I wanted to tell you that you are doing a really great job.
I know it hasn’t been easy.
Life has been downright devastating and painful at times.
There have been moments where you have seriously questioned if you could really do it.
Against all odds and everything in your being telling you to give up and run in the other direction, you have continued to show up.
I am in awe of you.
Your courage and perseverance astound me and inspire me to keep going.
You embolden me to want to live more fully and create a life that I will one day look back at with tremendous pride as the last dying breath eases from my body.
Your light is a rare and precious gift that I couldn’t be more honored to witness and receive.
I want you to know how incredibly proud of you I am and grateful that we have the opportunity to travel through this journey called life together.
Please hear me when I say that nothing you could do would make me ever stop loving you.
My love for you is a love that is free of condition or limitation.
My love for you runs as deep as the veins that weave themselves through the farthest reaches of the earth itself.
It is an unshakeable and irrevocable kind of loving as timeless as the stardust embedded in the velvety darkness of the night sky.
What would it be like to pause for a moment and truly take this in?
What happens when you slow down and connect with yourself and receive my presence and the undiluted truth of my words?
For the love of all that is holy, please don’t give me some regurgitated pleasantry.
I will know if you have truly heard me from the look in your eyes and the way your body speaks to me.
I will know the second my words automatically slide down the invisible shield that has been erected for so long you’ve forgotten it’s there.
I want you to hear me in a way you have never given yourself permission to before.
It is a listening that happens with your whole body and being, not just your ears.
It is a listening that happens when your shell cracks and the suppleness of your tender, beating heart is left raw and exposed.
Can you trust me that much?
Can you trust yourself so implicitly that you will give me the honor of fully receiving you?
Will you let me taste the bittersweet tang of your heartache and unfulfilled longings?
Will you allow me to lap up every hurt and regret and become the soothing balm that eases every last bit of tension from your weary muscles and bones?
When I remind you that you don’t have to bear this burden alone, will you bestow upon me the honor of helping you carry some of the weight?
Can you allow yourself to lean on me and have faith that I will always be there?
Will you let me hold you close and cradle you with unwavering strength and conviction as you let yourself fall apart?
Together, we will alchemize the stories of our greatest hurts and the belief that love is a currency only bestowed upon the most worthy.
We will reknit the broken fragments of our souls’ long thought lost with exquisite reverence, gentleness, and care.
We will love ourselves back into wholeness until every last remnant of the illusion of our separateness is reunited with the incredible lightness of our being.
