Plug Back In

Session 7: Love as Choice, Not Currency.

Many of us grew up believing, consciously or not, that love had to be earned.

Through achievement, obedience, self-sacrifice, perfection, or being “good.”

When love becomes a currency, we bend ourselves into shapes that keep us accepted, needed, or praised.

But the cost is high: we lose connection to the truth of who we are when we are not striving, pleasing, or proving.

This session invites you to gently unravel the old story that love depends on performance, and to return to love as a choice rather than a transaction.

A love that includes you.

A love that does not need to be earned.

What You Will Experience:

• A grounding arrival ritual to soften performance energy and settle into presence

• A guided meditation into the places where love has felt conditional

• Reflective journaling to explore love-as-earning, love-as-duty, and love-as-freedom

• A compassionate space to meet the parts of you that learned to perform for belonging

• A closing ritual to anchor one new way of receiving love without effort

Themes We Will Explore:

• Where and when love became conditional

• How “earning love” shows up in adulthood: relationships, work, family

• The difference between authentic receiving and approval-seeking

• Loving without losing self: connection without performance

• Returning to the truth: I am lovable without doing anything at all

Why This Matters:

Conditional love shapes our earliest understanding of worth.

It teaches us to perform instead of express, please instead of feel, strive instead of rest.

But this old map is not the truth.

When we begin to dismantle love-as-currency, something profound happens: we rediscover the freedom to be fully ourselves.

We receive love with ease rather than effort.

And relationships deepen, not because we work harder, but because we’re finally honest.

Learning to receive love without earning it is one of the most powerful acts of self-liberation we can make.

Who Is This For?

This session is for anyone who recognises patterns of people-pleasing, approval-seeking, over-achieving for belonging, or struggling to receive love without effort.

You do not need to have attended previous sessions.

Every Plug Back In gathering is a complete experience, meeting you exactly where you are.