The Healing Power of Love & Connection: Awaken Your Heart & Transform Your Life
- Alan Lowis
- May 25, 2025
- 23 min read
Updated: Jul 5, 2025
By Alan Lowis
There is a kind of healing that only love can bring.
Not just romantic love—but all of the deep and profound forms of love we can feel.
The love shared with friends. The love felt among family. The bond shared even with strangers. The love we experience when connecting with nature, the universe and divinity.
The kind of love that says:
“You are not alone. You matter. You belong. You are loved. You are accepted. You are valued. You are appreciated. You are special. You are more than worthy. You are whole.”
Some say love is a feeling.
Others say it’s a choice. It’ a decision. It’s actions.
But at the deepest level, we know at our core, love is even more.
Love is medicine.
Love makes the world go ‘round.
Love is… The Answer.
What Science Says About Love
Science now confirms what the soul has always known:
Love changes us—body, mind, and spirit.
The Harvard Study of Adult Development (over 80 years): The #1 predictor of long, healthy, happy lives? Good relationships - love & connection.
Oxytocin, the "love hormone" lowers stress, improves immunity, and increases emotional resilience.
Heartmath research: Positive emotional states like caring, gratitude, and connection improve heart rate variability and cognitive function.
In contrast, Loneliness has been shown to be more harmful to health than smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
Love isn’t just an emotion. It’s a biological imperative.
When felt, it heals us, centers us and completes us. And when shared, it’s even more powerful and transformational.
Love Through the Lens of Wisdom
We were made for connection. And in almost every great human tradition, love is both the path and the destination.
Across cultures, scriptures, and philosophies, love is honored as a sacred force.
Sometimes it is devotion.
Sometimes it is duty.
Sometimes it is a fierce, selfless presence.
But in all traditions—it is essential.
In Judaism - Love is lived through chesed (loving-kindness) and tzedakah (righteous giving)
In Christianity - “God is love."
In Buddhism - Metta - loving-kindness - is the foundation
In Taoism - it is said “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
In Islam - One of the 99 names of Allah is Al-Wadud—The Most Loving.
In Ubuntu: "I am because we are.” - connection is everything.
In Secular Wisdom & Psychology - Love is secure attachment. It is presence. It is acceptance. It is the base, the center, that allows us to thrive.
In Mysticism - Love is the dissolving of self into the One.
Rumi the wise Sufi poet wrote: "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
And in Everyday Life, love wears many faces.
A parent staying up all night with a sick child
A friend showing up, no questions asked
A stranger offering a smile that says, I see you
A partner holding space during your darkest hour
A nurse speaking gently to a scared patient
A teacher who refuses to give up on a struggling student
A neighbor leaving groceries at your door
A child reaching out to hold your hand
A pet curling up next to you when you’re feeling low
A mentor believing in you before you believe in yourself
A volunteer listening deeply to someone who feels invisible
A grown child calling their parent just to say thank you
A friend remembering the little things you forgot to mention twice
A community coming together after tragedy
A moment of forgiveness that sets two hearts free
A simple touch. A quiet “I’m here.” A shared silence that says more than words ever could.
Love doesn’t always shout.
Sometimes it whispers.
Sometimes it shows up without being asked.
And sometimes… it’s simply the presence that remains when everything else falls away.
Romantic love lifts us.
Familial love roots us.
Friendship steadies us.
Self-love expands us.
And Universal Love anchors it all.
No matter what you believe or how you name it—love is the power that holds us together.
No matter what the form of love, the truth remains: We were made for connection.
And when we love, we remember who we truly are.
Human Beings are Built to Connect: Why Love Isn’t Optional
We don’t just crave love.
We require it.
Love isn’t an emotional extra. It’s not icing on the cake of a good life.
It’s built into us—wired into our nervous system, encoded in our biology.
From the moment we’re born, we need connection to survive.
The Science of Why Love Heals
Love isn’t a metaphor. It’s medicine. And science is catching up to what wisdom traditions have always known.
Attachment Theory
From the moment we’re born, we need more than food and shelter—we need attunement.Infants bond with caregivers not just for survival but for emotional regulation and brain development.
When babies are held, soothed, and mirrored, their nervous systems learn what safety feels like.But when that love is absent?
Stress hormones rise. Neural growth stalls.
Brains literally fail to wire properly.
Without love, development falters.
Polyvagal Theory
This emerging field of neuroscience tells us something profound:
Safety isn’t just about shelter. It’s about connection.
Our nervous system constantly scans for cues: “Am I safe?
”The answer comes not from logic, but from co-regulation—feeling seen, heard, held, attuned to.
When someone looks at you with love, speaks gently, or simply sits with presence, your body calms.
Your breath slows. Your system shifts from fight/flight into rest and repair.
Social Pain = Physical Pain
Modern brain imaging reveals that emotional pain lights up the same neural circuits as physical injury.
Rejection. Loneliness. Abandonment.
The brain doesn’t distinguish—it treats these as threats to survival.
Which means connection isn’t just nice—it’s necessary.
Love Helps Us Heal
People with close relationships are more resilient.
They bounce back from stress faster.
They heal from illness and injury more quickly.
They’re less likely to suffer from depression, anxiety, and addiction.
In hospitals, patients with supportive visitors recover faster, report less pain, and need fewer medications.
Touch, Eye Contact, and Presence Are Medicine
Simple acts—holding a hand, making eye contact, offering a hug—release oxytocin, the bonding hormone.
This calms the amygdala (your fear center), reduces cortisol (your stress hormone), and brings the body out of survival mode into healing mode.
Love Saves Lives: A Story from WWII
This isn’t just theory. It’s not just philosophy.
It’s reality.
During and after WWII, orphanages across Europe were filled with babies and young children who had lost everything.
They were fed. They were clothed. They were given clean beds.But many of them began to fade.
They stopped crying. They stopped eating.
Some began to waste away entirely.
Doctors called it failure to thrive.
What these children lacked wasn’t nutrition or hygiene.
They lacked love and connection.
It wasn’t until nurses and volunteers began holding them, rocking them, whispering to them—offering physical affection and presence—that the children began to recover.
This is not a metaphor.
This is what love does.
It calms the nervous system. It nourishes the soul.
It brings the body back to life.
Love saves lives.
This is the power of love.
We often look for healing in the form of medicine, methods, or miracles.
But sometimes, the deepest healing comes from the thing we overlook most: letting ourselves be loved.
Letting it in. Letting it soften us. Letting it hold us.
And maybe hardest of all, but in some ways most important of all… learning to love ourselves.
The Return to Self-Love
There’s a love you’ve always carried.
A love that’s never left you.
The love of life flowing through you… as you.
It may have been forgotten it.
It may have been covered with noise, fear, shame, or stories that were never yours.
But deep down, you’ve always known:
You were born worthy.
You don’t have to earn love.
You are love.
You are not broken.
You are becoming.
You are more than enough.
You are exactly who you need to be to live this beautiful life that’s unfolding through you.
So take a breath.
Let down the armor.
Set down the judgment.
And come home to yourself.
You are not your mistakes.
Your past does not define you.
Ignore the voice that tries to question your worth.
Your true voice knows:
You are unique.
You are special.
You are significant.
You are worthy.
And you are here for a reason.
You are the one who breathes.
Who heals.
Who rises.
Who shines.
Who creates.
Who grows.
Who contributes.
You are the miracle.
And now is the time to remember.
You are never alone.
You are always loved.
You are love.
What Science Says About Self-Love
Self-compassion, studied extensively, was found to be one of the most powerful predictors of emotional resilience. People who practice self-compassion are less anxious, less depressed, and more motivated—not less.
Self-love reduces cortisol (stress hormone) and increases vagal tone (linked to calm, connection, and healing).
The brain can’t always tell the difference between receiving love from someone else… and generating loving emotions internally. Self-directed compassion activates the same soothing pathways.
Mirror neuron studies show that when we treat ourselves with warmth, we increase emotional regulation and empathy—not only toward ourselves, but toward others.
Negative self-talk activates the brain’s threat system.
Self-love activates the brain’s care system—promoting calm, safety, and growth.
Gentle Reminders for Reclaiming Self-Love
You are not your past.
You are a luminous being—here to grow, to rise, and to create an extraordinary future.
You are not the mistakes of the past.
You are designed to grow. You are designed to evolve—learning from every experience, every failure, every difficulty, every challenge, and becoming more because of them.
You are not the lying voice in your head that says you’re not enough.
You are the one who hears that voice.
And you have the power to choose a new one—
The voice of truth.
The voice of your soul.
The one that knows you are more than enough.
Let this be the voice you begin to listen to:
“I deserve love.”
“I am lovable as I am.”
“I don’t have to do more or be more to be worthy.”
“I am allowed to feel, to rest, to heal, to shine.”
“I am a miracle, still unfolding.”
Say it softly. Say it often. Say it until you remember.
Because it’s always been true.
You Are Not Alone. You are always connected. You are always Loved.
Wherever you are on your journey, let love in. Let yourself feel it. Let yourself give it. Let it soften you and strengthen you.
Love is not something you have to earn.
It’s not a reward.
It is your birthright.
And when you awaken love—
you awaken healing.
You awaken life.
Practices to Awaken Love
We all want to feel more love.
To be filled with it. To give it freely. To live in its warmth and presence.
The beautiful truth is—you can.
Love can be remembered, reawakened, and strengthened.
You don’t have to wait for someone else to give it to you.
You can begin creating it now.
These next practices are here to help you do just that.
Through gentle solo exercises, exercises to create shared moments of connection, beautiful music, timeless poetry, and heartfelt movies and stories—you’ll find doorways back into love.
Each one is a spark. A reminder. A way to reopen your heart.
Because love isn’t somewhere far away.
It’s right here.
Around you.
Within you.
Always waiting to be felt again.
Love is everywhere.
Solo Practices to Awaken Love
You Can Feel Love Right Now Within You
We all want to feel more love.
But so often, we place that feeling just out of reach.
We tell ourselves:
“I’ll feel loved when they say it.”
“I’ll feel love when I’m finally healed.”
“When the right person shows up.”
“When the world feels safe.”
“When I finally become enough.”
But those rules keep us waiting.
They make love conditional.
And they quietly trap us in distance, disconnection, and delay.
The truth is:
Love isn’t something you wait for.
It’s something you can feel now.
It lives within you—not because everything is perfect, but because love doesn’t require perfection.
It only asks for presence.
These simple practices are here to help you remember what’s already yours:
The power to feel love—anytime, anywhere—without needing the world to change.
To reconnect.
To feel again.
To let love rise from within and touch everything around you.
Let’s begin.
🌸 1. Loving-Kindness Meditation (Metta)
This ancient practice invites love into your heart—and extends it outward to others.
Try this simple version:
Sit quietly. Breathe slowly. Once you have relaxed and are calm and present you can say the following words to yourself.
Let each phrase rise with your breath, even if only a whisper in your mind:
May I be safe.
May I be healthy.
May I be loved.
May I feel peace.
Now bring to mind someone you love. Picture their face. Smile at them in your heart.
May you be safe.
May you be healthy.
May you be loved.
May you feel peace.
Then extend it outward to someone neutral. Then someone difficult. Then all beings.
May all beings be safe, healthy, loved, and free.
Research in neuroscience shows that practices like Loving-Kindness Meditation activate brain regions associated with empathy, emotional regulation, and positive affect—especially the prefrontal cortex and insula. Repeating phrases of goodwill—paired with intentional imagery—helps shift the nervous system from stress and vigilance into safety and connection. This calms the body, softens the heart, and increases oxytocin, the hormone linked with love and bonding.
But beyond the science, it just feels good.
Sending love—especially to someone who needs it—reminds us that we are connected. That we can care. That we are never alone.
And the beautiful paradox is:The more love you give, the more you feel.
Because caring is sharing.
And in sharing love… we receive it too.
❤️ 2. Heart-Breathing: Feel Love in a Single Moment
This is a practice to connect directly to love through your own body and breath.
Here’s how:
Place a hand on your heart.
Take a slow, deep inhale—imagine breathing into your heart.
As you exhale, imagine sending out love.
Now bring to mind a single loving moment:Someone hugging you. A child laughing. A dog running to greet you. A memory of someone’s eyes full of care.
Breathe that moment in.
Let it expand in your chest.
Let it live inside you again.
Do this for 3–5 breaths.
One small moment of love—fully felt—is enough to shift your whole day.
🪞 3. I Feel Love When... (The Mirror List Practice)
Most people say, “I’ll feel love when...”
—when the fairy tale comes true
—when everything is perfect
—when I finally feel worthy
But love doesn’t have to wait for perfection.
Love doesn’t have to be earned.
Love is available to you—right now.
You just need to recognize the signals that already make you feel it - or create them.
The key is to notice the cues that already create a feeling of love in your body, your mind, and your heart - And to make sure that those cues, those rules, make it easy for you to feel love - often.
Right now... put some energy in your body and write down a list of the things that make you fell love.
“I feel love when…” and continue the thought...
or "I feel love whenever..." and fill in the blank...
Just flow. Whatever comes to mind. Ask yourself what has to happen for me to feel love, or loved or loving.
Now look at your list.
Do the rules make love something that's always in the future?
Example - I will feel love when, the love of my dreams arrives - (some time in the future)
• This makes it hard to feel love now. It delays it indefinitely.
Are there long rules that say many things have to happen all at once or in a particular order?
Example - I'll feel love when the right person, in the right clothes, takes me to the right place and says the exact right romantic things with the right lighting and music and... and, and, and, and...
• Each "and" makes it harder and harder and ultimately maybe impossible to feel love.
Do they require others to do something for you to feel love?
Example - I'll feel love when my estranged father apologizes and tells me he's sorry he abandoned me. I'll feel love when my that supermodel that I'm afraid to even talk to shows up at my door and tells me they love me and means it. I'll feel love when the person I'm dating that is emotionally distant and has a traumatic past never pulls away from me. etc.
• If feeling love depends on others actions, beliefs, thoughts, feelings or words, we are at the mercy of the outside world and have given up what is meant to be ours.
Do the rules in your head make it easy to feel love?
Example - I feel love whenever I think about any time I felt love. Notice:
• It is in present tense - I feel love now.
• It is open - I feel love whenever this happens. The word "whenever" is powerful.
• It's one rule - I feel love whenever this one thing happens... no and, and, and...
• It's in your power - no one else has to do anything - nothing outside you has to happen.
• It's easy - you just think about any time you felt love and you can feel it again.
Easy can be things you can see, hear, feel, smell or taste.
It can be things you focus on or remember or imagine or think about.
If your current list has things that are future based, limited, require many things to happen, hard to do, outside your power, require others or the world to do things, and are not easy, let's update it now so that it serves you better.
Whatever your current list, we need to make it easier for you to feel love.
Let's find simple easy ways to feel love that are always available to you wherever you are and whatever life may bring.
Use this framework to build your own list:
I feel love when I…
• See: beauty, kindness, connection
• Hear: music, laughter, a familiar voice
• Touch: soft blankets, hands, hugs, warm mugs
• Smell/Taste: favorite foods, fresh rain, something that reminds you of home
• Remember: someone you love, a moment of comfort, a smile
• Imagine: someone you care for feeling safe and happy
• Do: acts of kindness, breathing deeply, giving thanks • Say: I love you to someone or I am loved to mysel
• Notice: nature, light, connection, presence
Love doesn’t have to be rare. The truth is, Love is everywhere.
Here are some ways you might start your list
(feel free to choose the ones you like and add your own as well).
👁️ I feel love whenever I see...
Two people laughing together
A pet curled up in someone’s arms
The sun lighting up the trees
Old couples holding hands
A handwritten note from a friend
A baby being held close to someone’s chest
The moon rising while the sky turns pink
Someone offering help without being asked
👂 I feel love whenever I hear...
My favorite song from childhood
Wind rustling through the trees
A sincere “thank you”
A loved one’s voice, even just saying hello
Rain tapping on the window
A baby cooing or laughing
My own breath slowing down
A song that makes me cry and smile at once
✋ I feel love whenever I feel (touch)...
A warm blanket around me
My feet in soft grass or warm sand
A hug from someone who means it
Holding a warm mug between my hands
Wrapping my arms around myself
Putting my hand on my heart and breathing
The feeling of water on my skin in the shower
The soft fur of a pet under my fingers
👃 I feel love whenever I smell...
Freshly baked bread
Lavender or jasmine in the air
A favorite meal cooking
The pages of an old book
Someone I love’s familiar scent
Fresh rain on dry earth
Clean sheets and warm laundry
👅 I feel love whenever I taste...
A favorite dish made with care
Tea or coffee in a quiet moment
Something sweet after a long day
Fresh fruit in the morning sun
Soup when I’m feeling sick or tired
A recipe that reminds me of someone I love
🧠 I feel love whenever I remember...
A friend who showed up when I needed them
Someone who forgave me
Being held as a child
A quiet moment that changed me
Laughing so hard it hurt
A time I felt completely safe
💭 I feel love whenever I imagine...
Someone I care about feeling joy or healing
Being surrounded by light or warmth
Holding someone I miss close again
A world where everyone feels seen and loved
Future moments filled with peace and purpose
My future self saying: “You’ve made it. You’re okay.”
🧘♀️ I feel love whenever I do...
Something kind, even if no one sees it
Take care of my body or space with intention
Look someone in the eyes and smile
Say “I love you” (even silently, even to myself)
Breathe deeply and remember I’m alive
Let go of needing to be perfect
🗣️ I feel love whenever I say...
“I love you” (to someone else, to myself, or even silently in my heart)
“Thank you” with real sincerity
“I see you. I hear you. I’m with you.”
“I forgive you” (even when it’s hard)
“I forgive myself”
“I’m proud of you” (especially when said to myself)
“I’m here for you”
“I believe in you”
“You matter”
“I choose love.”
“I’m so glad you’re in my life.”
“I am loved.”
💓 I feel love whenever I recognize/notice...
That I’m doing my best
That I’ve come so far
That I don’t need to fix everything to be worthy
That love is not scarce—it’s everywhere
That I am love, just as I am
Final Thoughts on this exercise
Love isn’t only something we receive—It’s something we can create, remember, notice, and practice. It's something we do. It's something we are.
And when you train your mind and body to recognize the small, beautiful cues that generate love…your whole world changes.
You feel fuller. More grounded. More open. More alive.
Because love multiplies—the more you feel it…the more you find it…and the more you share it…the more it grows.
You are love.
Let this practice help you remember...
Love is everywhere.
💞 Connective Practices to Share Love with Others
Love isn’t just something we feel—
It’s something we remember, return to, and reignite through connection.
Love doesn’t just live inside us—it flows between us.
And sometimes, the fastest way to feel love is to give it.
These practices are simple ways to share love directly—with words, actions, or simple moments of care.
They’re not about grand gestures or getting it “right.”
They’re about presence.
About showing up with sincerity and an open heart.
Whether it’s reaching out to someone you love…
offering a small kindness to a stranger…
or creating a moment of deep presence with someone you care about—every act of shared love expands the love in your life.
These are practices of reaching out.
Of remembering that we’re not alone.
Of sending love and letting it in.
When we give love, we feel love.
When we connect, we remember—we were never meant to do this life alone.
And we feel the truth - that we are never alone.
Let these practices help you reconnect to others—
and to the part of yourself that knows you were made to share love.
Let them remind you of who you are.
A being designed for connection.
A heart built to give and receive.
And at the center of it all—
You are love.
Let these practices help you come home to yourself, to life, to love.
📱 1. Call or Text Someone You Love—With Intention
Not just a quick hello. Not just a check-in.
This time, slow down.
Take a breath.
Think of them.
Feel your love for them in your body.
Remember a moment—big or small—that made you feel close or grateful.
Then share it. Let them feel it too.
Here’s an example:
“Hi Mom,I’m just writing to tell you how much I love you.I was remembering the time you made me a pumpkin costume as a little kid and stuffed me with newspaper, and I kept falling over.
I see your face in my mind—both of us so young—and I feel so loved.
Thank you for all the tiny acts of kindness that filled my childhood (and every year since).
I love you so much.”
The more you do this with the people you truly love, the more love you will all begin to feel.
You don’t have to be poetic. You just have to be sincere.
Let your love be felt.
💌 2. Write a Love Letter to Someone (Alive or Passed)
Think of someone who impacted your life with love.
Someone you maybe never fully thanked. Or someone who isn’t here anymore.
Write to them as and speak as if they’re sitting across from you.
Tell them what they meant to you.
Tell them what you remember.
Tell them what you still carry.
Then—read it aloud.
Even if they’re gone, love spoken still heals.
🤝 3. Create a “Love Circle” (or Text Thread)
Gather 2–3 people you trust.
In person, on Zoom, or even by message.
Each person shares one thing they love about each other.
Or one moment when they felt love.
Or something that has deepened your bond.
“You always made me feel safe.”
“I love the way you laugh at your own jokes.”
“I’ll never forget how you showed up when I needed you most.”
“I felt so seen the day you called just to check on me.”
You might laugh. You might cry. You might feel awkward at first.
But something sacred happens when love is spoken out loud.
Love shared becomes love multiplied.
Let it echo. Let it land. Let it remind you that you belong.
✨ Optional Practice: Return to Divine Love
Not everyone grew up feeling loved.
Some of us carry wounds—of abandonment, betrayal, neglect.
Some of us have stories where love came with pain or didn’t come at all.
But if you are alive today—someone loved you.
A mother, a father, a stranger, a nurse, a teacher.
Someone fed you. Held you. Kept you alive when you couldn’t care for yourself.
No mammal—no human—survives without love.
So even if you didn’t feel it clearly—love reached you.
And love is still reaching for you now.
Now… imagine that Love itself is still with you.
Whether you call it God, Spirit, the Universe, Nature, or simply Life—
imagine a presence that is eternally loving, patient, kind, and safe.
Imagine being held by it.
Like a child wrapped in warm comfy blankets.
Nothing to prove.
Nothing to earn.
Just loved because you exist.
Breathe into that.
You are loved.
You were created in love.
You are never separate from love.
You can return to this any time.
Close your eyes.
Place your hand on your heart.
And whisper: “Thank you for loving me. I’m ready to feel it again.”
And let the love flow through you.
You are Loved. You are love.
And Love is Everywhere.
🎶 Songs & Poems That Awaken Love
Music and poetry speak to the soul in a language deeper than words alone.
It moves us. It lifts us.
It softens what’s been hardened and awakens what’s been forgotten.
In moments when we can’t quite say what we feel, a song finds the words for us—and wraps us in feelings that run deep.
Love lives in music and poetry.
Sometimes it’s the fire of romantic love—
a quickened heartbeat, a gaze held just a second longer,
the feeling of being seen and cherished completely.
Other times, it’s the steady, loyal rhythm of friendship—the kind that says, “I’m here. Always.
”It’s the fierce and protective love of a parent—a lullaby in the dark, a hand holding yours through fear.
It’s the comforting balm against loneliness—a voice whispering, “You are not alone.”
It’s the awe-filled gratitude of simply being alive—of seeing the sky, the trees, the people you love… and feeling wonder.
And sometimes, it’s the divine kind of love—
the kind you feel in prayer, in stillness, in the quiet sense that you are held by something greater.
Songs and poems carry all of this.
They hold longing, belonging, joy, hope—and the quiet peace of coming home to love.
Too often, the “love songs” we hear are about the pain of love lost.
And while there’s a time for grieving,
there is power in choosing songs that open us to the love we still have, the love we can give, and the love that is always available.
Below is a list of songs and poems chosen to help you feel love—
to help it grow, rise, and expand within you.
Let them stir you. Let them soften and strengthen you.
Let them remind you just how deeply you can feel.
And feel free to add your own.
Let this be a practice:
Listen to songs and poetry that uplift you in love—filling you to overflowing and make you more loving as well.
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Here are some more of my favorites I hope you enjoy.
🎶 Songs That Evoke Love & Belonging
💞 Romantic Love Songs
"Because You Loved Me" – Celine Dion
"Perfect" – Ed Sheeran
"All of Me" – John Legend
"A Thousand Years" – Christina Perri
“The One” - Elton John
"At Last" – Etta James
“No One” - Alicia Keys
"Endless Love" – Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
“The Way You Love Me” - Faith Hill
"Your Song" – Elton John
"Truly Madly Deeply" – Savage Garden
“Without You” - Keith Urban
"You’re Still the One" – Shania Twain
"Can’t Help Falling in Love" – Elvis Presley
"The Power of Love" – Celine Dion
"Unchained Melody" – The Righteous Brothers
"I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing" – Aerosmith
🤝 Friendship & Loyalty Songs
"Lean on Me" – Bill Withers
"Stand by Me" – Ben E. King
"You’ve Got a Friend" – James Taylor
"Count on Me" – Bruno Mars
"Wind Beneath My Wings" – Bette Midler
"I’ll Be There" – Jackson 5 / Mariah Carey
"That’s What Friends Are For" – Dionne Warwick
"True Colors" – Cyndi Lauper
"My Wish" – Rascal Flatts
"See You Again" – Wiz Khalifa & Charlie Puth
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" – Simon & Garfunkel
👨👩👧 Parental Love & Family Bond Songs
"You’ll Be in My Heart" – Phil Collins
"Never Grow Up" – Taylor Swift
“A New Day Has Come” - Celine Dion
"Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)" – Billy Joel
"In My Daughter’s Eyes" – Martina McBride
"Isn’t She Lovely" – Stevie Wonder
"Mama" – Il Divo
"Father and Daughter" – Paul Simon
“Thought You Should Know” – Morgan Wallen
“Forever Young” - Rod Stewart
“Dance with My Father" – Luther Vandross
✨ Divine & Spiritual Love Songs
"The Prayer" – Andrea Bocelli & Celine Dion
"One Love" – Bob Marley
"Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)" – Chris Tomlin
“Cover me in Sunshine" - Pink
"What a Wonderful World" – Louis Armstrong
"Spirit" – Beyoncé
"Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)" – Hillsong
🕊️ Songs about Healing Loneliness & Isolation
"You Are Not Alone" – Michael Jackson
"Fix You" – Coldplay
"Let It Be" – The Beatles
"The Climb" – Miley Cyrus
"Somewhere Out There" – Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram
"Home" – Phillip Phillips
🌍 Universal Songs of Love & Gratitude for Life
"One Love" – Bob Marley
"What a Wonderful World" – Louis Armstrong
"Imagine" – John Lennon
“Where is the Love?” Black Eyed Peas
"We Are the World" – USA for Africa
“Where Are You Christmas” - Faith Hill
“One” - U2
"This Is Me" – Keala Settle
"Brave" – Sara Bareilles
"Rise Up" – Andra Day
"Beautiful" – Christina Aguilera
“All You Need Is Love” - The Beatles
“Heal the World” - Michael Jackson
“Love Train” - The O’Jays
“Love is All Around” - The Trigs
Closing Note on Music
Don’t feel like you need to listen to every song at once. Just pick a few that speak to your heart this week. Let them become part of your rhythm—like a gentle reminder to return to love.
Even one song a day, deeply felt, can shift your state, soften your heart, and reconnect you to something beautiful.
Let love come through the music. Let it grow, one heartbeat at a time.
🎥 Films, Movies & Stories That Teach Love in Action
Sometimes, a story is what unlocks us.
A moment of truth, loyalty, sacrifice, or tenderness on screen can mirror something in our soul—and bring us back to love.
Stories have the power to heal us.They show us what true love can look like. They remind us what it feels like to be chosen, to be forgiven, to be seen.
A single scene can stir something long-buried…
help us remember a moment, a feeling, a truth about love we have almost forgotten.
Here’s a list of some of my favorite movies that remind us what love looks like in many forms including Romance. Family. Friendship, and Service.
Let them remind you that love is real. And always worth choosing.
You don’t need to watch them all.
Just choose one this week.
Let it move you. Let it open you.
Let it remind you what love can do.
Movies about Romantic Love:
About Time
The Notebook
Serendipity
When Harry Met Sally
Meet Joe Black
50 First Dates
City of Angeles
Sound of Music
Letters to Juliet
The Princess Bride
Movies About Family & Unconditional Love:
The Pursuit of Happyness
Finding Nemo
Big Fish
Parenthood
August Rush
Blue Miracle
Movies About Deep Friendship Love:
The Intouchables
Good Will Hunting
Stand By Me
The Shawshank Redemption
The Bucket List
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Finding Forrester
City Slickers
Movies About Love as Service:
Patch Adams
Pay It Forward
Schindler’s List
It’s a Wonderful Life
Life is Beautiful
Les Miserables
The Blind Side
Mr. Holland’s Opus
🎬 Closing Note on Movies
I know—it’s a long list.
If you’ve seen some of these movies before, you might already remember the love they stirred in you.
If you haven’t, don’t let the length overwhelm you.
You’re not meant to watch them all.
Just pick one film each week that speaks to your heart.
Watch it with presence.
Turn off the distractions. Put down the phone.
Let it become an experience—not just entertainment, but nourishment for your soul.
Let the story reach you.
Let the love in it become part of your own.
Because even one powerful story—truly felt—can reconnect you to the beauty of being alive, being connected, and being deeply, deeply loved.
💌 Share the Love
If this touched your heart, helped you remember who you are, or awakened even a little more love within you…
Please don’t keep it to yourself.
💞 Share this page with someone you love.
💞 Send it to someone who might be struggling.
💞 Pass it along to someone who needs to feel seen, remembered and loved
Because love grows when it's shared.
And you never know who might be one message away from feeling a little more whole… a little more held… a little more loved.
This is how we heal—together.
One heart at a time.
One act of love at a time.
One reminder at a time.
So keep the love flowing.
💗Love is Everywhere…
