This was a book title I saw while browsing in my local bookshop. It seemed to echo what I felt as my core value, so of course I brought it home to read. It might also have something to do with the fact that I had just become a dad and my little baby boy Ethan was teaching me some important things about these sorts of things. It strikes me that Love creates the world.

In the first few years of life, food, water, air, shelter enable us to grow, our bodies are made of these things. Yet who we are is literally made of Love. Simple as that, and when we feel a lack it is really because we are trying to make up for something in these early years. Over all these years of working with people, whether in addiction or with other issues, it seems to boil down to this: Love matters, because we are as people made of the love we have received. Our society seems obsessed with buying things, or consuming things when the space in us can only be filled by…