Most identity work doesn’t work because it focuses on surface-level upgrades - how you dress, how you speak, how you show up online.

Maybe you start posting more confidently. Wearing the red lipstick. Saying no on dates. Repeating affirmations in the mirror. Declaring your standards in your journal. All good things. But if you haven’t done the deeper work, the nervous system regulation, the identity rewiring, the real-time integration - you’ll keep slipping back.

Because it’s one thing to look like the woman who knows her worth.

It’s another to live like her when your heart is breaking.

When the money doesn’t come.

When the man ghosts.

When you son doesn't talk to you.

When your old survival patterns flare up and beg you to settle.

Yes, you can make the big decision. The declaration. The dramatic pivot. But unless you rewire yourself from the inside out, you will return to the same habits, the same choices, the same people. The decision is the beginning. Not the end.

Inside this episode, we go deep into...

• Why transformation isn’t sustainable without nervous system recalibration and embodiment

• The real difference between awareness and observation

• What embodiment actually looks like in daily life

• Why rushing to reinvent yourself always backfires

• What devotion to your evolution looks like in real time

Listen now. And when you're ready to move beyond surface-level change and into a life that actually reflects who you are becoming, you know where to find me.

My Wild Love Affair. Available on Amazon.

The School of Devotional Living. We start in September. Join the waitlist https://www.msstarmonroe.com/theschool

Private Mentorship. Apply here https://www.msstarmonroe.com/private-mentorship

If you’re ready to take this deeper, begin with My Wild Love Affair. (available now on Amazon)

Join the waitlist for The School of Devotional Living. https://www.msstarmonroe.com/theschool

Apply for Private Mentorship if you’re ready to walk this path intimately. https://www.msstarmonroe.com/private-mentorship

Today we continue The Wild Love Affair, a 12-part series of intimate conversations on coming home to yourself through embodiment, devotional living, and deeper intimacy.

You’ve done the work. You’ve built the life. So why does it still feel like something’s missing? In this episode, Star explores the second portal of The Star Monroe Method: Recognition. Recognition isn’t about spotting another pattern to analyse. It’s about finally telling the truth about the patterns you’ve been tolerating, the ones that keep you quietly abandoning yourself while maintaining the appearance of having it all together.

Key Takeaways...

• Intellect will get you far, but it won’t get you free. You can’t think your way into the woman you’re becoming. At some point, you have to live your truth, not just understand it.
• Recognition is where change begins. It’s the moment you stop bypassing what’s right in front of you and admit the quiet ways you abandon yourself for approval, connection, and success.
• Your patterns are not your identity. Seeing them clearly, without shame or bypassing, is how you begin to shift from living a life that looks good to a life that feels like yours.
• Embodiment over intellectualising. The path to deeper connection and intimacy in your life and relationships begins when you are willing to see what’s true and live from that truth.

Welcome to The Star Monroe Show.

Today we continue The Wild Love Affair, a 12-part series of intimate conversations on coming home to yourself through embodiment, devotional living, and deeper intimacy.

This is a return to the woman you’ve always been beneath the roles, the resilience, and the relentless drive to hold it all together. This series coincides with the release of my new book, My Wild Love Affair.

And today, we begin where every true return begins...

With rupture. The quiet, private reckoning, the moment you stop lying to yourself, the moment you admit the beautiful life you’ve built no longer fits.

Inside this episode, we explore...

• The real meaning of rupture (and why it’s sacred)
• How the body knows the truth before the mind is ready
• The 3am ache that signals something must change
• Why habits that once felt nourishing can start to feel wrong
• The first portal inside The Star Monroe Method

If you’re ready to take this deeper, begin with my book - My Wild Love Affair (available now on Amazon)

Join the waitlist for The School of Devotional Living.

https://www.msstarmonroe.com/theschool

Apply for Private Mentorship if you’re ready to walk this path intimately.

https://www.msstarmonroe.com/private-mentorship

Welcome to The Star Monroe Show.

Today marks the beginning of The Wild Love Affair, a new 12-part series of intimate conversations on coming home to yourself, through embodiment, devotional living, and deeper intimacy.

This is a return to the woman you’ve always been beneath the roles, the resilience, and the relentless drive to hold it all together. This series coincides with the release of my new book, My Wild Love Affair.

And we begin where every honest return begins...

The truth about self-abandonment.

Not the dramatic kind that ends in collapse, but the quiet, high-functioning kind that builds silently inside marriages, businesses, routines, and lives that look beautiful on the outside.

Inside this episdoe we explore...

– What self-abandonment really looks like for high-achieving women

– Why it begins in childhood, especially for the oldest daughters

– The slow cost to your body, your intimacy, your joy

– How performing has kept you safe - but disconnected

– And what it means to stop abandoning yourself and come home

The Wild Love Affair is what happens when you stop living the life you were taught to want and start telling the truth about the one you actually crave.

If this conversation stirs something in you, stay with it. Don’t rush to fix it. Just don’t abandon it.

Begin with the book: My Wild Love Affair (available now on Amazon)

Join the waitlist for The School of Devotional Living

Apply for Private Mentorship if you’re ready to be deeply met

This is your return. Welcome home.

Buy the book here. My Wild Love Affair by Star Monroe

Click here for The School of Devotional Living & Private Mentorship

In today's episode, I share what has truly shaped my work, my life, and my business over the past two years. I take you behind the scenes of my own evolution - the burnout, the noise, the fast growth that pulled me away from myself, and the choices that brought me back. I speak to what it means to create a business, a life, and relationships that are built on depth, care, and substance. This is for the woman who is ready for more, who wants a life that feels as good as it looks and relationships that meet her fully. Join me as I dive into this new era of Star Monroe.

In this episode, I speak to the quiet shift that changed how I relate to love, connection, and myself. For years, I over-functioned in relationships and shaped myself around what others needed. I performed for approval, sought validation in subtle ways, and looked outside myself to feel safe. A moment in the gym brought this pattern into focus. From there, I began choosing differently. I stopped abandoning myself in the moments that used to slip by unnoticed. As I anchored deeper into who I am, love started to feel steady. Honest. Clean. This is what devotion looks like. A quiet return to self that reshapes everything.

For years, discipline held me together. It gave me sobriety, self-trust, structure. It helped me survive. But where I’m standing now, something deeper is leading. Devotion. The quiet kind. The kind that shows up in how I love, how I rest, how I move through the world without abandoning myself. This episode is the story behind that shift, how I stopped performing, started listening, and rebuilt my life from reverence instead of reaction.

www.msstarmonroe.com

If it’s felt a little quieter here lately, it’s because I’ve been refining, not just what I offer, but how I live.

Not to reinvent, but to return.

To recalibrate the foundation I stand on.

To make sure that every part of my work reflects the woman I am now.

Not everything needs a grand announcement.

Some evolutions are too sacred for that.

But if you’ve felt the shift, you’re right.

The energy is different.

The standards are higher.

And the work is deeper than ever.

For the woman who already leads a beautiful life but quietly senses there’s more.

More peace.

More truth.

More presence.

More intimacy... with herself, with life, with love.

This space is for you.

www.msstarmonroe.com

Join my free masterclass this Sunday, January 19th, and discover how to be the woman who always gets what she wants. It’s time to stop settling and start living on your terms. Don’t miss this, reserve your spot now! https://starmonroe.lpages.co/highstandards1/

Welcome to The Star Monroe Show, hosted by my fabulous self, Star Monroe; Psychotherapist, Master Life Coach, and Founder of The High Standards Woman. This podcast is for ambitious, driven women who demand more, who are ready to align with their highest self, embody their inherent worth, and magnetize everything they desire.

Join me each week for transformational conversations, insights and strategies to help you rise up, embrace unapologetic confidence, and live a life of excellence. It’s time to become the woman who always gets what she wants

Your self-worth is the standard that shapes your life. If you’re tired of settling and ready to elevate every aspect of your world, this episode is your wake-up call. Join The High Standards Woman Finishing School now, only available for the next 72 hours. https://www.msstarmonroe.com/finishingschool