How I Chose the Name of my Healing Practice
I was 17 when I first heard my inner voice say the phrase, “Be Love.” I had no idea what it meant or where it came from. I had only ever heard people talk about Love as a thing to get, have or give, never as something to be. From the first moment those words popped into my mind, they never stopped.
I started writing Be Love on everything. I would doodle it on my school work and notebooks. When I came across things where people signed their names to leave their mark, I always wrote Be Love instead of my name. Although I did not yet know what it meant to Be Love, I did know that I felt a strong connection to those words.
At 22, when I was trying to decide on a name for my healing practice, my inner voice whispered, Be Love Healing. I still did not know what Be Love really meant. At this point, I did understand it as Love as a state of being. That felt very conceptual and I did not yet understand what it meant in a tangible way. When I heard those words for the name of my healing practice, I initially resisted it. I wanted something that seemed simpler or more compelling, but every single time I checked in with myself, those were the only words I would hear. I worried that the phrase Be Love Healing wouldn’t even make sense to people. However, after a few weeks, I finally decided that Be Love Healing was the name for my healing practice and decided to trust that it would eventually make sense to me. I chose to trust the universe's compelling push.
When I was 28 and living in Asheville, NC, the clarity of what Be Love meant finally came in a tangible way. The three years leading up to that time, I worked at a restaurant part-time that used the verbiage of being Love, both in how we showed up in the restaurant and within the names of our menu items. As much as I heard people talking about it, I still wasn’t sure what it actually looked like. Life always seemed to be leading me to people and places to help me gather more pieces to the puzzle.
I remember the day in my apartment in Asheville when it all fully clicked. I was eating lunch, specifically binge eating. Having acknowledged that this was an issue for me, I still struggled with being unable to always control and contain it. I continued to struggle with binge eating, but I had gotten to a point in my life where I could recognize when I was in a binge moment. I was able to identify the feeling of compulsion energy. When I noticed that I was binge eating, I would judge myself harshly. I was so frustrated that this was something I was still struggling with and had not been able to stop doing. Frankly, it pissed me off.
I continued to beat myself up about it, not able to stop. Then, I heard Spirit say to me, “It is okay, just let yourself binge.” This pissed me off even more. How dare Spirit tell me this thing I believed is such a problem and is bad, is actually okay. Then I started cussing Spirit out about it and with the most compassionate energy, I heard those same words again. I felt myself getting angrier. Then, Spirit said, “It is okay, just let yourself binge and practice Loving yourself as you binge.” I got chills when I heard Spirit say that to me. Those specific words were the final piece of the puzzle that finally gave me the understanding I needed. I finally knew what Be Love would mean for me and others.
After ten years of trying to understand what Be Love meant, I determined that it meant unconditional Love. Not just giving or receiving unconditional Love, but BEING it. It meant to Love myself or another unconditionally, without allowing judgment or shame to rule my thoughts and actions. I understood that nothing I perceived as wrong or bad was enough to withhold Love in my heart for myself or another.
Choosing to exist in the state of being of Love was something that I recognized my soul came into this life to remember and embody. I saw that Be Love first began showing up to me at 17 because it was meant to be my reminder in this life to always come back to Love.
Of course, Loving someone unconditionally does not mean that we cannot have boundaries with others or that we have to allow everyone into our life to show them that we Love them. We can hold Love in our hearts and minds for someone from afar and still be Love. It is when we hold judgment, shame and wronging for ourselves and others that we are not being Love. I am often reminded of the words of Patricia Hayes, “Just because I Love you does not mean I have to take you with me.”
My soul is committed to being Love in this life with myself and others. I am clear that I am here to heal and transform the parts of me that are out of alignment with Love. The more in harmony and alignment with Love that I am, the more my external world will reflect a life filled with Love, magic, abundance and endless possibilities.
And in that vein, I was able to see that Be Love Healings exists to help others heal and transform the parts of them that are out of harmony and alignment with Love. Our fear, pain and suffering are the parts of us that are out of alignment with Love. We are born from an expression of Divine Love. The Love, joy and peace that we seek are within each of us, buried beneath our fear, pain and suffering. Choosing to Be Love is the path to experiencing a life filled with the many expressions of Love that we seek. The things that we often label as positive are expressions of Love.
When healers and therapists tell us that the only way is through, it means that the way back to Love is through our pain and suffering because it is buried on top of or in front of our core, where our most authentic self resides.
Love, empathy and compassion are the most powerful containers for healing and transformation for ourselves and others. In my healing practice, I am intentional about being in my heart and channeling Divine Love so that my clients can feel safe enough to go deeper into their unhealed parts. I have found that when I choose to Be Love with my clients in their deepest and darkest parts, it reminds them that it is possible to Be Love with themselves, just like Spirit reminded me when I was shaming myself for binge eating.
Think of each moment that you practice healing as you digging through your pain and suffering until you reach your core, that sacred space of Divine Love within you. We are all extensions of Divine source energy, created out of Divine Love. This tells us that we ARE Love. Being Love means to be the most Divine and authentic expression of you. When we fall out of Love, it is important to bring ourselves back, over and over again. The more we do this, the stronger that sacred space of Love within us gets.
As extensions of Divine source energy, we are here in each lifetime to be our own unique expression of Divine Love so that we may continue to expand Love throughout the Universe.
Be Love Healings exists for the purpose of guiding as many souls as possible back to that sacred and Divine space of Love within themselves. We are the reminder of the power and significance of Love.
