Love's "Fierce Celebration"

What does it mean to love someone? To love yourself? To love your body?

I can say I love someone but if the impact of my beliefs, words and actions hurts them and they don’t feel my love, do I really love them?

This question was beautifully broached in the Let Her Rest episode of Glennon Doyle’s We Can Do Hard Things podcast recently. The conversation was around addicts who say they love their family while hurting them, and evangelical Christians who believe that homosexuality and queerness is a hell-worthy sin while also professing their love for gay and queer family and friends.

While these are extreme and dramatic love dynamics, we can explore love in all kinds of relationships.

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