Dominique D'Vita
The Nurse Who Teaches Love.
Medicine led her to love.
At the end of life, nobody talks about their careers. They talk about the love they never said out loud and the life they never let themselves live.
Dominique D'Vita is a Registered Nurse with 35+ years of experience. Surgical First Assistant in cardiac, neuro, and robotic procedures. Trauma ICU at USC, UCLA, and other major medical centers.
What she witnessed at the bedside changed her: people at the end of life never talked about their careers. They talked about love. About the words they never said, the pleasure they postponed, and the life they never let themselves live because they were too busy living one that looked right to everyone else.
Today she teaches why insight alone never breaks a relationship pattern, and how the nervous system, not willpower, decides who we become in love.
Conversations your audience will replay.
The Nurse Speaks
What 35+ years at the bedside taught her about love: what dying patients regret, what loneliness does to the body, and the medical case for connection.
Your Nervous System Is Running Your Love Life
Why knowing your attachment style doesn't change it, the difference between an unavailable partner and a dysregulated nervous system, and how to regulate before you relate.
Midlife, Turned On by Life
Reinvention after 50. Desire, confidence, boundaries, caregiving without self-abandonment, and the longevity science she applies to her own life.
Somatic Intimacy
For shows ready to go there: shame-free, clinically anchored conversations about connection, pleasure, and the practices that change relationships from the body up.
Sample questions
- What did dying patients teach you about love?
- You say pleasure is medicine. What does that actually mean from a nurse's perspective?
- What's the difference between an emotionally unavailable partner and a dysregulated nervous system?
- What do you know at 58 that you didn't at 40?
- How does someone "regulate before they relate"?
- For people who only know the stereotype: what is Tantra, actually?
Suggested episode titles
- I.What Dying Patients Taught Me About Unlived Love
- II.Your Nervous System Is Choosing Your Partners
- III.Reinvention After 50: The Second Act
- IV.The Medical Cost of Loneliness
- V.Regulate Before You Relate
"My guest today spent 35+ years as a Registered Nurse, from trauma ICUs to the operating room, and what she witnessed at the bedside led her somewhere unexpected: teaching people about love. Dominique D'Vita is a Certified Trauma-Informed Master Coach and she's here to explain why the same relationship pattern keeps coming back, and what your nervous system has to do with it. Dominique, welcome."
Around 50 shows. Hosts invite her back.
Playboy Radio (recurring guest) · Dr. Bob Rakowski Podcast · LA Weekly (press feature)
Recurring appearances are her favorite review.
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