My new book is now available for purchase. This is so exciting for me as its the culmination of what I have learnt from being a social worker for nearly fifty years. It interweaves my pertinent personal and professional experiences with a critical analysis of some of the wicked socio-political issues of our time. The purpose of this exposition is to show how I’ve come to understand love as multi-faceted ethics and capacities to address the causes of broken-heartedness. Lovelessness is the main cause of broken-heartedness. When people, other animals and Nature experience lovelessness it takes a range of forms of violence and injustice.

Broken-heartedness is addressed by love, nonviolence and eco-justice practices. A number of personal essays show how I take responsibility for causing broken-heartedness as a social worker. As well as showing how I have been broken-hearted and what I’ve done to pivot on the pain and loss towards love.

This first podcast introduces the book and provides a reading of part of the first chapter. Follow along with subsequent podcasts - coming soon - to listen to almost all of the book, interspersed with occasional additional commentary.

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