I've been in a pendulum swing of suffering and joy lately—and as ever, I hope what I share is a popcorn trail through the dark for you. Because there's always another side.

This episode is inspired by a poem from D.H. Lawrence that's become a mantra for me: "Are you willing to be made nothing?" The Phoenix only renews when she's burnt to flocculent ash. Immortal bird, anyone?

This is my unfiltered download on what it means to truly rise. I'm talking about sacred surrender, resilience as your true nature, why guilt is a pathway to innocence, and how even a day of crying in bed can be an act of devotion.

Plus, I riff on my philosopher boyfriends (Krishnamurti and Leonard Cohen) and my metaphysical bestie, Manly P. Hall.

This one's personal and poetic—just how I like it.

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• The Rituals Class – A free live class to help you choose—and stick to, better habits. Saturday, March 29 at 9am PT | 12pm ET.
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• Gail Larsen's last speaking Immersion.

Are you waiting on better habits to fix your life?

We're going esoterically practical today. I'm talking about the difference between habits and rituals. Habits are from the intellect. Rituals are from the heart. One can burn you out, the other can bless your life.

In Eps 174 of With Love, Danielle, I walk you through a handful of practices that have supported me over the years: a ritual for connecting to your inner child, a list of what you trust (to calm the nervous system), chanting your own name (yep, it's powerful), and looking into your own eyes with loving-kindness.

You'll leave with real things you can try today—and a personal invitation to my free class:

THE RITUALS CLASS

Practices to help you choose—and stick to, better habits.Saturday, March 29 9am PT | 12pm ET daniellelaporte.com/rituals

In this episode:

• The real difference between rituals and habits (and why it matters)
• Why most habit advice leads to burnout, not peace
• How ritual infuses your actions with meaning, energy, and love
• Why discipline can numb the mind (Krishnamurti said it best)
• How to bless your habits with Divine support

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Hello, Loves…

Today, since the world feels like a roller coaster on fire, consider this a palate cleanser edition.

In this episode:

• Films I've loved about women liberating themselves—from Widow Cliquot to Pamela Anderson in The Last Showgirl
• Multitasking + healing with red light therapy—my go-to for melasma, immunity, and sinus health.
• Manifesting my next home. I have great habitat karma.
• Motherhood's mixed f*cking bag—ugly crying over scissors and Band-Aids as my son preps to move.
• Breathing into your heart—the most direct route to sanity in these wild times.

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Loves…

The gratitude is mutual.

You don't have to go to Cairo to have these revelations… but evidently, I had to. Some of these learnings are deeply personal. All of what I'm attempting to translate is beyond words. There are layers I can't describe. This feels like going braless at my art opening. But this is me, and this is my art.

This week, I'm sharing what it was like to stand before the Sphinx, chest pressed to stone, receiving an ancient and unexpected healing.

In this episode:

• What The Sphinx told me about gratitude—it changes everything.
• A French tour guide unknowingly confirmed my prayers at the Temple of Horus.
• Why problems need to be brought to the altar to be solved.
• The answer I received about the heartbreak of the world.

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I've been wondering how we could each collectively wake the f*ck up to the basics of Love. You too?

So, I have a little story about a monk and a sandwich to share. But first, I'm going to unpack the definition of Common Sense and rant for a minute—because humanity's Common Sense tank is running on empty, and our collective shadow is louder than ever.

In this episode:

• What Common Sense really means—and why Common Sense isn't common
• The difference between wisdom and opinion (hint: wisdom includes everyone in the solution)
• Why we're stuck in polarization—and how to move beyond "us vs. them" thinking
• The collective shadow is OURS, not theirs. We all scoop from the same pool.

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What if losing something was actually the doorway to more? More clarity. More freedom. More YOU.

This week, we're talking about how to stay sane in change, why simplicity is a spiritual practice, and how real Vision Building isn't about clinging to one fixed outcome—it's about aligning with the Divine and backing it up with Faith (and an ambitious timeline).

• What a renoviction is—and why it's hitting my spiritual practice
• How to hold both resistance and excitement in change—the beliefs that help me stay sane when life shifts my plans
• What real Vision Building looks like (hint: it's agile, spirit-backed, and way bigger than a vision board)
• The James Baldwin quote that's guiding me through it all

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Loves…

I'm attempting to be useful in two ways today. BONUS.

1) Let's talk about decision making, how to know when it's right or wrong. 2) And how the ego loves to look good. And thus! how letting go of status concepts can be radically liberating and HEALING.

I once traded a status symbol (sexy Audi, FAST) for a soul symbol (pre-owned VW, FREE). Turns out, less status = more me. More LIFE.

In this episode:

• How the ego masks self-worth struggles with status symbols

• The surprising freedom in less (and why "downgrade to upgrade" is real)

• The three red flags that signal a misaligned decision

• A spiritual approach to right-sizing your life—beyond logic, beyond labels

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Waiting is exhausting—and the cost of waiting to be self-expressed is high. Suppressing your life force takes energy, so why do we wait to show up, to express, to create?

This week, I'm talking about the three reasons we stall on our dreams—social conditioning, fear, and fatigue—and how we can move through the resistance.

Because your dreams? They deserve to be yours…sooner.

In this episode:

• The mental, emotional, and spiritual cost of waiting
• Why "tired of waiting" is literal—and how to shift it
• The fastest way to break through fear + fatigue
• How social conditioning has us delaying our power (and how to undo it)

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The Prayer of St. Francis is a magnificent prayer for becoming the Divine counterbalance. You can speak this to your Soul or the God of your understanding.

Bear in mind the universal law: "For it is in giving that we receive." So we are taught by Saint Francis: "And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life." This isn't necessarily literal death. It's a dying of the old ways and our illusions of separateness. It's the awareness that our oneness is eternal life.

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Our 2025 Daily edition of the Heart Centered planner revived a simple exercise called the What I Trust list.

So for this episode of With Love, Danielle we are reaching back into the archives and choosing this episode as a BEST OF.

Instead of mustering bravado about things that we hope are true, root into what we viscerally know we can rely on. This is an effective way to dissolve your anxiety and balance your nervous system.

So, what do you trust?

1. Focus on the present. The point of this exercise is to access the trust that you already have. It's unwavering and true for you. This is not about building new trust or visualizing outcomes. We're concentrating on what is currently working.

2. Write it out. It's helpful that your "What I Trust" List be written out, not typed up. The movement, hand to vision, helps your psyche to feel the comfort. Imagine your mind is like a lung, inhaling and exhaling as you list out what you're trusting. And/or…

3. Speak it out. If you're an auditory-learner, speak it out. Leave yourself a voicemail, or record a voice memo on your mobile, or talk to yourself. Kindly. Do not underestimate how impactful this can be.

4. Stream your consciousness. Just let it pour out—but, again, don't include things on your list that you don't fully have trust in. It's okay if your list is short—brevity is better than bravado.

5. Be really obvious if you need to be. Nothing is too great or too small to put your trust in. Sometimes the most basic things will give you a boost, especially if you're finding it difficult to think of things that you fully trust.

Intentionally access what you know to be positive and true. That sureness builds a bridge to more Joy and power.

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