Radical acceptance is not “positive thinking” and it’s definitely not bypassing... It's the pathway to LIBERATION and reclaiming your power.In this deeply honest, wildly nourishing conversation, I’m joined by Sami Garrett, founder of Good Enough Matrescence, to explore radical acceptance as a devotional practice — the kind that meets you in the grief, the rage, the resentment, the triggers, and the chaos of motherhood… without making any of it mean you’re broken.

We speak to the difference between acceptance vs condoning, and why so many of us get stuck in the endless loop of “I need to heal/fix myself” — not realizing that the chase can actually reinforce not-enoughness. Together we unpack what it looks like to tend to trauma without living inside it, to let emotions move through the body (not just the mind), and to reclaim aliveness in the very moments we’d normally resist.

We also bring this into partnership: how radical acceptance transforms communication, softens blame, supports nervous system safety, and helps you stop turning your unmet needs into criticism — so love, intimacy, and true support can grow.

Inside this episode, you’ll hear:

• ​Why acceptance is liberation, not complacency
• ​How to feel what’s here without bypassing (mind, body, heart, soul)
• ​The shift from “high vibe = happy” to high frequency = spacious aliveness
• ​A powerful inquiry: If you could do no wrong and would only be loved and supported… who would you be right now?
• ​Why community matters (and how support makes the journey lighter)

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Connect with Sami: @goodenoughmatrescenceSami is the founder of Good Enough Matrescence (GEM)—a global collective redefining motherhood support through real-time nervous system tools, mindset reframes, emotionally intelligent community, and evidence based resources from pregnancy to years postpartum and everything in-between.

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About your host:

Monique Carmela is a feminine embodiment mentor, somatic guide, and relationship & nervous system coach. She supports women (and mothers) to embody their authentic selves and embrace their fullest expression so they can experience great love, deep connection, and exquisite intimacy in life and relationships.

Monique weaves nervous system regulation, embodiment, breathwork, and somatic practices to create safety for deep remembering and integration.

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In this deeply embodied conversation, I’m joined by sexologist, educator, and somatic guide Kiki Maree for a powerful exploration of sexuality as a devotional practice.

We dive into fantasy, yoni massage, erotic safety, nervous system regulation, and the unlearning required to move beyond shame, performance, and obligation in sex. Together, we explore how sexuality — when approached with slowness, consent, and presence — becomes a pathway to healing, empowerment, aliveness, and deeper connection with self, lovers, motherhood, and even business.

Kiki shares her personal journey into sexology, the impact of poor sex education on our bodies and desires, and why so many women and vulva-holders struggle with pain, disconnection, and low desire — even without obvious “trauma.” We talk about fantasy as both a bridge into pleasure and a tool for safety, how to work with the nervous system rather than against it, and why devotion in sexuality is less about performance and more about listening.

We also explore:

• ​Why slowness is essential for pleasure and orgasm
• ​How fantasy can support arousal without bypassing the body
• ​The difference between tolerance vs true consent in intimacy
• ​Why penetrative sex doesn’t need to be the goal
• ​How yoni massage supports pelvic health, boundaries, and embodied voice
• ​Reclaiming sexuality from shame, fear, and cultural conditioning

This episode is an invitation to soften, slow down, and remember sexuality as sacred — not something to fix, perform, or endure, but something to meet with curiosity, compassion, and devotion.

✨ A deeply nourishing listen for anyone longing to feel safer, more alive, and more at home in their body.

Connect with Kiki Maree

Kiki Maree is a somatic sex educator, writer, and facilitator specialising in embodied sexuality, body image, and relational intimacy. Her work integrates sexual science with trauma-aware, body-based practices to support safer, more connected relationships. She teaches internationally and contributes to conversations on modern sexuality and embodied wellbeing.

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About Your Host

Monique Carmela is a somatic guide, feminine embodiment mentor, and space-holder for women devoted to healing, truth, and conscious relationships. Her work weaves nervous system regulation, inner child integration, embodiment practices, and devotional self-leadership to support women in coming home to themselves — not as a destination, but as a way of life.

Through her programs, community, and this podcast, Monique supports women to soften, deepen, and thrive — rooted in safety, self-trust, and embodied truth.

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What if the sensations you’ve been trying to “think your way out of” are actually asking to be moved?

In this conversation, I’m joined by movement teacher Manu, who shares the missing link so many of us don’t receive in healing spaces: the body.

Together we explore how trauma isn’t only a story in the mind — it can be a physical imprint in the tissues, the posture, the breath… the places we clench, brace, hold, or collapse.

We dive into:

• What trauma actually is (and why it’s not only “big” events)

• Big T vs little t trauma — and how resourcing changes everything

• How the body stores incomplete survival responses (fight/flight/freeze)

• Why shaking, trembling, sound, tears and movement can be deeply normal

• The truth about somatics (and why “anything body-based” isn’t necessarily somatic)

• How to build emotional intelligence through movement — without pushing or re-traumatizing

• The power of baby steps: pendulating between collapse and opening, safely

• Why this is emotional hygiene — not another thing to “perform” or perfect

If you’re ready to stop judging your emotions, soften the armour, and learn how to meet yourself with compassionate curiosity from the inside… this one is for you.

Manu Mitevova

Yogi, somatic mover, and trauma-informed teacher obsessed with the mind-body connection. Manu created the much-loved online course Hips Like Honey, helping more than 37k people get relief from tight hips, the holistic way. This year, she launched her new somatic membership, Kaya, guiding people to process their emotions through movement so they can regulate their nervous system and feel better.

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About Your Host

Monique Carmela is a somatic guide, feminine embodiment mentor, and space-holder for women devoted to healing, truth, and conscious relationships. Her work weaves nervous system regulation, inner child integration, embodiment practices, and devotional self-leadership to support women in coming home to themselves — not as a destination, but as a way of life.

Through her programs, community, and this podcast, Monique supports women to soften, deepen, and thrive — rooted in safety, self-trust, and embodied truth.

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Welcome to The Devotional Woman Podcast.

In this episode, I’m sharing the heart behind a powerful evolution — the transition from Good Girl Unleashed into The Devotional Woman. This shift isn’t just a rebrand. It’s a reflection of my own lived journey, and the collective evolution I’ve witnessed within this community.

Unleashing ourselves from old conditioning was never the final destination. It was the beginning.

This new era is about devotion — devotion to your body, your healing, your truth, your path. It’s about releasing the idea that healing is something to “finish,” tick off, or perfect… and instead anchoring into a lifelong, nourishing relationship with yourself.

We explore:

• Why healing isn’t a quick fix — and why that’s a relief

• The difference between pushing for growth and being devoted to your path

• How devotion creates sustainability, safety, and true transformation

• Why things coming up doesn’t mean it’s “not working” — it often means it is

• How to stay connected to yourself through discomfort, uncertainty, and change

• What it really means to trust divine timing, your nervous system, and your sacred yes and no

This conversation invites you to move beyond bypassing, striving, and self-pressure — and into a way of being where your inner work becomes nourishment, not another item on the to-do list.

The Devotional Woman isn’t trying to get somewhere as fast as possible.

She is present. She listens. She stays.She meets herself again and again — no matter what arises.

This episode is an invitation into that energy, that frequency, and this next chapter we’re walking together.

If this resonates, I’d love to hear how this shift feels in your body — and to welcome you into our free Devotional Woman community, where we’ll continue deepening these conversations, practices, and embodied devotion together.

Thank you for being here.This is only the beginning.

Ways to Work Together

✨ Grounded In YouA foundational nervous system and emotional regulation journey to help you feel safe, supported, and anchored in yourself and your relationships.

✨ The Sacred Art of Loving YourselfA deep, heart-led pathway into self-love, self-trust, inner child integration, and releasing shame, people-pleasing, and self-abandonment.

✨ The Embodied WomanA long-term devotional container for women ready to live, love, and lead from truth — integrating nervous system work, conscious communication, boundaries, relationships, and embodied feminine power.

About Your Host

Monique Carmela is a somatic guide, feminine embodiment mentor, and space-holder for women devoted to healing, truth, and conscious relationships. Her work weaves nervous system regulation, inner child integration, embodiment practices, and devotional self-leadership to support women in coming home to themselves — not as a destination, but as a way of life.

Through her programs, community, and this podcast, Monique supports women to soften, deepen, and thrive — rooted in safety, self-trust, and embodied truth.

Website: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/

In this nourishing conversation, I’m joined again by sacred sexuality mentor Janine to explore what it really looks like to live a sensual, embodied life as a real woman in a very full season — business, kids, partnerships, responsibilities and all.

We unravel the pressure we put on ourselves to “do embodiment right” — the 3-hour practices, the perfect morning routine, the ideal conditions — and instead anchor into the truth that our power lives in the micro moments: being present with your morning coffee, watching your children play, driving under a rainbow, feeling the sun on your skin.

Together we speak to:

• Why pressure kills pleasure — in sex, business, motherhood and life

• How to start (or restart) sacred sexuality and embodiment practices when you feel tired, busy, or resistant

• The power of 2–5 minute “micro practices” and how they actually rewire your system over time

• Moving from destination obsession (orgasms, goals, milestones) into savouring the journey

• Remembering that you are cyclical — and why your practices should change with your seasons and your bleed

• Using your inner signals (yes/no, expansion/contraction) as your compass rather than external “shoulds”

• How reclaiming your sensuality and presence impacts your children, your relationships and the next generation

This episode is an invitation to stop trying to “keep up”, to let go of perfection, and to remember that your inner power has always been within you. It all starts with one tiny, loving micro practice.

Listen in if you’re ready to feel more alive in your everyday life, reconnect to your body and pleasure, and create a new normal where you are no longer on the back burner — you are at the centre of your own sacred, sensual life.

Jannine MacKinnon, Sex, Love, and Relationship Coach, supports moms in thriving as their most radiant and happy selves. Through using tools like breathwork, inner child healing, pleasure practices, and approachable rituals, she creates a pathway for holistic, long-lasting transformation in building confidence, connecting to your authenticity, awakening to pleasure, trusting your intuition, and softening into your feminine energy.

Connect with Jannine here: https://www.instagram.com/jannine.mackinnon/

Monique Carmela is a feminine embodiment mentor, somatic guide, and host of The Good Girl Unleashed Podcast. She supports women to unravel “good girl” conditioning, regulate their nervous systems, heal the deeper layers of shame and self-abandonment, and come home to their bodies so they can live rooted in love, truth, and authentic expression.

Connect with Monique here: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/

In this episode of The Good Girl Unleashed Podcast, Monique sits down with somatic sexologist, therapeutic yoni massage practitioner, and aura photographer Sarah Silverstein for a deeply real and liberating conversation about coming home to your body.

Together, they unpack how a busy, overthinking mind is often a clever protection mechanism that keeps us from feeling what’s really living in our bodies — our emotions, our pain, our truth… and our pleasure.

They explore:

• Why dropping into the body can feel terrifying when you’ve lived in your head for years

• How somatic work, breathwork, and therapeutic yoni massage can gently reopen sensation and safety

• The shame and taboo surrounding vulvas, pleasure, and sexuality — and how reclaiming these parts of us changes everything

• The witch wound, sisterhood wound, and the grief of living without true village and elders

• How listening to your body’s “yes” and “no” shifts your relationships, work, and self-worth

• Simple ways to bring more everyday pleasure into your life (that have nothing to do with the bedroom)

This is a conversation for the woman who feels “too in her head,” numb, shut down, or “broken” around intimacy — and is ready to remember that there is nothing wrong with her, and that deeper love, connection, and pleasure are absolutely available.

Sara Silverstein is a Somatic Sexologist, Therapeutic Yoni Massage Facilitator, and International Breathwork Guide who guides women and vulva-havers back to their pleasure, power, and aliveness. With a background in nervous system regulation, therapeutic touch, and embodiment practices, Sara weaves together science and soul to help clients release shame, reconnect with their bodies, and expand their capacity for joy - inside and outside the bedroom.

Connect with Sara here: https://www.instagram.com/sarasilverstein/

Monique Carmela is a feminine embodiment mentor, somatic guide, and host of The Good Girl Unleashed Podcast. She supports women to unravel “good girl” conditioning, regulate their nervous systems, heal the deeper layers of shame and self-abandonment, and come home to their bodies so they can live rooted in love, truth, and authentic expression.

If you’re resonating with this conversation and feeling the pull to soften out of your busy mind and into deeper connection with your body, pleasure, and self-worth, Monique offers group programs, immersions, and spaces for women to heal, be witnessed, and rise in their power. You can connect with her, explore her current offerings, and continue this journey of Living in Love via her online community, programs, and social channels.

Connect with Monique here: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/

In this Q&A episode, I’m answering your heart-questions around feeling safe in love, navigating separation, manifesting new relationships, and learning how to trust life, the divine, and yourself again.

We explore what it really means to feel safe in relationship when your nervous system is still recalibrating – that pendulation between “I feel safe” and “I don’t feel safe” – and why that doesn’t mean you’re broken or doomed, it means you’re growing and expanding your capacity. We talk about the difference between knowing you are always safe at a soul level, and not feeling safe in the moment… and how to tend to yourself when you want to run.

I share a personal story from my relationship with Liam about feeling deeply triggered, holding my boundary, and not going into the old spiral of pulling up the past, attacking, or running — and how that actually created more safety and trust between us.

Inside this episode, we move through questions around:

• Struggling to feel consistently safe and wanting to run from the relationship

• Navigating separation, anxiety, overwhelm, fear & sleepless nights

• How to connect with your feminine energy when you feel stuck in your masculine and the need to control everything

• Manifesting new relationships with your children, yourself, and a potential life partner

• Releasing generational mother wounds, people pleasing & the need for outside validation

• Feeling afraid of not being taken care of and learning to lean back, trust, and receive

• Manifesting from pure alignment vs. ego, and being fully supported by life & the divine

• Balancing surrender with taking aligned action (and why it was always about who you’re becoming)

• Releasing the last layers of doubt and fear around receiving and allowing your manifestations to unfold with more ease, grace, and joy

If you’re in a season of big emotions, relationship questions, or you’re in the thick of manifesting “your next level” and wondering if you can actually trust it… this episode will meet you there with tenderness, truth, and nervous-system-aware support.

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If you’d love to go deeper into this work, check out my signature programs here: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/work-with-me

And if you’re unsure where to start, reach out or book a discovery call and we can feel into what’s most supportive for you right now.

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Beautiful soul… this one is DEEP.

There’s been a huge theme in our community lately around receiving — money, love, pleasure, support, appreciation, intimacy, opportunities…

And the truth is: most women are overgiving, under-receiving, and don’t even know why.

In today’s episode of The Good Girl Unleashed Podcast, I unravel:

✨ Why receiving feels unsafe for so many women

✨ How your childhood, lineage & family money stories shape your receiving capacity

✨ Why overgiving creates depletion, resentment & shutdown

✨ What blocks your receiving channel (and how to reactivate it)

✨ The real reason your manifestations bring up so much fear

✨ My personal story of money, sex, heartbreak, lineage wounds & the moment everything changed

✨ How to open the infinity loop of giving and receiving

✨ What it takes to become a woman who feels SAFE to receive love, wealth, pleasure & life

This episode is raw, vulnerable, powerful, and will hit deep for you if receiving has ever felt uncomfortable, overwhelming, or “too much.”

If your soul is tired of overgiving…

If you crave more love, more connection, more abundance, more life-force…

If you’re ready to open to the fullness of your life…

THIS is for you!

Links:

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