Podcast 465: What we are doing wrong when it comes to love

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I talk to Kanwer Singh, also known as Humble The Poet, about what most of us are doing wrong when it comes to love, what it means to sit with your pain and experience love, the difference between self-care and self-love, and so much more!

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

1:30 Humble the Poet’s amazing new book on love

2:40 Humble the Poet’s life & work

11:00 What love is

13:50 Different versions of love

14:50 Vulnerability is not a weakness

16:22 What we are doing wrong when it comes to love

18:30 How the world has changed & how this affects our perception of love

23:40 The difference between self-care & self-love

35:36 Why we need to sit with our pain to experience love

43:20 Loving others means loving yourself

44:10 Real love is not easy but it is worth it!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr. Caroline Leif and welcome to my podcast Cleaning Up the Mental Mace.
0:10.4	What are most of us doing wrong when it comes to love?
0:14.3	What does it actually mean to sit with your pain to experience love?
0:19.2	What is the difference between self-care and self-love?
0:23.1	Well, my guess today to help answer these questions and more is Kanwar Singh.
0:28.6	Also known as the Humble Poet.
0:31.3	Kanwar is a Canadian born rapper, spoken word artist poet, internationally,
0:36.5	based selling author and former elementary school teacher.
0:40.0	What began as reciting spoken word poetry and coffee shops to impress girls,
0:44.0	evolved into a creative adventure that has spanned the last 10 years,
0:47.7	crossing genres, mediums and oceans.
0:50.2	His first due releases unburned and things nobody can teach us have become international
0:55.2	based sellers.
0:56.3	In his news book, How to Be Loved, he shows us how to move away from the trap of
1:01.0	always trying to be loved by the world and rather be the love we desire.
1:05.5	So let's dive in.
1:10.1	Welcome, Kanwar. I'm really looking forward to this interview because you're talking about
1:14.3	something that is just so universal, so cool to who you are as humans and it is so important
1:21.1	and it's something I talk about from a scientific perspective as well.
1:24.2	So you're going to talk about love and you're going to give us a wonderful, beautiful
1:27.8	perspective on love and you have a beautiful new book on this book, a book called How to Be Love.
1:34.2	And I love that how to be loved and then in brackets you've got how to be loved.
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