In this episode, I share a deeply personal experience that changed the way I understand advocacy, consent, and care inside medical spaces. What began as a routine dental visit turned into a moment where my body was signaling distress and my voice was repeatedly dismissed, forcing me to confront how often patients are expected to endure pain rather than be listened to.

This conversation is not about fear mongering or blame, it's about recognizing when something is wrong, honoring your body’s signals, and understanding that speaking up is not disrespectful, dramatic, or difficult. It is necessary.

We explore what it means to advocate for yourself when you are vulnerable, anxious, or afraid, and how power dynamics in medical settings can silence people, especially women and especially Black and brown women.

I talk about the difference between rushed care and attentive care, why pain is information, and how walking away can sometimes be the most protective decision you make.

This episode is for anyone who has ever left a medical appointment feeling unseen, unheard, or unsettled, and needs reassurance that trusting yourself is not only allowed, it is wise.

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This episode begins with a number, but it quickly becomes something else entirely.

.69 cents is not a story about money, and it is not a story about lack. It is a story about the moment a pattern reveals itself fully, when giving without awareness reaches its end, and when a role you have been living inside of no longer has permission to continue.

In this episode, I walk through the deeper architecture of transactional attachment, the invisible ledger many of us never realize we are part of, and the quiet shock that comes when reciprocity does not arrive. We talk about how transactional attachment forms when love, belonging, safety, or spiritual worth become tied to what you give, how much you carry, or how reliably you show up, and how those dynamics embed themselves so deeply that they feel normal until the moment they don’t.

I introduce DVN THEREPE’s numerology system, The Ledger, as a way of naming these unseen exchanges, not as symbolism but as structure. I go deeper into the meaning of the numbers 6, 9, and 69, and how they map onto relational labor rather than abstraction. We explore 6 as the role of care, responsibility, and giving, 9 as completion and consequence, and 69 as the loop where giving and receiving are meant to circulate, revealing what happens when that loop becomes one sided and keeps running long after it should have ended.

This episode looks closely at what it means to be related to for what you provide rather than who you are, how transactional attachment lives inside families, faith communities, friendships, and long term relationships, and why some endings don’t come with conflict or rupture, but instead arrive as a quiet internal knowing that something no longer has authority over you.

This is a conversation about thresholds, about the moment before release, and about what changes internally when a pattern you have tolerated for a long time finally stops making sense to your body, your mind, and your sense of self.

If you have ever reached a point where you knew, without drama or collapse, that you were finished giving something that cost too much, this episode is for you.

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In this episode of All Things DVN, we’re sitting together and talking honestly about why this time of year can feel confusing, emotional, or unfinished, even when the calendar is telling everyone to move on. We walk through what the Year of the Wood Snake actually is, why it does not reset on January first, and how it overlaps with what I call the Deep Winter Passage in my own framework. If you’ve been feeling slower than expected, reflective without clear answers, or resistant to forcing plans, this episode is here to remind you that you are not behind and nothing about your timing is wrong.

We talk about what not to force right now, how to move through this closing stretch with discernment instead of pressure, and what begins to open as we move into February and toward our Bloom Quarter. This conversation is about honoring internal timing, letting cycles complete, and trusting what is being refined beneath the surface before anything new is asked to stand.

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