Love from Within

The person you are, your character, your happiness, how you relate to others... all of this is shaped by the child you once were and the armor you built. This is a proposal to reconnect with your true essence and learn to love (yourself) better.

All of us have had our hearts broken at some point. At some moment in our life story, we have felt the pain of emptiness in our own skin. And we have sought strategies to make the suffering cease quickly. I, too, have done this.

Writing about Love with a broken heart has been a portal to let go of masks and explore what I hoped would be revealed. Throughout these pages, you’ll find my essential questions that, as I have come to understand, appear during processes of mourning, revision, and personal inquiry. Essential themes that arise when we dare to look and ask ourselves uncomfortable questions.

I also learned the shortest path to stop suffering. How to manage my wounds so they wouldn’t hurt so much; how to seek comfort in narratives that took me away from the emptiness. And I did this without realizing that the sense of well-being I experienced was only a glimpse of what I truly deserved.

I survived the lack and the absence. I was resilient. Just like you. But now, I am tired of stumbling over the same stone and always starting from the same square.

This book is a proposal for us to discover what our main obstacle is in being the protagonists of our own Life. I hope—and I wish—that these pages offer you understanding about your story and your resources. The connection we have with the concept of Love can only be transformed when we look at our path with the desire to learn and with the respect that each and every one of the people we have been deserves at every step.