Quote I am enjoying
“We have not come into this exquisite world to hold ourselves hostage from love. We have not come here to take prisoners, but to surrender ever more deeply to freedom and joy” – Hafiz
Most romantic beautiful poem especially for Valentine’s Day
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and One More Thing
❤️Happy Valentine’s Day My Loves🥰😘
And I couldn’t be happier. I used to dread this day as a single lady, never feeling more alone or unloved. But everything is so different now I have truly found the love that resides within me. The love that can be accessed and lived in all the time by all people. Our only job is to seek it until we find it, then nourish it and cultivate it until it is pouring out of us, lighting up anyone and everyone around us.
This has been a huge moon cycle for me – I’ve come into my bleed 4 days early my body was so ready for this shift – in healing more layers (signed up for infinite layers apparently…🙋♀️) of my core wounds around my relationships with men, sexual abuse and pretty much every single way I made myself smaller or gave away parts of myself – sex, time, money, intellect, personality, humour… – to any man in return for ‘love’.
Years into this journey, it surprises and excites me every single day how much there is to still discover about ourselves – these past few weeks have been eye-opening and HARD work – no one said this healing life was easy 😉
But with this work comes Truth – and this month I have received one of the greatest gifts of all – the redeliverance of my most sacred feminine energy.
Calling back in this part of myself to experience at new depths has been a wild inner journey this month (friends who have held me – I love you 😘)
But now I have a new depth of Truth – I have felt and seen and know how I truly want to be loved. I have a new understanding of what it means to be in equanimous relationship with my own power and that of someone else’s.
My boundaries feel stronger and more alive than ever even though I have experienced new depths of openness. I am not afraid to live in that part of myself and I know I am supported there. I know my own medicine – I delight in it and nourish myself with it every single day.
When you feel your own depth, there is no way you can settle for less than that from another. If you are able to be more present to yourself in love than who you’re with can be, then what’s the point?
For me a relationship is about love.
I am deeply romantic, idealistic, dreamy, sensitive and get completely carried away in love. Why not ask to feel more love than you’ve ever felt before?🤷♀️ Why can’t it be like your wildest dreams?! Or better?
All the things we’re NOT supposed to want, feel and protect ourselves against in this so-called harsh world. All the things I stopped myself from being.
But I was closed off to my truth (perhaps The Truth) And despite (or because of) the layers of protection still got my heart smashed to pieces 🙋♀️…and it was largely down to me…I was always wanting more, something deeper, more real but I hadn’t truly learnt to embody it for myself so was constantly placing responsibility for that on others to provide it for me (and all the rest of it that comes with painfully codependent relationships🤦♀️) Then of course in the end everyone ends up hurt and there’s no real love at all.
Now I don’t care if I live in a dreamy, impractical world when it comes to love (I can be practical in other ways 😋) I know how to live it authentically without seeking it from others and it feels intensely real to me and completely freaking epic. It is my truth and I own it for me 🥰
The love you want exists. It exists because you exist. So ask for it and don’t accept anything less from yourself or anyone else❤️
Happy Valentine’s Day – loving you from the deepest depths of my heart 😘❤️