The Love Movement
We are starting a movement, centered around love to help raise the vibration of this beautiful planet.
You can expect to hear casual conversations and interviews with some amazing people as we chat about many topics all centered around three main pillars:
Loving Yourself: Explore practical tips, personal stories, and scientific insights on self-love.
Loving Others: Hear inspiring stories of kindness, empathy, and connection. From random acts of love to deep friendships, we celebrate the beauty of human bonds
Loving the Planet: Dive into discussions about environmental consciousness, sustainable living, and our responsibility to care for our beautiful home. Discover how self love extends to nurturing the Earth and creating a more compassionate world.
Tune in to “The Love Movement” and be part of a global shift toward more love, understanding, and positive change.
The Love Movement
Ep 15: Valentine's Day: Spread the Love
The episode reveals the transformative power of love, urging listeners to integrate love for oneself, personal relationships, and the planet into their daily lives. With personal stories, heartfelt challenges, and practical tips, the hosts inspire a deeper appreciation for love in its many forms.
• Highlighting the essence of Valentine’s Day as a reminder of love
• Emphasizing intentionality to foster appreciation for love
• Discussing self-care practices as vital for self-love
• Introducing the concept of the "Invisible String" connecting us
• Encouraging deeper physical connections through simple gestures
• Exploring gratitude as a means to love the planet
• Advocating for small acts of kindness towards the environment
• Motivating listeners to incorporate love into everyday life
Links
The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
you're listening to the love movement with your hosts britney and brian johnston.
Speaker 2:We're starting a movement centered around love to help raise the vibration of this beautiful planet.
Speaker 1:If that's your vibe, hang out with us as we chat about many topics all centered around three main pillars Loving yourself, loving each other and loving the planet. So if you're ready, let's jump in. Happy Valentine's Day, friends. Happy Valentine's Day. We're coming at you with a really short and sweet episode 15. Kind of late in the day, but it's still Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2:I think what we wanted to do is just um, I don't know put a little more love out in the world, since that's what, uh, this channel or this podcast is all about and maybe just give some people some reminders of how to love yourself, each other and the planet more yeah, because I think the more love we can, you know, give ourselves, each other and the planet, the more we can raise the vibration as a collective and just feel the love.
Speaker 1:Today, some people are like I don't know, oh, it's just another day. What do you think about that mentality?
Speaker 2:I mean, I get it because it's just. You know, people get into the routine of their lives and it just feels like another day. I think that's why you have to be intentional.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think Valentine's Day is just another day to focus on love and, to like, bring more attention to it, so there's nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it's a good opportunity to reconnect and bring back those loving feelings that we all once had, especially if we were in a relationship.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I want to know and hear from you guys what are your Valentine's Day traditions? Are there things that you do, that you always do? Let's maybe spread some of that love with each other too, and maybe help each other with ideas. What were we doing four years ago today?
Speaker 2:Four years ago today, Four years ago today, we were at the hospital and oh man.
Speaker 1:Waiting to get induced. Waiting to get induced ordering sushi. Yeah, so our tradition is sushi. However, I'm on a 12-week meal plan and sushi is not included, so maybe tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Just order sushi and eat the middle.
Speaker 1:No rice for you, I'll just watch you eat it. But yeah, it's funny because our son turns four tomorrow. Luckily he did not arrive on Valentine's Day, so we do separate the holidays, but a lot of our Valentine's Day involves getting his big day ready. So we've been Brian was making homemade cupcakes from scratch and wrapping presents, and tonight we're going to make a balloon arch like we did last year. Now we've gotten ourselves into this predicament, but it's all because I love seeing the smile on his face and it's just more like spreading love, and it's fun that he gets to have V-Day and then B-Day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how cool is that.
Speaker 1:Taking it as it is. But with that you guys let's just share a little bit about when you think of Brian, like loving yourself, what are some things that you know we can help people to remind them to do?
Speaker 2:Well, there's obviously the self-care aspects. Taking care of your health, I think, is the number one thing. Food is both medicine and your poison.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:So I think, honoring, like your, your body, like it as a you know, a vessel. It's the only place you have to live.
Speaker 1:Try to keep the red 40 away from your children.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of things we need to keep away from our children and I think my advice would be to just do something that you want to do, not that you should do. I feel like I don't know, especially as women and moms, and we're busy and there's a million things on the to do list and it's never ending. It feels like just stop and pause for a minute and do something that you want to do. For me, that was sleeping in this morning with my son instead of getting up and doing a workout and I'll do yoga later because to me, that is something I love to do and then this morning we went for a walk.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was great.
Speaker 1:After we dropped him off at preschool, which was really nice to just stop and have that time. I guess that's more about loving each other because we spent time with each other, but I made a really nice matcha warm drink before we left and like just little thing, it can be such a little thing. Maybe it's a bubble bath. Maybe it's your favorite Netflix show. We just finished the finale of Beast Games. That was something I wanted to do. By the way, this is not an ad. If you haven't started watching Beast Games, you should probably get on that. Anything else, for Love Yourself.
Speaker 2:I don't know, you're just. I mean, every single person on the planet is a unique expression of life and I think we just need to look at ourselves as I don't know, just this amazing, amazing being that we are, and love ourselves because, because we're unique. But the fact that we get to be here on this planet experiencing the good and the bad is pretty amazing. I think I might have said this in the first episode we did about love, but you think about how many planets and stars that are in the galaxy. So think of it this way stars that are in the galaxy. So think of it this way every single grain of sand that's on Earth represents approximately a billion planets in space.
Speaker 1:We should share that reel in the show notes of this, because it is absolutely mind-blowing how insignificant I feel when I look at that. But grateful at the same time but grateful because it's like winning the million 10 million dollar lottery or something the fact that we do get to be here and experience this yeah, like when we, when you say the infinite universe, the universe is is infinite.
Speaker 2:We'll never know how, where it ends, how it began, but the fact that we can just sit here and have this conversation, that like you gotta love yourself for just being able to experience that yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1:And then loving each other and I don't think this necessarily means you have to have a partner or a husband or a wife or any of these things, but just loving each other in general I think it's just humanity yeah, there's actually a book. We got Marty for Valentine's day and he's getting another one for his birthday, or yeah, for his birthday. So it's called the invisible string, which is kind of representation of us all loving each other. Explain the concept.
Speaker 2:Uh, the invisible string is just like this. I don't know if I've only I don't even think I've read the whole book. Oh, I've read it so many times. You've read it to him a lot, so you explain it.
Speaker 1:Basically, you just have like an invisible string attached from you to anybody that you love and that can never be cut or severed as long as there's always love there and it can reach to. You know it's like it's a story for you to explain to your kids that they're never alone and that everybody is connected. It's a really nice book. The author is Patrice Karst. I think We'll link it in the show notes too. I just got it on Amazon. It's been a nice little gift I've been sending to people lately, and then the Invisible Web is another book by her that we haven't read yet. So we're giving that to him tomorrow. But it's kind of that concept when it's like we are all connected.
Speaker 2:We are connected.
Speaker 2:And again, like if we zoom out on the planet and you look at the earth from space, it just looks like a peaceful, you know ball floating in space. There's, there's no drama, there's no nothing going on. But when you zoom right down into earth, there's all this conflict and all these theatrics and you know political drama and stuff people trying to divide everywhere. It just I feel like if we just look through all that and we just look at people and souls and souls as just what they are, which we're all, just you know, like I said, expressions of creation really and you look at each other on a soul level, without all the differences of how we think and how we live and all that stuff, we can really get back to to everything, just love. So just, I think, just looking through a light at everyone and everything with that sense of love and no judgment, like it's hard to do that's part of the human experience, something you work on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's part of the human experience well, and something else.
Speaker 1:When we went for this walk, we just like stopped and we're. We did a little reel on this one rock and the sun was just shining, it was nice. And then we just stood up and gave each other a hug and we just like hugged each other for like two minutes probably, without saying anything. And I just thought I wanted to challenge anybody listening to this that does have a significant other to just hug each other for like two minutes probably without saying anything. And I just thought I wanted to challenge anybody listening to this that does have a significant other to just hug each other but don't even speak, just hug for longer than one second. Like hug for two minutes, yeah, because you can literally feel the love.
Speaker 2:Well, your heart centers are connected. Your everything's connected. All your chakras are all aligned with each other.
Speaker 1:We do that lots in the mornings too. Marty will notice and come up and want a family hug and get in the middle of it and I just think like there's so much power in a hug, right? Or a kiss. Or maybe today it's a makeout, who knows? It's Valentine's Day and buy your wife flowers. Brian said to me the other day do you still want flowers? I'm like, why is this even a question? I always want flowers. This is a given. So I wasn't expecting to wake up to them on the island this morning, but there they were and they're beautiful and they make me happy, and so do my red gel nails.
Speaker 2:So yeah, if you don't have a partner to hug, hug your dog or your cat or man, hug a tree. That's what I was just going to say.
Speaker 1:You knew you were going to say that. I was like, oh, hug a tree, oh my gosh. But it's true, like there's just such a little ways to love each other and even just a simple thing for preschool today. I had this idea last week and I thought I'm going to just act on this instead of doing nothing about it. Because you know, the kids give each other Valentines but sometimes people bring like baking or cute little gifts and all these ideas and I'm like, wow, I'm so not the creative mom. But one thing that we do with Marty every night is we say affirmations. Why don't you say the ones that we say?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm strong. Oh yeah, I'm strong, I'm kind, I'm confident, I'm loving, I'm patient, I'm patient, I'm capable, and then I usually throw in a bonus there, I'm awesome.
Speaker 1:Which I forgot to put I'm awesome on the sheet, but I basically printed off the affirmations we say with him, added a few more thanks to chat GPT helping me out and laminated them and gave them to all the kids in his class and I just think, like that's a way to spread love, is to help this younger generation learn to love themselves and to say such positive affirmations to themselves. So a little way that you can spread some love to each other too. Just little gestures.
Speaker 2:And lastly. Well, I was going to say something else about loving each other but I kind of lost it. Maybe we'll circle around to that.
Speaker 1:Well, I said to to you today. We were chatting about this on our walk. We're gonna do this quick little podcast. Um, I was like, well, what would you say for loving the planet?
Speaker 2:well, no, I was. I know what I was gonna say. Oh, I was gonna say like, be the change you want to see in the world, like that quote by mahatma just gonna say okay, gandhi yeah it's mahatma gandhi so, no matter what everyone else is doing, what is the book you've been reading lately? Let them by Mel Robbins. I've been listening to it.
Speaker 1:Oh yes, I was like I've not been reading any books. I need to do that, yeah, but Let them yeah.
Speaker 2:So if someone else isn't being you know the person that you want them to be and they're causing drama in your life, just let them. Let them and just send them love and don't let it bother you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and there's another plug. We have a lot of things to link suddenly in the show notes because the Let them Theory book by Mel Robbins is absolutely life-changing and I think if the world I think this might sound dramatic but if the world knew about the Let them Theory and human design that we talked about last podcast, this world would be such a different place yeah, and there's a couple other books that go way deeper into the let them theory.
Speaker 1:Um, but yeah, that concept is we can get so annoyed with other people, or wanting to change them, or wishing they would do this, or wishing they would do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like just let them yeah expectations, anyway, it's expectations.
Speaker 1:Anyway, Okay. So when I had asked you when we were walking today, what do you think about love, loving the planet, Like what would you say for that? And you said I don't know Cause. I said just enjoy nature, Cause we were outside enjoying nature Like it was such a beautiful morning. And then you said, um, do you?
Speaker 2:remember what you said I. Well, the planet doesn't need us, but we need the planet. It's like we take this planet so for granted. We try to live separate from it, but we're all 100% connected.
Speaker 1:And you said just to say thank you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and just say thank you Like, thank you, thank you, thank you, like an amazing thing you can do in your life not necessarily about this, but just in general is just to say thank you, thank you, thank you, and just be in a frequency of gratitude all the time, no matter how good or bad it is, just being thankful for this life or anything, the fact that you can go turn on a tap and have water or flush a toilet, or you have a roof over your head or anything people to talk to, to say thank you.
Speaker 1:Anything else you can think about for loving the planets, that's a good one um, I mean this.
Speaker 2:this planet is really such a beautiful place and like we're walking through the woods this morning and like every time I watch a movie that takes place on another planet and they create this like super cool scene and this magical looking planet, and then I have a realization that well, that's us living on this planet. We're just here all the time.
Speaker 1:We don't it's like we don't notice the beauty.
Speaker 2:We don't notice the beauty.
Speaker 1:It's like when we moved out to BC right, and people that live in BC it's normal to them to just see all the beauty, but we're just like in awe of it and it reminds them. Oh yeah, it is really beautiful here.
Speaker 1:Well, as an example, it's beautiful everywhere, yeah but that was just an like a tangible example of noticing what's right in front of you without sometimes even realizing it's right in front of you. And that also goes to like your partner like if you have a partner, or even with your kids or whatever. Those people drive you crazy some of the time, but at the end of the day, you really love that person and to remind yourself and talk about it If you're listening to this before it's Valentine's Day or maybe before you have a date night or something, instead of just zoning out to a movie or Netflix series together, talk, sit and to talk and have conversation and then to go for walks and to talk about what we're going to talk about here, you know, like it's just conversation versus being around each other but not talking to each other.
Speaker 2:There's a difference yeah, and I think, just when it comes to the planet, just knowing that I don't know, I don't even know what to say. It's just a beautiful, it's a beautiful place. I, every day, I'm in awe of it and I just would love if people respected it more, because it's really, it's really hard for me to see the things we do to the planet and knowing that we're we're part of it. Yeah, yeah. So pick up some litter. It's like the minimal thing you can do but also don't litter in the first place also don't litter.
Speaker 2:But yeah, be the change you want to see in the world. If you see someone you know doing harm to the planet, that's doing harm to yourself, it's doing harm to your kids, it's doing harm to your family. Everything's connected. Everything's connected.
Speaker 1:So call them out on it yeah, but but spread some love today. You know, whether it's a smile at somebody else or buying the person's coffee behind you in the lineup at Starbucks or Tim's or whatever, little things can go so far and the ripple effect is massive. So don't underestimate it, but have a really great Valentine's Day everybody.
Speaker 2:Or date night. If you're listening to this later, I would, uh, I would say, go go enjoy a sunrise, go enjoy a sunset. Um, I really love looking up at the stars at night, you do, and the moon lately, oh my, it's just. I don't know when you really get lost in it and forget about everything else in your life and you get lost in the vastness of it all. It's pretty cool, it's a really neat feeling.
Speaker 1:I could easily get you a telescope.
Speaker 2:I've been wanting a telescope for a really long time. Now he says it A really long time.
Speaker 1:Okay, you guys. Well, thanks for listening to the shortest episode ever, still longer than we wanted it to be Love.
Speaker 2:You guys have an epic day. Go love yourself. Love each other.
Speaker 1:And love the planet. Yep, love you guys. Happy valentine's day stay awesome, bye.