![]() Does it really need protection? Protecting the Heart Yet, there’s nothing stronger than the heart. Taking risks is part of the journey from the head to the heart, but it doesn’t seem wise to be reckless with something as vulnerable and tender as the heart. I’ve come to believe that we have to be careful who we let all the way in. I ponder what it means to be invited into these intimate spaces, not just medically, but in all the ways love shows up. It’s part of why I went to medical school, so I could have a front row seat on the most intimate and vulnerable moments of the human experience-birth, illness, and death. It also can be scary as hell, especially when your heart has been hurt, as most of ours have. ![]() It’s an honor to have our own heart touched and explored, with tenderness and curiosity. ![]() It’s a privilege to be invited into someone’s most intimate heart spaces. It’s no small thing, this commitment to radical soul growth via relationship. Maybe I’ll have to write my own song some day. I still love it and resonate with a lot of it, but I feel like there might be an additional verse. Years later, I’d love to sit down for tea with Alanis and ask her if she still felt the same way about unconditional love as she did when she wrote this song. It was my benchmark, the ideal of perfect love that I strove to achieve. For a long time, I used the lyrics to this song about unconditional love as a sort of sacred contract I proposed between friends, family members, and romantic partners. I’m in love with this Alanis Morrissette song “ You Owe Me Nothing in Return.” In fact, I have a girl crush on Alanis in general, especially after I heard her speak with one my spiritual influences Adyashanti.
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