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Welcome to the Soul Forge, a place of silent mystery, quiet contemplation, and outright mayhem! Shawn Vanderloo guides you through the adventures of living! We all want to love and be loved. Am I normal? Are you normal? Is happiness possible? Let’s find out together!
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Thursday Feb 14, 2019
Thursday Feb 14, 2019
You can buy me flowers, but you can't buy me love. This week, the Soul Forge Podcast explores the commercialization of love in our 2019 Valentine's Day Special.
Let's talk about the kinds of expectations we have of ourselves and our partners on February 14th. Is there too much pressure from society on how we express our love and affection? Do we really need over-the-top displays of affection to prove our love? Why do we put ourselves through this each and every year?
Just who was this Valentine anyway? We will explore a brief history of his life.
We are pounded and pulverized by advertisements telling us how to show our love. It really is no wonder that we are all stressed out and feel inadequate when we compare ourselves to others.
A brief guide on how and what to buy as a gift for a man on Valentine's Day.
So you put a lot of thought and effort into your gift. That's great, except they don't like it. Now what do you do? In this part of the episode, we talk a bit about what to do and how to avoid feeling like garbage.
Remembering the school days practice of handing out Valentine's cards in class, and the trauma that caused us.
Does it matter when the gift was bought? If your lover picked up your present on the way home on the 14th, or has had it sitting in a drawer for a month...does that equate to the value of the love?
Fate! Is love written in the stars?
Should people get engaged on Valentine's Day? Is this a romantic gesture or a great way to get out of gift giving?
This week's podcast promo: The Nerdy Laser Podcast
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Sorry I wasn’t done... it is in our nature to want to feel special it’s the best feeling to feel like someone loves you so much to do all of your favourite things for you. It’s not fair that you’re made to feel guilty for feeling desire and wanting to feel desired. Imagine your absolute favourite thing. Like beef jerky. Now imagine someone went out of their way to create you a bouquet of beef jerky. It’s no secret I love shiny things and it’s not because of the commercials I simply love shiny things! I refuse to be shamed into repressing my feelings of loving to celebrate love! I make gifts for my husband, I buy cheesy things for my kids... I love it when they wake up and they have presents. Making the people I love feel special and loved and thought about is what I do. I love to love :)
Monday Mar 25, 2019
As much as society is to blame for the expectations of how grandiose gestures should would and could make us happy and feel special, society is as much to blame for us feeling bad about having these expectations.
Monday Mar 25, 2019
I never thought I would like Valentine's Day. But Brandon completely changed that for me. Ofcourse, he says he loves me every day and often does littler gestures that always bring a smile my way but our Valentine's have always been a blast. Be usually buys me roses, makes a amazing dinner or takes me out some where nice, and plays love songs to me on his guitar. My favorite Valentine's day was when he made chocolate covered strawberries and played Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong while making a superb steak dinner. Now, I have never been a romantic for this day, but I have never felt more appreciated and loved until I met this guy. These are all cheesy thing but a genuinely like old jazz and crooner music. I really loved that he remembered those details.
Saturday Mar 02, 2019
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