How To Connect To Your Soul Self

Join me for a beautiful conversation with Danielle LaPorte, a member of Oprah’s Super Soul 100, for an in-depth look at how to connect to your soul (or what I call your 'You-est You'). It's easy to doubt yourself and get sucked into distractions. The answer is always within and is about more being, less doing...being more inclusive, loving, aware and awake to the fact that most of our world is set up to distract you and keep you distanced from your true essence. It's time to come home to you.

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Welcome,

My friend,

To the USU podcast.

I'm Julie Riesler,

And I am so honored to have you here.

In this show and community,

You'll find huge-hearted overachievers who want to turn on their inner light,

To learn to trust their heart wisdom,

And help raise the consciousness of this planet,

Just like you.

Whether I'm sharing a conversation with a fellow lightworker,

Luminary,

Or a solo cast about navigating life as an empath,

My goal is the same,

To help you turn your fear into faith,

To remember that you are sacred,

To realign with your highest potential,

To be fully self-expressed as your USU.

Are you ready to join me on this journey?

It's time to listen to your inner guidance and follow your soul's purpose.

Never forget,

The chances of being born were one in 14 trillion.

In other words,

You are pure positive divine light,

Born to shine,

To live from your heart,

And to be your fullest USU.

Welcome,

Welcome,

Beloved USU soul seekers.

You are in for such a treat today.

We are,

You're going to get to meet,

We're going to get to speak with really one of my favorite female badass luminaries.

I just love,

Love Danielle Laporte.

Love you Danielle,

And I love your spirit,

Your energy,

Your essence.

And let me tell you a little bit about Danielle first before you get to hear from her.

Danielle Laporte is a member of Oprah's Super Soul 100,

A group who,

In Oprah Winfrey's words,

Is uniquely connecting the world together with a spiritual energy that matters.

She's the creator of the Desire Map series,

The book has been translated into 10 languages,

A day planner system,

And an online courses that have over 250,

000 people have tapped into.

There are 500 plus Desire Map facilitators running programs in 23 countries.

So beautiful.

Her podcast with Love Danielle ranked in iTunes top 10 wellness category.

She's the author of White Hot Truth,

Clarity for Keeping It Real on Your Spiritual Path,

And the Fire Starter Sessions,

A guide to creating success on your own terms,

Which also spun off into a coaching curriculum.

Danielle was a book publicist and publishing consultant and the executive director of a future studies think tank,

Studying trends for the likes of the Pentagon and the World Bank.

I want you to also know,

I thought this was beautiful,

That Danielle's charities of choice are V-Day,

A global activist movement to end violence against women and girls,

And Tree Sisters,

Setting out to rapidly accelerate reforestation throughout nature-based feminine leadership.

Marianne Williamson refers to Danielle as a bright light in the modern priestess hood.

Eve Ensler calls her a force field of energy,

Wonder,

Humor,

And love.

She now speaks at women's events,

About consciousness and heart intelligence,

Lives in Vancouver,

And is a mother to a teenage son.

Danielle,

It is such a pleasure,

Such an honor.

I'm so,

So grateful you said yes and to have you here today.

Yeah,

Cool.

Feels great already.

Awesome.

Awesome.

Well,

You know,

So what we talk about here,

This whole concept of being your USU,

Of really stepping into that unique aspect,

That your higher self,

Really the courage to do that.

And one of the things I love about you is you're embodying that.

You've just done that over and over again.

Maybe just to start,

Like,

How did you,

I mean,

You started in the DC area,

And now you're in Vancouver,

And you've built this like beautiful business,

So heart-centered.

Maybe you can tell us,

Without getting into your whole life story,

Maybe a story or two that is really,

That illustrates how you really tapped into and why what you do is so important.

So tapping into your USU and why is that so important for you?

Oh,

That's a big one.

Well,

What else is there?

I mean,

Your higher self,

Your soul self,

Your God self,

Is it.

Everything else is either a pale reflection or a pretty good reflection,

Pretty clear.

But I mean,

I'm really interested in the truth.

And I find it like liberating and comforting.

And yeah,

I just want to,

I want to know.

I want to know.

I want to be,

I want to live in the true reality.

So my question,

Because I know you have your amazing truth bombs.

I've been into this for a long time.

For somebody who's listening and is like,

How do I know my truth?

Like if,

You know,

If you've lived so long in the space of what society thinks or tells you to be,

How do you start to uncover or to find your truth?

You know it.

You know it.

You know it.

You know it when you feel it.

For me,

The experiences,

I feel peaceful,

Which is the opposite of agitation.

I feel very present,

Which is the opposite of all,

You know,

Striving and grasping.

And I feel expanded.

I feel loving.

I feel loving.

I feel loving.

Like even sometimes,

You know,

You have those revelations where you,

You know,

You realize I got to quit.

I got to leave.

I got to walk away.

I've got to let them go.

I've got to do,

You know,

You've got to do something like you've got this clarity,

But the action that's required once you're clear is a difficult step.

Even though there's difficulty involved,

You still feel at peace with the truth.

And you can be scared.

And you cannot know how you're going to figure it out or what it's going to take or any of that.

But you're just,

You really like,

Yeah,

This is true.

Yeah.

And sometimes,

And we should just give a moment for the joy.

And sometimes like,

This is so true.

It's a yes.

It's a yeah.

You know,

Yeah.

Yeah.

I love this is so,

You know,

There's so many frameworks and,

You know,

Use this,

These tools.

And I love what you said.

It's just,

It's just natural.

Like,

You know,

It's in you.

And it's not something I love how you said that,

You know,

You just feel at peace.

Like it's a it's a knowingness.

It's a feeling.

You don't have to do all of these frameworks and tools and strategies to find it.

It's right there.

But this but what often happens,

So there's that you can have that peace,

Even though what needs to be done might be difficult.

But a lot of us,

A lot of us will talk ourselves out of that piece.

Yeah.

The piece can just like we let ourselves just like it's a pit stop instead of like a new plateau.

And we're just like,

I'm no,

No,

No,

I must be wrong.

That can't be that,

You know,

So like we know,

But are you willing to?

Are you able to like honor what you know,

Hear what your body's been telling you,

Hear what your inner guidance has been saying?

Can you can you hang out there and obey?

Yeah.

Do you have any examples?

I mean,

I'm assuming you do of times when the truth was obvious and it was painful or challenging and you had to really make a bold or courageous decision about something that you know,

I'm divorced.

So there's that.

That's a painful revelation of just like,

I can't.

I won't.

I won't let that happen.

And everything that comes with that,

Especially when you have a child,

It's never fun to fire somebody.

Never.

Can be so clear.

Oh,

My God,

You can even know how good it's going to be when they're gone.

It's just like,

It's not great.

I mean,

I have,

You know,

That that's like another track of like,

I have my way and how I approach that kind of business stuff.

I say no to stuff all the time.

But here's the thing.

The more I.

I just want to like anchor into your question,

Which is about.

Like an awareness and then maybe impending difficulty.

I just don't focus on the impending difficulty anymore.

I'm just like so relieved to be clear and to be loved and lovable and loving and just have like inclusive,

Loving awareness.

Like that's all that matters.

Everything after that,

It actually gets easier.

The more you rest in,

As you would call it,

Your U.

S.

U.

,

That is the power.

You have access to all the capacity to do what needs to be done.

I mean,

It's very Joan of Arc,

Right?

It's like,

I am not afraid.

I was born for this.

But that's because she was aligned with spirit and was unwavering in that.

And then she could ride into battle.

Like if I'm clear and I feel if I know that it's like it's it is higher wisdom that's pouring through me.

Who cares after that?

What I got to leave,

What I got to quit,

Who I got to let go of,

What I got to burn,

Tear up.

And you will care less what people think of you too and all of that.

And you know,

I don't want to just there's an important end with that,

Because if we just stop there with like you'll care less,

Then we get into that boss lady.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Archetype,

Which is foolish.

Yeah.

It's overdone and it's making us brittle.

So yes,

You're going to care less what people think,

But you will have you will be more loving and inclusive about your own thoughts,

Your fragmented parts of yourself and everybody else in their fragments.

When you are aligned with I mean,

Essentially what I'm on my soapbox about is like when you are aligned with your soul,

Living a heart centered life,

You don't care.

You like so don't give a shit,

But you just love.

Yeah.

With such fullness.

Hmm.

Hmm.

Beautiful.

Yeah.

I this is such the conversation.

It's so interesting because I just in watching,

You know,

Reading the desire map and the truth bombs and your community heart centered,

You know,

It's we do a lot with heart intelligence.

We've talked to the love of the people at heart math that talk about heart intelligence and this.

I love what you're saying.

I'm probably I've always aligned with you,

But I feel you and I really think this shift of the boss lady,

That whole frankly,

It feels like it has a lot of masculine in there and adding that that balance.

I just I love how you say that about,

You know,

When you are connected to that higher wisdom,

Which I think there's a lot of souls right now that are like,

How do I do that?

I feel lost.

What this is kind of I'm just going with the questions coming.

I have them,

But there are some that are just coming to me intuitively.

So I'm going to go with that.

In this time,

I'm curious what you feel is the lesson.

What are the messages that we need to be paying attention to right now?

Because I think it's very connected to what you said.

I'm curious from your own beautiful words and heart.

What do you feel?

What is the message?

There's a lot going on in the world.

Wake up.

That's the message.

It's coming from every direction.

It's going to get more intense.

It's going to get it's highly likely going to get more disruptive,

Destabilizing,

Upsetting.

And we're here to heal.

We're here to heal.

So like,

I just would roll that into one like,

Wake up,

You're here to heal.

You are here to heal your small self.

That is just part of your greater self,

Your higher self.

It's like just move into wholeness.

And then as you do that,

We're here to heal each other.

I can help you.

You can help me.

This is the Aquarian Age we're in now.

This is all about unity consciousness.

No one can be left behind.

No one.

We get where we need to go only together.

Empathy is the skill to work on.

Empathy.

Forget about it.

That's it.

I was going to use the word succeed.

You want fulfillment.

You want to heal empathy.

So I'm finding myself having conversations I have never had with people I thought I would never have conversations with at all.

And I'm loving it.

Like I'm loving agreeing with some people.

And just like we can agree on that one piece of the pie.

And I'm really I am so intensely disheartened.

But not as intensely as in the word.

I am so aware of my disheartenedness.

That's not even a word of how people are talking to each other right now and misplaced righteousness.

And misplaced righteousness could be our downfall.

The wisest thing right now is to just say I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know what is true.

I don't know.

And then wow then you're able to connect.

And at the same time and it's all such a duality like at the same time we're being called on.

I think you know spirit needs us to be vocalizing and showing up because if you are closeted about what your ideals are someone else is going to take the wheel for you.

Someone has taken the wheel for humanity.

It's called the darkness.

Really trying to run the show.

I really think just having this conversation last night with a friend.

I really think we're in the midst of spiritual warfare.

I'm having so many conversations right now when we're talking about this in my Heart Centered membership last week about evil.

And if we are not able to entertain the notion that evil exists,

That it's at play,

That it's got its tentacles in every sector of society.

If we can't think about that then this is going to be this awakening is going to be very painful and we're going to wake up.

We're going to get there.

But how hard do we want to make this?

There is just so much with what you said.

Listen,

Where do we begin?

I'm curious sometimes just hearing what I think those listening would ask.

The first thought that comes to mind and curious what you think about this for someone who's like,

Okay,

I thought I was awake.

How do we awaken?

That's like,

I think that I'm going to eat.

Can I use that one?

I think that's going to be like this mantra that is this current mantra for a lot of people who consider themselves and like,

I thought I was awake.

Yeah,

Now.

Just so much is coming to the surface.

It's like,

Holy smokes.

So what was the question?

How do we wake up more?

You got to want to wake up.

Somebody asked me the other day,

A really good friend.

I was just like,

This is what I think is true and this is what I think is happening and the underbelly of this and this corruption.

This is one of my oldest friends.

And she's like,

Why do you want to know?

I was like,

Why do you not want to know?

And we can talk to each other like that.

It's like,

I got to know.

If I don't know,

I can't be of service.

And first of all,

Let's just talk about me.

I want to be awake and sovereign and unfurled and in my power.

But also I'm here to serve.

I heal by serving.

You can't tell the difference when you get in there.

And I want to save children and I want to clean up rivers and I want to get the shit out of the ocean.

And I want leaders who are heart centered.

And we need truth for this.

Where do you want to go from there?

I need to go to my heart.

The hard thing is I need like 50 hours with you because there's like so many things you're saying.

I just I'm like,

Yeah,

I know I need to just go to my heart because there's a lot to go with that.

Well,

I think let's go into the darkness a little bit.

You mentioned that I think this is really important.

Really flippin important because and I can tell you,

I mean,

I know from my own work and shadow work,

You know,

Not wanting to be in the darkness was a thing I had to work through big time.

Our own darkness and then the darkness you were talking about.

Maybe just let's start there.

Let's talk about that because you really you alluded to that we have to see that to get what's going on.

Maybe just say a little more what you're what you mean by that,

What you think.

And then how can we be a light with that?

How can we?

Well,

You brought up the really the key term,

Which is shadow work.

Yeah.

So OK,

So let's have this conversation about micro to macro.

OK.

Yeah,

I love it.

On the on the personal level,

This is about the shadow.

The shadow is everything that's in our unconscious.

And the best metaphor I've come across,

I wish I could credit whoever did some some great shrinks somewhere is it's it's the basement of your psyche.

It's all the pain and the shame and the wounds and the stuff you stuff down there that you never want to look at.

But here's the thing.

Here's the reason to go in and clean that stuff up and have a yard sale is it's controlling your decisions.

So your experience of not being,

You know,

Feeling like you weren't met and held and seen and heard by a parent is going to.

Unconsciously from the basement,

Direct who you're attracted to.

And the choices you make in terms of what you eat and where you work and who you get into a relationship with.

You don't want you don't want that crap running the show.

You want light running the show.

You want wholeness,

Inclusiveness,

Beauty.

You want to be thinking those thoughts.

You want to actually be it's beyond thought.

Right.

But if you can have more,

I mean this in a very esoteric esoteric term,

If you can have more beautiful thoughts,

You will have a more beautiful life.

Yes.

And you will be more beautiful.

And by beautiful,

I mean harmonious.

Everything's going to kind of have this groove and the shimmer to it.

Even even in these dark days.

That's the work of a light warrior.

Be the light in the dark.

So that's shadow work.

Who wants to do that?

I'll tell you how hard that is.

You might have what looks like a nervous breakdown.

You don't have to,

By the way,

You don't have to totally fall apart.

You can just get on top of this now.

Everybody's got to have right now.

You don't have to fall apart.

You might have to take some time off work.

You might have to quit something.

You might have to leave something.

You might have to let some people down because you need to go in and do this work.

It's all going to be about inner child work,

Which is inner child is just a beautiful term for the unconscious part of ourselves.

And who knows,

Nobody knows what's in there.

Who wants in the basement?

You don't know until you go into therapy,

You do the meditation.

And we all know,

I'm sure everybody listening to this,

We have the tools.

We're toying with the tools or we're really devoted to the tools.

You've got to,

I don't even care if I sound preachy anymore.

You got to be meditating.

You've got to have something reflective and contemplative in your life.

You got to clean your mind and your energy system,

Just like we have physical hygiene.

All those things.

There's a long list of things that are about devotion.

Okay,

So that's like individual shadow.

You could call,

Let's not talk about individual evil.

So let's talk about collective evil that does come from some evil individuals.

Absolute.

I mean,

This goes back to the myth,

The biblical story of Lucifer saying bye to the God force.

I'm not sticking around.

I'm going to deny you.

I'm going to deny you.

And that is really a metaphor for turning our backs on your USU,

On your higher self,

On soul.

And when we do that individually,

We splinter,

You get narcissism,

You get neuroses,

All sorts of things happen.

But I think there are beings who are denying the light,

Who are coming,

Who are incarnating,

Who are here to just corrupt.

And what everybody needs to,

What we all need to keep in mind right now,

If we so choose,

Is that the darkness loves more darkness.

All this evil that's in politics,

That's in our educational systems,

That's in our so-called healthcare systems,

That's definitely in the economic system.

This evil gets bigger and more powerful with more fear,

More illness,

More division,

More disruption,

More viruses,

More,

Right?

So got to wake up and see what's at play.

And then we have to just keep choosing,

Choosing love,

Choosing light.

And yeah.

Without going into a whole different realm,

We could.

So I'm curious because,

And this will go a little bit deeper in a different direction.

I am just going to go there.

When you speak of this,

The evil,

Like the beings,

I mean,

Are you referring to different dimensions or realms or I guess in your,

What you feel?

Is that like,

Are we talking from other star systems or do you think this is like,

There are some human beings that were so fragmented that they only know that dark or maybe both or maybe all?

I think it's both.

I think it's all.

I think there are lots of people who appear to be human who are probably possessed for,

I mean,

That's a really accurate term.

I think there are people who are,

You know,

You could say they're born human,

But then they just get fragmented and taken over.

Basically the darkness takes over and the darkness can have some,

It's so Harry Potter,

Voldemort,

But it's really,

It's useful symbolism.

There's lots of ways for darkness,

Density,

Ignorance,

Evil to enter in if we allow it.

Yeah.

So going back to what you were saying,

We can see it.

So because I just know from the listeners here,

Just comments,

I mean,

You know,

There's a lot of awakening going on in this community and wanting to really step out as their highest self,

Light workers,

So,

You know,

Connected to their souls.

What I love about this,

It's like what you're saying,

You're helping so many people right now.

I can feel it to just awaken a little bit more.

And you mentioned the word devotion.

I know you talk about devotion and devotional.

I guess what I want to talk about is that connection between how do you,

We have the darkness now.

We're in this age of Aquarian.

Lots and lots of opportunities to awaken and to be light,

Lots.

What are,

What are,

What do you feel are finding are some of the ways to really be with that darkness,

Not take it on and to hold that higher vision of what this planet can be?

What are some ways to do that?

You know,

Just some of the ways.

Yeah,

Just let's refine that.

You have,

I talk about this in my last book where I ask,

You know,

Will you do the work even if there's no payoff in this life?

Great question.

That's the level we have to play at.

Like,

You know,

Like integrity.

Can you,

If there's no,

If no one sees you doing it,

Will you do the right thing anyway?

That's integrity.

You know,

We have to like have soul integrity.

So it all counts.

I mean,

Everybody listening knows or is beginning to comprehend like it's all energy.

So every thought,

Every prayer,

Every good deed,

Every loving gesture,

It counts.

It's felt,

It ripples throughout the,

You know,

The,

The,

The,

The fabric and it's going to feel you,

You have to even move beyond the payoff that it will pay off.

You just have to do it because it is because love is because,

Yeah.

So there's that.

You have to be in it for the long haul.

Like I'm,

This is one great thing for me that's come out of this so-called health pandemic.

At the beginning,

When it became clear,

You know,

We were going to shelter in place and that was like the responsible loving thing to do.

I really like started contemplating my death and thought,

Well,

Maybe this thing will get me and this is the way I go.

How do I feel about that?

And of course I don't want to go.

There's,

I have a son that's the,

I can just stop there.

I have a son I want to see on his way.

And I don't feel it's my time to go and I've got things I want to do.

I think I'm pretty,

I'm trying to be useful.

I think life is going to set me up to keep trying to be useful.

But I had to be in that place of,

I'm going to give her my all,

Even if I'm going to check out.

And it was so liberating,

So liberating.

And I've gotten to a place now of just like,

I want more simplicity in my life.

I want to be in joy.

I want the joy of service.

I want quality relation.

I want to grow.

Everybody needs to be growing their own food.

You need to become self-sustainable on every level.

Like,

Know what to do if the power goes out,

Grow some food,

Be in touch with your neighbors.

Know how to get yourself out of depressed,

Funky darkness.

We have those tools,

We can do it.

And when you're rooted in that,

You can help move us forward to this beautiful ideal.

And yeah,

The more self-referencing we become,

The more discerning we'll be able to be for all the stuff that's just starting to surface.

You know,

Corruption is not a conspiracy theory.

It's been going on for ages.

And discernment can only happen,

It's not a narrowing of perspective.

It's an expansion of perspective.

And you can only expand your perspective from your heart.

It's all really love.

And the meaning of pissed off doesn't mean there isn't retribution,

Doesn't mean some people shouldn't be locked up,

But you know who should be locked up.

Right?

Like,

You know who's,

Yeah.

And you can also see,

This goes back to the top of the conversation,

You can also see the light in people that you assumed were messed up.

Yeah.

Yeah,

Really powerful.

I love your.

.

.

It's so funny,

I get a lot of emails and yours is one of the only ones I actually,

I find delicious.

I often,

I'm not even kidding,

I'll have like my tea and read that.

I resonate with you and I love the focus on heart and you shared,

I feel I'm not a stalker or anything like that,

But I actually like read them all and I love them.

And so there was one,

I was like,

Yes,

I loved this.

You were talking about the masculine in a very,

There's been so much like focus on feminine,

Which we need,

But you talked about the masculine,

The divine masculine from a place of power and how important it is to have a balance,

To have that as well.

And there was something about the way you said it and I don't feel like I'm doing it justice,

But I loved your approach.

I think it was around,

It was a solar sun,

I don't know,

Maybe it was like two,

Three weeks ago and I wish I had,

I just read it and I was like,

Oh,

That really spoke to me because I think there,

We can see the overt patriarchal remnants of,

I mean,

You don't have to look far,

It's everywhere.

And I just,

I loved how you had this approach with the masculine,

Obviously with the feminine and just,

I know it's such a broad subject,

So it's kind of like,

Tell us your whole life story about this,

But I am curious what your,

Maybe just to teach or talk a little bit about how do we start to access a healthy masculine and that incredible,

Powerful feminine that has been so hidden and so pushed down?

Well,

I would say this goes back to the shadow work that you brought up,

Which is when we,

I've been hearing this term a lot,

Learn to reparent ourselves.

Yeah.

It's a pretty good term.

I think like we could flush that out more,

But when you do that inner child work and you are taking care and loving,

Just like a good,

Full,

Amazing parent who loves you no matter what,

It's like,

You're sad,

Okay,

You're sad,

You're mad.

Why don't,

I understand that you're mad,

You need this,

Let me look after your every need,

24 seven and love you no matter what.

We need to love ourselves with that intensity.

And I mean,

Think of like how many times,

I mean,

I'm a recovering workaholic and I just overrode my body and my sensitivity and my all because proving and worth and all of that.

How many times we just,

We don't,

We go though,

We don't eat properly.

We don't sleep properly.

If you're parenting yourself,

Make sure you make sure your kid gets sleep.

In fact,

Your whole life and parenting is about nourishing sleep for your child,

But we don't do that for ourselves.

We just check our email,

Which is what the darkness wants.

Yeah.

I know it's like such an extreme statement of it's like the darkness wants you to check you.

But it's true,

The ego and the heaviness and really dark forces want you to be addicted.

They want you to be distracted,

Too distracted to love yourself.

And then so distracted that you don't see that you are love,

That you are this incredible being that you're,

You know,

You're spiritual being here.

So so meritus to cram yourself into a body and work shit out on earth.

Like way to go.

Yeah.

But back to the masculine feminine.

So I think it starts with working on your inner child and really showing up because you're going to have to be both the father and the mother to your inner she he day.

And then just to know,

Because I think we've gotten a little off track in the self help space just to know that the intention is wholeness.

And you know,

I identify as a very feminine being.

I identify as you know,

I identify as a woman.

That's gender,

That's sexuality.

But I feel very at home with feminine energy qualities,

Which everybody can embody.

So like I skewed that I think I'm here for that.

That's how I've been designed this lifetime.

So I'm going to rock that I'm going to be empathy.

I want to be inclusive.

I want flow.

I'm really good with flow.

But I'm also I don't put myself down when I am fully in the masculine energy of directedness and not saying I'm being too harsh.

I'm just like,

This is what's called for right now.

And and I'm also interested in life beyond all those identifications.

Like I just want to be whole.

I want to be source.

Yeah.

Oh,

My gosh.

I mean,

Danielle,

So you emanate to me,

Obviously human,

We're all human.

This what comes through you,

Which is something I have picked up since day one and just love this essence of wholeness and of heart,

And you really,

Really,

Really emanate that.

And it's it's really refreshing.

And to me,

What you're talking about,

It starts with each of it starts with us individually because that then makes the collective and what you're saying here,

I love this,

The reparenting yourself,

Like,

Let me look at and look after you 24 seven,

Like a parent would.

And this piece about the getting too distracted to love yourself.

That that hit me.

That hit me hard.

That is I relate to that.

And just remembering that as part of the programming that is part of that darkness.

That's the demon that addiction is.

And I struggle with like being hooked on my phone.

And it just just takes me out.

It's such like I think it's so useful to see those small behaviors that are part of this bigger story.

Like the small behavior for me is just more time on Instagram being in full,

You know,

Getting mostly getting informed and making sure everybody likes me and hearts my stuff and all of that.

And you know,

And then the peer stuff,

I want to be of service and alleviate suffering and all that.

But back to the practical.

You know,

So scrolling just a little later,

Just a little later,

Just a little later.

And then it's really passed my bedtime.

And I've really actually kind of harmed myself.

Yeah.

And I have to go into the cycle of like forgiving myself for not loving myself enough.

I'm just I'm with you.

I'm laughing inside because this is the last few nights and I and I saw myself do it and I said I'm going to put my phone down.

And then I got into bed.

I put on some rain noise and I'm like,

Well,

Let me check Instagram.

Let me do this.

And I didn't feel so well today.

Minutes later.

I didn't feel so well today.

And I was like,

Well,

No fucking wonder because I've been.

But let's take that moment of like blindness,

Not loving ourselves and bring that into like the picture of big evil.

Yeah.

These things are designed to be addictive.

And I really,

I really want to hit this home.

This isn't just this isn't just dudes who want to make money,

Who are making addictive apps.

So,

You know,

Like,

Here's some context.

Steve Jobs children were not allowed to be on their iPads.

Do you know what I mean?

Like there's some of the like the,

You know,

The progenitors of Facebook who don't let their kids,

You know.

So it's,

It's not just.

Tech geeks who are just like,

Yeah,

Let's make this shit addictive and sell apps.

It's a very dark energy that finds its way into people's psyches to do this or is actually embodied and are in what we would call positions of power to make sure to do what it can to have humanity get off the rails.

Yeah.

Miss it.

Miss their whole sole purpose is the way I see it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And destroy the planet.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well,

This has been a very late.

I'm like,

Can we do round two,

Three,

Four and five?

I go from there.

Sorry.

I'm like,

You got to turn this around.

Let's can we talk about something positive?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think it's,

And I,

It's so funny because I'm like,

My top strength is positivity,

But I love that we're going here because you got to know this.

And I,

You know,

I've struggled with addiction and I saw it.

I got it.

I could see it this and like you're speaking and I've,

I've read this.

I know,

But I'm like,

Oh yeah.

And for me it's like,

Oh,

I'm not getting caught in some divisive,

Terrible plan.

Like no,

No,

No,

No,

No.

I'm a free sovereign being.

And so everyone listening,

Like this is about sovereignty.

This is about,

And so I'm so glad we have gone there,

But yes,

Let's turn the boat to the island of like,

Here's the light.

Here's the light.

So how,

So yeah,

I mean,

I guess in,

In,

In beginning to wrap,

But before we do,

So knowing that darkness,

You talked about devotion,

About coming home to yourself in a sense,

Sovereignty.

What do you,

How do you see us each individually and how can we do this collectively?

Like how can we kind of just not get sucked into this addictive,

This,

This planned addictive way of being that frankly 90,

Probably 97,

98% I would imagine are sucked into it.

Maybe not that.

Well,

You got to want it.

Yeah.

You want to be awake.

You have to want to be free.

You have to want to,

Well,

That's it really.

Because when you're awake and you're free,

You will very naturally want to be of service and you will be compassion.

You're going to heal other people when you,

You know,

Heal yourself.

So do you want it?

And guess what?

It's a yes or no answer.

Yeah.

There's no kind of,

Are you committed or,

Or are we not committed?

No,

We're committed.

And then you're going to falter and you'll,

You'll,

You're going to wake,

You're going to go back to sleep.

You're going to take all these courses and you're going to fall off and then,

But you're going to,

You get,

You just keep going.

Like you just keep going,

So want it.

And if you're not,

So,

So if you're not sure if you want it,

If you're not sure if you want to be awake and I'm not being cynical,

Um,

Cause it's a big vow to like,

I vow to aspire to,

You have my fondness to love,

You know,

Um,

Go shopping for,

For stories that inspire you.

Like there are other people,

There are way showers right now.

There are other light workers and other people who are empathetic and,

And,

You know,

And listen to their stories and they will tell you it's worth it.

Some of them will preach and say,

Do it.

I'm just a preacher.

I'm finally,

I just surrender.

I'm a preacher.

Wake up.

It's worth it.

That's all I have to say.

I love it.

That's kind of where we started.

It's perfect.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Love it.

Well,

I asked the divine spirit to lead this and I love how we just came circle.

It's so that's like a tweetable.

It's wake up.

It's worth it.

That's really all.

That's it.

If you didn't get anything else from this conversation,

Wake the up up.

It's worth it.

I got to write that down.

I'll remember that one.

Yeah.

I can't think of anything in the chat.

That's awesome.

Oh my gosh,

Danielle,

Seriously,

I'm at a loss with words because I just so,

It's so like the namaste trait.

I so see the light in you.

I'm like,

Oh my God,

I'm repeating the namaste thoughts to you,

But I just,

You ooze it and I'm with you.

I am vibing with this and I think who you are in the world.

I'm here to help as much as I can in the same light work or try,

But what you're doing is so you need this and I'm certainly in.

I feel like asking if you're listening,

Are you in like put a comment?

Are you in?

I hope you're in.

It's worth it.

Join it.

Join the light team.

You were radiant.

Thank you.

This was so fun.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Well,

USG listeners,

That was such an amazing conversation.

I have loved Danielle for so long.

I really loved her work.

Love how she speaks from her heart and wanted to share she is gifting a very special gift,

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My friend,

I am so grateful that you are part of this powerful community.

I thank you for listening to this episode and I hope it inspires you to remember who you really are and who you chose to be in this lifetime.

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Kindness,

Abundance,

Heart,

Magic,

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Reviews

It’s worth it 💛🙏🏼😌
Thanks for the valuable insights.

Absolutely fantastic. Alll around. Mind body, heart, and soul.

Wow wasn't that just amazing. Thank you to you both

Recommend this to Everyone!

I really was lifted and moved in a deep and powerful direction by this discussion. I’m grateful to have been guided to it this morning. Thank you both.
My one suggestion has been rejected in other places here but I hope it will be considered with the care and hope that I offer it: For all of us to move forward wholly, it will be important to carefully choose adjectives other than “darkness” and “light” to describe “good” and “evil.”
They’re used regularly but are a verbal assault to darker people.

Powerful insights for sure!

Ty 🙏🏻💜

Soooo good!!!!!!!!! I am on an awaking journey and have been for years. I love the last part of being apart of the light worker tribe and I am so in! It is hard ass work to be awakened but it is the most amazing experience at the same time. I took notes from this and what I need to work on most is making sure to keep love on 24 hours a day. I often take I off myself in shame spirals and that needs to stop. I know one day I will learn to shine light quicker on those moments but I am happy to be more aware of them in this moment! Thank you for this!

Great first episode!!! First time listening to your pod cast ! Love ❤️ Love everything that you both said ! I can feel all of it so much right now !!!!

Thank you for sharing this insightful talk 🙏😊

Resonated with this so deeply but also challenged my thinking around good and evil. I make sense of it at the level of energy. Thank you both for holding this space. One of the most inspiring conversations I have heard for awhile! ❤️🙏❤️

I’m in! 😊

I an
Absolutely loved this podcast. So much good information. Ways of living that we should all be looking at and thinking about. Thank you so much.

I'm in! Thank you! I love the discussion on reparenting yourself especially.

Great interview! Left me wanting… more 🙏

Even though I don’t want to be addicted I will have to listen again I know that I sunk into narcissism so I have to pray lots..the mind is capable of so much good and so much evil.

That was great.
I’ve been working diligently to finally, Wake Up and yes, it’s ABSOLUTELY Worth it! 🌷🌷💕

So interesting... thank you for bringing this to us, I will certainly give it another listen 🙏🏽