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Subject: Stop Being Love's Bodyguard - A Course in Miracles Insights - Updates 11/8/25

November 8, 2025

Hello, My Mighty Companion,

“Stop being love’s bodyguard. Love is the guard.” It sounds clever, but I say it because most of us don’t realize how often we treat love like it’s fragile. The moment we get defensive, we’re acting as if love needs our protection, like we have to jump in front of it to keep it safe. But the truth is the exact opposite. Love is the strength. Love is the safety. Defensiveness is just fear dressed up as self-protection. The real power shows up the moment you stop explaining, stop justifying, stop trying to secure your worth in someone else’s eyes. In that quiet space, love does what it has always done. It holds you, protects you, and restores your peace without a single argument needed.

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The featured video for this past week was:

How to Stop Being Defensive and Trust Love Instead of Fear | ACIM Lesson 153

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Closing the Year with Clarity

As we come into the final months of the year, this is the moment to pause and look at what the year has shown us. Every shift, every pattern, every breakthrough is guidance if we’re willing to see it. And the clearer we get now, the stronger we walk into what’s ahead.

I’ll be straight with you: 2026 is going to be a doozy. Not something to fear, but something to prepare for. It’s a year that’s going to ask more of your awareness, your willingness, and your commitment to peace. That’s why now is the time to deepen your insight and clear out what you don’t want to carry forward.

I’m here to help you do that. Everything I offer is meant to strengthen your connection to your Inner Teacher and help you choose peace faster and more consistently.

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Thank you for walking this journey with me.

When I Defend, I Declare War on My Own Peace

The world taught me to stay on guard—to defend my ideas, my worth, my relationships, even my peace. But A Course in Miracles tells me something totally different: my safety lies in my defenselessness.

Every time I defend myself, I’m really affirming the belief that I can be attacked.
Defensiveness quietly says, “I don’t trust love to take care of me.”

Today I want to invite you to breathe that in and reverse it: I don’t have to defend love.
Love doesn’t need a bodyguard. Love is the guard.

The Ego’s Favorite Trick

The ego keeps insisting that strength means being right, winning, and staying in control.
But every time I defend, what I’m actually saying is, “I’m not safe.”

Fear says, “Fight for your rights.”

Spirit says, “Rest in your right mind.”

Whenever I feel that urge to justify or explain, I stop and remind myself:

“I am safe now. I have nothing to prove.”

That moment of honesty opens the door to peace.

🌕 Astrology Insight for the Week of November 8-15, 2025

This week’s Mercury Retrograde from November 9 to November 29 invites us to slow down, rethink, and review the beliefs we’ve been defending. Yes, Mercury Retrograde can look messy on the surface — delays, miscommunications, plans shifting — but the purpose underneath is always the same: to help us see what we’ve been reacting to, protecting, or arguing for without even realizing it. Retrogrades reveal the places where our defensiveness is hiding. And once we see it, we can choose differently.

Jupiter turning retrograde in Cancer from November 11 through March 10 strengthens this inner work. Instead of searching for emotional safety in other people, situations, or outer stability, Jupiter pulls us back into the truth that real safety is internal. It reminds us that defensiveness is unnecessary because the peace resides within us.

With Uranus reentering Taurus on November 7 and continuing into early 2026, the theme stays focused and unmistakable:

Release the instinct to defend your thoughts and beliefs
Let go of gripping for safety through control
Come home to the kind of stability the world can’t take from you

This is the perfect week to choose again — to stop guarding yourself with fear and let inner truth guide your steps. Defensiveness isn’t clarity. Peace is.

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