Hi friend,
The honeymoon phase is fun, and it can feel like everything is effortless and full of promise. But have you ever experienced the kind of love that goes soul deep long after the shine wears off? The kind of love that stays awake even as you reveal your scars and shadows. Love beyond the honeymoon phase is where the real depth lives.
It is easy to believe that the honeymoon is where all of the passion is. Yet loving someone who is willing to die and rebirth with you is so much more powerful. This is where partnership becomes a path. This is where two people choose to grow, to see themselves clearly, and to stay connected even when the waters are stormy.
So much of what we call healing in relationship is learning how to choose the way of devotion and truth. It is knowing that throughout a long term union there will be death phases, moments when the old patterns can no longer continue. And when both people commit to letting those patterns fall away, they can rebirth together instead of apart.
This does not mean relationships should never end. Endings carry their own medicine. Many of us simply have not had healthy models of partnership to teach us how to discern when the lesson is in staying or in going.
Real love has seasons. Some feel light and easy. Others ask more of us. All of them invite us into deeper honesty and connection.
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The honeymoon phase is fun, but have you ever experienced the kind of love that goes soul deep even after revealing all of your scars and shadows? Love beyond the honeymoon phase is where the truth depth lives.
✨ Practice for the Week: A Somatic Practice for Navigating Love Over Time
This is a practice to help you feel into the deeper layers of your relationship. It supports you in sensing where something wants to soften, release, or be reborn. You can do this alone or invite your partner to do their own version alongside you.
1. Arrive in your body
Sit somewhere comfortable. Place one hand on your heart and one on your lower belly.
Take a slow breath in and let the exhale fall out of your mouth.
Give yourself a moment to feel the truth of where you are in this season of your love. There is no need to define it. Just let your body show you.
2. Meet the part of you that loved the honeymoon phase
Bring to mind the early days of your relationship. The ease. The spark. The feeling of being chosen.
Notice what happens inside your body as you remember this.
Warmth. Softness. Grief. Longing. Excitement. Anything that arises belongs here.
Let your breath widen around whatever you feel.
3. Sense the places that have shifted since then
Now sense into the parts of you that have been revealed over time
Your tenderness
Your fears
Your patterns
Your deeper truths
Let your hands rest wherever your body wants contact. Stay with the sensation of being seen in the places you once hid.
4. Feel into the death phase
Every long term relationship goes through moments that feel like something is dying.
An old story
An old pattern
An old way of relating
Ask your body gently
What is ready to be released right now
Do not force it
Just listen
It may come as a heaviness in the chest
A tightness in the jaw
A drop in the belly
A small whisper of honesty
Breathe into that place and let your exhale help loosen what no longer fits.
5. Invite the rebirth
Place your hands on your heart again.
Ask yourself: What wants to grow between us now?
Feel it in sensation rather than words
Maybe warmth spreads
Maybe you feel grounded
Maybe the breath deepens
Let the body show you the next direction of devotion. This is the beginning of rebirth.
6. Seal the practice
Place both hands on your chest or belly.
Let your breath settle and give yourself one last moment of stillness.
Journaling Prompts
What changed in me after the honeymoon phase ended, and what truths about myself or my relationship became clearer?
Where do I notice myself hiding parts of my heart, and what feels possible when I imagine revealing more of who I am?
What old pattern or story in my relationship feels ready to die so something more honest can be reborn?
When I think of devotion in relationship, what does that look like in action, breath, communication, and presence?
What does real love feel like in my body when I imagine choosing to grow together rather than apart?
Where in my relationship do I sense ease right now, and where do I feel a stretch or an edge inviting my attention?
How do I discern the difference between an ending that is calling for closure and a threshold that is calling for deeper commitment?
What does co creating love mean to me beyond passion and novelty? What becomes possible when I stay awake with my partner through change?
What part of me longs for something to be reborn in this relationship, and what might that rebirth look or feel like?
When I imagine my partner and I letting go of old patterns together, what opens in my body? What softens?
As you move through your own seasons of love, remember that nothing is meant to stay in one shape forever. Relationships breathe. They contract and expand. They shed old skins and grow new ones. What matters most is the willingness to stay present with yourself and with the person you choose.
You are not meant to navigate these thresholds alone. There is support available, guidance to lean into, and practices that help you return to the steadiness of your own heart.
Thank you for being here and for walking this path with such courage. I am with you in the unfolding.
Love,
Shay
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