Happy New Year! 🎉

 And Happy Full Moon in Cancer! 🌕♋

In this episode, we meet beneath the first Full Moon of the year (on January 3rd) , a luminous Super Full Moon in Cancer, to set a nourishing and sustainable tone for 2026.

Cancer invites us home — into the body, into feeling, into emotional intelligence that soothes us back into our rhythm. 

With the Sun closely framed by Venus and Mars, this lunation offers rare support for weaving tenderness and strength, Yin and Yang, love and action into a more integrated way of living.

In this episode, I share a guiding philosophy for the year ahead that I call Sacred Integration — the devotion to honoring both structure and sensation, discipline and pleasure, fitness and sensuality as essential wellness allies rather than opposites.

I also offer a personal reflection on returning to a consistent fitness routine through the barre method while deepening my devotion to my Jade Egg practice, and how this balance has brought greater harmony to my body and nervous system in midlife.

You’ll be guided through a 10-minute ish embodiment ritual, designed to help you feel this integration in your body — grounding strength without force, softness without collapse — and to begin the year rooted in rhythm rather than extremes.

This episode is a reset.
 A place to soften, breathe, and come home to your core and design the year ahead in aligment.

🌊 In This Episode

• Why the Cancer Super Full Moon is a powerful moment for homecoming
• How Venus and Mars working together support lasting wellness and intimacy
• Why wellness practices can become unwell when taken to extremes
• Sacred Integration as a new paradigm for midlife vitality
• A gentle Lunar Love embodiment ritual to anchor strength and softness

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With deep gratitude, I honor my barre teachers Fred DeVito and Elisabeth Halfpapp, creators of Core Barre Fit.

 Their pioneering work and devotion to intelligent strength, integrity, and longevity in the body have profoundly shaped how I relate to fitness and embodied wellness in midlife.
Learn more about their work here
 

As we close out 2025 and stand at the threshold of the Winter Solstice, this episode offers a gentle, embodied way to meet the year ahead.

If you’ve chosen a word or mantra for 2026 but it hasn’t quite landed in your body yet, this one's for you.

In this final episode of the year, Dianne explores why pleasure is the missing link in manifestation and how intentions come alive when the body is included.

Inspired by the idea that affirmations are most powerful when we’re “in the vortex,” this episode translates manifestation into the language of the nervous system, breath, presence, and sensual embodiment.

Inside this episode:

• Why your body must believe your mantra before it can unfold
• How pleasure creates the internal safety needed for creation
• What it truly means to be “in the vortex” from a somatic perspective
• A gentle embodied practice to help your 2026 word come alive

This is a threshold episode. A moment to slow down, soften, and allow your next season to emerge from within.

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In this episode, we slow down together for a deeply nourishing end-of-year ritual designed for women in midlife. As the Solstice approaches and the year begins to close, your body often wants softness, warmth and replenishment more than pressure or resolutions. 

This episode honors that need with a sensual Taoist practice called Kidney Breathing. It is one of the most restorative feminine practices for rebuilding vitality, sensuality, and emotional resilience.

We begin by acknowledging what this year has asked of you and inviting your nervous system into a state of rest. 

Then we move into a slow, guided breathwork ritual that helps you release exhaustion and refill your inner well. 

This practice supports your hormonal balance, your sensual energy, your mood, and your sense of inner rootedness as you prepare for the new year.

Kidney Breathing is especially powerful for women in midlife. 

It nourishes your yin essence, awakens your second spring energy, and helps you enter the new year grounded and deeply centered instead of force and burnout.

This episode is meant to feel like a warm bath for your entire system. By the end, you will feel fuller, softer, more centered, and more ready to step into the new year from a place of grounded feminine power.

Inside this episode:
• Why the end of the year can feel heavy for women in midlife
• Why your kidneys are key to your vitality and sensuality
• How to release the emotional residue of the year
• A guided short, sweet and sensual Kidney Breathing ritual
• How to prepare your body for a new year with softness and intention

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In this week’s episode, we explore one of the most powerful mysteries of the feminine body:

Your true voice doesn’t begin in your throat.
 It rises from your yoni, your womb, and your heart.
 And only then becomes sound.

If you’ve ever felt silenced, unsure, disconnected from your truth, or stuck in old patterns of people-pleasing… this episode will feel like a homecoming.

Together, we’ll explore:

🌹 The real origin of your voice: and why the throat is actually the final expression, not the starting point
 🌹 The yoni voice: your instinctual, erotic intuition
 🌹 The womb voice: your inner oracle, your deep feminine knowing
 🌹 The heart voice: the bridge that softens truth into compassion
 🌹 The sacred feminine core channel that connects all four centers
 🌹 Why midlife is the exact moment this voice wants to come alive
 🌹 A sensual breath ritual to reconnect your yoni, womb, heart and throat
 🌹 How to speak from your body rather than your mind
 🌹 The difference between performing your voice and living your voice

This episode is an invitation to return to the version of you who doesn’t dilute her truth…
 doesn’t shrink her voice…
 and doesn’t silence her knowing to make others comfortable.

Inside this transmission, you’ll feel your voice rise from somewhere deeper:
 from your sensual, wise, ancient feminine core.

Take a breath…
 and let’s awaken the voice beneath your voice.

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In this episode, we explore one of the deepest truths of midlife awakening:

Your body remembers.

💗 In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

• Why midlife isn't a decline but a sensual reawakening
• How disconnection is a survival strategy, not a personal failure
• The truth that your erotic nature is encoded in your body
• A soothing Sensual Breath ritual to open warmth, sensation, and remembering
• How to gently notice the first signs of your sensual awakening
• Why your body is leading you back to yourself
• And why now

🌊 Guided Ritual Inside:

Sensual Breath: 
 A slow, wave-like breath sequence to help you:

• soften the nervous system
• awaken sensation
• reconnect to your sensual innocence
• melt old patterns of numbness
• feel your aliveness returning
• re-inhabit your feminine body with tenderness

🔥 This Episode Is For You If…

• You’ve been feeling disconnected from your sensuality
• You want to feel more alive, open, and receptive
• You sense there’s a deeper version of you waiting to emerge
• You’re craving softness, embodiment, and pleasure
• You know something is changing inside you and you’re ready to understand it and claim it

Let yourself be held.
Let yourself soften.
Let yourself remember.

Your second spring has already begun.

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Take a slow breath and settle into your body…
 because today’s episode opens a doorway into one of the most potent feminine truths of midlife:

You don’t have to push to be powerful.
You don’t have to perform to be magnetic.
You don’t have to harden to be respected. 

Here we’ll explore the awakening of Soft Power—the natural, sensual, sovereign magnetism that arises in midlife when you stop living for everyone else… and begin belonging to yourself again.

Soft Power is your birthright.
And in this episode, you’ll feel exactly how it awakens inside you.

 1. Why hard power collapses in midlife
And why this collapse is not a failure — but your initiation into deeper feminine truth.

2. How Soft Power actually feels in the body
Warmth. Spaciousness. Presence. Sensuality. Sovereignty.

 3. The Three Pillars of Soft Power:

• Receptivity
• Embodied Boundaries
• Sensual Presence

And how each pillar is a portal into a new dimension of magnetic midlife wisdom.

 4. How Soft Power transforms intimacy
Why you stop chasing, over giving, and performing.
 And how you begin attracting what truly meets your depth.

5. Desire as your new compass
Your midlife desire becomes clearer, deeper, and more honest.
 How to trust it — and how it amplifies your attractiveness.

6. Sovereignty as the heart of Soft Power
What it means to belong to yourself…
 and how this changes everything.

🌸 7. A simple Soft Power ritual you can practice anywhere

This episode is filled with spaciousness, breath, sensation, and a portal into your deep feminine wisdom.
 Let it wash through you.
 Let it land in your hips, your belly, your heart, your whole body.

You may want to listen more than once.

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I’m sure you’ve played with manifestation.

At least a bit.

Or at the very least your've entertained the idea that there might be something to it.

But I’m pretty sure you haven’t tasted the depth of what’s possible when you truly get real with your desires. 

Yet.

This is the realm of your Dark Feminine.

The Law of Attraction is real and it's the most powerful law in the Universe. 

I think Albert Einstein says it best:

"Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy it’s physics.”

What’s missing in most conversations about the Law of Attraction and manifestation is the raw power of feminine desire.

Without it the whole thing can feel like pie in the sky bypass. 

But when we bring in feminine Eros & desire, it changes the game completely.

And places the odds firmly in your favor.

Let’s dive in!

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Carla Shohet is on a mission to help cycle-breaking women heal from the past so they can truly thrive.

As a trauma psychologist, educator, a mom and a survivor of childhood narcissistic abuse Carla brings a soulful, heart-centered and passionate approach to the realm of trauma healing.

Carla is not your typical talk therapist. 

She's a holistic psychologist; a mind/body healing mentor with the warmth, and generosity of a woman who's truly got your back.

 She uses a variety of modalities to achieve root-cause resolution healing, not just short-term symptoms management.

Being in Carla's presence is deeply healing and she shares so many gems in this episode.

I know you're going to love this conversation as much as I did.

Let's dive in!

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What is erotic innocence?

And how do you reclaim it for yourself?

It's quite clear that society has an Eros problem.

I don't have to tell you that.

The layers of dysfunction and abuse that abounds worldwide is beyond disturbing. 

It can easily leave us feeling overwhelmed and powerless.

What's the antidote?

Here's my take on it: One of the most radical, revolutionary and world changing things we can do as women is to consciously reclaim our erotic innocence.

Our Eros is our creative life force/Chi and it's our birthright to fully embody it.

It's time to boldly claim the erotic initiation we never got.

Let's dive in!

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You are a powerful Creatrix my love.

Part of you knows that.

And I bet part of you has forgotten.

One of the most beautiful things about awakening your feminine essence is that you begin to remember.

You begin to shed much of the conditioning that's been scripting your life.

And awaken an innate inner knowing of who you truly are and why you're really here.

You come home to yourself.

What you may not be aware of is how important pleasure is in the equation.

You didn't come here to play wack a mole with the world and its never ending problems.

You came to create your world in alignment with your desires.

Activated and fueled by your pleasure.

Ready to get your hands in the clay?

Let's dive in.

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