There are messages out there that paint a picture of healing being about attaining some version of perfection or reaching the top of the proverbial mountain. It’s a linear view that says we will only attain worthiness or lovability when we are free of our wounds, our past, our habits - our humanness. But what if true “healing” is not about elimination of our wounds and neurotic characteristics but accepting our humanness, those parts and experiences we don’t like?

What if the path to liberation wasn’t through elimination but through acceptance? How then would we love ourselves?

There is a Gene Key that talks about the path to universal love. It beings through constriction and requires the gift of acceptance in order to find universal love, which is the love of everything that we encounter on this human journey - the light and dark.