For self. For others. For nature. For things greater.
Valentine’s Day is often framed as a celebration of romantic love: between two people, on one day, expressed through grand gestures. But love, in its truest form, has always been much larger than that.
Love is not a single relationship. It is a way of being.
From our founder, Elle:
“Love is the highest way to be. It’s connectedness and respect of uniqueness - yours as well as all others and all of nature and existence in its quirks and turns and surprises. Not simply love for another - love for self, for life itself, for nature, for experience, and the very concept of unconditional love - allowing uniqueness and individuality to exist without any conditions - no ifs or buts or onlys.
Take a little time frequently to reflect on love… what it has meant for you as well as the allowance of uniqueness. Not only allowance of another, but of self, of life, of nature, and of the unseen threads that connect us all and enable us to coexist in peace and mutual respect… without conditions.
Love is not a single relationship, though it may manifest that way. It is a way of being, coexisting in relationship to all of creation whilst holding your own power and wisdom in sacred care.”
We’ve been reflecting further on the ways love can impact us all.
When Your Heart Breaks Open
There is a quiet truth many of us learn only through experience:
when your heart breaks, it doesn’t break down, it breaks open.
Heartbreak, grief, change, disappointment, these moments don’t weaken our capacity for love. They expand it. They teach us how deeply we can feel, how much we can hold, how connected we are to life itself.
Love, then, is not about protection or perfection. It is about presence.
As Elle has often reflected, love is not something to perform or rush toward. It is something to surrender to, with honesty, courage and care.
What Is Love, Really?
Love is often misunderstood as a feeling alone. But feelings come and go.
Love is intention.
It is action.
It is showing up, again and again, without judgement.
Not judgement of yourself.
Not judgement of others.
Not judgement of life.
Love is how we learn to be gentle with our own becoming.
How we listen.
How we nourish.
How we choose.
And most importantly, love is something we are all learning to both give and receive — unconditionally. That is the real work.
Love Across a Lifetime
There is a kind of wisdom that only arrives with time: the understanding that how we live now quietly shapes how we will live later.
As Elle has shared before, your thirties become a mirror for your sixties. Not in years, but in patterns. In habits. In how deeply you care and show up for yourself. So that you can show up for others.
It’s not the years in your life that matter most —
it’s the life in your years.
How you feel in your body.
How you tend to your energy.
How you move through the world.
This is how you express love.
The quality of our lives are shaped by our choices:
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What you put inside your body
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The people you choose to surround yourself with
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The love you allow — and the love you extend
A life well lived is built slowly, deliberately, and with care.
Love for Life Itself
Beyond romantic love, there is a quieter, more sustaining form of love: love for life itself.
For the natural world that feeds and heals us.
For the rhythms that guide us.
For the interconnectedness of all things.
When we remember that we are not separate from nature, but part of it, love becomes stewardship. Responsibility. Reverence.
Everything is a relationship:
Ingredients to soil.
Soil to plant.
Plant to body.
Body to energy.
To love life is to honour those relationships — consciously.
Love as Daily Ritual
Love doesn’t need to be loud.
It can be practiced in small, consistent ways.
A morning routine that nourishes the head, heart, soul, body.
A pause before reacting or responding.
Choosing rest when the world asks for more.
Daily nourishment of whole foods, complimented by The Super Elixir — might seem the farthest from an act of love, yet truly, it can become an act of self-respect. Not a fix, but a foundation. A way of saying: I care for the life I’m living.
We Are All One
At its deepest level, love dissolves separation.
Love reminds us that we are not isolated beings moving through life alone — we are part of something greater. A shared pulse. A shared responsibility.
When love expands beyond possession or performance, it becomes wisdom.
And perhaps that is the invitation of this day:
to ask not who we love, but how.
How we live.
How we care.
How we choose — again tomorrow, and the day after that.
Love, in all its forms, is not a moment.
It is a practice.