Being in Relationship With Self

We are always in relationship.
With the breath in our lungs.
With the thoughts we allow.
With the ground beneath our feet.
With the people who pass through our lives — and those who stay.

Whether we recognize it or not, relationship is the container in which we evolve. It is not just about partners or family or friends — it’s about the perpetual dance we are in with Life itself.

The first and deepest relationship we will ever have is with ourselves.
But here’s the thing no one tells you:
You cannot truly be in relationship with yourself without being in relationship with the Divine.

Because you — at your deepest, rawest, truest — are God in form. Source in skin. The Divine, remembering Itself.

So, to love yourself, I mean really love yourself, not in the way society teaches — with affirmations or perfect rituals or filtered mirrors — but in the way that softens you into your own chest, that allows you to weep with your own humanity, that teaches you to listen to the whispers of your soul…
That kind of love only happens through God.

We often think we are seeking “self-love,” but what we are really seeking is reunion with Source inside of us.
And here’s the grace…
God is already closer to us than we are to ourselves.
The Divine does not need to be invited — only remembered.

When we begin to live from that place, when we surrender into the truth that the spark of God lives within our being — our skin becomes sacred, our words become prayer, our presence becomes a healing balm.

And from that still, unshakable place, we are able to meet others differently.
We can look into the eyes of a stranger and feel a familiar ache.
We can witness another's pain without needing to fix it.
We can understand, in our bones, that every person is carrying lifetimes of choices, traumas, karma, and dreams — most of which we will never, ever see.

So how could we ever judge?

Compassion isn’t pity. It’s the recognition of the Divine in someone else — even if they’ve forgotten it. Especially when they’ve forgotten it.

Our relationship with others becomes a reflection of our relationship with ourselves. And our relationship with ourselves becomes a reflection of our relationship with God.

It’s a holy loop.
A trinity.
A sacred echo:
Self. Source. Collective.

To love The Divine is to love yourself.
To love yourself is to love the world.
To love the world is to remember God in all things.

So if you want to change your relationships — start here.
Not with fixing. Not with boundaries or expectations or pleasing others into accepting you.
But with allowing yourself to be held. By Source. By the Divine. The Universe. By the vast, wild Love that created you and still pulses through your cells.

Because the way in… is the way out.

And when you begin to relate to yourself this way — in love, in reverence, in truth — everything else will shift.

Not because people change.
But because you do.

And that changes everything.