After I’d been making postcards for a month or so, I got the idea to create a series based on each one of the chapter titles from my coaching program, The 36 Ways to Your Burning Desire: A Manual for Getting What You Want. This is the first chapter, “Let Yourself Want Love,” which also happens to be the most fundamental step of them all. I love this card because everything about it seems vulnerable — Stephanie Seymour’s expression; the delicate way she’s holding her hands; the winter sunset scene behind her, with all those lovely shades of pink and purple. There’s something bleak and unfinished about the landscape, but it’s also on the verge of great beauty and potential. I placed the model in the center of the card (which is unlike most of my other cards), and framed her image with the big, red heart behind her. For me that was a powerful statement, not just coming directly from my heart, but also to say love is always behind us. If we can’t admit how lonely, how sad, how broken, and how powerless we feel at certain (inevitable) points in our lives, then we won’t be open to seeking or receiving what we need most of all, in those times: LOVE. This card is about wearing that need and desire for love on your sleeve — even just for a moment or two — so as to start the process of allowing love to come in and begin its gentle rescue. I say: love this card, love thyself! — E.S.