How do you love? What does it mean to love someone unconditionally?
Love is holding space for someone to be themselves. To allow a person to be scene, felt, and heard completely. To let a person take off their masks, lay down their shields, and face their demons.
Imagine we are born as beautiful beings of light. Perfect Divine essences of God. And as we journey through our lives, we tend to pick up negative thought forms, emotions that are not of our highest vibrations, baggages of pain and unresolved feelings.
Most of us, spend our lives trying to keep the door shut to these parts of ourselves that we don’t want others to know about. As if we have this secret closet that is so full of stuff it is hard to get the door closed. And once we do, we lock it under a giant padlock. “Do not go in there!” We declare to ourselves and others. You don’t want to know what is in there. And I don’t want to have to face those feelings/emotions/demons.
The problem is, that many people can see through the façade. Others can pick up on our dark side better than we can. Other people can shine light into the darkness in order for us to face our fears and heal these wounds.
To really love someone, to unconditionally love them is to say to them- “I am here for you.” I welcome all of you. I invite you to open that closet and let those old sheets air out. This is the value of our intimate relationships; our family, our close friends. These people allow us to be ourselves. We open the inner sanctuary of our hearts to them. We allow them to see our brilliance, and to experience our pain. There must be a lot of trust and a lot of unconditional love present in order for a person to feel safe enough to lay down their mask and allow themselves to be scene for who they are in the moment.
Today I am visiting with my parents and I feel so blessed to have them as my parents. There have been lots of ups and downs in our relationship. Times when we have not spoken for months, times when things were very stained. But through it all- they have loved me. They were there for me when I needed support, they were there for me when I called and dropped everything in life to come stand by my side.
They have been married for 41 years now and I am in awe at how they have chosen over and over again to love each other, to work through the pain, to choose to be there for each other. In a world where divorce is common place, I feel blessed to say my parents are still together.
When I told them I wanted to come visit, to spend time with just them without my kids to hide behind, they welcomed me into their home. They wanted to experience a healing session. I feel honored to share with them my passion for healing and am amazed that they were so open, and so trusting of me to allow me to hold space for them. They had a lovely sample session (we did not dive to deep given that they are my parents), but they did get to experience some deep relaxation. And a hawk circled over us after the session to bless the whole experience.
We are all healing. We are all on this path together. And as we heal our wounds, as we let go of old patterns of self-destruction- we are healing for our lineage. We are healing for our ancestors, we are healing for the world. Our work is so much bigger than just ourselves. We are playing a role in a global awakening. It is time to choose love, to open our hearts and let ourselves feel what is there. As we feel it, express it, and purge it- we can clear new paths for the future. We can create a world with more love, more hope, and more peace.
Today I am grateful for my family, and today I choose love. 
