Cultivating Love: Wisdom for Life by Dr. Ken McGill is written to take a deep dive into the subject of wisdom and to explore how to grow and remain wise during the seasons of a person’s life. It is also a book about the subject of love and the powerful effect that “cultivated love” can have in your life.

In this episode, Dr. McGill shares “What’s in the Box” of Cultivating Love: Wisdom for Life and how this book could be helpful to the therapist or clinician, pastor or parishioner, professor or student, husband or wife, high schooler or retiree, grandparent or adolescent, group leader or group member, mentor or mentee.

Cultivating Love: Wisdom for Life is the ninth book in Dr. McGill’s Cultivating Love series and is expected to be released in mid-November 2025.

In Section One of Cultivating Love: Wisdom for Life, we’ll take a look at how integrated wisdom principles from the disciplines of Psychology, Theology, and Neurobiology provide you with sound strategies and tools to assist you in your growth process.

The goal of your actions is to connect you with your God to receive enlightenment, empowerment, inspiration, and guidance (1.0 behaviors), which you’ll integrate and, over time, demonstrate through Loving Yourself (1.5 behaviors). This also strengthens your ability to Love Your Neighbors (2.0 behaviors) as you love yourself.

A strong focus is on developing and benefiting from skilled behavior to create an “internal safe place” to feel safe in your body and in your environment, which Dr. McGill mentions is one of the best ways to demonstrate love to yourself.

Dr. McGill states that a prime advantage of creating and engaging in this process to regulate your body is that it positions you to experience some of your best insights, wisdom, and other payoffs for your personal and relational benefit.