Where did that vision come from? What sparked this thought that we need more love in the world?
What sparked that? Well, a lot of things, but one was I didn't always know what I know now.
And early in my life, I was in a toxic marriage, terrible relationship, ended in divorce. I
still have the emotional scars from that one. And that, among other things, kind of planted some
seeds in me that grew over time, that I wanted to know what love really is and how to build it,
that it needed to be more than something abstract, that we could actually learn how to live out
relationships of love. And so over time, I've worked not only through my own personal experiences,
but I have a master's degree in mental health counseling. And so from a therapist standpoint,
I thought about and researched the idea of love. I also have a faith-based background with degrees
in divinity and ministry. And I have worked in the faith-based area and in spirituality. And so I
looked from a spiritual component, because as human beings, regardless of our religious backgrounds,
we are a human spirit. We have a spiritual component to us. And we have a psychological
and emotional component to us. And we have our experiences. And so I brought all that together
in my own life, in my own practice of how to live out love, and from an academic standpoint as well,
and ended up, from all those perspectives, being able to write my book and teach the
five components of love.