Best of With Love, Danielle: Downsizing as a spiritual practice and how to make the best decision

This episode originally aired as Episode 169 on March 7, 2025, and became one of your favourites of the year. We're bringing it back because this conversation on letting go and making aligned decisions really resonated. If you missed it the first time or want to revisit, here we go…

Loves,

I'm attempting to be useful in two ways today. BONUS.

1) Let's talk about decision making, how to know when it's right or wrong.

2) And how the ego loves to look good. And thus! how letting go of status concepts can be radically liberating and HEALING.

I once traded a status symbol (sexy Audi, FAST) for a soul symbol (pre-owned VW, FREE). Turns out, less status = more me. More LIFE.

In this episode:

• How the ego masks self-worth struggles with status symbols
• The surprising freedom in less (and why "downgrade to upgrade" is real)
• The three red flags that signal a misaligned decision
• A spiritual approach to right-sizing your life—beyond logic, beyond labels

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