The Good News About "Bad" Karma
WITH LOVE, DANIELLE
Danielle LaPorte
4.9 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Waiting for karma to bite someone back? Here’s the twist…
In the final installment of the What In the Woo? series, Danielle dives deep into one of the most misunderstood concepts in spirituality: karma. Far from being a cosmic punishment system, karma is the Soul’s invitation to restore balance—and it’s way more compassionate than most of us think.
In this episode, Danielle unpacks the true essence of karma: the ego generates the negative, the heart creates the positive, and every experience—no matter how painful—is a chance to come back into alignment.
This episode is for anyone who’s ever wondered, “Why is this happening to me?” or tried to tally their spiritual “points.” Expect clarity, compassion, and a whole lot of energetic truth.
In this episode:
- The truth about negative karma (it’s not personal punishment)
- How the ego creates energy knots—and how the heart unravels them
- Why “bad” karma is really your Soul calling you home
- What real positive karma feels like (hint: it’s selfless and freeing)
- How the Universe always bends toward balance, no matter what
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | My loves. |
| 0:03.3 | I am really stoked to talk about karma because it's the guardrails of our life and I think it's |
| 0:11.3 | really, it's misunderstood. |
| 0:14.0 | This is part three of three parts of my What in the Woo series for my weekly newsletter, which you can now read on Substack |
| 0:23.9 | or you can subscribe at Danielle Laporte.com. And I feel I have saved the most meaningful |
| 0:30.3 | as the icing on this gluten-free cake. It's a massive topic. And what I hope is that the twist on this, which I hope is aligned with universal truth, |
| 0:42.3 | is going to come as a relief or a surprise. |
| 0:45.4 | You get to choose because free will, because karma. |
| 0:50.8 | Carmic retribution, I would put retribution in italics, is really misunderstood in the personal development space. |
| 1:01.5 | It took me a really long time to get my mind and heart straight on this. |
| 1:08.9 | Part of it is because I grew up Catholic. My family wasn't particularly |
| 1:14.5 | devoted, but I was. I mean, I had a Virgin Mary Barbie house. I converted my Barbie doll |
| 1:23.4 | PlayStation into a Catholic homage to Mary. |
| 1:30.2 | So I was all in. |
| 1:32.1 | And if you're all in for Catholicism and you have a little young, |
| 1:37.0 | malleable mind, you are going to absorb some punitive paradigms, |
| 1:42.0 | some paradigms of punitiveness. And then, you know, you bust out of that |
| 1:48.4 | in your 20s with some Louise Hay and some cause and effect, which really goes back to the |
| 1:56.1 | Kabbalian, which I'm going to give you a quote from. And then you become an armchair Buddhist, |
| 2:02.0 | and you're just replacing one punitive system for the illusion of another punitive system. |
| 2:08.9 | But I figured this out. |
| 2:10.2 | I think I figured this out. |
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