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Understanding Love

Understanding Love

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Kathryn's concern about the escalating violence and uncertainty in the world leads her to discuss the need for adaptability and learning new skills. She emphasizes the interconnectedness of love and life and encourages a shift from a human-centric to a life-centric perspective. She invites others to join her in the "coming home" project, which involves loving life and rediscovering engagement with it.

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Global Uncertainty and Violence Concerns

Kathryn expressed concern about the increasing violence and uncertainty in the world, citing examples such as the conflict in Ukraine and Gaza, political divisions in the United States, and natural disasters like those in Tennessee and the Philippines. She emphasized the anxiety and fear caused by these events and the resulting desire to cling to familiar ways.

Love, Life, and Adaptation: A New Perspective

Kathryn discussed the need to adapt to new situations and learn new skills, emphasizing the importance of love and life. She argued that love and life are intertwined, and that being alive involves a desire to be alive. She highlighted the need to support life and become a partner with it, suggesting that this would help mitigate feelings of anxiety, despair, and anger. Kathryn also differentiated between non-attachment, which involves curiosity and allowing things to unfold, and detachment, which means not caring or being engaged. She suggested a shift from a human-centric to a life-centric perspective and invited others to join her in the "Coming Home Project,” which involves loving life and rediscovering engagement with it.

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Join The Coming Home Project or get coached by going to her website Bridge To Partnership.

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