Have you ever felt like your heart was going to break?

And not metaphorically, like physically felt it.

That elephant sitting on your chest, the feeling like you can't breathe.

This is going to sound kind of silly to non-fur baby owners, but in 2021, my dog of 15 years died, and I felt this huge hole in my heart.

I couldn't stop sobbing.

There was this weight on my chest that wouldn't lift no matter what I did, and it felt like a

part of me had just been ripped out.

And I remember thinking, man, if I feel this destroyed over losing my dog, I cannot even

imagine what people feel like when they lose a child.

I used to feel that kind of physical pain with breakups, too, a crap ton of it.

I got married right when I turned 30, though, so all my breakups happened in my 20s.

So I don't know if it was just this

dramatic because I was young or because that's just how breakups are because you're not just

heartbroken. You're making it mean something about you. What does it say about me that this person

didn't choose me? But in those moments when your heart feels like it's breaking. Your subconscious does something to protect you.

It builds a wall around your heart, an actual energetic barrier made of trapped emotions.

And that wall doesn't just keep out the pain. It keeps out everything. Love, connection, joy.

But when you have a heart wall, what it will do is it will interfere with your ability to give and receive love. So it won't be as easy for you to connect

with other people. It won't be as easy for you to feel positive emotions. It won't be as easy

for you to really find your soulmate

or to achieve your true purpose in this world because that blueprint, I believe, for the perfect

life you can live, is really locked up inside of your heart. Ninety-three percent of people have one,

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