Choose Love Anyway

Hello,

We can’t believe that we are already releasing episode 5 of our podcast!!! This has been such a special thing to create and put out together…We feel so grateful for all of the love and support! Thank you to all who submitted questions for this episode!

In this conversation we share more about how we have navigated difficult times in our relationship and the tools we use to have a healthy connection between us - which is now grounded in love, respect and honesty. We hope this episode offers some advice and hope in navigating sensitive conversations and relationships that mean a lot to you. We are learning that there is so much beauty in being authentic and honest and choosing to have those hard conversations in order to grow in deeper connection with the people we love…<3

We are sending you all love and wishing you safety and peace.

Love always,

Dalia and Dina <3

#chooseloveanyway #q&a #authenticity #disagreements #growthmindset

Hello,

We hope you are having a beautiful week and staying safe and warm! We are sending love to you wherever you are. We are excited to release episode four of this series and share about what has been on our minds this week. As we begin this conversation we start by sharing some of the research and a little background on the topics that we cover…anxiety, the unknown and move into discussing how we have found that curiosity has become the antidote for us. Dalia also interviewed Dina for part of the episode and Dina has a fun “aha” moment that was sweet to witness. Dina is coming down with something in this episode so she is more low energy but very happy to be here and grateful that you are listening.

The theme that is weaved throughout this episode is:

“What if the unknown isn’t something to solve, but something to experience?”

Dina is also very vulnerable in this episode and shares about her experience with suicidal thoughts during one of the hardest times in her life…if this topic is hard for you to listen to we completely understand and hope you will do what is best for you. If you choose to listen to this episode the time to skip over would be between the 22 -23 minute mark. )

As part of our discussion we talk about the amazing episode we listened to this weekend from Faith Matters (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/faith-matters/id1307757928), we will link the episode here (https://substack.com/@daliamontgomery/note/c-218646271?r=s24vf&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action) if you would like to listen…We have all probably heard the things that were discussed in this episode but as Dalia described ~ it feels like she heard it here in a new way and the truths went a layer deeper and her ability to understand them grew.

Thank you again for listening and sharing your thoughts with us…we would love to answer some of your questions in our next episode so send them to us in the way that feels easiest for you! You can comment on this post here on Substack, on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/chooseloveanyway?igsh=Y2V0NzZoYnYzYmF6&utm_source=qr), YouTube (https://m.youtube.com/@chooseloveanyway), and TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@chooseloveanyway?_r=1&_t=ZP-94EAeWWsuf0).

We are sending our love always!

Dalia and Dina <3

#chooseloveanyway #predictability #curiosity #selftrust #embracinguncertainty

Hello our dear friends and family,

We hope that you had a beautiful Valentine’s Day and enjoyed the long holiday weekend. Episode 3 of Choose Love Anyway will be out today on all platforms. This is an episode where we share how we move through days when accessing our tools feels hard or when we are faced with disappointment… We want to invite you into how we move through life moment to moment and find gentle ways to accept the reality we are in.

Dalia is feeling under the weather in this episode, so we move at our own pace and try to be honest with you, as we are both in a phase of life where pretending doesn’t feel as accessible anymore… We hope that you will hear something that feeds your soul today - and maybe send it to someone you love who you desire to talk about some of the ideas we cover in this episode with. (:

We have also been soaking up the joy that this piece has been showering over us as we’ve gotten to read and reread this work of art by Vidya that she released as a gift for Valentine’s Day. We shared an excerpt from her writing in our last episode and want to share the rest of the piece for you to read and enjoy too…We’re looking forward to hearing what this piece and the episode inspire in you.

Here is another little sneak peek into her gorgeous writing that feels fitting to share with this episode:

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“When you know this body will not last forever, you treat it more gently. Or you should. You feed it beautiful things. You let it rest when it asks. You stop punishing it for not being what it was ten years ago and start thanking it for everything it still does.

When you know this particular phase of life will pass, you stop rushing through it to get to the next one. You let yourself be where you are. You stop treating every stage as preparation for some better version coming later. Impermanence teaches presence. It teaches gratitude. It teaches us to stop saving our lives for later and start living them now.”

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Sending our love to you always,

Dalia and Dina <3

#chooseloveanyway #acceptingreality #growth #healingjourney #hardmoments

Hello,

Happy Valentine’s Day and our 21 year Anniversary of living in America! <3 We hope you’ve had the most beautiful day and have felt and shared all the love with the people around you…As promised here is a little Valentine’s Day gift from us to you…this is a meditation by Dalia where she will guide you through a visualization that she created last year for a Galentine’s event where she led a group of women through this beautiful journey to meet with their inner child specifically a 5 to 9 year old version of themselves. She starts this meditation by sharing about that experience and some things that inspired her. Part of the evening was writing a letter to yourself from love or from that younger version of yourself. Here is the writing Dalia shared in this meditation by Elizabeth Gilbert about this practice:

“I believe there is an ocean of warm, affectionate, outrageously unconditional love available to us all — and that it is conveniently accessible from within. I don’t believe anyone is excluded from this ocean of love. It is only a question of learning how to hear it, how to feel it, and how to trust it.

For over a quarter of a century I have written daily letters to myself from love and it has been the most transformative spiritual practice of my life.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

This is the first time we are releasing a meditation on our podcast, and this is the first time Dalia is recording this way and so the quality of the audio isn’t as perfect as we hope for it to be one day. But we are trying to continue to stay true to the spirit in which we released this podcast into the world, and sharing the love we have to offer no matter how imperfect it is…Thank you for continuing to be gentle and loving with us as we keep learning and refining our process. Listening with headphones on and turning down the volume is helpful for a softer listening experience.

#chooseloveanyway #selflove #innerchild #spirituality #meditation #visualization

Hello,

We hope you’ve had a beautiful week and have some special plans for the Valentine’s weekend coming up.

Our second episode of Choose Love Anyway is out now! In our first episode we shared about why we are starting this podcast and why we chose the name that we did.

In this episode we go deeper and try to share a bit of our journey starting with where we were born, our childhood, and where we are in the present. We also share about why our journey has empowered and inspired us to choose love anyway, moment to moment.

In the spirit of honesty and being fully transparent we had to record this episode a few times. We didn’t realize how tender we still were until we started to share, and so we chose to set some boundaries for ourselves in this episode and not include some parts of our journey. So that we could honor our own safety and give ourselves space to ease into this experience of sharing more about ourselves online.

We are so grateful for the love and encouragement we have received from our dear friends and family. It means the world to us as you are all a part of our story and have shaped the people that we are today. We are so grateful for this life and that we get to experience all that it has to offer…even the heart break and painful moments. One of our beautiful friends once reminded us “That even the pain is holy…”

This episode could have been hours and hours long and so we tried not to dive too deep into the details. If you are interested in hearing more about any part of our journey, please feel free to message us and we would be happy to record an episode answering your specific questions.

As always we are sending love to all of you and thank you for listening to our podcast and supporting us!

Dalia and Dina <3

#chooseloveanyway #newepisode #aboutus #growth #healingjourney

Hello,

We hope you are having a beautiful start to your year! This is such an exciting Thursday for us as we release our first episode of a series we have been working on together as sisters. We have dreamed of putting out a podcast together and the time is here!! We have put much love and intention into this, and we are also releasing a lot of control as we are learning how to do all of this for the first time. It is taking lots of courage to do this, and so we ask for gentleness and love as we figure out our voice here and iron out any technical parts of this journey.

Choose Love Anyway is a reminder that every moment offers a choice, love or fear. When we choose love, especially for ourselves, we cultivate the compassion, courage, and grace needed to extend that love to others. You can expect to hear conversations about embracing vulnerability, healing from within, and allowing the love we nurture in ourselves to ripple outward, transforming how we show up in the world.

We are sooo grateful for your support and love, and also want you to know that as our favorite yoga teacher always reminds us this is just an invitation not an obligation to listen. Please let us know what topics you are looking to hear us discuss and parts of this episode that resonated with you. We plan to release 1 episode every Thursday for the next 8-10 weeks as part of the first season of this podcast.

Sending our love always,

Dalia and Dina <3