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Labors of Love |
I have not been writing as often lately
as I have been devoting a lot of my time to my radio program. This Friday’s show is about how to create
and sustain loving relationships, so I wanted to bring you some food for thought prior to the show.
Loving relationships are not just the relationships between two people who are intimately involved. Loving relationships
are those relationships between couples, families, siblings, parents and children, etc. What does a loving relationship
feel like to you? We all have varying perspectives of love. What may feel loving to one person may not feel loving
to someone else, yet all too often we place our own perceptions and judgments on others. Some expressions of love are
universal, but many more are quite personal. How do you define love? What feels loving to you?
Part of being in a loving relationship means that we have to accept the other person for who he or she is, and not look to
change him/her. This does not mean that you like everything about the other person, but you accept him/her without judgment.
This tends to be easier to do early in any relationships before challenges emerge, and the road gets rocky. This is
true in all loving relationships because as we spend more time with another person, and we grow and change, our sensitivity
to any faults we perceive in that person become harder to ignore. Relationships tend to go through stages. First
we see only each others’ virtues, then we see only each others’ faults, if we get through this stage then we can
see each other for who we really are and truly be friends. Parents often say at various
stages of their children’s lives that they love their child, but they don’t like them very much. It’s
hard to feel loving when we see or experience behavior that is challenging or downright obnoxious. To be in a loving
relationship, however, we do have to find ways to love, even when it isn’t easy. This does not mean that we have
to ignore or deny hurtful or harmful behavior; it means we have to find ways to deal with these behaviors in ways that are
loving, respectful and compassionate. In order to focus on what it means to
be in loving relationships, I find it helpful to use this acronym: HEARTFELT
H Hear and listen with your heart--- look for each other’s
loving intentions. Don’t judge. None of us is that perfect that someone else couldn’t judge us harshly,
as well. If we look for flaws and negatives we surely will find them. If we look for positive and loving qualities
we will just as surely find those, too. E Emotional vulnerability.
When we put up walls to protect us from being hurt, those same walls will also keep us from
experiencing joy, pleasure and closeness. When we communicate lovingly, respectfully and compassionately, we are open
and receptive to both giving and receiving love. A Acceptance: To lovingly
accept the people in our lives, means we stop judging them. We may not like everything, but we have to learn to accept
people for who they are, not who we want them to be, or think they should be, etc. The beauty of truly loving relationships
is that in environments of love and acceptance we grow and flourish. In relationships fraught with tension and judgment
we shrink back, and fear to grow. R Respect We need to
respect ourselves first and then look for what we respect about the people we love. If we look for those qualities that
are valuable and worthwhile and therefore deserving of respect, our hearts open up and we are able to see the good in them.
If we judge and criticize and see only what’s wrong and what we don’t like, then we undermine the very relationships
we say we want to nurture. What qualities do you choose to focus on in the people who are most important to you? T Trust : We need to nurture trust
in our relationships. That means we must act with integrity. While we cannot control how other people behave or
act, we can decide how we want to handle their behaviors, and TRUST in our abilities to cope effectively when their behaviors
are less than stellar. In loving relationships we count on trusting each other to be loving, compassionate, respectful
and wanting what is best for each other. Since we are human, and we will make mistakes, working through the issues
while TRUSTING that we are working for our greater good is imperative. F Feel with your heart: don’t
Judge: Like listening with your heart, feeling with your heart helps you
to pay attention to your inner voice and pay attention to how you feel. We know way down deep inside when something
feels loving, respectful and compassionate and when it doesn’t. To be in a loving relationship, means you can
acknowledge when something feels uncomfortable, hurtful, painful, etc. while still respecting YOUR feelings enough to speak
up! This connects to loving communication and vulnerability: vital in all loving relationships! E Evolve and Flourish:
when you feel loved, supported and accepted, you can evolve to become the person you were meant
to be. You have gifts that you bring to your relationships. You yourself are a gift! As you feel increasingly
better and more loving towards yourself, you will increasingly allow your gifts to be expressed and shared. When you
are with people who love, accept and respect you for who you are, you are able to evolve and grow even more, and you can feel
yourself and your world open up and expand. Take a deep breath and just let this truth resonate within you! L Laugh!!! Life is serious, and we must make time to lighten up and
laugh with each other and at ourselves. As the saying goes: we don’t stop laughing because we grow old, we grow
old because we stop laughing. Let your spirit soar, and your heart take wings: Laugh with those you love loudly and
often! T Talk openly and lovingly. Remember to always speak
with LOVE, RESPECT and COMPASSION, and let the people you love and want to love know how you feel. Share your loving
thoughts and feelings, breathe deeply and know that as long as you are speaking honestly and compassionately, your loving
intentions can be seen and heard.
Love is a wonderful and necessary
part of our lives. When we feel loved, or are in love, we find ourselves feeling easy, free, and warm and cozy as well
as all its other wonderful descriptive adjectives. All relationships, however, require WORK, as well as our time, attention
and patience so that they can grow and flourish. Our loving relationships really are labors of love, and hopefully as
you bring your heartfelt attention into your life, you will feel increasingly loving and loved in return.
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airs live, every Friday morning 10:00am Eastern time. I'll be talking with a variety of experts on many issues relating to self-esteem,
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My guests and I
will cover a wide variety of topics that will absolutely help you enhance and empower your life! Please remember, you can
listen and join in, live, (the show will be repeated and available for downloading later in the day.) M This Friday
FEB. 12, 2010: Creating & Maintaining
Loving Relationships- My guest will be JAN DENISE, journalist and author “Inside
Relationships”, Naked Relationships: Sharing Your Authentic Self to Find the Partner of Your Dreams
and Innately Good: Dispelling the Myth That You’re Not. Jan Denise conducts workshops,
speaks professionally, serves on the faculty of Omega Institute, and consults with individuals and couples nationwide.
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Published Articles by Loren M. Gelberg-Goff, LCSW
Parenting Adolescents: Joys & Challenges
Mind-Body-Spirit Connection
"I Can Cope" E-Zine Article
Who I Am Is Enough! E-Zine Article
Releasing Negative Behaviors - E-Zine Article
Loving Yourself: Part I
View my article on Take5.com click on the link below:
Being Patient With Yourself
My audio CD's are now available in LA Splash Magazine:
I was quoted in:
Be A Bad Patient: on AOL Health.com
"Aunts and Uncles": - The Bulletin
Battle of the Grandparents: The Bulletin
Crossing the Line For Love: Albany Times
Crossing the Line for Love: Tacoma Tribune
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