What We Push Away Pushes Back

WITH LOVE, DANIELLE

Danielle LaPorte

Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 712 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The physics of letting go… and wanting what's meant for you.

For a decade, I thought letting go of my worldly desires would bring me peace.

I was wrong.

I used spiritual perfectionism to hurt myself. I guilt-tripped myself for having "unspiritual" feelings. I romanticized renunciation while still wanting to host dinner parties at the monastery.

Then I figured it out…

What we push away pushes back and gets stronger.
What we embrace transforms and strengthens us.

This is the introduction to my forthcoming book, Bless and Release: The physics of letting go—and wanting what's meant for you.

With love,
Danielle

In this episode:

Why people who let go with ease are more joyful (they don't avoid pain—they bless it)
The spiritually romanticized torture I put myself through
How I stopped criticizing myself for having "unspiritual" feelings
The Bless Practice: heart-centered energy work you can do in 90 seconds
What happens when you stop pushing away the pain and chasing the desires
Why we're turning to AI for spiritual direction (please stop)
The radical truth: instead of repressing suffering, bring it in closer—and bless it

Pre-order the audiobook and get early access to BTS content, audio excerpts, and the Bless Practice at: daniellelaporte.com/bless

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. I have something special for you today. And an announcement. Announcements, announcements. We recently
0:09.1	discovered that this podcast with Love Danielle is one of the top 0.5% of podcasts of podcasts in the world.
0:26.0	Can I say that in a smoother way? This podcast, it's doing good.
0:33.4	So thank you for listening. Thank you for leaving reviews. When you go leave a review and do the little thing with the stars, it helps us inject some love, some higher thinking, some sanity
0:40.9	into the algorithm. Thank you for sharing all the things. Okay, let's talk about extra blessings.
0:48.1	So today you are going to be hearing the introduction of my forthcoming book, Bless and Release. I'm so excited. I've been,
0:57.6	well, this has been gestating for about a decade. There's so many layers into this of like all
1:03.7	the lessons and the teachings. And then I've been working on this book for the last three years.
1:08.2	You can start getting sneakier peaks of the book. I'm rolling out audio segments for the next few months. Head to danielaport.com slash bless. And you can gift the book and all the things and you get it before the world gets it.
1:29.2	And today you get to hear the essential premise of Bless and Release.
1:35.7	The subtitle is going to be something like the physics of letting go and wanting what's meant for you.
1:46.1	Okay, here we come with introduction.
1:48.7	I hope you'll head over to Danielle LaBorgia.com slash bless.
1:53.2	The blessings begin today.
1:57.8	It's an honor to hear what people want to let go of. I've asked thousands and thousands of them.
2:05.2	The responses are always really immediate and very emphatic. It's like people answer me right away,
2:11.4	whether it's online or in person. We know where it hurts, even if we don't know why or what to do about it i think we want to talk about
2:20.9	what we want to let go of because we don't talk about it enough what do you want to let go of
2:28.4	it's a really hot question because letting go leads to mental lucidity and to love.
2:37.8	And in a world of fakery and fuckery, that common sense, capital common, capital sense is what we need more of every day, all day, everywhere.
2:49.7	What do you want to manifest. What do you want to manifest?
2:52.8	What do you want to manifest?
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