Jennifer Montgomery: The Healing Power of Unconditional Love

promise.

Well said.

You talk a lot about worth, and I think we see this in the clients we deal with all the time.

They don't believe in themselves at all.

They think they don't have value.

But you're really adamant about saying, no, you are worth it.

How have you come to that realization for yourself, I guess, to know that your worth doesn't fluctuate?

Well, someone told me once, they asked me if I had ever held a newborn baby in my arms.

And they asked me, what makes that baby worthy of love? It's not done anything to deserve or to earn your love.

All it does is cry and sleep and go to the bathroom.

And what is it? And I said, well, it exists.

And it has air in its lung.

And so this person, and it was you, said, how are you any different? And I realized that it wasn't.

That my worth has always been 100% and always will be no matter what.

And I know that that's the way God sees me and you and each and every one of us.

There is nothing we can do that is not forgivable.

There is no distance we can go that if we're willing, we can't get back to the arms of our Heavenly Father.

There just isn't.

Wow.

Well said.

You know, when I was introducing you, when we talk about you've been through addiction, domestic violence, homelessness, incarceration, heartbreak, profound loss.

I mean, if there's ever anything coming at you to try to affect your worth, you went through it, right? And it's understandable when someone is going through all of that to go, yeah, I must be nothing.

I don't have any value because look what's going on.

Well, it was easy to believe because I didn't have anyone that cared about me that loved me.

You know, it didn't feel worthy of any type of healthy support.