WITH LOVE, DANIELLE

The first thing to do with that inner critic voice is to have compassion for it. (This is counterintuitive because we live in a performance-based culture that thrives on judgement.) Approach with love—then instead of creating further separation from your heart, you're building a bridge.

Anytime you bring compassion to a situation you will see it more clearly. Compassion is the light of Love. It's the true power source. Speak of it often.

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Our Shadow Self is not an evil-twin personality that we have to master. It's our neglected inner child—our deep sensitivity. Our greatest opportunity for building strength comes from the work of healing our woundedness. I know this because I lived it: learning to love my most wounded self was my ultimate restoration.

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Making new friends in your 30s, 40s, and onwards — it's never, EVER too late. Your longing for sisterhood is both primal and divine. Friendship is the medicine. It's the elixir that we need right now, more than ever. Your desire is so HEALTHY. Friendships are my primary religion so here's what I suggest… daniellelaporte.com/withlove

We can all understand the importance of starting our day in an intentional way. But before we jump into new habits, we need to look into our psyche and examine what's really up when we wake up. Each of us has a pre-existing relationship with "mornings". And it matters.

Menus of morning habits are easy to come by (harder to practice). But habits are only bandaids unless we get beneath the surface of our behavior and relating. That's what most productivity methods fail to ask. What were mornings like for you growing up? What does your ideal morning *feel* like? Welcome to Morning Therapy (but, like, not therapy) with Danielle!

I struggled with mornings for a long time. There was a kind of resistance to starting the day, even when there was the presence of joy. I decided to take a deeper, psychological look—and it shifted everything for me. With a little help from my psychotherapist, essentially I created my own therapeutic approach to mornings.

Morning mindfulness is how you activate your superpowers. Your steadiness and strength. And your connection to the sacred—everything we need on the graceful and the challenging days.

So, how do we power up our pre-day? First, we go deeper.

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Are you attracting jerks because you're a jerk? Maybe. Maybe not. Sometimes the jerk is there to show you how you do NOT want to feel or be treated—because contrast is one of our most powerful teachers. The flipside: what they may be here to illuminate is how you DO want to feel and who you truly are.

I am a 100% yes to the theory that we attract certain people into our lives to teach us certain things. And—everyone is not your complete reflection. Here's what I mean… daniellelaporte.com/withlove

Love is one of the most wrung out, misused, and challenging concepts in philosophy, and (more specifically) in self-help teachings. And if "love" is a confusing concept… then "self-love" is utterly mystifying.

This episode is a long strand of pragmatic and esoteric pearls for self compassion. It's a reminder that deepening our self-love expands our ability to love others. Real love is mystical and very palpable. It's holy and it's human. It's poetic… and it gets the job done.

How do we love ourselves—and each other? Let me count the ways… daniellelaporte.com/withlove

The Q: "What's your opinion on one-night stands when it's ultimately not aligned with what you want in your forever partner? I know women who wait years of sexual deprivation because they're holding out for The One."

Where do I stand on one-night stands? Are they soul satisfying… or just a distraction in your pants? In this episode, I open up about holding out and putting out.

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For those of us who believe in the intelligence of love, roll call! This is for the deep-feelers. There are a thousand reasons to be highly concerned for the world, but by the end of this conversation I hope you feel less like a spiritual worrier and more like a spiritual warrior. I'm talking about fierce gentleness, self agency, and how we make choices from our resiliency. Courage, my love.

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