“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~ Rumi.

Finding What Is Blocking You From The Love and Partner You Desire Begins With You.

So often, we think love is something we need to search for, as if it’s somewhere out there, waiting to be discovered. But the truth is, love is already within us.

If we have built barriers and armor around our heart, then no one will be able to feel our love.

What are these barriers?

For many of us, they are the wounds we’ve carried—rejection, abandonment, betrayal, humiliation, or injustice.

These soul wounds often lead us to build walls around our hearts, hoping to protect ourselves from future pain.

But the walls we build to keep hurt out also keep love away.

Our unmet and unhealed wounds lead to suffering and misunderstanding.

We might be seen as needy, clingy, cold, distant, or controlling.

Healing begins when we ask ourselves:

What am I afraid to feel?

What stories am I telling myself about my worthiness of love?

What parts of myself have I rejected, believing they are unlovable?

The path to love is not about chasing after someone else and having expectations that they will meet our needs.

This is not very loving to you or someone else. You will both suffer in this dynamic.

It’s about turning inward and softening those barriers.

It’s about offering ourselves the radical acceptance we’ve long sought from others.

I'm not asking you to change to be worthy of love.

You are already worthy of love.

I'm asking you to see who you truly are and accept your wound.

You can't force it to heal and you can't ignore it.

The only way you can heal a wound is to acknowledge it and give it time to heal.

My youngest sister always had scabs on her knees because every time the scab would form, she would pick at it - remove the entire scab opening the wound again. It then scabbed over, and she would repeat the cycle.

Also, if we ignore our scraped knee, neglect to wash our wound, and refuse to give it time to heal with a clean bandage - it opens up again the next time it is bumped up against causing us to relive the pain of the injury again.

Eventually, we need to remove the bandage. If we never remove the bandage, the wound will not heal.

We often do this with our emotional wounds. We try forcing them to heal before they are ready. We ignore them and pretend they don't exist. Some of us never remove the barrier continuing to separate our heart from the outside world.

💖 When we do our inner work—

when we heal the soul wounds of rejection, abandonment, humiliation, injustice, or betrayal—

we unlock the ability to give and receive love freely.

We release ourselves from the barriers to love that we created in an attempt to protect our heart.

What barriers are you ready to release to let love flow into your life?

xoxo love, Catherine

The Love Priestess

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Author of "Before You Say I Do" Available on Amazon Now

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