Welcome to Love Notes from Rhonda.

And today I want to talk about your essence.

The essence that is you.

The essence that is really the true you, the.

The real you.

The essence, right?

The essence of you.

We all each have an essence, and that essence is the truth of who you are.

And that essence is so beautiful.

The essence of who you are is so breathtakingly beautiful.

And then we come into this world, right?

And we forget.

We forget our essence, we forget who we really are, and we just see the external world and we think that's who we are, but that's not who we are.

It's a vehicle in which we move through the world.

This beautiful body that is our vehicle, yet the essence.

You can call it spirit, you can call it soul, and you can simply call it essence.

It makes you you.

It makes you, you beautiful, beautiful you.

And I invite you to start focusing on the essence that permeates every cell of your being.

The essence that is at the very core of who you are.

The essence that you were born with.

Before you ever heard of the word diet or fat or ugly or unattractive or having doubts or mistrust, before any of that, you had and have an essence.

And that essence can be cultivated and seen and nurtured.

See, everyone runs around and wants their purpose, right?

But the challenge is, in order to find your purpose, you must embrace your essence, because your essence is where your purpose lives.

And yet we deny our essence, so we in turn deny our purpose and deny so many things about ourselves that we're meant to give and contribute into this world.

So today, I invite you to focus on your essence.

Now, you can call it beautiful, you can call it beauty, you can call it awe inspiring, you can call it amazing, you can call it truth, you can call it authentic, you can call it any name you want.

You can simply call it essence.

But I bet if freedom, love was the vehicle in which you looked at yourself, you could start seeing more and more and more of your essence.

Through your eyes, through your motions, through your size, through your light.

So today, let's remember that there is an essence within us.

That is who we really are.

And this body houses the essence.

And by the way, the essence goes beyond our body.

And so the more that we are willing to see, embrace, claim, nurture, honor our essence, the more we'll be able to see it.

And the more we see it, the more we can honor, nurture, et cetera, and we can see it more, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

So today, I want you to focus on your essence.

Call it a name if you'd like.

Beauty.

Awe inspiring.

Whole.

And anytime and all during the day, as you stumble through life with your body, I want you to remember that this glorious gift you've been given, called your body, is a vehicle in order for you to express that essence of yours in this world, this external world.

So embrace your essence today.

Nurture your essence today.

Claim your essence today.

Your essence is who you really are.

Until next time, be fearless.

I love you.