WHAT IS LOVE?

inspiration deeper, to heal and to find out who we question put to us to channel a response for our partner was, “What is my mission in this lifetime?” My partner shared with truly are. To take it a step further, what if part of what we, as humans, are learning is how to love every aspect of ourselves, every experience, every emotion, all our shadow selves—and in that loving, we are actually imbuing ourselves with light and love and transmuting these uncomfortable energies to bring them back to Divine Love. I believe that we chose to come here to have the unique experience of the full spectrum of emotions. So how can anything we experience be wrong? Photo by Sharon McCutcheon from Pexels WHAT IS LOVE? What if we truly believe that we, in each moment, are exactly where we are meant to be, doing exactly what we are meant to be doing? Wouldn’t that remove a layer of guilt, remorse and judgement that would allow true healing to take place— the love of self? When we fully embody self-love, we can then reflect that out into the world and affect the most powerful by Eilis Philpott Back to the original question, what Most of us believe we know what love is and its various expressions. There’s romantic definition of Divine is that it is love. As such, each and every one of us is love. We hold it, we carry it, we transmit it and is love? Love is our Divine Birthright. It is who we are at our core. Maybe that is what we are moving toward in this time of Ascension: knowing that we are love love, family love, love of friends, love of above all else—we want to feel it. and are loved more than we could ever animals and nature and so on. It gets complicated when we see and imagine. Before sharing a broader concept of experience pain, anger, overwhelm and what I believe love is, here’s a little back any of the perceived negative emotions. Dr. Eilis Philpott is the owner of Soul story. Back in the early 2000s, I attended But what if there is a gift in these emo- Healing Journey, LLC and has been a a training in Sedona titled “How to Chan- tions—a way forward, so to speak. On healing practitioner for over 20 years. nel”. On the second day, we were practic- one level, feeling uncomfortable in our Connect at 203-767-5954, ing our new skills by being paired up and bodies (physically and emotionally) Eilis@SoulHealingJourney.com or channeling messages for our partner. The is actually a motivator for us to delve SoulHealingJourney.com. See ad, page 11. change of all. me that my mission was love. My initial reaction was, “That’s a bit Victoria F. Shaw, PhD, LPCVictoria F. Shaw, PhD, LPC Intuitive Psychotherapist & Consultant vague and general,” followed by disappointment. So I put it aside and carried Intuitive Psychotherapist & Consu Combining the best of traditional ltant on with my life. Fast forward to more recently, when it dawned on me what an int Combining the best of traditional psychotherapy with uitive guidance in working with children, teens and adul psychotherapy with intuitive guidance in working with children, teens and adults. ts. honor and special mission this actually is. So back to the question: What is www.victoriashawpsychotherapy.com Offices in Wilton, Westport and Fairfield. Offices in Wilton and Westport love? I believe that each one of us is a VictoriaSh www.victoriashawinawPsychotherapy.com • tuitive.com VictoriaShawIntuitive.com unique spark of the Divine. My personal 203-254-3403 • vfshawphd@gmail.com203-254-3403 • vfshawphd@gmail.com