I have learned quite a few lessons over the years about what healthy love is supposed to look and feel like. I have drawn the sword in this lifetime and won quite a few battles of the heart but have also retreated on several occasions with the battle scars to show for it. At this point in my life, experience on that battlefield keeps me prepared along with constant learning and continual self-reflection and growth. You have to be willing to put the work in, and I am.
Today, I found this video that I would encourage you to take 25 minutes out of the rest of your life to watch. We have all spent more time randomly scrolling through our phones so it’s not like we can’t make time. This is one of the best videos I have seen to relay a big topic and summarize very well in a relatively short amount of time without a deep dive to gain perspective, and ask yourself certain questions for self-reflection for any relationship you are in.
BETTERHELP is an excellent resource (I am not paid to promote them, I just use it myself) if you want to follow-up with counseling or are currently in counseling if this is a subject you decide to talk about.
Even if you are in what you would consider to be a healthy relationship, I would still encourage you to watch. Sometimes, the familiarity of what we know doesn’t give us any other waypoints to know there really are different ways that love or survival shows up in our relationships and our lives.
Here’s to living consciously and healthy love always.
AI Art by M.A. Schmid, created with Midjourney.
