A Love Letter to Your Future Self

A Love Letter to your 2020 Self (written by a former client)

This Christmas I am celebrating with my True Love and my new family. Being together with him and our family is the biggest Christmas gift I could ever receive.

It’s a life dream and desire come true. I’ve waited a long time to find the man who is the one. I now know the wait is worth it!

We are looking forward to sharing a beautiful Christmas together, spending the day together as a family, his kids excitedly opening their presents and playing, and he and I cooking amazing breakfasts and dinners together—our favorite thing.

I’m writing this as a love letter to you, my friend and sister.

Whatever your picture of True Love is, however it may feel deep inside your heart, it is real and it is here for you to experience in this life.

I believe this with all my heart. And I have experienced it. As a gift of hope and love to you this season, let me share some of my story of how it happened.

Exactly two years ago, I didn’t know how to find true love and I didn’t know how to start. These questions had become a state of being for me—lost in love and depressed. All the other parts of my life felt strong. Like I had figured them out for the time being. There was harmony in those areas. But there was this gaping hole in my heart and in my life. I didn’t want to ignore it anymore.

A doer, it felt unnatural for me not to know what to change or how to start. I tapped into my intuition but nothing came. For the entire year, my confusion and depression had grown. As the Eve of 2018 was soon approaching, it was unusual for me not to look forward to the New Year with optimism, hope and great enthusiasm. Depression had become part of my daily life, as did hopelessness in being able to find and connect with true love.

For Christmas through New Year’s, like I had done so many years before, I stayed at my parents’ house. We had coffee together in the mornings. Talking around the breakfast table with them, two people I trusted most in this world, is one of my most cherished traditions.

This New Year’s Day morning, 1/1/2018, my parents huddled in the kitchen quietly talking. I sat at the table alone. I felt heavy with the weight of the depression. My mother walked over to me and asked if I would be open to Dad showing me something he found for me. I was confused. She continued. She told me he found a relationship coach here locally, and would I be open to meeting with her?

You might imagine how this made me feel at first. My face flushed and heat raised up through my body quick as lighting. My head felt light. I thought I was going to yell. But I was quiet. Stunned. I was angry and also felt incompetent, in that moment narrowly viewing their invitation as a personal critique. Part of my inner voice said, “So it’s come to this.” She continued. Will you take a look at what he found? I struggled internally, yet, the part of me that acts for my highest good eeked out a “Yes.”

Next, my father came over to the table with his laptop. He pulled up Laura Lee Wood’s webpage and asked if I would like to read what she has to say. I didn’t have energy left to say no—I was out of excuses to myself why I should reject his suggestion. Part of me was touched; he clearly wanted for me to be happy. I started to read. And read. And read. I read her entire webpage and blog in one sitting.

Laura’s words about true love resonated with me. On January 1, 2018, I came away with a small feeling of hope that talking with her was something I could do. I could open this door. It was a place to begin.
By the time I finished reading everything Laura had on her site, I told my parents I would meet her and I thanked my dad. I still felt the weight of depression and didn’t feel like my world had changed yet, but his love helped nudge open the door of hope within me. I trusted that.

Laura and I worked very closely together over the course of the next year. Within that time, I met my husband-to-be. The biggest things I’d like to share that Laura helped me with that I couldn’t do for myself are: she helped me gain clarity around things that were draining my energy—energy I needed to act and make real positive changes in my life. This helped transform the depression into great self-confidence. She also helped me break old habits built on false beliefs which empowered me to allow true love to flow in.

My love letter to you, dear friend, is the message that this is your year of transformation.

You don’t have to know the specifics of how it’s all going to happen. Trust in you and surround yourself with people who love you and you trust with your whole heart. They will be your guides when you need it. Your path to your true love will be your journey.

I am here to say to you today, “Go for it! Go for YOU in 2020!” That is something to be optimistic and excited about.

A little more love and nudge for you: I know you already have everything you need to begin your journey.

Give yourself the gift of transformation and love.

You are already on the right path; you are here reading this love letter and Laura’s site. Maybe you’ve already started working with her. You know about Laura’s work and can sense her gift for coaching women and men to connect with your true heart’s desire. The rest will come. My life, and many many others’, is proof. This summer, my true love and I will be married.

We know we are each other’s soulmate, and each day we wake up grateful for our journey, what we are creating together and joyful about our future.

Whatever your picture of True Love is, it exists for you too.

May you have a wonderful holiday and even more amazing New Year heading out on your amazing journey!

Love,
Brianne (a former client's love story and love letter to your future self)