What happens when you stop trying to become someone else… and finally allow yourself to become more fully you?

In this deeply honest and wildly expansive conversation, Lauren sits down with energy healer, empowerment coach, Victoria Nielsen to explore embodiment, ego death, feminine power, relationships, spiritual awakening, authenticity, and what it truly means to trust yourself at every stage of becoming.

This episode explores:

* ego death and spiritual awakening

* authenticity and self-expression

* feminine embodiment

* marriage and spiritual growth

* people pleasing patterns

* divine feminine energy

* nervous system healing

* tattoos as spiritual initiation

* reclaiming intuition

* projector energy and visibility

* leadership and feminine power

* emotional healing in relationships

* learning to soften instead of overperforming

* becoming more magnetic through authenticity

Victoria shares the incredible story behind her sacred neck tattoo experience in Cornwall, England — a deeply emotional and spiritual initiation that became a symbol of stepping fully into her medicine, truth, and visibility.

Lauren and Victoria also dive into the realities of evolving inside long-term relationships, navigating identity shifts, spiritual growth, nervous system patterns, and the fear of becoming “too much” while learning how to honor the most authentic version of yourself.

One of the most powerful themes throughout the conversation is the realization that embodiment is not about becoming someone new — it’s about remembering who you already are underneath the conditioning, fear, and performance.

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https://www.monarchmysteryschool.com/

https://www.victoriamargaux.com

https://www.instagram.com/victoriamargauxnielsen/

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What if your vision problems weren’t just about your eyes… but your nervous system?

In this fascinating conversation, Lauren sits down with optometrist and vision rehabilitation specialist Dr. Katherine Cioffi to explore the powerful relationship between trauma, the nervous system, brain function, and the visual system.

Together, they unpack the difference between eyesight and vision, the eye-brain connection, ADHD symptoms and visual processing, nervous system regulation, trauma responses, screen fatigue, and how emotional stress can directly impact the way we see and process the world around us.

Dr. Katherine explains how our eyes are deeply connected to survival states inside the body — and how stress, inflammation, trauma, concussion, Lyme disease, nervous system dysregulation, and overstimulation can all affect focus, tracking, attention, and perception.

This episode explores:

• the difference between eyesight vs vision
• ADHD and visual processing
• trauma and the nervous system
• fight or flight and tunnel vision
• the eye-brain connection
• vision rehabilitation and nervous system healing
• screen fatigue and digital overwhelm
• bilateral stimulation and EMDR
• blue light and circadian rhythm
• nervous system regulation through visual exercises
• how stress changes the way we process reality

Dr. Katherine also shares simple practices listeners can immediately implement to support eye health, focus, and nervous system regulation in everyday life.

Dr. Katherine Cioffi is an optometrist specializing in vision rehabilitation and the eye-brain connection. Her work focuses on helping children and adults improve visual processing, focus, eye teaming, tracking, nervous system regulation, and recovery from trauma, concussion, and neurological dysfunction through integrative vision therapy.

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What if your vision problems weren’t just about your eyes… but your nervous system?

In this fascinating conversation, Lauren sits down with optometrist and vision rehabilitation specialist Dr. Katherine Cioffi to explore the powerful relationship between trauma, the nervous system, brain function, and the visual system.

Together, they unpack the difference between eyesight and vision, the eye-brain connection, ADHD symptoms and visual processing, nervous system regulation, trauma responses, screen fatigue, and how emotional stress can directly impact the way we see and process the world around us.

Dr. Katherine explains how our eyes are deeply connected to survival states inside the body — and how stress, inflammation, trauma, concussion, Lyme disease, nervous system dysregulation, and overstimulation can all affect focus, tracking, attention, and perception.

This episode explores:

• the difference between eyesight vs vision
• ADHD and visual processing
• trauma and the nervous system
• fight or flight and tunnel vision
• the eye-brain connection
• vision rehabilitation and nervous system healing
• screen fatigue and digital overwhelm
• bilateral stimulation and EMDR
• blue light and circadian rhythm
• nervous system regulation through visual exercises
• how stress changes the way we process reality

Dr. Katherine also shares simple practices listeners can immediately implement to support eye health, focus, and nervous system regulation in everyday life.

Dr. Katherine Cioffi is an optometrist specializing in vision rehabilitation and the eye-brain connection. Her work focuses on helping children and adults improve visual processing, focus, eye teaming, tracking, nervous system regulation, and recovery from trauma, concussion, and neurological dysfunction through integrative vision therapy.

https://myvisionfirst.com/ use code OFLOVE for a discount off their SREEN FIT Program: https://www.screenfit.com/

Body of Wealth Program:
https://laurenoflove.com/bow

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The App:
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What happens when a woman chooses herself in a world that expects her to become a mother?

In this deeply honest conversation, Lauren sits down with childfree mentor and guide Wilmarie Hernandez to explore the emotional, societal, spiritual, and personal realities of consciously choosing not to have children.

Together, they unpack the pressures women face around motherhood, identity, productivity, relationships, purpose, and legacy — especially during the pivotal years of late 30s and early 40s.

Wilmarie shares her personal journey of knowing from a young age that motherhood was not her path, navigating cultural and religious conditioning, dating as a childfree woman, and reclaiming her own definition of womanhood, creativity, and fulfillment.

This episode explores:

• conscious childfree living
• feminine identity beyond motherhood
• people pleasing and guilt
• burnout and overachievement
• productivity conditioning
• feminine archetypes
• nervous system exhaustion
• legacy, purpose, and creativity
• reclaiming nurturing energy outside of motherhood
• trusting your inner wisdom over societal expectations

This conversation is not anti-motherhood. It is an invitation into deeper self-trust, conscious choice, and remembering that women are designed to create in many different ways.

Wilmarie Hernandez is a childfree mentor, guide, and advocate supporting women in reclaiming their identity, purpose, freedom, and feminine power outside of traditional motherhood narratives.

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/life.without.kids/

Her group program: here

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What if self-worth isn’t actually something you earn?

In this expansive conversation, Lauren sits down with human design educator Eden Carpenter to explore human design as a system for self-trust, aligned decision making, communication, nervous system awareness, and identity.

Together, they unpack the emotional conditioning we inherit throughout life, how our nervous systems shape our realities, and the way human design can support healthier relationships, entrepreneurship, communication, and embodiment.

This episode moves far beyond surface-level human design conversations and dives into:

• emotional authority
• nervous system regulation
• relationship dynamics
• trauma conditioning
• entrepreneurship
• aligned decision making
• self-trust
• communication styles
• identity formation
• the myth of worthiness

Eden also shares insights from her advanced studies on human design across the lifespan and explains how different developmental stages influence our conditioning, emotional patterns, and sense of self.

• Human design as a decision-making system
• Communication styles of each design type
• Why reflectors mirror emotional conditioning
• Emotional authority vs sacral authority
• Human design and entrepreneurship
• Nervous system regulation and embodiment
• Childhood conditioning and money wounds
• Reparenting through awareness
• Why “worthiness” may not actually be real
• Building a business aligned with your design

Eden Carpenter is a human design educator and guide known for her grounded, intuitive, and psychologically rich approach to human design, nervous system awareness, emotional healing, and self-trust.

Website:
https://www.edencarpenter.com/get-your-chart

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/iamedencarpenter/

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Website:
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Many of us have learned that if we just heal our mindset or do enough inner work around abundance, our financial reality will finally shift. But what if the wound underneath our money struggles has very little to do with money at all?

This week's episode is a deep, trauma-informed solo talk about what's actually happening underneath the patterns we keep repeating in our wealth creation, and why no amount of empowerment work seems to create lasting change.

I'm walking you through the framework I teach inside Body of Wealth, my self-paced study rooted in polyvagal theory, somatic experiencing, nonviolent communication, and complex PTSD education. We explore how attachment injuries from childhood replay in our relationship to money, how emotional flashbacks show up at the register or in our bank account, and why so many of us are stuck in repetition compulsions we never realized we were in.

A big theme of this episode is that healing our relationship to money is really about building a healthy relationship to our parts. The wounded, rejected, ignored, and criticized parts of us are also the most creative and abundant when we finally learn to work with them instead of against them.

I also talk about:

• How attachment injuries from childhood replay in our relationship to money
• The seven sources of wounded wealth and how they leak into our finances
• What an emotional flashback looks like in your money story
• Why safety is the foundation of sustainable wealth
• The difference between integrated and unintegrated trauma responses
• How to start working with your parts instead of overriding them

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• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Read the blog post for this episode!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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There's a line between developing spiritual gifts and being prepared to use them in service to others. This episode is about what it actually looks like to be a grounded, sovereign practitioner in a saturated spiritual landscape, and why discernment matters more than ever.

Today I'm joined by Victoria Pippo - an interference healer for global visionaries and high-performing lightworkers. She works with leaders navigating influence and impact, helping them clear the subtle distortions that disrupt discernment, sovereignty, and natural order. Victoria is the founder of The Sovereign Healer™, The Spiritual Debate podcast, Light Types, and The Great Merge™ - initiatives devoted to advancing energetic integrity, healing, and leadership clarity for starseeds worldwide. Her work bridges spiritual resolution, psychic hygiene, and the unseen influences shaping modern leadership, equipping high-level change-makers to operate from God's power rather than false light fragmentation.

We talked about the pendulum swing from New Age to Christianity that's happening collectively right now, the dangers of un-consented channeling in spiritual spaces, and what it really looks like to be a hollow-bodied conduit without slipping into spiritual arrogance.

We also talk about:

• Navigating dark energies, and the lack of resources for them in spiritual spaces
• Spiritual arrogance, false light, and energetic protection
• Why gathering more information isn't the same as growing
• What it takes to be a clear channel without losing yourself
• The cost of devotion and why sacrifice is part of the path

Episode-Related Resources:

• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Read the blog post for this episode!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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• Victoria's Website: www.victoriapippoinc.com
• Take the Free light type quiz: https://form.typeform.com/to/vUtdN8bt?typeform-source=www.victoriapippoinc.com

If you've ever wondered whether you can heal something you can't fully remember - this week’s episode is for you.

Today I'm joined by Eboni Banks - mystic, survivor, writer, and embodied teacher. As an intuition coach and intuitive healing mentor, Eboni helps people deepen their intuitive abilities by reconnecting with their five primary senses and transforming everyday experiences into powerful inner guidance. She's pioneering a new understanding of intuition and psychic awareness - not as rare gifts, but as natural aspects of our human design that are available to everyone.

Eboni and I dropped in deeply right off the bat; talking about trauma, repression, the subconscious healing path, and what it looks like when your body starts moving toward wholeness before your mind has caught up. She shared her own story of repressing sexual trauma for 18 years, and how yoga, prayer, and spiritual practice quietly created enough safety for the truth to finally find its way out.

We also talk about:

• The difference between repression and suppression
• How intuition lives in the lineage and why your ancestors may have more to do with your gifts than you realize
• Why intentional solitude is the number one practice for coming back to yourself
• How self-love and intuition grow together, and what gets in the way

Episode-Related Resources:

• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Read the blog post for this episode!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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• Eboni's Instagram: @bodywayintuition
• Check out Eboni's new book: Your Intuitive Nudge: A Step-by-Step Guide to Connecting with Your Intuition, available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and various bookstores.
• You can learn more about Eboni Banks, intuition, and the intuitive Clair senses, and the services she offers at bodywayintuition.com.
• Listen to her new podcast, Bodyway Intuition Podcast, available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, and more.

This is one of the most personal episodes I've ever shared on the show.

For years, I avoided long stretches of time with my family. I'd see my mom a few times a year, my sisters once a year, and my dad sometimes not at all. That distance was about needing space to heal from the environment I grew up in without constantly being pulled back into it.

So when my dad suggested a week-long family vacation, I had a full year to think about whether I was actually ready. I set my boundaries right away, and I walked in with more preparation than I've ever had for something like this.

This episode is my honest debrief of that week. I share the moment on day one when everything old came to the surface, the breakdown I had in the car with Matt, and the inner child work that happened in real time as I let my body move what I'd suppressed for twenty + years.

We also talk about:

• The physical toll family environments can take on a healed nervous system
• Preparing yourself and your partner before a big family immersion
• Letting your inner child finally be witnessed in real time
• Accepting that your parents may never do this work
• Why every season of healing brings a different answer to the same question

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• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Read the blog post for this episode!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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ADHD is one of the most studied and most misunderstood diagnoses out there - and for millennial women especially, it's showing up later in life in ways nobody prepared us for. The burnout, shame around rest, the 15 unfinished projects, feeling that something is off but not knowing what… 

Today I'm joined by Jennie Anderson - a registered nurse turned entrepreneur and coach who works with brilliant women with ADHD-style brains to stop treating themselves like the problem. She helps women rebuild self-trust beneath the layers of procrastination, masking, inconsistency, and shutdown - and create momentum that no longer requires self-abandonment.

Jennie and I dove in about what ADHD actually looks like in adult women, how it shows up in entrepreneurship, and why so many of us hit a wall in our 30s when hormones begin to shift. We explored hyper focus, the cycle of creative brilliance followed by burnout, and the deep shame so many women carry around rest and productivity.

One of the biggest themes we kept coming back to was self-trust - listening to your body, giving yourself permission to play, and learning to honor your unique energy. 

We also talk about:

• The connection between estrogen, dopamine, and why ADHD symptoms intensify in your 30s
• How rejection sensitivity dysphoria affects visibility and entrepreneurship
• The grief cycle that comes with a later-in-life ADHD diagnosis
• Why the "squirrel list" might be the best tool for your creative brain
• Jennie's green, yellow, red energy system for honoring your daily capacity

Episode-Related Resources:

• ⁠⁠⁠⁠Read the blog post for this episode!⁠⁠⁠⁠

Lauren of Love Resources: 

• Join the Magic App with dozens of courses, resources, and a private community! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://laurenoflove.com/app⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
• Freebies, courses, blog: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠laurenoflove.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
• IG: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@laurenoflove⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Grab our free Manifestation Sheets!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
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