Blog Post Title One
A reflection on love…
The term ‘love’ is in need of a re-definition.
The romanticism & Disneyfication of love are destined to lead us down a one way path of doom & dismay.
Love is not the intense array of feelings you get when somebody first catches your eye, nor is it the abnormally elevated levels of dopamine, serotonin & oxytocin you experience in the first few months of dating somebody. Love is a deeper (& frankly not so seductive) term when analysed more critically.
My definition is one I urge you to contemplate, if not adopt:
Love: To suffer undeterred.
We are woefully inept when it comes to love in its most common form. Even with the best of intentions we fail miserably. Whether it is loving another individual, loving a particular activity, loving a pet, loving your country or community, we often miss the mark. Vowing to do better next time, we rarely ever do. The cycle repeats, on & on.
This is of course outer-directed love – love aimed at another person or thing. Which begs a deeper question: Can one love at all without first loving themselves?
To place someone else before yourself, to meet someone else’s needs before your own, or to nourish
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Blog Post Title Two
You can't think your way out of a feeling problem
Modern day writer, marketer & entrepreneur, George Mack, has a fantastic concept regarding how our thoughts, feelings & actions interrelate to one another. Many of us will be aware of ‘top-down’ processing & the logical stages of ‘thinking – feeling – acting’. Yet, in order to change how we think or feel, Mack states the following
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You can't think your way out of a feeling problem
