Six Ways to Love

A practice for returning to love

Six Ways to Love combines six practical life skills with a simple walking practice. Together, they help you change your relationship with the difficult, tender, and imperfect parts of life.

At OneWalk we believe we come into this world as love. Then life happens. We experience hurt, rejection, loss and fear, and to survive, we build layers of emotional protection around us. We learn to please, control, withdraw, judge, avoid, live silently, hide, or hold tightly to the stories that make us feel safe.

These protections may have once served us. But over time, they can become barriers to love.

Eventually something wakes us up. A loss, a death, hard earned maturity, a difficult relationship or simply the realization that life doesn't feel as good as we want it to.

Six Ways to Love is for that moment.

This six week course combines a daily walking practice with six practical tools for gently healing the layers that stand between you and love.

At the heart of this course is one powerful idea: How you relate to the issue is the issue.

What happens to us matters. And our freedom lies in how we meet what happens.

Each week, you'll learn a new tool and take it with you on your walks. Away from the noise and requirements of life, walking creates the space to notice what is asking for your attention. Nature reveals where something feels out of alignment; the six tools help you work lovingly with what you discover.

You'll learn how to:

• Recognize the thoughts, feelings and actions shaping your experience
• Question painful beliefs and protective patterns
• Meet difficulty with curiosity, compassion and courage
• Choose responses that create more peace within you and more love around you

Your daily walk becomes more than exercise. It becomes a spiritual practice — a regular time to listen, heal and return to yourself.

At OneWalk, spirituality means waking up to the presence of love — everywhere. And a spiritual practice is anything we do regularly to create more peace on the inside and more love on the outside.

You don't need to consider yourself spiritual. You only need a place to walk and a willingness to pay attention.

We'll meet each week on Zoom for 90 minutes. I'll introduce a skill, we'll break into small groups to work with it, we'll come back together to share insights and experience some live coaching using the skills we are learning. These tools will live in you the rest of your life. They do in mine and I use them all the time.

This is not a journey of becoming someone better. It is a journey of gently releasing what has covered your truest nature and returning, one layer at a time, to the love that has always been there.