"All About Love" , featuring China Borjas

About this episode

This episode explores various aspects of love, emphasizing self-love and insights from bell hooks' book 'All About Love'.

"Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to received from someone else" , this beautiful passage is from the book by bell hooks-"All About Love". Today's episode is all about love, self-love, love for our communities, childhood love lessons, honest love and so many other acts of love that bell hooks talked about in her amazing book. To help our host Iryna discuss this book, China Borjas , our guest & therapist from season 5 returned to the podcast for the second time. She gave a perfective of a therapist when it comes to love, as well as her own personal take on what love means to her. If you truly want to understand love, read this book. It will help you see love in the whole new light! #whatsyourdefiningmoment #momentsthatdefineuspodcast #thebeststorytellingpodcast #allaboutlove #bellhooks

People in this episode

Host: Iryna Barnett

Guest: China Borjas

Topics covered

• self-love
• community love
• childhood love lessons
• honest love
• bell hooks

Keywords

• self-love
• community love
• bell hooks
• love lessons
• therapist perspective

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: All About Love

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