What does it take to finally trust love instead of fear after a lifetime of letting fear lead the way? And what happens when a writer known for raw, painful honesty decides her next book will come from joy instead?
In this episode of Walking the Path of Love, Charlyn sits down with Priscilla Warner, the New York Times bestselling author of The Faith Club and Learning to Breathe, and now the creator of How to Fall in Love with Yourself, a book built around reconnecting with her younger self through art and photography. Priscilla is also a trained sound healer who works with antique Tibetan singing bowls, and her path has carried her through decades of panic attacks, a long marriage built on an instant (and unexplainable knowing), and the kind of healing that only comes from sitting still long enough to listen.
Priscilla opens the conversation with a grounding practice using her singing bowls, each tuned to a different chakra, before she and Charlyn dive into what it actually looks like to choose love over fear in real time. She shares the night she met her husband nearly forty-five years ago, a moment she still cannot fully account for except to call it intuition, and how that same quiet knowing eventually grew into the deep trust she now relies on as a healer, sensing what people are carrying in their bodies before they say a word.
What stays with you most from this conversation is the practice Priscilla calls click-click, a habit she picked up from her mother of pausing to truly notice a moment so it never gets lost, and the gentler one of simply calling herself sweetheart instead of the names she used to call herself. Both came from hard places: her mother's decline from Alzheimer's, years of self-criticism so sharp she barely recognized it as cruelty, and both became doorways into something tender. The invitation beneath it all is the same one she offers her grandchildren and the readers of her book: that loving yourself first is not selfish; it is simply where everything else becomes possible.
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