Tag: selflove
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The Story I Used to Tell Myself about Love
When I got married the first time, I had the kind of love that I thought I deserved. I thought it was the best I was ever going to get. I thought love was hard because my marriage was hard. I didn’t trust my husband or perhaps I didn’t trust myself. Love was painful. Love…
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What Would Love Do?
Love makes space to see things differently. Love whispers to our closed hearts and says, “it’s worth the risk.” Love sees through the darkness with eyes wide open, knowing that death, loss, pain and endings are veiled rebirths, opportunities and beginnings. Love, given and shared, is eternal. We never truly lose the ones we love. …
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the vow
The Realization Seven years ago, my bare feet padded down into soft sand. Waves from the Pacific Ocean kissed the shore where I stood. The sun and the moon shone down from the bluest of skies. I wore a long white dress as I held the hands of my best friend, a man I couldn’t…
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A Gentle Reminder
You are and always have been enough. Your heart and soul are strong, you can trust them. You have what it takes to do the work, the more difficult thing, the path less trodden. You are capable of braving the wilderness. You are soft and vulnerable yet grounded and whole. Your gifts are so necessary,…