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Where did that vision come from? What sparked this thought that we need more love in the world?

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What sparked that? Well, a lot of things, but one was I didn't always know what I know now.

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And early in my life, I was in a toxic marriage, terrible relationship, ended in divorce. I

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still have the emotional scars from that one. And that, among other things, kind of planted some

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seeds in me that grew over time, that I wanted to know what love really is and how to build it,

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that it needed to be more than something abstract, that we could actually learn how to live out

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relationships of love. And so over time, I've worked not only through my own personal experiences,

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but I have a master's degree in mental health counseling. And so from a therapist standpoint,

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I thought about and researched the idea of love. I also have a faith-based background with degrees

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in divinity and ministry. And I have worked in the faith-based area and in spirituality. And so I

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looked from a spiritual component, because as human beings, regardless of our religious backgrounds,

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we are a human spirit. We have a spiritual component to us. And we have a psychological

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and emotional component to us. And we have our experiences. And so I brought all that together

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in my own life, in my own practice of how to live out love, and from an academic standpoint as well,

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and ended up, from all those perspectives, being able to write my book and teach the

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five components of love.