The Love Journey: How to Understand and Experience Great Love

By H.S. Haygood

In "The Love Journey," H.S. Haygood invites readers to explore their own limiting beliefs about love and how these beliefs might be negatively impacting their relationships. Whether you're struggling to find a life partner or have healthy relationships with your existing family, "The Love Journey" will guide you in deconstructing your own mistruths about love and reconstruct a healthy belief system.
Written intentionally like a journal, "The Love Journey" will help you:
• Explore what you believe about love and where the belief started
• Learn to understand the true nature of love
• Assess your beliefs about your own self worth
• Learn to identify signs of a toxic relationship
• Understand how to apply loving behavior to healthy relationships
And so much more!

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: May 24, 2023
• ISBN: 9798350901740

Book preview

BK90077571.jpg

THE LOVE JOURNEY

How to Understand and Experience Great Love

© 2023, H.S. Haygood. All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Print ISBN: 979-8-35090-173-3

eBook ISBN: 979-8-35090-174-0

Dedication

To you, yes Y-O-U

May you find what you’re looking for within the pages of this journal.

May you come to an understanding

of your love journey up until this point.

May you let go of every mistruth

that has hindered you

and

May you embrace everything good,

right and true about Love.

Contents

A Message from the Author

Introduction

Chapter 1: What Do I Believe about Love and Why?

Chapter 2: Love as an Entity

Chapter 3: Love Begins Within

Chapter 4: The Application of Love

Chapter 5: Love is a Universal Language

Chapter 6: When Love Says No

Final Thoughts

LOVE IS A JOURNEY,

NOT A DESTINATION

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

—Rumi

THIS IS A JOURNEY TO FIND AUTHENTIC LOVE: Using self-

reflection and. introspection to understand what you believe about love and why.

THIS IS AN EXPLORATION OF LOVE: An exploration of what love is, why it works and why, at times it does not work.

A SIMPLE, STRUCTURED FORMAT: With Q&A and Fill in the blank prompts specifically designed to explore YOU

FIND LOVE WITH INTENTION: Love does not have to be a haphazard series of events, but rather an intentional implementation of positive practices to attract positive experiences.

A Message from the Author

My journey to love has not been easy. My biological mother is an addict and my father was an alcoholic. By the age of three I was abandoned and by the age of four I was being sexually abused. My age of innocence is a blip in my memory. I have struggled with low self-esteem most of my life. When I was 31, I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I was 3 ½ years post failed marriage and the lingering relationship was toxic. I felt hopeless and lost. I was desperate to understand what about me was so unlovable. I recognized the cycle of destruction in my life but didn’t know how to get off the roller coaster ride. In my despair, I reached out to a woman whom I’d never met but had read about in a magazine. I explained my situation and asked her if she would be willing to mentor me. Much to my surprise, she said yes! The most valuable lesson Connie taught me was to affirm myself. She emailed a list of affirmations to get me started and instructed me to choose the one affirmation that caused an emotional response. As I read through