Dear Soulmate
What happens when you're walking that razor's edge, deep in your own thoughts, maybe feeling alone, and you start writing letters... not just to anyone, but to someone you feel out there, deep in your soul? Your soulmate.
Most people might call it a fantasy, just a dream we all kind of wish was real. I wrestled with that thought – long and hard. Searched myself, questioned everything. And I landed on belief. Why? Because everywhere I look, I see duality. Positive and negative. Yin and yang. A push and a pull. It felt true that for every energy, there’s another meant to harmonize with it – a soulmate.
My own spiritual path is a blend, seeing how energy cycles through everything, maybe like souls connecting across time, drawn together. So, during a time I was walking solo, this idea hit me: Write the letters. Put it all down – the hopes, the struggles, the search for that connection.
The plan became this: one day, send these letters out into the world. Use the internet like an ocean, these recordings like my message in a bottle, hoping the currents carry them to her.
This podcast, Dear Soulmate, is me unsealing those bottles. It's raw, it's my truth, shared publicly for the first time. Maybe you'll hear an echo of your own search in these words.
Let's cast the first letter out now.
Dear Soulmate
Dear Soulmate Episode 7
In this deeply moving episode of "Dear Soul Mate," Jonathan Cruz shares one of his most vulnerable letters—written from the depths of solitary confinement where hope seemed impossible. Before reading the letter, he poses powerful questions that challenge listeners to examine their own relationship with brokenness, love, and healing.
This raw and honest letter explores the transformative power of being seen and chosen despite our deepest wounds. Jonathan writes about the value of someone who doesn't just tolerate our damaged parts, but treasures our entire story—scars and all. From the cold isolation of a prison cell, he discovered that sometimes our greatest pain becomes the very thing that prepares us to recognize true love.
Through poetic language and profound vulnerability, this episode examines what it means to find hope in hopelessness, to dream of love from a place of complete emotional desolation, and to understand that real love doesn't happen despite our brokenness—it happens because of our entire journey. Jonathan's words remind us that the right person won't just accept our past; they'll see it as proof of our strength.
This episode is for anyone who has ever felt too damaged to be loved, too broken to be worthy, or too scarred to be chosen. It's a powerful reminder that our deepest wounds often become the foundation for our most beautiful connections.