If you are interested in the life-changing power of self-compassion, if you are curious about shadow work,

if you want to be more receptive to higher guidance, well, hello, I am Danielle Lapport,

and this is with love, Danielle.

Hello, my loves.

We're going to shake it up today with a before and after the spirituality edition.

Welcome to With Love, Danielle. I'm going to get into five things I do and things I don't do anymore

in order to be sane and relatively radiant.

Let's talk about prayer.

So my before version of prayer was that it was very performative in that I was always showing up to source to God

with my requests as a good girl. I wanted acknowledgement as, you know, the beloved daughter

who was worthy of getting what she was asking for.

So I'd always bring, like, my best game to God that, first of all, you know, I'm grateful to be here.

Where are my best?

Where are my Sunday best?

But I always felt that I needed to be thinking positively, that I needed to have some inner resolve and strength to really show up sort of before the Lord, you could say, to be granted whatever I was craving for. And I became aware that there was some shame

mixed into my prayer practice, a heaping dose of lack of trust that life was going to deliver on what I wanted. And then I was really perpetuating this

ridiculous conversation around worthiness or unworthiness. So I will show up as shiny, as dedicated,

as loyal, as positively thinking, as high vibe as I can in order to make it known

to creation itself that I am worth delivering to.

And you know what that is?

That is exhausting.

It's what it is.

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