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Gabriel Gonsalves's weekly inspiration, practical advice and spiritual wisdom for living wholeheartedly.
Dear Reader, Over the past few weeks, I’ve been exploring with you what it looks like when your heart begins to open, how to recognize the signs, and why is it that the heart seems to close again right after it opens. This closing of the heart, or “dip” as I often call it, feels very much like a dark night of the soul or the experience that love has abandoned you. If you’ve been in that place, where love feels real, but so does the purifying fire, please know this: you’re not broken. This is...
Dear Reader, Something happened this week that I've been sitting with. Someone I spoke with, a person who has been doing real, courageous work in therapy for years, said something I haven't been able to forget. She said: "My heart hurts. It's like it has a missing piece." She wasn't stuck. She was making real progress. She understood, cognitively, so much of what had happened to her. But the understanding wasn't reaching the place in her that needed it most. This is what this week's video is...
Dear Reader, Something I have learned after nearly twenty years of guiding people through profound inner transformation is this: when the heart begins to open, almost nobody recognises what is happening. They know something is different. They are feeling things more deeply — a connection to life they cannot quite explain, a sense of beauty in moments that never moved them before. They are sensing things about people that go beyond what is being said. They are waking up with this quiet...