What is love?

About this episode

In this solo episode, Shaun Galanos explores the complexities of love through personal reflections and shared insights.

What is love? It's a question I've never seriously stopped to answer — and one that's surprisingly hard to get at. In this solo episode, I share reflections from Love Camp, a retreat I hosted for 25 people, where only one participant raised their hand when asked if they had positive loving role models growing up. I explore what love actually looks like in practice — not the grand gestures we're sold, but the quiet, boring, mundane acts of showing up. I read a letter I wrote to myself, share an email from my friend Kathy, and read some of my favorite quotes on love from M. Scott Peck and Rainer Maria Rilke — plus a Hawaiian prayer to close. This episode won't give you a clean answer. But it might help you live the question a little better. If you've ever found yourself asking what love actually is, why it hurts, or whether you're doing it right, this one's for you. Maybe the answer isn't something we figure out. Maybe we live our way into it. Listener question from Sarah in British Columbia, Canada. Featured quotes: M. Scott Peck "Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. Love is as love does. Love is an act of…

People in this episode

Host: Shaun Galanos

Topics covered

• love
• relationships
• self-reflection
• personal growth
• emotional well-being

Keywords

• love
• relationships
• self-reflection
• M. Scott Peck
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• emotional growth
• Love Camp

Mentioned in this episode

Places: British Columbia, Canada

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