Left

Love hasn’t left you,
Yet you needed that,
to see that,
this innocence in you
That says love has been taken from me.

So you can acknowledge it,
Your beloved makes space for you,
For your wounded parts
To be loved.

Scared. Hiding. Hurt.

Your beloved makes space
for your innocence
to be seen, to be heard.

To come out of hiding.
To be acknowledged.
To be loved.

Trust your heart

You are asked to listen to your heart.
You are asked to be truthful in yourself. With your feelings, to honor them, and listen. The first person needing connection is you – more than your beloved, more than family or friends, those closest to you – you are the one you need.
 
You are asked to listen to your soul. To experience and be with those feelings, whatever they are.
 
Trust starts within you, with truth. Trust means honoring the truth in your heart.
 
Be truthful with yourself, and listen, hold that space in you as much as you can. What do you need? Keep asking. Honor what comes.
 
You are asked to guide yourself. Will you choose to trust yourself? Or will you choose what is outside of you?

Who you are

Many people will try to tell you what your truth is, what this journey means, what is right and what is not, what is this label, what is that label, what is your label.
 
The one truth that matters is your own, the one voice you need to hear is within you.
 
Your voice matters. Your heart matters. Your soul matters.
 
You matter.
 
Listen.

Alone, not abandoned

Being alone is not being abandoned.

For the longest time… That’s what alone meant to me. That’s what the word was, the energy. “Abandoned.” Now I know “alone” is not the same as “abandoned.”
“Alone” is room for me.
For grace. To be free, to find and be myself. To trust in myself, above anyone or anything else.
I’m grateful for it, because abandonment showed me how to love myself.
I don’t need to be abandoned now. But if I hadn’t run so much, I never would have run back home to me.
I am so grateful to others who let go, to let me be free. I tried so much to be other people, running from my abandonment, and I even told that story, so much, about the people who left me.
And I realized I was talking myself into hurt. Into suffering.
And I stopped telling that story.
That moment, I listened to how I felt. Instead of telling myself how abandoned I was… I stopped hurting myself. I started listening.
And then I started to follow the feelings.

 

Trust your inner truth

Trust in yourself.
If you need others’ words to be truthful, if you are listening to trust in someone else’s story, you are not listening to your own.
 
Trust in your inner self, and you will hear the truth in any story – your own truth, and it will not need to be any other.

Your inner child hurts

Your inner child lashes out, in anger, frustration, fear, grief…. Like a child. Any child. We each act out our pain.
Do your loved ones do this too? Fear and pain? Grief and anger and hurt?
Your children, your beloved ones – does it mean they do not love you? That you do not love them?
You fear and feel pain. You understand. Let it flow. Your inner child lashes out too. Listen, comfort, embrace your inner child.
You are okay. Trust in you. This is your love unfolding. Being born. Honoring grief. Healing. There is pain. Let be loved. It needs acknowledgement, it needs to be heard.
Listen to your pain, and listen to others, knowing the source of the pain, knowing the inner child hurts, listen.
Trust in healing and love.

Trust and love

Your connection will be edifying and build trust and love. Be truthful with you, and love with you, and you are vulnerable. Listen, and share truth.

Truth is important, acknowledgement is important, more than the story of what relationship should be, more than the story of a savior.

Listen to truth, value when it is shared, when you share it, for it guides you deeper into love.
Pain does not tell you who you are, who they are. Pain needs only to be heard, to be acknowledged, to be accepted. If you choose truth, and not blame, if you listen, instead of push … you will find trust. You will find vulnerability and love.
Listen to you, and listen to your partner, in love, as a friend, as listening to a child, listen to understand, listen to feel, listen to the truth. In you, in others. Trust your own vulnerability, listen to it.
Trust those things in you, allow them to open, to share, and you will find trust in yourself, and that trust will return to you in love, in connection.

Love, and you will love.

Trust in love

You are love, and you are loved.
 
You will see over and over again so many things that look as though you are not loved. Rejection, abandonment, betrayal.
 
You are still loved. You are asked to see yourself as loves sees you. As worthy. As beloved. Complete, in union in the divine.
 
This is what is calling you. This is why I say, you are loved. Only when you feel in pain, when pain comes up, you find the hurt places in you, that need the love you must cultivate. It is your own garden. No one else can tend it.
 
The story of fear isn’t the truth. But you are asked to honor love within, no matter how things appear. You are asked to have faith and to trust.
 
The source of love is through you. You are the source of your union with love.

Pause, breathe

We need space to pause,

to breathe,

to get quiet with ourselves.

To listen and acknowledge ourselves.

To be present with our experience inside…whatever it may be.

We need acknowledgement and presence.

We need to be heard.

Pause, breathe, listen to yourself.

Close your eyes…breathe.

Nourish your soul

Nourish your soul.
Choose the things that choose you.
Fill your experience with fascination, with joy, with love.
Be with what inspires you.
Focus on what speaks softly within.
Listen to that voice.
Listen to the answer.
 
Let inspiration settle and grow.