While vulnerability can be frightening, extraordinary love takes extraordinary vulnerability, because vulnerability deepens intimacy and intimacy unites souls at the frequency of Love.

When we meet someone who is very different from us, we can be quick to dismiss them because how they think and believe doesn't make sense to us. Sometimes, the differences are so fundamental that there can be no reconciliation or compromise.

Is it still possible to love those people?

What I’ve discovered is that most people in any given community are there for the same reasons I am, to feel a sense of belonging. They’re hoping to find genuine connections, to share knowledge and interests, and create lasting friendships.

This journey can also pose many challenges and dilemmas, such as how authentic is too authentic? Should I always tell the truth about how I feel? Is the world around me ready to hear my truths?

When we fully embrace our feminine energy, it feels comfortable to just be. We know that everything and everyone we come in contact with has been and will be touched by us. The question becomes, how do we want to touch them? Leading to, how do we want to be?

In the intervening two-plus decades, I have experienced countless emotions, thoughts, reflections, regrets and losses, as well as victories, successes, lessons and blessings.

Emotional abandonment is leaving our emotional needs unattended, often without acknowledging or addressing it with a response. That can leave us feeling confused, unsettled and unloved for a long time.

If everything in life seems to work against you, or you are experiencing a difficult loss in your life and nothing is going right at the moment, taking a big breath and a big step back to regain your stability might be just what you need.

In order to allow love to enter, our heart will have to be open to it. The wider it is open to receive, the greater the love will enter. The chance of heartbreak and disappointment will always be there… Our mind cannot separate us from love, it can only create fear.

The world we live in seldom encourages authenticity, at least not genuinely, I often feel. We may hear words of empowerment to be authentic, but when we do we are often reprimanded for being too real.

Another year. Another Valentine’s Day. Everywhere I look reminds me of my always single status in my 40-plus years of life. And sometimes the thought of it hurts.

As much as I believe in the existence of soulmates, what I know for sure is the staying power of a solid and steady connection built over time, which can also happen with a soulmate.

It’s not easy to choose kindness in every moment of our lives. Our world can be harsh and unforgiving, full of people who operate from survival mode desperate to take from others.

Spiritual experiences are not that hard to have, but to incorporate it into a life that works so that it actually leads to transformation takes time, and you can’t really shortcut that process.

The subject of forgiveness comes up often in conversation, but I find that when it comes to the details of what that truly entails, what that process feels like is not actually talked about.

In our attention-deficit era, cultivating a new and lasting relationship may seem challenging or even impossible for many singles.

Happiness is one thing we cannot get enough of. We want happiness in all magnitudes and in all areas of our lives.

Vulnerability is an act of courage, that can lead us to deeper and more intimate connections. But being vulnerable is by no means easy or painless.

If you are tired of superficial relationships that bear little fulfillment and want deeper connections you can build on, then your only option is to be brave, open up about your inner world, and let other people in.

When you experience life by means of only happiness, fear, doubt, and insecurities become so obscured that you no longer pay attention to them. They become ever so insignificant because your focus on creating happiness is larger than life itself.