A guided meditation on being loved well.
Find a quiet,
Tender space where you can rest.
Let your body sink into whatever is holding you.
Close your eyes.
Inhale deeply,
Filling your ribs.
Expand and exhale.
Slowly,
Allowing the weight you've been carrying to soften even just a little.
Exhale.
Let each breath be a quiet reminder you are safe here.
You are allowed to be fully here.
Feel the ground beneath you.
Steady and unshaken.
Imagine roots growing from your body,
Weaving deep into the earth,
Anchoring you.
With every breath,
Your body softens,
Shoulders fall,
Jaw unclenches,
Belly loosens.
They don't always tell you this,
But being loved well can change everything.
Not because it completes you,
But because it reminds you that you were never broken.
For a long time,
Perhaps,
You too believed love had to be earned.
For a long time,
Perhaps,
You too believed that you had to be easy,
Agreeable,
Unbothered.
For a long time,
Perhaps,
You too believed that you had to be beautiful in the ways the world defines it.
Like put together,
Like quiet in your needs,
Like soft only in the palatable ways.
Maybe you too thought being loved meant being chosen on someone else's terms.
I invite you to breathe in.
Feel the weight of those old stories rise in your chest,
And with the exhale,
Breathe out.
Let them begin to fall away.
Imagine a warm,
Golden light hovering above your heart.
Imagine this being the energy of being loved well.
It is not a love that asks you to shrink or hide.
It is not a love that withdraws when you are messy or unsure.
This light loves not just the best parts of you,
But the stormy ones too.
The parts that have long gone unseen,
Untouched,
Even by you.
And as you breathe in,
Then out,
See this light lower into your chest,
Glowing from the inside out.
Let it remind you you are worthy exactly as you are.
Imagine someone who loves you in this way.
Someone who doesn't flinch when your tears fall.
Someone who doesn't leave when you are quiet,
Guarded,
Or unsure they stay.
And slowly,
As if the walls inside you are melting,
You begin to soften.
Not just with them,
But with yourself.
You start to believe that love doesn't disappear when you're not at your best.
You begin to trust that you can be held,
Even when you're not holding it all together.
Being loved like this teaches you how to return to yourself.
Being loved like this teaches you how to forgive the parts of you that only ever knew how to survive.
How to make room for the version of you that doesn't need to be strong all the time.
And we breathe in.
And we exhale.
As we feel this truth,
As you feel this truth settle into your body.
Love teaches us to rest,
To receive,
To breathe without bracing,
To speak without shrinking.
It shows us that love is not found in perfection,
But in presence,
In staying,
In being witnessed fully,
And still being met with open arms and an open heart.
Take a deep breath.
We inhale.
And we exhale.
Feel this kind of love ripple through you,
Freeing you,
Not fixing you.
Whisper to yourself,
I am learning how to love myself the way I deserve to be loved.
I am worthy of love that stays even when I cannot stay strong.
I am free to unfold,
To soften,
To be.
I am free to unfold,
To soften,
To be.
Slowly,
Bring your awareness back to your body.
Your breath moving like waves,
Your heartbeat steady and quiet.
Wiggle your fingers and your toes.
Take one final deep inhale and sigh it out.
Letting the echo of this meditation stay with you.
And when you open your eyes,
Remember to be loved well is not to be fixed,
But to be freed.
To be seen and still,
To be helped.
And so it is.
And so it is.
