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School of Self-Image

133: The Choice to Love

School of Self-Image

Tonya Leigh

Self-improvement, Balance, Luxurylifestyle, Education, Arts, Lifestyle, Chic, Fashion & Beauty, Fashion, Coaching, Confidence, Travel, Successful, Luxury, Image, Luxurious, Lifecoachstylecoach, Frenchkisslife, Women, Classy, Selfimage, Elegant

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I want to convince you that love has the power to heal us, connect us, and make us healthier & wealthier. I share my journey to love and how I struggled to let love back into my life. I talk about the effects of choosing love on my relationship with myself, my family, and my community as a whole. And I talk about how to handle it when you’re finding someone incredibly difficult – or even impossible – to love.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://frenchkisslife.com/133

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0:00.0

Let's start this episode out with a pop quiz.

0:03.0

What is the first word that comes to mind

0:05.5

when you hear French Kiss Life?

0:07.7

Now, I know for some of you, it's going to be Paris.

0:11.1

For others, maybe it's elegance or Joa de Viv. But the word that I want you to associate

0:17.5

with French Kiss Life more than any other word is my favorite word in the dictionary and that is love.

0:25.0

When I think about my true mission in life,

0:28.0

I know deep down it's to inspire women to love more, to love themselves, to love others, and to love their life.

0:39.2

And it's my mission because I know for years I withheld love and I know the suffering that it caused.

0:47.0

I know how it separated me from my truth.

0:50.0

I withheld love for myself. I withheld love from other people I tried to manipulate people to get love but I'll never ever forget hearing Byron Katie say

1:01.5

Choose love because only you hurt when you don't.

1:07.0

And I started to wake up to the truth

1:09.0

that love is a choice and we are always the one creating it and we're also always the one

1:16.7

separating ourselves from it. I know deep down that love has the power to heal I know it has the power to heal I know it has the power to bring more connection

1:26.9

it has the power to bring people together where ideas can be born it has the power to make you healthier and happier and even richer.

1:37.1

Practicing love is my daily practice. And sometimes it's hard and sometimes it's super easy. But the more I have

1:48.4

practiced it, the more it's just become who I am. And I think really what has happened is that I've gotten back to

1:56.1

my truth because I do believe we come into this world full of love and we're trained

2:01.5

out of it. And I deeply and fully believe that I would not be where I am in life today

2:07.6

if it were not for this one word love. And in this episode I want to convince you that it is always a choice and it's always the better choice.

2:20.0

Bonsieur and welcome to the French Kiss Live podcast where personal development meets

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