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Choosing Love Wins Every Time, Even When You Don’t Feel Like It

Because Love Conquers Everything

Nancy Blackman, MASF
5 min readFeb 15, 2022

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This week is a designated love week in the United States and some other countries around the world — Valentine’s Day. More specifically, yesterday, February 14.

For those of you who chose to use yesterday as a launching pad to share your love with someone, kudos to you! Choosing love wins and when you show that love in unexpected ways, it surpasses other emotions.

Some of you might be struggling to show up, to love with that unrequited heart. Do it anyway. Do it because it’s the right thing to do. Do it in unexpected ways. Do it so that you can shift your heart out of neutral. Just do it.

Finding it hard to do? I get it. Oh, how I get it.

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” ― Jalaluddin Rumi

Here are some tips:

1. Put your hand on your heart.
2. Take a deep breath in and hold it for four counts. Exhale completely.
3. Say to yourself, “I am the beloved. If I am beloved, then I am capable of loving everyone including myself.”
4. Take a deep breath in and hold it for four…

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Nancy Blackman, MASF
Nancy Blackman, MASF

Written by Nancy Blackman, MASF

Boosted & 8x Top Writer. Owner: Refresh the Soul publication. Editor: The Shortform and Poetry Playground. Published in: “Mixed Korean: Our Stories" — Kindle.

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