We’re talking about love - what is genuine love, self-love, love as a practice, and so much more. Centered around the understanding that our love for ourselves shapes our capacity to love others, we explore how we can embody love from our limitless internal source of love that is our innate ability to love unconditionally. Dive into this juicy episode or jump around the episode (we added timestamps below) to learn how to experience more love by connecting to and embodying love from within. Part 1 helps us understand our ideas of love so we can rebuild them for holistic, unconditional, embodied love from within in Part 2.

We kick off the conversation with a side note about the struggles of winter (00:24) and solutions to winter blues (02:20) while highlighting the importance of winter (05:06) before introducing the topic of “Embodying Love” (06:10). First taking inventory of the images and ideas we have when it comes to love (06:38) before breaking down our ideas of love as external and internal (07:29). Then we explore our struggle to love ourselves (and others) unconditionally as it relates to our models of love, intergenerational and personal experiences of trauma (08:25) and limits our experience of love from within (23:48). So where do we start - at the foundation, our love for ourselves (25:24) and by reestablishing our understanding of what love is (27:07). We introduce the four aspects of true love (27:45) and a few more elements of love through two books (29:49).

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As It Goes 015 // Aligning With the Seasons: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1oPtFBgpkhjbsBqEQU4wqi?si=67e9439362af48ec

The Body Keeps the Score: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780143127741

True Love by Thich Nhat Hanh: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781590304044

How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People): https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781401946692

MINDSET Workshop: https://www.reself.me/mindset

RECALIBRATE Cleansing: https://www.reself.me/shop/p/recalibrate-cleansing

Cleansing Meditation: https://www.reself.me/shop/p/cleansing-guided-meditation

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