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Finding Joys Light: Spiritual Mechanics for overcoming Unrequited Love.....

Finding Joys Light: Spiritual Mechanics for overcoming Unrequited Love..... Some time ago I got a call from a friend who was in emotional distress about the failure of her relationship with a man she had chosen to have a child with. Nothing was planned and nothing had gone has she had hoped and while in the midst of living the life she had not expected, she was questioning how someone she loved so much could treat her so badly. Her mood and way of being had become angry, neurotic in fact and she was pushing away the love that was truly authentic in her life. She thought for sure that she would not recover. I thought for sure that she could if not for her own sake, for the sake of her toddler daughter. Who of us has not felt the sting of unrequited love? Be it when we were just seven years old and so adored that young schoolmate who probably never treated us kindly, but in spite of it all each time we were suckers for punishment and we still wanted to play on their team, sit next to...