In This Issue:

• Note from Dawn:  Happy Belated Mother's Day!


• Feature Article: "Healing Your Wounded Heart with Love"


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Note from Dawn

I've been way behind in just about everything lately... even Mother's Day.  My dear, sweet mother didn't get her card until the Wednesday after Mother's day... ugh! 

Fortunately, I have a very understanding mother.  I have been pouring an enormous amount of time and energy into writing my book, which my coach, Aurora Winter, has given me until next year to finish... uh, okay, Coach.

I've made an new (and improved) intention for myself to organize my schedule, so I don't miss really important things like Mother's Day and getting my ezine out on time.

Being the terrific mom she is, my mother sent me the loveliest video in honor of Mother's Day.  Even though it's a bit belated, I wanted to share it with you.  It brought me to tears and reminded me of how blessed I am to have such a wonderful mother and daughter.  In fact, I watched it holding my almost-as-big-as-I-am 14 year old daughter on my lap.  It puts life in perspective and reminds me of why I do what I do... without loving relationships in our lives, life can feel rather meaningless.

I'm grateful every day for being able to help women heal their hearts so they can create new love in their lives.  And whether that is finding love with a partner, or simply finding love for themselves, it's all the same... it is all about the love.

Enjoy this short little video.  I hope it will help you remember all the love your mother gave you and all the love I know you give every single day.

Mother's Day Movie

My article this week is on Healing Your Wounded Heart.  If your heart has been broken in the past, I hope reading this will start you on your journey back to love... especially love for yourself.

Until next time, I wish you an abundance of peace, love and harmony in all areas of your life...

Love & Law of Attraction Coach
Founder of Inspired Heart Coaching
"Helping you heal your heart and attract the love of your life... "

Feature Article

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"Healing Your Wounded Heart with Love"

I have a confession.  If you haven't read my bio on my website or blog, you may not know I've been engaged twice and married twice, all to different men.  In addition, my daughter and I were both molested by my former stepfather.

Healing from heartbreak is something I know how to do really, really well. 

I've learned that once you know how to heal your heart, the process is the same, regardless of the circumstances.

Marianne Williamson said, "It is not the love we did not receive in the past that hurts us.  What hurts us is the love we are not extending in the present."

The place to extend that love when you've been heartbroken is to yourself.  It took me a long time to learn how to do this.  My initial way of coping was to distract myself and try to bury my feelings.  From the time I was 16 and my stepfather came into my life, I had an eating disorder for the next ten years that did a really good job of distracting me from the pain I was feeling.

When we've been heartbroken, one of the things that prevents our healing is resisting what we're feeling.  In my case, having an eating disorder was a way for me to resist dealing with my painful feelings.

If I had known then, what I know now, and had someone to walk me through the process of healing, I would have saved myself years of anguish.

It took me a long time to learn how to embrace and accept what I was feeling, no matter how unpleasant.  But once I did, it finally allowed me to gradually move through my feelings and eventually release them.  It didn’t happen overnight.

Grieving and healing from heartbreak is a process, but it doesn’t have to take years, as it initially did in my case.  If you know the steps, you can recover much more quickly and come out of the process an even stronger and more loving person than you were before.

The first step is to bring yourself to the present moment and allow yourself to feel whatever it is you’re feeling.  John Gray wrote a wonderful book called, “What You Feel, You Can Heal.”  Feeling is the first step in healing.

Allow all your feelings to come to the surface.  Breathe through them.  If tears come as well, then let them come.  Tears are very cleansing to the soul and they put us in touch with our hearts.  Getting in touch with our hearts is a big part of the healing process, so tears should be welcomed.

The next step is to express your feelings.  Expressing your feelings is critical to your healing.  You need to have a space to release whatever is going on inside of you, without having to be kind, spiritual, or worry about what someone else is going to think of you.

Through the years, my saving grace was expressing my feelings in my journal.  Having the outlet of my journal as a safe place to express all my emotions literally saved my life at times.

Now I have the benefit of a coach as an additional haven for me to express my feelings.  Only recently have I realized how powerful it is to have another person acknowledge and witness my feelings and intentions.  Having that supportive relationship in my life made transitioning through my last divorce, a thousand times easier than my first one twenty years ago.

It is essential to have a way to express all your feelings, whether that’s in a journal or by talking to a friend, therapist, or coach.  Until those unexpressed, painful feelings are released, you’ll stay stuck.

My grandmother passed away when I was eleven.  It took me ten years to complete the grieving process.  I bottled my sadness up inside me and pretended everything was fine.  It wasn’t until I took two dozen sleeping pills on my 17th birthday as a loud cry for help that I finally broke down.  I started expressing my grief, releasing what had been pent up inside me for years, and at last began to heal.

As you become present and start expressing all the feelings inside you, extend all the love you have to give, towards yourself.  That is where all your healing begins… with a heart full of love for yourself.

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” - Buddha

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