being present with your morning coffee, watching your children play, driving under a rainbow, feeling the sun on your skin.

Together we speak to:

• Why pressure kills pleasure — in sex, business, motherhood and life

• How to start (or restart) sacred sexuality and embodiment practices when you feel tired, busy, or resistant

• The power of 2–5 minute “micro practices” and how they actually rewire your system over time

• Moving from destination obsession (orgasms, goals, milestones) into savouring the journey

• Remembering that you are cyclical — and why your practices should change with your seasons and your bleed

• Using your inner signals (yes/no, expansion/contraction) as your compass rather than external “shoulds”

• How reclaiming your sensuality and presence impacts your children, your relationships and the next generation

This episode is an invitation to stop trying to “keep up”, to let go of perfection, and to remember that your inner power has always been within you. It all starts with one tiny, loving micro practice.

Listen in if you’re ready to feel more alive in your everyday life, reconnect to your body and pleasure, and create a new normal where you are no longer on the back burner — you are at the centre of your own sacred, sensual life.

Jannine MacKinnon, Sex, Love, and Relationship Coach, supports moms in thriving as their most radiant and happy selves. Through using tools like breathwork, inner child healing, pleasure practices, and approachable rituals, she creates a pathway for holistic, long-lasting transformation in building confidence, connecting to your authenticity, awakening to pleasure, trusting your intuition, and softening into your feminine energy.

Connect with Jannine here: https://www.instagram.com/jannine.mackinnon/

Monique Carmela is a feminine embodiment mentor, somatic guide, and host of The Good Girl Unleashed Podcast. She supports women to unravel “good girl” conditioning, regulate their nervous systems, heal the deeper layers of shame and self-abandonment, and come home to their bodies so they can live rooted in love, truth, and authentic expression.

Connect with Monique here: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/

In this episode of The Good Girl Unleashed Podcast, Monique sits down with somatic sexologist, therapeutic yoni massage practitioner, and aura photographer Sarah Silverstein for a deeply real and liberating conversation about coming home to your body.

Together, they unpack how a busy, overthinking mind is often a clever protection mechanism that keeps us from feeling what’s really living in our bodies — our emotions, our pain, our truth… and our pleasure.

They explore:

• Why dropping into the body can feel terrifying when you’ve lived in your head for years

• How somatic work, breathwork, and therapeutic yoni massage can gently reopen sensation and safety

• The shame and taboo surrounding vulvas, pleasure, and sexuality — and how reclaiming these parts of us changes everything

• The witch wound, sisterhood wound, and the grief of living without true village and elders

• How listening to your body’s “yes” and “no” shifts your relationships, work, and self-worth

• Simple ways to bring more everyday pleasure into your life (that have nothing to do with the bedroom)

This is a conversation for the woman who feels “too in her head,” numb, shut down, or “broken” around intimacy — and is ready to remember that there is nothing wrong with her, and that deeper love, connection, and pleasure are absolutely available.

Sara Silverstein is a Somatic Sexologist, Therapeutic Yoni Massage Facilitator, and International Breathwork Guide who guides women and vulva-havers back to their pleasure, power, and aliveness. With a background in nervous system regulation, therapeutic touch, and embodiment practices, Sara weaves together science and soul to help clients release shame, reconnect with their bodies, and expand their capacity for joy - inside and outside the bedroom.

Connect with Sara here: https://www.instagram.com/sarasilverstein/

Monique Carmela is a feminine embodiment mentor, somatic guide, and host of The Good Girl Unleashed Podcast. She supports women to unravel “good girl” conditioning, regulate their nervous systems, heal the deeper layers of shame and self-abandonment, and come home to their bodies so they can live rooted in love, truth, and authentic expression.

If you’re resonating with this conversation and feeling the pull to soften out of your busy mind and into deeper connection with your body, pleasure, and self-worth, Monique offers group programs, immersions, and spaces for women to heal, be witnessed, and rise in their power. You can connect with her, explore her current offerings, and continue this journey of Living in Love via her online community, programs, and social channels.

Connect with Monique here: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/

In this Q&A episode, I’m answering your heart-questions around feeling safe in love, navigating separation, manifesting new relationships, and learning how to trust life, the divine, and yourself again.

We explore what it really means to feel safe in relationship when your nervous system is still recalibrating – that pendulation between “I feel safe” and “I don’t feel safe” – and why that doesn’t mean you’re broken or doomed, it means you’re growing and expanding your capacity. We talk about the difference between knowing you are always safe at a soul level, and not feeling safe in the moment… and how to tend to yourself when you want to run.

I share a personal story from my relationship with Liam about feeling deeply triggered, holding my boundary, and not going into the old spiral of pulling up the past, attacking, or running — and how that actually created more safety and trust between us.

Inside this episode, we move through questions around:

• Struggling to feel consistently safe and wanting to run from the relationship

• Navigating separation, anxiety, overwhelm, fear & sleepless nights

• How to connect with your feminine energy when you feel stuck in your masculine and the need to control everything

• Manifesting new relationships with your children, yourself, and a potential life partner

• Releasing generational mother wounds, people pleasing & the need for outside validation

• Feeling afraid of not being taken care of and learning to lean back, trust, and receive

• Manifesting from pure alignment vs. ego, and being fully supported by life & the divine

• Balancing surrender with taking aligned action (and why it was always about who you’re becoming)

• Releasing the last layers of doubt and fear around receiving and allowing your manifestations to unfold with more ease, grace, and joy

If you’re in a season of big emotions, relationship questions, or you’re in the thick of manifesting “your next level” and wondering if you can actually trust it… this episode will meet you there with tenderness, truth, and nervous-system-aware support.

🌹 Join us inside the Living in Love Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1654605958243746

If you’d love to go deeper into this work, check out my signature programs here: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/work-with-me

And if you’re unsure where to start, reach out or book a discovery call and we can feel into what’s most supportive for you right now.

Book a call here

Beautiful soul… this one is DEEP.

There’s been a huge theme in our community lately around receiving — money, love, pleasure, support, appreciation, intimacy, opportunities…

And the truth is: most women are overgiving, under-receiving, and don’t even know why.

In today’s episode of The Good Girl Unleashed Podcast, I unravel:

✨ Why receiving feels unsafe for so many women

✨ How your childhood, lineage & family money stories shape your receiving capacity

✨ Why overgiving creates depletion, resentment & shutdown

✨ What blocks your receiving channel (and how to reactivate it)

✨ The real reason your manifestations bring up so much fear

✨ My personal story of money, sex, heartbreak, lineage wounds & the moment everything changed

✨ How to open the infinity loop of giving and receiving

✨ What it takes to become a woman who feels SAFE to receive love, wealth, pleasure & life

This episode is raw, vulnerable, powerful, and will hit deep for you if receiving has ever felt uncomfortable, overwhelming, or “too much.”

If your soul is tired of overgiving…

If you crave more love, more connection, more abundance, more life-force…

If you’re ready to open to the fullness of your life…

THIS is for you!

Links:

Check out my signature programs here: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/programs

Submit your questions HERE for the Live Q&A (Happening inside the LIVING IN LOVE Community)

Join the LIVING IN LOVE Community HERE

Book a free discovery call HERE

I am so excited to share this episode with you, sharing about my journey with Manifestation and discovering the manifestation equation

There is so much talk about manifestation, law of attraction, and the need to be high vibe to get what you want, but we forget that the whole point of manifestation is to feel more of what you want to feel, but the way to feel more of what you want is to expand your capacity for all of the human emotions

Manifestation has brought so many incredible things into my life and this year I discovered the key to becoming IN LOVE with life, to experience more of what I have desired since I began the journey over a decade ago

And in a few days we begin The MANIFESTATION Experiment, a 30 day journey, guiding you through the manifestation equation so that you can become in love with life and bring your desires to fruition with more ease and have a lot of fun doing it, and you can join us for just $33, serious no brainer!

I'd love to hear what resonated for you in this episode and if you're joining us for the experiment, jump into the LIVING IN LOVE community and share what you're calling in, let's dream BIG, go all in and have the best frickin' time!

Links

• The Avocado Story: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQGJaNAEV4Y/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MXE2cDd3cWdlNnMy
• Join The MANIFESTATION Experiment here: https://embodiedlove.moniquecarmela.com/manifestation-experiment-2025

• Join the LIVING IN LOVE Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19LPTPuqWy/⁠

• FREE RESOURCES: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/free-resources

• Learn more about me and my work here: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/

Have you ever had that feeling when you read someone else's experience about how they quantum leaped in their life, it seems like this magical, miraculous, overnight success, and you wonder why that is not happening for me...
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Well, I have, and it would infuriate me, all these stories would come up for me and I would believe them... Stories of I'm not cut out for this, it's never gonna happen for me, there's something wrong with me, I'm not good enough...
The victim response was so strong and so deeply ingrained... I was stuck in a state of lack, scarcity, and these stories kept me in a deep state of disconnection and suffering
But then something began to shift for me, and over the years, I have had experience after experience that has shown me the truth of what is really at play and how to move through these stories and patterns that keep us stuck and to experience the quantum leaps we desire
In this episode, I share with you my recent birthing experience and what happened that completely shifted my world, where I experienced a quantum leap through the power of acceptance
We also explore how this relates to all other areas of our life, and how these stories we tell ourselves show up everywhere until we put an end to them through the power of acceptance, gratitude, and desire.
I share personal stories and experiences of coming into acceptance and experiencing quantum leaps in my relationship, sexuality, and money, and how you can do this too
Quantum leaps are available to all of us if we're willing to show up and do what's required
Ready to quantum leap into your next-level relationship and life???

Let's dive in...

Links

• FREE LIVE EXPERIENCE: The Secret To Conscious Love, happening this Sunday, 5th OCT, REGISTER HERE: https://embodiedlove.moniquecarmela.com/the-secret

• GET INSTANT ACCESS to the EPIC Love Masterclass: https://embodiedlove.moniquecarmela.com/epic-love
• Join the LIVING IN LOVE Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19LPTPuqWy/⁠

• FREE RESOURCES: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/free-resources

• The Sacred Art of Loving Yourself (HELD LIVE OCT/NOV 2025), register here: https://embodiedlove.moniquecarmela.com/saly
• The Embodied Woman Experience: https://embodiedlove.moniquecarmela.com/ewe

• Learn more about me and my work here: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/

Today I am joined by the beautiful Sami Garrett, this is such a deep, powerful conversation on how to LOVE motherhood, how to embrace it fully, to become more present and enjoy the magic of the mundane moments, to fully LIVE and enjoy each moment of this journey we GET to have and experience.

We explore…

• Nervous System Regulation
• Postpartum Anger & Rage
• How to feel and express our emotions
• How past trauma and childhood experiences shape our experience and what we can do to heal so we are no longer triggered and can move from surviving and just getting through the day to THRIVING and loving motherhood
• What are your emotions and triggers revealing to you
• Shift the lens, change your life
• Revelling in the experience of being human and being a mother and all that comes with that

So let’s dive in, I am so excited for you to listen, come join us inside the Living In Love Facebook Community and share your insights, experience and what resonated for you, as well as any questions you have in regards to the topics we explore

Links

LIVING IN LOVE FB Community: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19LPTPuqWy/⁠⁠⁠

Join my email list by registering for one (or all) of my free resources (highly recommend so you don't miss an episode, free event, and other amazingness that is only sent to our email community): https://www.moniquecarmela.com/resources

The Embodied Woman 12-month Experience: https://embodiedlove.moniquecarmela.com/ewe

The Sacred Art of Loving Yourself 8-week program: https://embodiedlove.moniquecarmela.com/saly

Learn more about me and my work here: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/

Sami Garrett 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.

After hitting a breaking point in her own postpartum journey, Sami combined her background in mind-body healing with her lived experience as a mother to create what she couldn’t find: a space where moms feel resourced, not reactive—and joy isn’t a luxury, but a daily practice.

She believes we're better together and has brought together some of the most impactful resources together to help mothers worldwide reclaim peace, clarity, and self-connection without adding more to their plate. Sami speaks on topics like nervous system regulation in motherhood, redefining self-care, conscious parenting, and the quiet revolution of doing motherhood your way. She brings together other professionals who deep dive into all the other topics in motherhood that bring to life this massive resource library for motherhood.

IG: @goodenoughmatrescenceWebsite: goodenoughmatrescence.com

Community membership: goodenoughmatrescence.com/gem-membership

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Toolkit: goodenoughmatrescence.com/mama-reset-toolkit

Today I am joined by the glorious Tabitha Starr, and we're exploring becoming a soul-preneur, an entrepreneur following your soul's calling, to do and share what you love with the world.

It's so easy to get stuck, playing it "safe", we're so heavily conditioned to follow the path that was laid out for us, to get an education and get a "good" job.

The Good Girl Unleashed is about breaking FREE from that and finding and following our own unique, authentic, aligned path.

But this can feel scary, it's uncertain, we don't know how it will all unfold... but the thing is, we never know, even if we've chosen the "safe" path, we never know how life will unfold and what twists and turns are around the corner.

What I know for certain is that if I don't follow my authentic, aligned path, I will live a miserable life full of regret.

Becoming a soulpreneur has been such an adventure; it's been challenging, uncomfortable, scary AF, and the most amazing, wild, fulfilling, awakening, FREEING, healing adventure of a lifetime.

Tabitha shares her journey from leaving the "safe" path of being an employee in a big financial company to completely pivoting and aligning with her soul path, becoming a business coach for soulful entrepreneurs.

We also explore the common fears that come up for women when they're considering making this radical step to living authentically.

Tabitha will be leading a FREE 5-Day masterclass, EMBOLDENED, A 5-day revival to spark your fire, reclaim your confidence, and get wildly turned on by your mission, your magic, and your next-level self

And I am so excited to be a guest speaker for this incredible event, register here

Links

LIVING IN LOVE FB Community: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19LPTPuqWy/⁠⁠⁠

Join my email list by registering for one (or all) of my free resources (highly recommend so you don't miss an episode, free event, and other amazingness that is only sent to our email community): https://www.moniquecarmela.com/resources

The Embodied Woman Experience: https://embodiedlove.moniquecarmela.com/ewe

Learn more about me and my work here: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/

Tabitha Starr is a rebellious business coach, strategist, queen of the business backend, and the founder of Slight Look.

With an MBA, an HR certification, and over a decade in high-level leadership, she now helps creatives, wildlings, and soul-led entrepreneurs build businesses that actually work—and actually light them up.

Her mission is to take on the parts of business women usually avoid, delay, or bandage over—so while they pour their magic into what they love, their business is strong enough to hold them. And yes, she makes it fun along the way.

Find Tabitha on Instagram @slight.look.official or at slightlook.com.