ISSUE 65 | SEPTEMBER 12, 2025
The RELIEF you feel when you make the right decision
Hello Loves,
This summer was full of pivots, some heartbreak. Decisions of depth. Phoenix vibes.
You know it’s the right decision when you feel the RELIEF of having made it.
The rush of light that comes with the declaration.
The exhale is all the affirmation that you need.
It doesn’t mean it’s all glide after the decision. But if we focus on the mental clarity of when we knew that we knew, then we’ll keep moving in the right direction. When you’re doubting, go back to the moment when you knew that you knew. That inflection point, when the light entered—it was real.
Ride that light. It’s always moving forward. Not backward into soupy goopy pain of clinging to repeating lessons.
So… my new book, Bless & Release, was scheduled to come out next month. It’s not going to. I made an easy decision for a hard pivot. We moved publication to Spring of 2026. This is utterly miraculous and out of character because I’m a go’r. Let’s go! It’s time! I said I’ll be there and I will be there! But I changed my mind and it created a waterfall of fresh insight, energy and gratitude.
I was at a mastermind for book ballers. Context: You need to have sold a million copies or close to it to be in the room. James Clear (you may have heard of his book… Atomic Habits? 😂 25 million copies sold…) was one of the mastermind hosts. He grabbed the mic, “The secret to having a best-selling book is to write a great book.”
Normally, I’d roll my eyes. Trite. But it landed for me. He told us about his process. James “set out to make all other books on habits irrelevant.” The compete and conquer approach might have been cringey to me in the past. Not very spiritual. But I was stirred. Authorly aroused. It rang like WISDOM. And next to the virtue of Love, Wisdom is my favourite.
Do I want to write the best book ever on the topic of letting go? YES. Do I feel in competition with anyone? No. But…do I want to write the best book ever on the topic of letting go? YES!
Bless & Release was about to go to a designer. I sent a Slack message to my team, “WILD CARD! What if we bump the pub date to Spring?”
A flood of enthusiastic YESES came back. In 2 minutes, we had a fresh plan: Work with a hybrid publisher (which I’d been resistant to, but then I met Rory, a man with acumen and industry integrity). Greater distribution! Foreign translations!
We formed a focus group for the book. 40+ people dissecting my work? BRING IT ON!
We plan to survey thousands more people about what they want to let go of—we’ve already distinguished the seven common patterns. Sneak peek: We want to let go of the fatigue of managing other people’s emotions.
And my Higher Self (and my focus group) is giving me daily messages for how to make Bless & Release more effectual.
This pivot freed up energy to focus on selling CENTERED Planners this month (we only have a few weeks left to take orders before we go to print).
The pivot lesson: move slower… so you can think deeper… and grow stronger. This requires courage and Faith that the universe is FOR YOU. That your needs are valid. That you are here to serve, and there is joy in the service.
I’ve used a business example, but this applies to relationships—of every kind.
There’s something important to know about the myth of the Phoenix. This is especially for those of us who feel like we’re burning identities and dreams down, or feeling at the mercy of grief and/or the pain of relationships changing form…
1. The Phoenix ALWAYS rises from the ashes. This is never in doubt. The rebirth is certain. (You think you are dying, but you are being reborn.)
2. With every rising (because life will re-fashion us more than once), the Phoenix becomes stronger. She is more beautiful than before. His wingspan increases.
So please don’t get down on yourself when the soupy goopy pain of clinging to repeating lessons is happening. It’s NATURAL. The repeated lesson is fuel for our illumination. It’s how we become stronger and more beautiful than ever before.
And you get to do the fire-to-ashes-to-rising in your own way. Slow burn and plod. Or run through the blaze all desirous and determined. You get to decide.
You’ll know it’s the right decision when you feel the RELIEF of having made it. Then FOR SURE, keep going babe.
So much appreciation that you’re here.
Holding hands,
Danielle
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO LET GO OF?
Right now, there’s something that you want to let go of.
You are full of life. When you love, you love big. You’re working to make the world a better place, and… you’re tired of holding it all together.
This survey explores the universal question that leads to love and lucidity: “What do you want to let go of?”
This isn’t about judgment, it’s about curiosity and compassion. Because what we banish always comes back wanting to belong—but what we bless transforms into wisdom.
We don’t let go to be “better.” We let go to become lighter.
Your participation contributes to a deeper understanding of our collective healing journey. All responses are confidential and used to support the creation of resources for conscious letting go.
INNER SUN EQUINOX MEDITATION
It’s that time again… I’m leading a group meditation on Sunday, September 21 at 7am PT | 10am ET live on Substack.
Fall Equinox is all about extra light—extra downpours. It’s a very powerful window to set your healing intentions. It’s really a time to honour our capacity to balance the shadow and the light, to bring the shadows forward and to pour our light on it and really live as healers.
And because it’s free, please invite your friends, bring a soul sister, anybody—everybody—who needs some extra light.
Save your seat here.
TORONTO FRIENDS
I’d love to see you in person—and I’ll be on stage twice in Toronto in the next few weeks.
First up: TOMORROW at DestinyFest—with a whole crew of elite visionaries, creators + heart centered humans. The theme: BEYOND IMAGINATION.
Next up: I’m joining Marianne Williamson on Saturday, October 4th, at St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts for an intimate, fireside conversation.
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