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Do you wish to open the loving doors within you so that you can live a more happy

and fulfilled life?

Are you having relationship

difficulties? Want to find out how

you can be free and close

to your loved one?

We hear these words, “Life’s Journey.” What do they really mean? To me, I believe that life’s journey consists of all the experiences I create from the choices I make in my life. These choices I make create new circumstances and new experiences that help me learn and give me wisdom, understanding and love. Within each experience is the truth I need to help me take the next step and get through the next experience and so on, teaching me how to live in harmony with life.

From some of the choices I have made in my life I created much hardship for myself. I will share with you an experience I had and how this experience helped me to understand the importance of my choices, and how God sent the tools and support I needed to help me get through it.

At a young age I moved to a country far away from the place where I was born. I knew nothing of this country, its people, its culture, or their beliefs. I never thought to ask before I embraced this experience. The first year was spent just trying to understand and learn the language and getting to know the people. I did not realize that the fact I was a foreigner, one who could not have children, was a huge taboo in this culture and for the family I had just joined. No one told me what to expect.

I found that there was much anger and resentment toward me, but I had no understanding of the cause of it. I would get angry back and would stand up for my principles, shouting angry negative words. This continued to the point I became emotionally ill, frustrated, sad and did I mention angry? Yeah!

I went looking for a therapist, but because there was a huge stigma toward psychology during that time in the country, I was not allowed to seek this modality of healing.

One night before going to bed I asked Divine Spirit to help me understand what I was doing wrong, and to give the answer without me having to figure out riddles or parables. I wanted it straight.

That night I had a very short, simple and powerful dream. I saw a huge billboard in the sky, so big I would never forget the sight of it. It said “ZIP YOUR LIP” – signed Coach Harold.

This dream helped me to understand that a coach is not a therapist practicing psychology. I printed off some information on coaching and shared it with my family. They were happy about that and comfortable with my decision to seek the help of a life coach.

That day I started my search for a Life Coach. I found none in the country I lived, so I used the internet to look for one. It was one of the best choices I ever made in my life. Since then coaching is one of the main tools I use to help me find solutions to the hard experiences in my life. I am so very grateful for this gift, so much so I am now a life coach myself.

Thank you Coach Harold!

Coach Barbara Longsworth

Love for Life Coaching

Barbara Longsworth

Certified Professional Life & Relationship Coach

Certified Master, Mentor & Marketing Coach

www.loveforlifecoaching.net

loveforlifecoaching@gmail.com

Love, in a human sense, is a box filled with our own thoughts and emotions that spark desire in us. We desire this or that and sometimes we do not recognize that our true desire is for Divine Love.

We live our lives looking for this love in material things and from others, and we hope they will fulfill our desire. It takes years or lifetimes to realize that the love we seek is right within us. As we continue our search, our relationships are tested and disagreements occur when one partner or the other feel that the other partner is responsible to give us the love we seek. When this does not occur, we begin to feel that our partner has failed in his or her duties. Some then seek it elsewhere, and sometimes infidelity is the result. We do not realize that love is looking at us in the mirror.

When we feel we are getting that love we feel secure, but take it away, and we feel afraid and insecure. Or, this Love we feel may suffice for awhile, then we long for more love looking for it in all the wrong places. We are then left with painful emotions and much blame for our partner that they have not fulfilled their responsibility to love us and to give us what we want. Are these conditions we set called love? I believe that Love, Divine Love, is unconditional.

As well, we may go through life guided by the rules and values of others who are seeking the same thing. Family, friends and the society we live in influence our lives as they seek love, and we lock within us the feeling that as long as we satisfy others we are sure to receive the love we seek. Sometimes, if we do not do things their way, we control giving our love, and this traps the individual in a cycle of conditional love and our search continues.

Until one day when the pains we get from these experiences are so great, we let go of the desires and start to seek the love of the Divine. It is at this time we accept the responsibility and reach the understanding that we are Love and that by recognizing that we are filled with love, we are then able to give that love unconditionally to others. We embrace the peace and joy that comes with this recognition and we sing with our hearts filled with music and shining beauty. We fly like the “Tweety Bird” we had imagined would bring us the love and freedom we so desire.

Thank you my “Tweety Bird” for the experiences that brought me the freedom and love which I now share with all.

Written by:

Barbara Longsworth

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