ATD x EP. 2554 - THE FIRST HOME I EVER BUILT

Nov 24

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.

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.

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IN THIS EPISODE WE TALK ABOUT:

Childhood story of drawing the same house over and over, always from the inside.
Early instinct to organize inner worlds rather than outer appearance.
Reflection on a friend’s beautiful home and the realization that the attraction was to the feeling inside, not the structure itself.
Meditation insight about wanting the emotional truth of a home, not a duplicate of someone else’s life.
Exploration of how people abandon their own inner rooms when they sacrifice themselves in relationships without mutual growth.
Introduction of the Gates as rooms of the inner home.
Breakdown of the transformation rhythm: feeling, doing, dissolving, reforming, emerging, being, and returning to feeling.
Explanation of how these movements show up in healing, identity work, grief, and creativity.
Reveal of why this is the moment to open the full architecture of DVN THEREPE.
Invitation for listeners to explore the things they did as children without being taught.
Encouragement to see life as a home with many rooms and to remember that return begins with awareness.
Closing reminder that taking a seat at the table is an invitation into a shared home of transformation.

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• DVN THEREPE — My home for all things healing, embodiment, and personal transformation.

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