Feb/Mar 2026 Aspire Magazine FULL Issue | Page 102

Perhaps the most radical shift of all is this: Love is not something you find.

It’ s something you practice.

Coming Back to Love means choosing honesty over fantasy, presence over projection, and self-trust over urgency. It requires you to slow down and get present. It means allowing relationships to unfold at their own pace.

Letting truth reveal itself over time.

Staying connected to yourself— even when connection with another matters deeply.

When love becomes a practice rather than a destination, your nervous system relaxes. You stop chasing outcomes and start cultivating capacity.

And from that place, relationships stop repeating the past— and begin reflecting who you’ ve become.

Rewriting your love story does not require becoming someone else.

It requires coming home to who you already are— beneath the patterns, beneath the defenses, beneath the old narratives that once helped you survive.

Your heart knows how to love.

It is simply waiting for you to come back to it. And when you do, the story changes— not all at once, but steadily, gently, and truthfully.

One choice at a time.

Robyn Vogel, MA- Robyn Vogel, MA, is the author of Come Back to Love: A Path to Healing( Feb 2026) and host of the syndicated radio show reaching 80,000 + listeners. An IFS-trained therapist and trauma-informed Love & Intimacy Coach, Robyn blends somatic, nervous-system, and heart-centered wisdom to help people heal patterns and cultivate safer, deeper love. You ca purchase Come Back to Love here. Purchase Come Back to Love( Koehler Books, 2026) and you can download a free chapter here. Learn more about Robyn’ s services, offerings and retreats at https:// www. comebacktolove. com.