Welcome back to Infinite Threads. I’m your host, Bob.

There are things we carry that no one sees.

Moments we regret.Words we can’t take back.Stories that live behind our eyes, behind our smiles, behind the parts of us we polish for the world.

Some days…you might wonder if you’re still worthy of love.

After the choices.After the failures.After the breakage.After the way life bruised you—or the way you bruised someone else.

And this episode—this gentle, open-hearted episode—exists for one reason:

To remind you that yes…you are still worth loving.

Shame is a master storyteller.

It tells you that what you did is who you are.That one moment defines your whole life.That the person you were on your worst day is the real you.That you’re disqualified.That no one could understand—let alone love—you now.

And here’s the worst part:Shame speaks in your own voice.It wears your memories like armor.It walks with you into the most tender spaces and whispers,“Don’t you dare think you belong here.”

But that voice?That voice is lying.

Here’s the truth, whispered back with gentleness:

You were always more than your pain.You were always more than your worst moment.You were always more than what they couldn’t see in you.

You are still here.Still breathing.Still growing.Still capable of giving and receiving love.

And that is not nothing.That is sacred.

Love isn’t a reward for perfection.It’s not something you graduate into once you’re “healed.”It’s not a prize for people who never messed up.

Love is the soil.The atmosphere.The beginning.

It’s what helps us grow—not what waits on the other side of growth.

You are not a project.You are a person.

And you deserve love—not because of what you’ve done…but because of who you are.A soul trying. A heart open. A life unfolding.

What if…instead of bracing for rejection,you let yourself believe—just for today—that you’re worthy?

Worthy of gentleness.Worthy of comfort.Worthy of being held.Worthy of being seen… and stayed with.

What would soften in you if you stopped trying to “deserve” love…and just let yourself receive it?

What if your softness wasn’t a liability?What if your tenderness wasn’t a weakness?What if everything you’ve survived didn’t make you damaged—but deep?

There is a version of you that still winces at the past.Still rewrites conversations.Still grieves the version of yourself you wish had done it differently.

But let me say this clearly:

The you who regrets?Is the you who learned.

The you who aches?Is the you who loved.

The you who wants more now—who wants to heal, who wants to do better,who’s listening to this episode right now—is already becoming the person you once wished you were.

That’s love.

That’s grace in motion.

You are not too far gone.Not too late.Not too messy.

There is love for you… still.

The kind that doesn’t flinch.The kind that welcomes.The kind that wraps around your sharp edges and says, “I see you. And I’m staying.”

You may have to relearn how to receive it.You may have to unlearn the voices that said you had to earn it.But love?Real love?

It has not given up on you.

And it never will.

Thank you for listening to Infinite Threads. I’m your host, Bob.

And if today is one of those days…Where the voice of shame is louder than the voice of grace…Come back to this episode.Let it remind you what your heart already knows:

You are not your failures.You are not your wounds.You are not what they couldn’t love.

You are you.And you are still—so very—worth loving.

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