Monique Carmela, Gold Coast (2026)

30/01/2026

The body remembers — Thats why we get triggered — we must feel to heal so we can move forward and truly LIVE 🤍

30/01/2026

For so many women and vulva-havers, we’ve been socialised to prioritise other people’s pleasure over our own — to perform, please, override, and disconnect.

Fantasy can be a powerful doorway.
A place where there’s no obligation.

No performance.
No one else to manage.

For many of us, it’s how we first learned to feel again.

And… there can come a moment where fantasy becomes a replacement rather than an access point.

Where we leave the body instead of arriving in it.

Where presence with ourselves or our partner feels harder to stay with.

This isn’t something to judge or fix.
It’s an invitation to deepen safety.

To gently explore:
✨ Am I using fantasy to open… or to bypass?
✨ What does my body need to feel safe here?
✨ How can I pendulate between imagination and sensation — without abandoning myself?

There is no “right” way.
Only what brings you home.

🎧 This conversation unfolds more deeply in the latest episode of The Devotional Woman Podcast

Absolutely loved this conversation with Kiki Maree, founder of Yonilicious Academy and I’m so excited for you to tune in.. let me know how you go!

Comment DEVOTION and I’ll send you the episode PLUS a powerful practice to support you in creating safety and deepening your connection to your body and sensuality ❤️

28/01/2026

So many women come to this work saying the same thing…

“I know what I feel… but I don’t know how to express it without shutting down, exploding, or being misunderstood.”

» They’re carrying unspoken needs.
» Blocked emotions.
» Years of holding it together, staying quiet, or over-explaining — hoping to be met.

And what I’ve seen again and again is this:

Most relationship pain isn’t caused by a lack of love. It’s caused by a nervous system that doesn’t feel safe to speak.

This is exactly why I created Heart Speaks.

Heart Speaks isn’t about learning scripts or saying the “right” thing.
It’s about creating safety in the body so truth can be expressed with clarity, softness, and power — without blame, collapse, or disconnection.

When a woman feels safe to feel,
her voice naturally returns.

And the ripple effects are profound.

Jillian shared after working together:

“Monique guided my partner and me through a period when I had a lot of uncertainty and difficult emotions to process. She played a pivotal and essential part in helping me to have an amazing breakthrough that has improved my life and relationships. She helped me move through years of emotional struggle in just a few months. I am so much more at peace, and in a place of thriving, because of the work with Monique.”

Lauren reflected on her journey:

“Monique provides a safe and loving space, where hidden aspects of myself were able to come into the light to be seen, acknowledged and healed.

I’ve been able to be present with what’s going on in my body and sit with uncomfortable emotions for the first time in my life — this has created a place of safety within.

This course has shifted me, my perspective on life and relationships, and on myself. It has changed my life.”

And Jade’s words speak so clearly to what happens when emotions are held in silence:

“I didn’t have the vocabulary to express how cut up I felt, and then ashamed to speak of it. So I mostly became quiet, then started blaming him in my head and felt a wedge come between us…

Once we shined a light over it, I felt lighter. The tears of joy — of honestly every emotion under the sun — came pouring out.

My confidence and knowingness of self has uplevelled more than I’ve experienced yet.”

This is the power of doing the work from the inside out.

✨ When emotions are met with safety instead of suppression…
✨ when the nervous system is supported instead of overridden…
✨ communication stops being a battleground — and becomes a bridge.

✨ Doors are open for Heart Speaks and you can join today for only $444 (50%off) for a limited time

🎁 PLUS: for a limited time I’m also including my Grounded In You program as a bonus — because regulation comes before communication.

If you’re ready to stop holding it all in,
to release resentment, and to speak from your heart with clarity and truth…

Heart Speaks is for you.

Im curious… what will your transformation story be???

Join now — let’s find out together 🤍

27/01/2026

We are not broken.
We are remembering.

So many of us are carrying the imprint of generations where female s*xuality was shamed, silenced, controlled, or feared.
Where s*x wasn’t about safety, presence, or pleasure — but performance, obligation, or survival.

Of course desire feels confusing.
Of course bodies shut down.
Of course so many women feel disconnected, numb, or “not s*xual enough.”

Arousal doesn’t live in pressure.
It lives in safety.

And safety is shaped by culture, education, relationships, and how our bodies learned to protect us.

There comes a moment where we feel it in our bones: something isn’t right… there has to be more.

And that moment is often the beginning —
of seeking support,
of having different conversations,
of reclaiming s*xuality as something that gets to feel nourishing, slow, and true.

This conversation on the podcast goes deep into all of this — the nervous system, conditioning, desire, and what it actually takes to feel safe enough to open.

🎧 Full episode on The Devotional Woman Podcast on Spotify — “Sxx As Devotion: Fantasy, Yoni Massage & Reclaiming Er0tic Safety w Kiki Maree, founder of Yonilicious Academy

comment DEVOTION and I’ll send you the episode and an embodiment practice to help you connect to your body and sensuality

❤️

27/01/2026

There comes a moment when your heart can no longer stay silent.

This is a journey into being deeply anchored in your heart’s truth, confident to express yourself, and transforming your life and relationships in the most beautiful, connected way.

Inside Heart Speaks, you will:
• Create inner safety so your truth can be expressed without fear
• Reconnect to your heart as your inner compass and source of wisdom
• Liberate your voice and speak with clarity, confidence, and compassion
• Heal and integrate the mother and father lines shaping your expression
• Learn to have honest, heart-led conversations that deepen intimacy
• Honour your emotions, boundaries, and inner guidance without guilt
• Experience more connection, freedom, and authenticity in your relationships

✨ Limited-time Early Bird: $444 (50% off)

🌹 Bonus:
• 4x live embodiment & integration calls with me (February + March 2026)

⏳ For the next 72 hours only:
When you comment GROUNDED below, you’ll also receive Grounded In You as a bonus gift — supporting nervous system safety and emotional regulation as the foundation for this work.

If you have any questions or would like to book a call to feel into whether this is right for you, send me a DM.

Your heart already knows.
Comment GROUNDED and I’ll send you the details.

27/01/2026

What if the reason intimacy has felt hard… isn’t because something is wrong with you — but because your body was never taught how to feel safe?

This week on The Devotional Woman Podcast, I’m joined by s*xologist and educator Kiki Maree, founder of Yonilicious Academy for a deep, honest exploration of sxxuality — not as performance, obligation, or something to “get right”… but as a devotional practice rooted in safety, presence, and truth.

We talk about the things so many women quietly carry but rarely say out loud.

✨ Why so many of us feel disconnected from desire.
✨ Why pleasure can feel capped, confusing, or unsafe.
✨ Why slowing down can feel terrifying — and necessary.
✨ Why fantasy can be supportive and complex.
✨ Why nothing is actually “wrong” with your body.

We speak about the legacy of shame and oppression that female sxxuality has been shaped by, and how this lives on in the nervous system — even when there’s no obvious trauma.

How poor sxx education, rushed intimacy, and performance-based sxx disconnect us from our bodies.

And how desire and arousal are deeply context-dependent, not character flaws.

We also explore:
• sxxuality through a nervous system lens
• why slowness is the pathway to pleasure
• fantasy as a bridge rather than a bypass
• the difference between tolerance and true consent
• releasing outcome-based sxx and performance pressure
• what it actually means to feel safe enough to open

This conversation isn’t about fixing yourself.
It’s about remembering your body’s wisdom.
About creating intimacy that doesn’t require self-abandonment.
About learning to listen — to yourself, and to the truth alive in your body.

If you’ve ever felt like:
– intimacy is effortful instead of nourishing
– desire disappeared somewhere along the way
– your body closes when you wish it would open
– you’ve been performing instead of feeling

This episode is for you.

🎧 You can listen now on Spotify — just search The Devotional Woman Podcast

I’d love to know what lands for you if you listen.

Feel free to share or message me — these conversations are meant to be had together 🤍y

24/01/2026

It’s not about how long a relationship lasts… It’s about who you become along the way.

Who you grow into.
What you learn.
What parts of yourself are discovered, softened, awakened.

Does the relationship invite your evolution?
Does it draw out your highest potential — and theirs?

So often, when a relationship ends, we label it a failure.
As though its value is measured only by its duration.

But what if we changed the definition of success and failure altogether?

What if instead of focusing on how long it lasted,
we looked at the quality of what was shared?

The growth.
The lessons.
The ways you evolved.
The versions of yourself that got to be lived and expressed.

The love you gave.
The love you received.
The experiences you were invited into — for however long they were meant to last.

From this perspective, an ending isn’t a failure at all.

It’s the completion of one chapter…
and the opening of another.

And maybe this ending is exactly what’s required for your next evolution —
and theirs.

Maybe it’s the very thing that frees you both to become who you’re meant to be next.

And who knows where that could lead…
perhaps somewhere beyond your wildest dreams.

✨ What if you measured your relationships by how much they helped you grow — not how long they lasted?

I’d love to hear what this brings up for you 🤍

Ive supported women and couples in deepening the connection and intimacy in their relationships

And ive also supported them in the transition period of a relationship ending and a new chapter beginning

Whatever you are experiencing in your relationship, know that you are not alone, and there is support available

Relationships can be potent medicine, helping you to heal, grow, and become the greatest version of yourself

If you’re desiring deeper support in this area, send me a dm and let’s chat

22/01/2026

When things were good, they were really good… And when things were hard… they felt unbearable.

When the relationship felt good, I wanted to stay… When it felt painful or confusing, I wanted to run.

I was so wobbly I couldn’t tell what the “right” choice was. Stay or go. Hold on or let go.

I was terrified of making the wrong decision — of choosing something I’d later regret.

So I froze.

I shut down.
I disconnected.
I went into my head.

I got lost in the stories my mind created.
I made every challenge mean something about me… about him… about us.

And the more meaning I layered on top,
the more trapped and overwhelmed I felt.

Until something shifted.

I found the courage to feel.

✹ To turn toward what was here instead of running from it.
✹ To meet my fears with presence rather than panic.
✹ To lead from truth instead of protection.

And in doing that, I experienced the most profound freedom.

Not because everything suddenly became easy — but because I stopped abandoning myself.

I kept choosing truth.
Again and again.
Even when it felt uncomfortable.

And that devotion led me to the deepest love and connection I’ve ever known.

With myself.
With life.
And within my relationship.

I wasn’t wobbly anymore.
I wasn’t waiting for clarity to magically appear.
I wasn’t stuck on the edge, analysing whether I should stay or go.

I was grounded.
I was present.
I was free.

And from that place, everything changed.

✹ Deep wounds healed.
✹ My relationship transformed.
✹ And the love, connection, and intimacy we now share… it feels truly beyond words.

This is the work of The Embodied Woman.

A 12-month journey of mentorship, community, and embodied guidance —supporting you to build the inner safety, clarity, and self-trust to meet life and relationships from truth, not fear.

It’s not about forcing answers.
It’s about becoming so deeply anchored in yourself that the answers arise naturally.

✨ If you feel yourself in this story — if you’re tired of wobbling, freezing, or living from panic — The Embodied Woman is a space where you don’t have to do this alone.

Comment “EMBODY” or send me a DM, and I’ll share more with you 🤍

📷 Photo: Us in 2019… just a few months in

20/01/2026

You don’t need another program — you need a place to land.

The Embodied Woman is a portal.

A living, breathing space.
A community of sisters walking this path together.

The path that brings you home —
to your body,
your truth,
your deepest self.

While it isn’t about getting somewhere as fast as possible, it will take you places.

It opens doors to experiences you couldn’t have accessed through force or strategy alone.

It awakens the parts of you that have been long forgotten.

It rekindles the love that’s been buried beneath survival and conditioning.

It draws forth your true essence — your light.

This work isn’t about finding the one thing that changes everything.

It’s about cultivating a lifelong inner foundation.

A toolbox you carry with you through every season of life.

One that supports you to create deep inner safety.

To hold yourself through the highs and the lows.

To expand your capacity for more goodness, abundance, and freedom.

To live in alignment with your heart’s true desires — and to know, deeply, that you are worthy and deserving of it all.

It’s about feeling confident and empowered to express your truth and your emotions.

Honouring your sacred yes and your sacred no.

Loving deeply and fully — with your whole being — knowing you can meet whatever arises.

Feeling safe to open.
Safe to receive.
Safe to let love flow abundantly.

This is the remembering.
Living from who you truly are — not who you learned to be.

Step by step.
Layer by layer.

We walk this journey together.

Supporting one another.
Cheering each other on.

Building lifelong friendships as we deepen our connection to ourselves.

As your relationship with yourself flourishes, so do your relationships with others.

Connection deepens.
Intimacy expands.

And you begin to naturally attract people and experiences aligned with your heart’s true desires.

This isn’t a magic pill.
It’s not a shortcut.

It’s devotion that changes everything.

Devotion to continuing to show up — even when it’s hard.

Devotion to allowing yourself to be held and supported as you journey home.

We were never meant to walk this path alone.

The Embodied Woman community is here — through every shift, milestone, challenge, tear, and celebration.

Through all of it.

✨ If you feel the call to join us, comment below or send me a DM. I’d love to welcome you in 🤍

Monique Carmela

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