WITH LOVE, DANIELLE

My last book was The Desire Map. Back then, my life was guided by the question, "How do I want to feel?" I built my career on that.

But I began to notice that even if I wasn't experiencing my core desired feelings, I was still in touch with a greater purpose. Temporary unhappiness didn't hold me back from helping a friend or feeling close to The Divine.

A new question emerged. "What do I want to embody?"The answer was clear: Love. Love no matter what.

And it turns out that the path to being more Loving is through a Loving process itself.

Here it is, a sneak peek of my new book, How To Be Loving! Heart centered, soul powered, and divinely timed. A place for nuance and Compassion, where Self Acceptance has room to grow.

As you listen in, I leave you with this… What if…

• You could consistently choose higher quality thoughts?
• You stop talking yourself out of your natural inclination to Forgive?
• You started to create conditions for healing in your life?
• You aligned your personal ambitions to include the collective—because the days of self-centered bucket lists are over?
• Your ego—which is just an exaggerated sense of a separate self—began to calm down?

Spirituality is really the practice of thinking with Love. And we can effectively train ourselves to keep returning to Love via our thoughts over and over again.

Being Loving doesn't necessarily mean feeling more. It means feeling everything with more Love.

It's the ultimate inclusiveness. Because in your heart, it's ALL IN—your light and your shadows—and everyone else's. This is the non-dual place where complete Self Acceptance has room to grow.

This call for gentleness is counterculture. And it's what we're yearning for. We do not need to focus on "fixing" ourselves. As we focus on living from our heart center, anything that's not in alignment with that Light falls away.

There's tolerance. And it's obviously better than intolerance. But there's often some kind of settling beneath it. And then we move up the spiral to Acceptance. A definite improvement but… Let's really expand to the highest destination if possible: HONOUR.

We honor our contrasts and our mutual freewill. It's a huge stretch when we're frustrated with other people's choices. We don't have to condone, but we can respect the most basic commonality that we all have: CHOICE.

Tune in for a mind stretch!

I'm breaking tradition on my one woman podcast to introduce you to someone who I think is an earth angel: Randy Watson, founder of Ally Global Foundation. Everytime I meet with Randy I leave feeling shocked and hopeful in equal measure.

Ally Global helps survivors of human trafficking find healing through safe housing, education, and aftercare.

A request: PLEASE LISTEN. Learn with me. I've been paying attention to this global issue since my days of running a think tank in Washington, DC., when I toured The Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

In this conversation, you're going to hear how perpetrators get access to kids of all ages and communities and begin a cycle of seduction and fear. Girls from upper class communities to marginalized kids; A+ students with doting parents to kids lost in the social care system. I was stunned to hear what's going on in my own city.

You'll also hear stories of bravery and healing.

And hopefully you'll be compelled to help us raise awareness and funds to help protect and heal survivors.

Astral body, mental body, auric field… nervous system… sound system… What's it all mean, really? I have a very simple breakdown for these things of monumental importance to our wellbeing. All things I wish I knew more about when I was twenty, eating New Age books for breakfast and generally avoiding Mother Nature.

In this short episode we're going into:Explanations of astral body, mental body, emotional body, and… What hangs out in your auric field anyway? PLUS! The 101 on our nervous system and why nourishing it should be our #1 focus.

This is Love for ALL your bodies. Tune in, be well, vitalize your life.

There are times to go to the mat for what you believe in. And… in my experience… MOST of the time… disengaging from duking it out is a very very good idea. Maybe even the BEST idea. For your nervous system, for world peace.

And it's the hardest move. Because the fear-mind really loves to prove who's right or wrong and it loves to win in court—whether that court is an online chat about who should be canceled, or an argument about who left the toilet seat up.

This podcast began with a call from a friend who was in a litigious situation with a royal pain in the ass associate. My friend was sooooo clearly in the right and their opponent was so clearly… not cool.

"So what if you gave the conflict just zero more energy?" Zero. More. Energy.

"What if you loved yourself so much that you didn't take the hook?" Loved… yourself so much…

And with that, I invite you to consider not taking the bait to fight. This is episode #45 of WITH LOVE, DANIELLE and I'm seriously rooting for your peace of mind.

There's so much that we want good n' GONE. But here's the thing: nothing is leaving your life or your thought patterns until you give it the light of your consciousness—your love. You're not condoning more pain or poor behavior, but you're moving into a greater presence with it. And so the grip starts to relax, and both you AND the dynamic (or person or circumstance) can truly peace out.

Everything that you create—relationship dynamics, fear and obsessions, body pain—wants to get your attention and eventually come into balance. Think of it this way: our thoughts and life situations are like our little baby creations. Fear babies. Gloom babies. Shadow babies. (And all the positive creations like brilliance and resilience…) All of those babies just need a minute of calm, heart centered feedback. And then they evolve. Less trying to "cut cords" and push away, and more… presence.

In this episode of With Love, Danielle, I'm talking about pivoting toward the heart, letting go of pain and getting free… for real.

Why do we do meditations on the Full Moon? What's the "dark of the moon?" Does… it have anything to do with Pink Floyd? Is the moon "feminine" energy and the sun "masculine" energy? And why should we pay attention to this at all?

This is my pragmatic-as-possible perspective on the super woo and super misperceptions about our relationship to the sun + moon—and why we should be very mindful about those connections. I'm also talking about Heart Centered Altars and creating those sacred spaces in our homes.

My Heart Centered Altar Kit walks you through how to create a personal altar in accordance with nature and astrological alignments—that's dedicated to the well-being of all. So beautiful. This practice comes as a bonus when you become a Heart Centered Member. Explore here: daniellelaporte.com/membership

Meditate with me on the Full Moon, or on the New Moon for a community practice—or, purchase and download any one of my meditation kits for your personal practice. Whenever, wherever works for you.

My podcast theme is I AM LOVE, by DJ Drez feat. Marti Nikko. Available on Spotify + iTunes. Please support independent, positive music. xo

In the personal development realm, discussion around Forgiveness tends to focus on us Forgiving the other person for what they apparently did.

But what about asking for Forgiveness? And, if I may, I want to take that a step further and talk about asking for Forgiveness from the person you think owes YOU an apology.

In this episode of With Love, Danielle (#42), I'm going to tell you a personal story about digging deep for accountability––and the euphoria of fessing up.

I hope this sparks heaps of reconciliation across the whole wide world. And if it does, tell me all about it. Forgiveness stories are my favourite.

The activities that we do most habitually create the deepest grooves in the mind. All that repetition gets us hooked on the behaviour––that could be a good thing, could be a bad thing. It depends on what the behaviour is.

Then there are the times in our lives when we bust out of habits and we do something new. What I'm interested in talking about is the motivation beneath the "new things" we try. Because sometimes it's the ego pushing us to prove ourselves. And sometimes, it's our Soul moving us toward real expansion.

In this episode, I'm talking about aversions + desire (they are mates.) And the drive to be a more conscious person by doing new things, versus, the ego's compulsion to check off impressive sh*t on a bucket list.

It's fairly easy to conceive of a collective consciousness that is loving. Essentially, people who are compassionate, kind, uplifting to the world. They're everywhere. When we think of this light, we tend to see it as a collective phenomenon.

Now let's consider the "shadow" of humanity. When we as individuals are not feeling "uplifting" or particularly high vibration––when we're in our own despair, we tend to see ourselves as burdensome or not very useful to the collective.

But this isn't true. There is a COLLECTIVE LIGHT and a COLLECTIVE SHADOW. And each of us is conducting both luminosity and density.

This podcast episode is a very hopeful take on the high form of service of dealing with your own darkness.

I hope this brings some light to our path.