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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In this episode, we are stepping into the Deep Winter Passage and talking honestly about why this season feels so intense for so many people. Winter brings emotions, memories, and patterns to the surface in a way that catches people off guard, and my intention today is to give you language for what is happening inside you so you can stop blaming yourself for what is simply part of this cycle.

We will talk about the stories that rise during this time, the identities that pull you back into old roles, the energetic weight that winter places on the mind and body, and the cultural pressure that makes this season even harder. I will walk you through what this passage activates and how you can move through it with more awareness, compassion, and understanding.

If you have ever felt like winter hits you differently, if you have struggled with the emotional pull of the holidays, or if you find yourself confused by the feelings that show up year after year, this conversation will give you a clear path through it. You are not unraveling. You are being shown something meaningful.

WEEKLY AFFIRMATION: I allow myself to see what this season is revealing, and I move through it with honesty, care, and trust in my inner knowing, because nothing rising in me is here to harm me and everything surfacing is guiding me toward the person I am becoming.

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In this episode, I open the pages of my book The Fat Black Ugly Girl and talk about the conditioning that shaped my voice, my identity, and the roles I learned to play long before I understood I was playing them. I walk you through how code switching became my survival language, not just in work spaces, but in my own culture and family, and how therapy invited me to explore what it means to un-code switch and live in my natural voice again.

We talk about the moments where we adjust ourselves without thinking, the old labels that still follow us into adulthood, and the quiet ways our bodies prepare for reactions that no longer belong to us. This is a conversation about worth, voice, identity, and the courage it takes to stop performing for acceptance and start honoring who you truly are.

Take this episode with you as a reminder that your voice belongs to you, and you are safe to return to yourself.

WEEKLY AFFIRMATION: I am safe to be myself. My voice belongs here. I release the habit of hiding.I choose truth over performance. I honor the parts of me that are ready to rise.

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In this episode, I bring you into a story I've never shared, a story that quietly shaped the entire architecture of my work. When I was a little girl, I spent hours drawing homes on college-ruled lined paper and filling them with tiny stick figures as they moved through each room. I thought it was childhood imagination. I didn't know it was the beginning of DVN THEREPE.

Today, I take you into that memory and show you how childhood instinct can reveal calling. You will hear how the inner home became the foundation for the Gates, the Flow, and the full rhythm of transformation that guides my work. And as you listen, I invite you to think about your own early patterns. What are the things you did without being taught, and how they might reflect the truth you have always carried?

This episode is personal, reflective, and deeply aligned with the season I am stepping into. By the end, you will understand why I often say take a seat at the table, and why that invitation has always been a doorway into my home.

WEEKLY AFFIRMATION: I honor the place inside me that has always known who I am.I move through my life with intention, trusting that every room I enter brings me closer to myself.

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In this episode of All Things DVN, we talk about what it really means when the body keeps score. We break down how unprocessed emotion, unspoken truth, and patterns that never got their closure begin to live in the body as energy. You’ll hear how memory becomes matter, how the conscious and subconscious mind shape our responses, and why your body is not against you. It is trying to protect you and guide you back toward awareness.

We move through the frameworks that shape the DVN Therepe approach to healing:

• The Soul Scan — learning to listen beneath the surface.

• Neuroalchemy — understanding the chemistry between thought, emotion, and energy.

• The Persona Projection Cycle — reclaiming the self beneath survival and performance.

Together, these teachings show that real healing is a conversation between the mind, body, and energy. It is not about perfection. It is about remembering that your body has always been trying to help you come home to yourself.

Take a moment after listening to pause, breathe, and ask your body what it has been trying to tell you. That is where the story begins to change.

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In this episode, we are talking about what it really means to manifest beyond survival. For most of my life, I manifested from a place of need. I was calling in safety, stability, and enough to get by. My body only knew how to pray for relief, not joy.

I share how joining the To Be Magnetic community and starting the Money Challenge helped me see the deeper truth about manifesting. It is not just about mindset. It is about the subconscious stories and survival patterns we inherited, and the way our bodies still hold them.

We will talk about how the little girl from my book The Fat Black Ugly Girl taught me that I had been asking for safety because I did not believe I was allowed to ask for joy. I will share what it looks like to rewrite those stories, to let your body trust ease, and to move from surviving to receiving.

If you are ready to manifest from truth instead of trauma, and to let your body, voice, and power align, this episode is for you. Take a seat at my table, breathe with me, and let’s talk about the art of manifesting beyond survival.

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