In this week’s Hot Flash, I wanted to pause on one word, because it sits at the center of how I think, how I strive to live, how I show up in coaching containers, and how I understand the dynamics of relationships:

Love.

Because most of us were taught to think of love primarily as a feeling. As closeness, warmth, attraction, emotional connection.

What if love is something more than feeling?

Drawing from a definition that deeply influences my understanding of love. The work of M. Scott Peck and echoed, powerfully, by bell hooks, in this episode I explore love as:

The will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing growth in one's self and in others

In other words:

• Love requires action.
• Love requires effort
• Love has purpose.

That purpose is growth. Our own, and the growth of others.

This is a short reflection on why I believe:

Love is a verb.