True Love: Not Like in the Movies

By Yvette Kinchen

Everyone seeks true love outside of themselves, but the true source and fulfillment of the deepest love lies within. In True Love, author Yvette Kinchen offers a testament to the healing and curative power of love, helping you embark on a journey of self-restoration and to awaken your transcendence.
Much has been written about and spoken of romantic love, but Kinchen explores self-revelation and divine restoration through the path of love. She delves into the many facets and misconceptions of love and prescribes ways of working personally with love as a kindred spirit, a guide, an energy, and an inherent framework and reality that encompasses everything.
True Love breaks down the journey of love into relatable and actionable concepts that inspire perception shifts and changes to bring about love as the primary reality experienced inside and out. It unlocks and encourages a sacred remembrance for those ready to embody their soul’s love and awaken their divine magic within.
Kinchen presents a new world view, in correspondence with the changes collectively underway in humanity and on the planet. She uses her personal experiences and healing sequences to illustrate what’s possible and to demonstrate how to work with the body, psyche, and divine intentionally to create changes and shifts in your reality.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: May 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9798765227954

Yvette Kinchen

Yvette Kinchen thrives in Louisiana with her husband and two of her four children. She embarked on her true love journey in 2013 after great loss thrust her into a new way of being. Aside from raising her four children, Kinchen was an advocate for victims of sexual assault and child abuse in court-related agencies for many years. She is committed to serving and upholding the path of love and championing the sanctity of life.

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ISBN: 979-8-7652-2796-1 (sc)

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Balboa Press rev. date: 05/04/2022

Contents

1 You Are Love

2 What Is Love?

3 A Sideswipe, Another Layer

4 Entering Angels

5 Honoring My Commitments

6 Mirror Reality

7 Know Thyself, Love Thyself

8 Under the Influence

9 Stepping into Shadow

10 Divisive Tactics of the Dark

11 Blinded by the Light

12 Embodiment

13 New Earth Now

14 Surrender

15 Soul Owning

16 A Whole New World

17 Cultivating Joy

18 The Importance of Grounding

19 Shifting Narratives

20 Shifting Realities

21 Freeing the Feminine

22 Stepping into Abundance

23 The Mother Wound

24 Variations in Creation

25 Magic Returns

Gratitude & Reflections

To my four little bright diamonds. Your light

helped me to put one foot in front of the other and

create a space for joy in all circumstances.

Metamorphosis of a Maiden

One day, without warning, the whole Earth trembled and shook

When the maiden in the mirror, startled herself with a look

She had seen her before, with a hazy familiar eye

But something had changed, in her form, in the sky

All that was common before, had become noticeably dark

In the shell that seemed to mimic her, a faint whisper of a spark

How did this happen? she wondered, suddenly split at the seams

Had all she cultivated and worked for been the illusions of dreams?

Her heart in a vice, her weaknesses exposed

Her worst fears made as real, as the flesh of her nose

With no card left to play, no notes for a song

She approached the glass empty, for what was staring back at her was all wrong

She put her hands to the image that she’d grown accustomed to in the past

And she struck mightily with her fist, ’til she felt shattered glass

In an instant, she was released, though she knew rebuilding would take time

She wept intensely for the girl lain broken, opening the floodgates in prime

Though it would be a significant stretch, before the maiden stood on solid legs

The maiden knew this was better than any plea she could beg

She rose on her own, with no reflection to follow

And discovered who was there, in the depth of her hollow

The next time the maiden approached a mirror, with a curious glance

She beheld a work in progress, and both maidens began to dance

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You Are Love

Y ou are love. Everything and everyone in the organic world is a manifestation of love. Love is the unifying creative intelligence of the universe. It is the living light that creates and energizes everything. In this sense, everyone and everything is a love story. Everyone has unique aspects and expressions of love through experiencing themselves in their physical form. Love, in its purest essence, is unlimited and unconditional. This is the core energy animating every being, no matter how cloaked in fear, density, or distortion. This sounds simple, but there has been much deception and degradation of this truth on this physical plane to enslave and disconnect humanity and the Earth from accessing its innate creative power. Disempowering ideologies and beliefs, which are the foundation of our current governing and religious systems, are found all over the world. The world, according to these systems, is run on competition and fear, and it is at war with nature itself.

The good news is that we are the creators of our true realities and love stories. We contain the power inside us to shift everything back into alignment with the true nature of reality, which is love. We, at any given moment, can withdraw support from the distorted creations that support an oppressive, false reality and step into the love story in our own lives to be a force of change and good. When we choose this for ourselves, we add to the collective healing and elevation of the entire human race. We add to the health of the planet and all its life forms because, in truth, we are an extension of it.

Every single one of us is capable of contributing this way because the journey of this love story is an inner one. The path for everyone starts at home. Every love story has unique directions and expressions, but they all originate in knowing and loving yourself at the core. To activate and initiate your love story, you must be willing to really see yourself and face what is present. You must be willing to be wrong and be open to a new way of seeing and being. You must be willing to follow your guidance and submit to trial and error in discovering that guidance. You must be willing to hold a gentle, healing space of unconditional love and acceptance for yourself as you go through it.

This may sound easy, but the journey will start by illustrating to you all the ways you have misperceived and distorted love. This journey isn’t for the faint of heart—it will bring you to your knees and try you at times—but it is your love story. Everything that surfaces is an aspect of you. Many of us started this journey from traumatic events and experiences that don’t allow us to go back to the ways we were before. Humanity is currently experiencing such events as a collective group. It is time to awaken to the truth of who we are. The new ways that honor life and love are being called up inside each of us—sleeper cells illuminating and activating soul wisdom and service for the next phase of evolution. If you are reading this, you are called! The time to create your love story is upon you.

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What Is Love?

W hen I entered the path of my love story, it came with a simple phrase that I always go back to no matter the dilemma: choose love . I had prayed in agony for the healing of my family. I had just discovered that my husband of nineteen years was having an affair. I was faced with the lies and the double life we were both living—because, in truth, I knew there were bad things happening between us for a long time. We were distanced from each other in so many ways, but our first child had just gone to college, and I was in a state of excitement from that success. My husband and I had her right out of high school, neither of us had finished college, and we struggled for many years. Statistically speaking, we had all of the cards against us, so when she went on to do well and didn’t end up where we did after high school, I sighed with relief and had an appreciation for him and all we had gone through. It buffered me from seeing the truth of the chasm and hurt between us.

When I was finally slapped with that truth, it validated so much inside me—so much of what my inner voice always knew. I was still devastated, of course, because in my mind that ideal family picture and standard that I was trying for (and measuring myself against) was obliterated. I had failed at the one thing I wanted to get right once I had children. It also woke up the intense hurt and anger inside him toward me. Calling this out really helped the darkest emotions surface. He was then forced to be seen, to have to choose, and to have to be the bad guy in the story. I was unaware of the intensity of the pain inside him, the rejection he had experienced from me, and how shut off we were both feeling. We weren’t living in a way that honored our well-being.

It was after facing what was really present in my reality that I had a choice. I could allow him to be the bad guy in my story and walk away. I could kick him out, and everyone would support me in it. This scenario only validated what I always knew and expected from him. I had never trusted him or opened myself to be vulnerable. I always guarded and expected the worst because it’s what I had always seen growing up. Or I could go against my upbringing, littered with divorce, betrayal, resentment, and bitterness, and I could choose what was in my heart. In my heart, I wanted to heal my family. In my heart, I knew I had contributed to this problem. In my heart, I knew he was worth fighting for; I had connected to that boy inside of him when we were fifteen. I knew he had that boy locked up in a fortress of walls, but I saw and felt the love and innocence there. I also knew that, in some way, I was going to assist in freeing that part of him. It took some time for me to see the walls surrounding my own heart.

Once I determined my heart’s decision, I prayed. I prayed in agony, I prayed, knowing it was unlikely, and I prayed from the bottom of my heart, knowing I had done everything wrong. I was in no position to figure it out in a mental or strategic sense. This was a heartfelt cry from a deep surrender. There was no way around it. There was no way back. Nothing in my reality felt real or made sense. I was disillusioned, asking for a path forward.

At rock bottom, a voice answered, Choose love. This edict came with a feeling full of information. I was to choose love as a response to all things. This was with every breath, in every conversation, and in every action—no matter what was thrown at me or showed up. I understood it was time to be more quiet and observant. I was being shown the result of what I had created, what I had attracted, and what I was really living. It was time to be more conscious of what I spoke, what I chose, and what I wanted to experience.

At the start, my words were empty to my husband. I was a wordsmith, and he had never