LIGHT WORK : A podcast with Desire Map author, Danielle LaPorte

Thank you for the listens and encouragement for LIGHT WORK. You fueled me to keep making more—and so I did! NEW podcast. “With Love, Danielle.” For you. I hope it leaves you feeling a little less alone, full of possibility, and very clearly part of the solution. 

It launches today, August 25, 2019. Tune in for Sunday sermons and Thursday’s Q&A—send your Qs to me (anything goes!) and please subscribe at daniellelaporte.com/withlove.

Friends, First: gratitude. Thank you for hanging out and listening to LIGHT WORK. The response continues to be... surprisingly amazing. I’m going to make so much more for you — and that’s the first announcement: New podcast!! For you. All the love. This summer. In the meantime, there’s this for you... announcement #2: I’ve got a new conversation out that I had with one of my dearest friends, Jeff Krasno (co-founder of Wanderlust and Commune). This is the first time I've publicly spoken about the "living death" I experienced in the Fall of 2018. I went to the darkest place of my being — panic attacks, identity crisis, loss, disillusionment and… incredible awe. GRACE. I'm still mining it, and will be sharing the gold for years to come. It’s one of the most psychologically intimate conversations I've recorded. My hope is to shed light on the pain that we all experience to varying degrees, so that we can heal together. Togetherness is powerful medicine. Please have a listen: https://apple.co/2WPrwCG

1. Do your beliefs liberate you? Because if we don’t feel free… what’s the point?
2. What are the “devotion flags” that you fly without shame?
3. What can we do to un-believe the things that tie us down?
4. How important is it to know about our past lives?
5. How do we tell posers from true spiritual teachers? And how can you feel gratitude (instead of beating yourself up) if you’ve ever fallen for a charlatan? #beenthere

• Where do we even start? (When the world is so messed up, and we’re feeling messed up because of it.)
• Why we have to resist going numb. Numbness leads to disconnection. Hopelessness is as common as violence. Think about that for a minute.
• The difference between anger and rage, and why we shouldn’t dismiss or repress the latter.
• My perspective on evil, and the value of having compassion for EVERYONE, like, on a Soul level––but still working for justice.

• Have I ever Feng Shui’ed my house? The short answer: yes. The cliffhanger: no, not anymore.
• What brings back my energy when I’m in my darkest hour? (I take my own medicine.)
• Who are my celebrity crushes? Favourite movies? Favourite tea? In between swooning, I manage to break down some romance wisdom.
• Why don’t I talk about my parents? I do now.
• What's my take on the narcissistic vs. empath dynamic? Oh darling…
• When did I know I “arrived”? (Still getting there.)

I've talked to rabbis, priests, monks, and people who I consider to be high esoteric practitioners. I’ve figured out a few things about joy… and woven them into this week’s episode. Listen in for:

• Should you leave your soul-dulling job and follow your joy to France? (Maybe.) I’ve got some ideas on HOW to buck fear and obligation.
• The difference between happiness and joy, and a story from my divorce about the first time that I really understood the truth about joy.
• Are you addicted to longing? Waking up to the corruption and addiction in our own psyches, community, and society. Starting to make more holistic choices.
• Moving towards joy: Two questions to help you remove the debris, and create more space for light to move in.
• The 3 kinds of “happy lives”, Sensitive New Age Guys, Flow Boys…
• And finally: Living in joy without feeling like you’re betraying your (or anyone else’s) pain. Shedding the achievement, possessing, having, striving ways to be “happy” and focusing on one way to be joyful—to serve.

• The 3 types of suffering (knowing what you’re experiencing is key to liberation)
  • Everyday suffering—the slog, the general malaise, the greyness.
  • Interconnected suffering—the feeling a lot of us have because of the agony in the world.
  • Brutal tragedy-type suffering—seemingly insurmountable circumstances, violations, and losses.
• How some New Age perspectives on suffering utterly fail us, invalidate us and keep us from liberation.
• My damn the man retelling of the Princess and the Pea story that illustrates how to keep moving forward, when the day-to-day takes it out of you.

For more, visit DANIELLELAPORTE.COM/PODCAST

1. Compelling reasons for resisting the perfectly normal urge to play the therapist with your lover-person (don't do it)
2. A script for starting your own Goddess Group
3. Relationship research that will make you go whoa
4. A gather ‘round the fire tale that illustrates (with scientific proof!) that we need each other to shine