What if the reason love hasn't happened yet isn't because you're meant to be alone—but because part of you is still protecting you from the risk of losing it?
In this deeply insightful coaching session, Christine works with Meredith, a 44-year-old woman who has built a full and fulfilling life. She's dated throughout adulthood, had long-term relationships, and created a career and life she enjoys. But she's never been married or engaged, and she's beginning to wonder: Do I actually want partnership anymore, or should I simply accept that this is my life?
Yet underneath that question, the longing is still there.
Meredith wants companionship, attraction, shared interests, and the feeling of coming home to someone. At the same time, her history has taught her that loving someone can mean losing them.
Meredith suddenly lost her father when she was 13. Her mother was emotionally unavailable for many years, and just as their relationship eventually changed and Meredith began receiving more of the connection she needed, she lost her mother to cancer.
Christine helps Meredith recognize the competing intentions operating beneath the surface: one part deeply desires love, while another part has learned that love is risky because the people you love can disappear.
Rather than treating Meredith's relationship fears as evidence that she's broken or needs to fix herself before she can find love, Christine reframes them as protective parts doing exactly what they learned to do. The work isn't becoming perfectly healed before entering a relationship. It's understanding those parts, accepting them, and consciously deciding that love is worth the risk.
Together, they explore grief, fear of loss, subconscious protection, self-acceptance, relationship insecurity, and why healing is very different from fixing yourself.
If you've ever wondered whether you should give up on finding love, felt exhausted by the idea that you need to do more work on yourself before you're "ready," or found yourself simultaneously longing for intimacy and pulling away from it, this conversation offers a completely different perspective.
Press play to discover what can shift when you stop asking, "What's wrong with me?" and begin telling yourself: "I'm willing to risk it for love."
Do you genuinely no longer desire partnership, or have you become discouraged after years of disappointment?
Do you have one part that deeply wants intimacy while another part keeps its foot on the brake?
Have experiences of grief, abandonment, or loss taught you that loving someone isn't safe?
Are you afraid of the relationship itself—or are you actually afraid of losing the relationship?
Do you believe you have to completely heal or fix yourself before you're worthy of healthy love?
What happens inside your body when you say: "I'm willing to risk losing again to call in great love"?
We can consciously desire something while subconscious protective parts are working hard to keep us from experiencing it.
When it comes to competing intentions, the protective parts often win because they're wired toward survival.
Meredith isn't necessarily afraid of love itself; she's afraid of experiencing love and then losing it.
Sudden loss and emotional unavailability in childhood can create powerful subconscious associations between intimacy, instability, and grief.
What we often label as insecurity may actually be fear that makes complete sense in the context of our history.
You don't need to fully love every part of yourself before you're capable of receiving healthy love.
Acceptance and compassion toward the parts of yourself you don't love can actually be powerful forms of self-love.
Healing is different from fixing. Fixing assumes you're broken; healing involves understanding your wounds and protective patterns.
You don't need to enter a relationship without any "scabs." You can take responsibility for your wounds while allowing someone to walk beside you.
Part of healthy intimacy is accepting that loving another person always involves some degree of risk.
The goal isn't to eliminate your desire for love so you won't be disappointed. It's learning to experience desire and longing without turning them into suffering.
Instead of asking whether you're destined to be single, become curious about the part of you that still wants partnership and the part that feels safer without it.
When insecurity appears, ask what fear may be underneath it.
Explore whether you're afraid of being in a relationship or afraid of eventually losing one.
Practice telling your protective parts: "I understand why you're scared, and I'm willing to risk loving again."
Stop treating your wounds as evidence that you're broken or unready for love.
Notice the difference between healing yourself and trying to fix yourself.
Practice accepting your fears and vulnerabilities rather than believing they must disappear before you're ready for partnership.
Allow yourself to desire love without judging yourself, becoming frustrated with yourself, or making the absence of partnership mean something is wrong with you.
Christine and her husband are teaching Love Magnet, a free three-day workshop taking place October 13, 14, and 15.
The workshop focuses on magnetizing healthy love, moving beyond the belief that you need to continually fix yourself, and creating more fulfillment and relief around dating, intimacy, and relationships.
Christine shares that the workshop has been refreshed with new material since she last taught it in February 2025. A VIP upgrade is also available.
Learn more and register for Love Magnet
Christine also discusses Be the Queen, the deeper program she teaches with her husband for women who want to call in a healthy, side-by-side partnership.
In the program, Christine goes deeper into subconscious blocks, protective patterns, feminine magnetism, and the different kinds of relationships we can attract.
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