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.
🌹 Join us inside the Living in Love Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1654605958243746
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.
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!
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Submit your questions HERE for the Live Q&A (Happening inside the LIVING IN LOVE Community)
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I am so excited to share this episode with you, sharing about my journey with Manifestation and discovering the manifestation equation
There is so much talk about manifestation, law of attraction, and the need to be high vibe to get what you want, but we forget that the whole point of manifestation is to feel more of what you want to feel, but the way to feel more of what you want is to expand your capacity for all of the human emotions
Manifestation has brought so many incredible things into my life and this year I discovered the key to becoming IN LOVE with life, to experience more of what I have desired since I began the journey over a decade ago
And in a few days we begin The MANIFESTATION Experiment, a 30 day journey, guiding you through the manifestation equation so that you can become in love with life and bring your desires to fruition with more ease and have a lot of fun doing it, and you can join us for just $33, serious no brainer!
I'd love to hear what resonated for you in this episode and if you're joining us for the experiment, jump into the LIVING IN LOVE community and share what you're calling in, let's dream BIG, go all in and have the best frickin' time!
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Have you ever had that feeling when you read someone else's experience about how they quantum leaped in their life, it seems like this magical, miraculous, overnight success, and you wonder why that is not happening for me...
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Well, I have, and it would infuriate me, all these stories would come up for me and I would believe them... Stories of I'm not cut out for this, it's never gonna happen for me, there's something wrong with me, I'm not good enough...
The victim response was so strong and so deeply ingrained... I was stuck in a state of lack, scarcity, and these stories kept me in a deep state of disconnection and suffering
But then something began to shift for me, and over the years, I have had experience after experience that has shown me the truth of what is really at play and how to move through these stories and patterns that keep us stuck and to experience the quantum leaps we desire
In this episode, I share with you my recent birthing experience and what happened that completely shifted my world, where I experienced a quantum leap through the power of acceptance
We also explore how this relates to all other areas of our life, and how these stories we tell ourselves show up everywhere until we put an end to them through the power of acceptance, gratitude, and desire.
I share personal stories and experiences of coming into acceptance and experiencing quantum leaps in my relationship, sexuality, and money, and how you can do this too
Quantum leaps are available to all of us if we're willing to show up and do what's required
Ready to quantum leap into your next-level relationship and life???
Let's dive in...
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Today I am joined by the beautiful Sami Garrett, this is such a deep, powerful conversation on how to LOVE motherhood, how to embrace it fully, to become more present and enjoy the magic of the mundane moments, to fully LIVE and enjoy each moment of this journey we GET to have and experience.
We explore…
So let’s dive in, I am so excited for you to listen, come join us inside the Living In Love Facebook Community and share your insights, experience and what resonated for you, as well as any questions you have in regards to the topics we explore
Links
LIVING IN LOVE FB Community: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19LPTPuqWy/
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The Sacred Art of Loving Yourself 8-week program: https://embodiedlove.moniquecarmela.com/saly
Learn more about me and my work here: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/
Sami Garrett 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.
After hitting a breaking point in her own postpartum journey, Sami combined her background in mind-body healing with her lived experience as a mother to create what she couldn’t find: a space where moms feel resourced, not reactive—and joy isn’t a luxury, but a daily practice.
She believes we're better together and has brought together some of the most impactful resources together to help mothers worldwide reclaim peace, clarity, and self-connection without adding more to their plate. Sami speaks on topics like nervous system regulation in motherhood, redefining self-care, conscious parenting, and the quiet revolution of doing motherhood your way. She brings together other professionals who deep dive into all the other topics in motherhood that bring to life this massive resource library for motherhood.
IG: @goodenoughmatrescenceWebsite: goodenoughmatrescence.com
Community membership: goodenoughmatrescence.com/gem-membership
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Today I am joined by the glorious Tabitha Starr, and we're exploring becoming a soul-preneur, an entrepreneur following your soul's calling, to do and share what you love with the world.
It's so easy to get stuck, playing it "safe", we're so heavily conditioned to follow the path that was laid out for us, to get an education and get a "good" job.
The Good Girl Unleashed is about breaking FREE from that and finding and following our own unique, authentic, aligned path.
But this can feel scary, it's uncertain, we don't know how it will all unfold... but the thing is, we never know, even if we've chosen the "safe" path, we never know how life will unfold and what twists and turns are around the corner.
What I know for certain is that if I don't follow my authentic, aligned path, I will live a miserable life full of regret.
Becoming a soulpreneur has been such an adventure; it's been challenging, uncomfortable, scary AF, and the most amazing, wild, fulfilling, awakening, FREEING, healing adventure of a lifetime.
Tabitha shares her journey from leaving the "safe" path of being an employee in a big financial company to completely pivoting and aligning with her soul path, becoming a business coach for soulful entrepreneurs.
We also explore the common fears that come up for women when they're considering making this radical step to living authentically.
Tabitha will be leading a FREE 5-Day masterclass, EMBOLDENED, A 5-day revival to spark your fire, reclaim your confidence, and get wildly turned on by your mission, your magic, and your next-level self
And I am so excited to be a guest speaker for this incredible event, register here
Links
LIVING IN LOVE FB Community: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19LPTPuqWy/
Join my email list by registering for one (or all) of my free resources (highly recommend so you don't miss an episode, free event, and other amazingness that is only sent to our email community): https://www.moniquecarmela.com/resources
The Embodied Woman Experience: https://embodiedlove.moniquecarmela.com/ewe
Learn more about me and my work here: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/
Tabitha Starr is a rebellious business coach, strategist, queen of the business backend, and the founder of Slight Look.
With an MBA, an HR certification, and over a decade in high-level leadership, she now helps creatives, wildlings, and soul-led entrepreneurs build businesses that actually work—and actually light them up.
Her mission is to take on the parts of business women usually avoid, delay, or bandage over—so while they pour their magic into what they love, their business is strong enough to hold them. And yes, she makes it fun along the way.
Find Tabitha on Instagram @slight.look.official or at slightlook.com.
In today’s episode, I am joined by Amanda Vanessa, and we’re exploring the idea that if you’re not the villain in someone else’s story, you’re probably not being your authentic self…
When we step into our power, our authenticity, our full expression, we are very likely going to trigger someone.
Being our authentic self and expressing ourselves has become taboo, so many of us are still hiding, contorting, suppressing, dimming our light in order to fit in and so when you step into your power, truth and authenticity, it’s going to make others that feel unsafe to do that uncomfortable.
Triggers are a beautiful thing, they reveal to us what’s unhealed, unresolved, unintegrated, our of alignment so that we can come back to alignment, authenticity and truth.
We’re often so afraid to trigger someone because it feels like it threatens our belonging which threatens our survival but when we realise that our belonging is within, it’s our responsibility, we can cultivate it for ourselves and it can never be taken away.
So often we are relying on others to meet our needs for love, acceptance and belonging and then we feel trapped in our lives and relationships.
When you cultivate self-love, acceptance and belonging from within, you are able to be your full self, this is where you find your freedom, and this is what allows you to connect with your soul tribe.
When you stop trying to fit in and be your full self, which will involve accepting that not everyone will like you, you’re able to magnetise the people that LOVE you and resonate with your true self, and you’ll experience the love, connection and belonging you’ve been craving.
I’m excited to share this conversation with you, it’s so powerful and I can’t wait to hear your thoughts and what resonated for you.
Jump into the Facebook Community and share with us your experience, and what’s your next step to living authentically…
https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19LPTPuqWy/
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BECOMING (free) Live Experience with Monique, 27th Sep 2025: https://embodiedlove.moniquecarmela.com/becoming-live
Join my email list by registering for one (or all) of my free resources (highly recommend so you don't miss an episode, free event, and other amazingness that is only sent to our email community): https://www.moniquecarmela.com/resources
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Learn more about me and my work here: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/
Amanda Villarreal
Lilith-Coded Liberation Mentor & NeuroEmotional Alchemist, helping visionary women remember who the f*ck they are so they can rise in their full power & create the magical legacy they were born to lead ❤️🔥
Get Amanda's Masterclass for free: The Unexpected Villain. Where you finally make peace with being the Villain in someone else's story. Watch the Replays Here
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🔥 Looking for deeper support? Amanda offers both group and private Liberation Mentorship - learn more here
In today’s episode, I am joined by Amberlee Rose and 3 women from the Embodied Woman Experience 2024 Intake to share what they learned and received from the EWE
This call is so frickin’ magical and profound, I have journeyed with some of these women for YEARS and others we began our journey with the EWE, and to witness them grow, heal, evolve, and come home to themselves, their power, truth and authenticity, their aliveness, their light, their love… woweee!!!
I can’t express the love and gratitude I feel for these women and to have them on the podcast is a true honour, their journeys, their transformations have been profound, their wisdom is so deep and I am so excited to share with you their stories and what’s possible FOR YOU when you say YES to you, prioritise you and do the work to come home to your true self
Each journey is unique just as yours is unique, it’s not about having the same experiences and transformations as them, it’s about realising that it’s all possible for you too when you say YES to you and do the work—join the community, hire the mentor/coach, do the practices, show up for yourself, love yourself to the capacity that is available—and continue to expand that capacity, to love more, to show up more, and witness your whole world transform.
This is such a powerful conversation, let’s dive in…
Links
BECOMING (FREE) Live Experience with Monique Carmela | 27 SEP 2025: https://embodiedlove.moniquecarmela.com/becoming-live
The Embodied Woman Experience: https://embodiedlove.moniquecarmela.com/ewe
Free Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19LPTPuqWy/
Join my email list by registering for one (or all) of my free resources (highly recommend so you don't miss an episode, free event, and other amazingness that is only sent to our email community): https://www.moniquecarmela.com/resources
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THE GOOD GIRL UNLEASHED OFFICIAL RE-LAUNCH PARTY was held Live in the LIVING IN LOVE Facebook Community » Join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1654605958243746
In this conversation, I invite you to contemplate what is being called to move through you, to be released, what has been blocking you from your authenticity, truth, power, and pleasure.
The Good Girl Unleashed is about connecting to and anchoring into the frequency of truth and freedom, to come home to your FULL self and this is what this season is all about and I am so excited to be on this journey with you.
I am so excited to share with you a little bit of what's coming up as we go on this journey together this season as well as inside the LIVING IN LOVE FB Community, this is gonna be BIG!!!
Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime...
Links:
BECOMING LIVE EXPERIENCE | 27th September, 2025 | Register here: https://embodiedlove.moniquecarmela.com/becoming-live
EPIC Love Free Masterclass: https://embodiedlove.moniquecarmela.com/epic-love
Free Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19LPTPuqWy/
Join my email list by registering for one (or all) of my free resources (highly recommend so you don't miss an episode, free event, and other amazingness that is only sent to our email community): https://www.moniquecarmela.com/resources
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Learn more about me and my work here: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/
My story
2025 has been a MASSIVE year of integration from some incredibly deep work I did with my mentor, Victoria Bauman, last year.
Through our work I felt a huge recalibration to truth, authenticity, alignment, and embodied love. It allowed me to anchor into deep safety and tap into the courage required to make some BIG decisions that previously felt too scary and this completely changed my life, allowing me to become the Embodiment Of Love, an initiation I have been moving through since opening my company a couple years ago, Embodied Love Coaching.
In this episode, I share with you my journey of death, rebirth, and sitting in the void, shifting how I show up and respond to life, shifting the lens of lack, scarcity, not good enoughness, to overflowing abundance, love, and truth.
I share with you incredible realisations, messages, and wisdom that has been coming through for me, for you, for us, and where we are heading on this journey together…
Come join us inside the FB Community here: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19LPTPuqWy/
This is where we will be continuing the conversations from the podcast, where you can share what's coming up for you and ask your questions to receive personalised support and guidance
PLUS we will be having our OFFICIAL LAUNCH PARTY inside the FB Community on the 8th September, 2025, and would absolutely LOVE to have you there!
Links:
EPIC Love Free Masterclass: https://embodiedlove.moniquecarmela.com/epic-love
Free Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19LPTPuqWy/
Join my email list by registering for one (or all) of my free resources (highly recommend so you don't miss an episode, free event, and other amazingness that is only sent to our email community): https://www.moniquecarmela.com/free-resources
The Embodied Woman Experience: https://embodiedlove.moniquecarmela.com/ewe
Learn more about me and my work here: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/
WE ARE BACK FOR A WHOLE NEW SEASON... this is going to be absolutely NEXT-LEVEL and I am so excited
Bringing NEW energy, potent transmissions, incredible guests and conversations with the intention to call you home to your true and FULL self, to anchor into deep truth, authenticity, and personal power so that you can experience a deeper embodiment of Love, Connection, Intimacy, Joy, & Pleasure
Come join us inside the FB Community here: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19LPTPuqWy/
This is where we will be continuing the conversations from the podcast, where you can share what's coming up for you and ask your questions to receive personalised support and guidance
PLUS we will be having our OFFICIAL LAUNCH PARTY inside the FB Community on the 8th September, 2025, and would absolutely LOVE to have you there!
Links
EPIC Love Free Masterclass: https://embodiedlove.moniquecarmela.com/epic-love
Free Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19LPTPuqWy/
Join my email list by registering for one (or all) of my free resources (highly recommend so you don't miss an episode, free event, and other amazingness that is only sent to our email community): https://www.moniquecarmela.com/free-resources
The Embodied Woman Experience: https://embodiedlove.moniquecarmela.com/ewe
Learn more about me and my work here: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/
In this episode, Monique talks with Victoria Bowman about her transformative journey from founding 'Owaken Breathwork' to undertaking profound personal healing and growth.
The conversation delves into Victoria's transition from traditional community development and philanthropy to coaching and breathwork, exploring her decision to step away from her professional success to confront deep-seated feelings of unworthiness.
Moniqu shares her experiences working with Victoria, discussing the challenges and revelations from confronting internalized beliefs about worthiness, safety, and success.
Together, they emphasize the importance of seeking genuine alignment with one's heart desires, embracing the full spectrum of emotions, and finding support in community and professional containers. This episode sheds light on the deep inner work required for authentic transformation and the role of this work in creating a meaningful and connected life.
Connect with Victoria
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/victoria_bauman/
Website: https://www.victoriabauman.com/
Connect with Monique
Website: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction and Guest Background
02:06 Victoria's Early Journey and Awakening
05:04 The Turning Point: Stepping Away from Success
06:46 Embracing Vulnerability and Inner Work
07:37 Discovering the Truth of Self-Worth
10:30 The Process of Unraveling and Rebirth
11:03 Monique's Reflection on Her Own Journey
21:48 The Power of Presence and Safety
28:30 The Courage to Let Go and Embrace Change
33:57 Witness Consciousness and Humor in Illusion
35:18 The Concept of Life Testing Us
35:55 Invitation to Embodiment and Love
37:45 Navigating Discomfort and Growth
40:14 Playfulness in Healing Work
43:34 The Importance of Supportive Spaces
51:27 Desires and True Freedom
56:38 Aligning with Heart's Desires
59:39 Embracing Feminine Energy and Connection
01:00:44 Final Thoughts and Encouragement