3 Keys to the Dark Night of the Soul

My loves, today, I’m bringing you the Shantideva Prayer—a powerful prayer that I’m committed to memorizing.  It’s a reminder that whenever we ask for support on behalf of helping someone else, we’re supported in return. This is about giving and receiving as one beautiful flow. We feelers, healers, seers, and everyday humans are called to alleviate suffering and amplify joy wherever we can. This prayer is a testament to that devotion. Ep 142 of WITH LOVE, DANIELLE is here to help move pain through us, like clouds across the sky, because we’re the sky—expansive, vast. We don’t hold onto suffering; we expand our commitment to serve. To be the lamp for those in the dark, the love wherever we go. With Love,  Danielle MENTIONED IN EPISODE 142: 📚The 2025 Heart Centered Planner: Order now for holiday delivery while supplies last! Use code PODPLANNER10 for 10% off at daniellelaporte.com/shop.

Loves, You’re going to want to bookmark Episode 141 of With Love, Danielle, because what I'm going to offer today about the dark night of the soul is applicable to the micro challenges and the big mega challenges.  And you’ll want it handy when the dark night hits… We don't need to freak out and lose it. We just need to meet the challenge. The dark night of the soul is the recalibration of our priorities to Love, to our true nature. Healing for one is healing for many. Become a testament to the force of tenderness, and say thank you for all of it. With Love, Danielle   MENTIONED IN EPISODE 141: 📚 The 2025 Heart Centered Planner: Order now for holiday delivery while supplies last! Use code PODPLANNER10 for 10% off at daniellelaporte.com/shop.  💗 The Heart Centered Membership is a support system for your body-mind-spirit…and your work in the world. A monthly workshop + audiobook series, with some self-help in the front and business in the back. Get on the wait list for when doors open in February..  ✨ Sacred Weekends is my (always free) newsletter for devotion + lifestyl’ish. 220k subscribers are digging it! 2 Fridays a month. 🎄 Bulk Orders Available: Looking for team gifts? Bulk orders receive up to 40% off. Visit daniellelaporte.com/planner-bulk to learn more and place your order by DECEMBER 1 for holiday delivery.

Ever wonder why we suffer? And if there’s a deeper purpose? In Episode 140 of WITH LOVE, DANIELLE, we’ll unpack how our toughest moments can lead us back to our luminous selves. (Complete with a story from my own journey—a living death in the desert that led to profound insights about love, pain, and radiance.)  Get ready for some real talk about the ego, the masks we wear, and how burning through them is essential for our evolution. Radiance isn’t just about glowing; it’s about the gritty work of surrendering our pain and embracing our divinity. Come on in… With Love, Danielle MENTIONED IN EPISODE 140: The 2025 Heart Centered Planner: Order now for holiday delivery while supplies last! Use code PODPLANNER10 for 10% off at daniellelaporte.com/shop.  The Heart Centered Membership is a support system for your body-mind-spirit…and your work in the world. A monthly workshop + audiobook series, with some self-help in the front and business in the back. Get on the wait list for when doors open in February.. Sacred Weekends is my (always free) newsletter for devotion + lifestyl’ish. 220k subscribers are digging it! 2 Fridays a month.

What do you associate with rejection? What’s the antidote to rejection? What does liberation mean to you? What does ”spiritual success” mean to you? And what do these questions have to do with more emotional intimacy in all of your relationships…? Everything! Nothing about another person makes us suffer. Healing is loving the unloved parts of ourselves. It’s that simple (and profound and life-long.) Listen in to this highlight from the MUCH DEEPER INTIMACY workshop in the Heart Centered Membership. We’re exploring how to be more compassionate and less botherable.   Episode 139 of With Love, Danielle is ready for you… to heal from rejection. With Love, Danielle   MENTIONED IN EPISODE 139: The 2025 Heart Centered Planner: Order now for holiday delivery while supplies last! Use code PODPLANNER10 for 10% off at daniellelaporte.com/shop.  The Heart Centered Membership is a support system for your body-mind-spirit…and your work in the world. A monthly workshop + audiobook series, with some self-help in the front and business in the back. Get on the wait list for when doors open in February.. Sacred Weekends is my (always free) newsletter for devotion + lifestyl’ish. 220k subscribers are digging it! 2 Fridays a month

Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and Zeppelin… what’s your creative archetype? And what’s the Divine Feminine principle got to do with your creative edge? A lot. In Episode 138 of With Love, Danielle, we’re defining creative integrity in whacky times—no matter how tempting tech might be. Want to read the Slack memo I sent to my team about ChapGPT? Ya! (Spoiler: it’s a tool, not a replacement for your brilliance).  Presence cannot be outsourced. It is not going to fool the heart. Let’s do the human, real-time, real energy, joyful work of thinking, caring, and creating.  With love, Danielle Mentioned in Episode 138: ❤︎ The 2025 Heart Centered Planner: Align your life with love and ease. Order now to get your planners for the holidays at daniellelaporte.com/plannerpod. Use code PODPLANNER10 for 10% off your planner purchase!  

I’ve been thinking a LOT about the concept of mercy this year. My very basic definition: Mercy is when we just wish for someone to catch a break. That simple.  Mercy is the bonus deal that comes from Compassion.  Today I’m rolling through the spiritual and practical definition of COMPASSION. What does it look like according to the mystics, and what does it look like in our emails and our self care? Side note: I know we’re all extra full of emotions these days. And I know giving your full attention to a podcast can seem like another thing “to-do.” I’d love your full attention but I have another invitation: just hit play and let me roll in the background. You don’t have to “learn” or take notes. Just let this energy be your sidekick as you do what you need to do. Your subconscious self will get what it needs to get. Your conscious self will remember what you need to remember. Just breathe. Eps 137 of WITH LOVE, DANIELLE is here to help you be Compassionate with all of it. MENTIONED IN EPISODE 137: ❤︎ The 2025 Heart Centered Planner: Align your life with love and ease. Pre-order by October 17th to receive your planner by the holidays. Order now at daniellelaporte.com/plannerpod. Use code PODPLANNER10 for 10% off your planner purchase!

Loves, I know when you’re in the middle of an argument or you want to curse out someone in your DMs, I know you pause a beat because you intend to do the kinder thing. We don't want to do harm. We really truly want to be the chill Buddha babe and breathe. This works for me in arguments with my man. Deep breath, “Love my way through, love my way through.” Bookmark this post and save this episode because it’s designed to be a tool to use on a regular basis I’m giving you 5 RELATIONSHIP REFLECTION QUESTIONS––these are inside the Heart Centered Planner. They appear every three months and they might melt your heart, stop a fight from happening, or multiply your appreciation for all the love in your life and the world. The 2025 Heart Centered Planner is a gratitude journal meets your actionables, with a side of relationship counseling. All in one gorgeous spiral bound book. Here’s your discount treat for the Planner: Use code PODPLANNER10 at checkout for 10% off. And timing is divine. Order TODAY (like actually TODAY) so I can guarantee planners will be in your hands––and your giftee’s hands, by January! With Love, Danielle  Mentioned in Episode 136: ❤︎ The 2025 Heart Centered Planner: Align your life with love and ease. Pre-order by September 26th to receive your planner by January. Order now at daniellelaporte.com/plannerpod. Use code PODPLANNER10 for 10% off your planner purchase! 💗 5 Relationship Reflection Questions: They appear every three months in the Heart Centered Planner and they might melt your heart, stop a fight from happening, or multiply your appreciation for all the love in your life and the world. 🌙Vision Builder Event: Join me for a special vision-building event on the Lunar New Year! Details included with the planner. ✨ Bulk Orders Available: Looking for team gifts? Bulk orders receive up to 40% off. Visit daniellelaporte.com/planner-bulk to learn more and place your order by October 17 for delivery by January.

Loves, Self love is easy when we’ve got our sh*t together. Courageous, outspoken, PRODUCTIVE. Check. Check. Check. I’m more interested in what happens when we’re not at our “best.” I want us to love the unlovable parts––and mean it. Not “love” the gnarly bits so they’ll change. That's’ not self love. That self-deception. I have some LOVE NOTE CUES for you. You can journal to these, or listen along and cry or laugh at your mortal coil. You don’t need to send them. But for sure, I bet these are LOVE NOTES you’ve never dreamed of writing to yourself or others. BY THE WAY… this is an exercise that I’ve done with leadership teams in global firms––it’s not trite. And BY THE WAY… this LOVE NOTE practice is part of the RELATIONSHIP REFLECTION that I’ve built into the 2025 Heart Centered Planner! Think: calendar meets self help revolution. Here’s your discount treat for the Planner: Use code PODPLANNER10 at checkout for 10% off. And timing is divine. Order TODAY (like actually TODAY) so I can guarantee planners will be in your hands––and your giftee’s hands, early December! Steady Love, Danielle Mentioned in Episode 135: ❤︎ The 2025 Heart Centered Planner: Align your life with love and ease. Pre-order by September 26th to receive your planner by the holidays. Order now at daniellelaporte.com/plannerpod. Use code PODPLANNER10 for 10% off your planner purchase! 💌 Love Note Writing Exercise: This reflection is part of the Relationship Reflection section in the Heart Centered Planner, designed to help you build deeper connections with yourself and others. 🌙Vision Builder Event: Join me for a special vision-building event on the Lunar New Year! Details included with the planner. ✨ Bulk Orders Available: Looking for team gifts? Bulk orders receive up to 40% off. Visit daniellelaporte.com/planner-bulk to learn more and place your order by September 26th for holiday delivery.

Today, we’re diving into a weekly reflection exercise from my Heart Centered Planner. It’s all about reflecting on your week—what’s working, what’s not, and celebrating progress. I’m encouraging you to take a 360-degree look at your life—mind, body, relationships, work, and play. I’ll guide you through questions to reflect on your highlights, lowlights, and the important question: What’s better than it was? And remember—loving kindness is key. This is how we live reflectively instead of reactively. PLUS... the 2025 Heart Centered Planner is here! Order by this Thursday, September 26, to get it by December. It’s mocha linen, spiral bound, and filled with tools like vision-building exercises, rituals, and more. You’ll also get access to workshops, meditations, and a live Vision Building Event for the Lunar New Year. Mentioned in Episode 134: ❤︎ The 2025 Heart Centered Planner: Align your life with love and ease. Pre-order by September 26th to receive your planner by the holidays. Order now at daniellelaporte.com/plannerpod. Use code PODPLANNER10 for 10% off your planner purchase! 🧘‍♀️Weekly Reflection Practice: Take a sneak peek inside the Heart Centered Planner by downloading our Weekly Reflection Practice. Reflect on your week—what’s working, what’s not, and celebrating progress. I’m encouraging you to take a 360-degree look at your life—mind, body, relationships, work, and play. 🌙 Vision Builder Event: Join me for a special vision-building event on the Lunar New Year! Details included with the planner.

Hello, my loves! Today, we’re getting into the real reason for burnout. Grind culture? No grind culture? Let’s talk about it. My prayer is that this chat brings you compassion, discernment, and smarter life choices. Plus… my 2025 Heart Centered Planner is here! If you want this beauty in your hands by December, order by September 26! It’s linen, mocha-colored, and all kinds of gorgeous, but it’s what’s inside that really matters. Daily heart check-ins, nervous system balancing, vision-building, and more! In this episode, we’ll explore when to push and when to rest, knowing that true resilience comes from love and flexibility. The balance between grace and grind is the key to thriving in these exceptional times. Remember: We don’t have to burn out. We can adapt — with love. With Love, Danielle MENTIONED IN EPISODE 133: ❤︎ The 2025 Heart Centered Planner: Align your life with love and ease. Pre-order by September 26th to receive your planner by the holidays. Order now at daniellelaporte.com/plannerpod. Use code PODPLANNER10 for 10% off your planner purchase! 🧘‍♀️4-6-8 Breathing Practice: A simple technique to help you calm your nervous system. Inhale for 4 counts, hold for 6, and exhale for 8. 🌙Vision Builder Event: Join me for a special vision-building event on the Lunar New Year! Details included with the planner. 👯‍♀️Next episode: We’ll dive into how to stay resilient in chaotic times and the importance of community. Don’t miss it!