This episode originally aired as Episode 169 on March 7, 2025, and became one of your favourites of the year. We're bringing it back because this conversation on letting go and making aligned decisions really resonated. If you missed it the first time or want to revisit, here we go…

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

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Follow + subscribe to With Love, Danielle on Substack for weekly podcasts, essays + more (formerly known as The Sacred)

Comparing your spiritual path to someone else's is crazy-making. And yet… most of us do it.

Daniell talks about how she's STILL recovering from spiritual bypassing and why

Because your path is your path. Your Soul isn't here to win a spiritual competition. It's here to love, to serve, to stumble, to practice. Over and over again.

In this episode:

• Why comparing your spiritual path to someone else's is self-punishment
• The many absurd (and enlightening) ways we measure our "devotion"
• How spiritual bypassing keeps us from real growth
• Why being full human is the real holy move
• Plus: a poem on devotion and daily enlightenment

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Danielle's book White Hot Truth: Clarity for Keeping it Real on Your Spiritual Path from One Seeker to Another
• GetHeartCentered.com—Download the FREE Astro + Events calendar and sync your plans with the planets
• Follow + Subscribe to With Love, Danielle on Substack for weekly essays + more
• Join the CENTERED Collective

It took three years and a blessed fortune, but Danielle feels—and looks—better than ever.

This is the episode where she tells you everything. The mold that tried to kill her twice. The metals poisoning. The 12-inch worms (yes, really). The 27 pounds she lost without counting a single calorie. The face that made people ask, "Have you had work done?"

No tox. No surgery. Just results.

Danielle walks you through the practitioners who actually helped, the protocols that worked, and the expensive mistakes she made so you don't have to. This is raw, real, and intensely practical.

If you've been trying everything and nothing's working—your body might just be trying to stay alive.

In this episode:

• Why mold and parasites are buddies (and how to evict them both)
• The brain and metals detox that brought her clarity back
• What actually worked for weight loss after trainers, cardio, and protein shakes failed
• The 3-month parasite cleanse and what came out of her body (bring chopsticks)
• How she lost 27 pounds without counting calories
• The insulin resistance reset that changed everything
• Face yoga, red light therapy, and the tools that firmed up her face (no Botox)
• The spiritual practices that helped her discern solutions
• The essential oils, air purifiers, and home environment shifts that support healing

Big disclaimer: This is not medical advice. This is Danielle's body, her karma, her choices. Take what you want, leave the rest.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• GetHeartCentered.com—Download the FREE Astro + Events calendar and sync your plans with the planets
• Follow + Subscribe to With Love, Danielle on Substack for weekly essays + more
• Join the CENTERED Collective

After a year of revelation around inner child work and shadow integration, Danielle is redefining what healing really means. It's not about conquering fear or forcing confidence. It's not about getting your inner child to "grow up."

Healing is about loving every fragment of yourself, exactly as it is.

Through a story about heartbreak, grief, and self-compassion, Danielle reveals how meeting her wounded self with tenderness—rather than rejection—transformed everything.

Find out what happened when she asked her inner child, "What do you need?" and listened, with Love.

In this episode:

• Why healing is integration, not correction
• The courage to meet darkness with curiosity, not shame
• What your inner child actually is (and isn't)
• Danielle's shadow work practice
• How our deepest needs reveal our divinity

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• GetHeartCentered.com—Download the FREE Astro + Events calendar and sync your plans with the planets
• Follow + Subscribe to With Love, Danielle on Substack for weekly essays + more
• Join the CENTERED Collective

We're doing something different today. A survey. The world's largest survey on one simple question:

What do you want to let go of?

We have been asking thousands of people this, and the answers are immediate, emphatic, and HEALING.

From the responses, we've been able to identify the top seven universal patterns of what people most want to release.

This is the foundation for Danielle's next book, Bless & Release, and we want your voice in this movement.

Take 30 seconds right now. Head to LettingGoSurvey.com. Leave one word or a few sentences. That's it. You'll be part of the movement of blessing & releasing.

In this episode:

• Why Danielle is setting out to gather 1 million responses to the letting go question
• The top 7 patterns of what people want to release
• Why asking for help is actually a gift (for you and for them)
• A peek into Bless & Release—the book and workshop methodology launching in Spring 2026
• Plus two counterintuitive suggestions of what we can let go of right now.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• What do you want to let go of? Add your response and join the movement at LettingGoSurvey.com.
• GetHeartCentered.com—Download the FREE Astro + Events calendar and sync your plans with the planets
• Follow + Subscribe to With Love, Danielle on Substack for weekly essays + more
• Join the CENTERED Collective

The fastest way to fall in love with people? Ask them what they're praying for. Or let them pray for you.

This is a deeply personal episode. Danielle opens up about the end of her marriage and how prayer—both hers and others'—became a lifeline.

She shares how carrying twelve friends' prayers through the sacred temples of Egypt opened her up to the intimacy of prayer—raw, messy, holy. She talks about moving from "polished petitions" to unfiltered conversations with the Divine, and the healing power of asking others to hold you in prayer when your own heart is breaking.

In this episode:

• Danielle's deeply personal reflection on heartbreak
• A Prayer from Michelle for Broken Hearts
• How asking for prayers during heartbreak becomes medicine
• Why the most powerful prayers are messy and real

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Daily Energetics—a course that teaches you how to align your to-dos with planetary rhythms. Sign up by Sunday, September 28, and you'll receive a FREE 2026 CENTERED Planner (daily or weekly edition).
• Interested in coming to Egypt in 2026? Email support@daniellelaporte.com for more info.
• GetHeartCentered.com—Download the FREE Astro + Events calendar and sync your plans with the planets
• Follow + Subscribe to With Love, Danielle on Substack for weekly essays + more
• Join the CENTERED Collective

Sometimes we confuse self pity as self Compassion.

Compassion is a dignified energy. It's embracing and wise. It knows that it's highly capable of healing people and situations. Compassion is merciful. Compassion is a possibility thinker.

Self-pity is like the zirconia diamond of compassion. It's not real, but it looks close. Self-pity looks backwards, scans for blame. It seems interested in getting out of pain but… nope, not really.

In this episode, Danielle shares how she caught herself in a cycle of self-pity, and how she shifted toward compassion with one simple prayer.

Three days of focus turned into gentle optimism—and compassion emerged.

In this episode:

• The difference between self-pity and self-compassion
• Why self-pity feels soothing but blocks healing
• The prayer Danielle used to transform self-pity into resilience

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• INNER SUN Fall Equinox Meditation. Sunday, September 21 at 7am PT | 10am ET. Save your seat (it's free!)
• The 2026 CENTERED Planner is here! Available until September 28, 2025 + shipping worldwide in November. Get yours here.
• GetHeartCentered.com—Download the FREE Astro + Events calendar and sync your plans with the planets
• Follow + Subscribe to With Love, Danielle on Substack for weekly essays + more
• Join the CENTERED Collective

Danielle's summer was full of pivots. Some heartbreak. Decisions of depth. Phoenix vibes.

Here's the thing about making the right decision: you'll know because of the relief you feel. It's the rush of light that comes with the declaration. The exhale. That clarity is all the affirmation you need.

In this episode, Danielle shares a recent pivot with her new book, Bless & Release. What was supposed to launch in Fall 2025 has been moved to Spring 2026. A move that was out of character—but created space, fresh insight, and a waterfall of gratitude.

From a mastermind with James Clear, to forming a focus group for the book, to planning the world's largest survey on what people want to let go of… this pivot became a portal.

And with every pivot comes Phoenix medicine: the burning, the ashes, the certain rising.

In this episode:

• How to recognize the right decision by the relief it brings
• Why pivoting can create more ease, insight and expansion
• Behind the scenes of the decision to move Bless & Release to Spring 2026
• A lesson from James Clear on writing "the best book ever"

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The 2026 CENTERED Planner is here! Available exclusively by preorder until September 28, 2025 + shipping worldwide in time for the holidays. Get yours here.
• What do you want to let go of? Take the world's largest survey on letting go.
• GetHeartCentered.com—Download the FREE Astro + Events calendar and sync your plans with the planets
• Follow + Subscribe to With Love, Danielle on Substack for weekly essays + more
• Join the CENTERED Collective

Energetics of the Days of the Week—catch up on the series!

• Part 1: Mercury Retrograde
• Part 2: Sunday, The Soul's Day
• Part 3: Monday, The Moon's Day
• Part 4: Tuesdays are for getting sh*t done
• Part 5: Forget Hump Day—On Wednesdays We Play
• Part 6: Thursday is EXPANSION Day
• Part 7: Thank Venus It's Friday!
• Part 8: On Saturdays We Clean Up Our Karma (and Our Closets)