Can work be an expression of love? Two gifts to help you do more of what you love
The idea of work as an expression of love is still in its infancy. But when work and love intersect, magic happens. 🪄
Hi friend,
Happy Valentine’s Day—I come bearing gifts! 💝
I love (pun intended) how this day has shifted from being about buying expensive gifts to celebrating love in general:
romantic love,
love for friends,
love for family members,
love for animals,
love for planet Earth, and
perhaps most revolutionary: love for oneself.
Regardless of whether you are in a relationship or not, you are part of the tapestry of love that humanity is weaving.
Love, in every form, is a beautiful experience. And it’s not restricted to your relationships with people. Let’s look at your relationship with work or business.
When work and love intersect, magic happens 🪄
Poet Khalil Gibran famously said: “Work is loved made visible.” Business coach Mark Silver puts it this way: “Every act of business can be an act of love.”
It’s so true. At its most nourishing, our work is an expression of love… love for others, love for ourselves, and love for the wide reality we are a part of.
This isn’t a fancy idea. It has practical application.
For instance, I once worked with a CEO whose business was going through some challenges. When we discovered that she didn’t love her business anymore, I encouraged her to reconnect with her love for her employees, her customers, and the business itself. The next time we talked, her sales had increased.
This idea doesn’t just apply to jobs and businesses. Projects can also be an expression of love.
Take, for instance, my doctoral thesis. I wanted to share how national constitutions can be more friendly towards the core ideas of international law—human rights, peace, and international cooperation (which, ultimately, are based in love).
Just yesterday, I did an energy healing for someone who wants to create an inspirational film. That’s an expression of love, too.
It’s still rare for work to be an expression of love
It’s very possible that your work doesn’t feel like an expression of love at the moment. For instance, someone recently told me that he had never made money from doing something that he loves to do.
This is far from the exception: According to Gallup’s 2025 State of the Global Workplace report, only 21% of employees are engaged at work. Given that many people will dedicate about 80,000 hours of their lives to work, that’s a huge problem.
So, what to do about if you are not quite doing what you love at the moment?
The first thing is to give yourself compassion and grace. Struggling to bring work and love together is not a personal failing.
The idea of work as an expression of love is still in its infancy. There are few good role models, and not many supportive structures you can lean on when you want to start doing what you love.
If you are on a quest to create work you love, you are not following the herd. You are a walking ahead of the herd, trying to find your own path. And being a pathfinder is, by definition, not easy (although it can be very rewarding).
The second thing that helps is to get support. If you like, this is where my gifts come in:
I have created a mini-course that will help you explore your relationship to work, discover what components go into creating work you love, and show you a relatively simple path to get started. You can get this here—my gift to you.
At the end of this month, I will also do a group energy healing where I help you clear energetic blocks that stop you from doing what you love. You can sign up for this (no-cost) event here.
A third thing that really helps is to have a supportive community and dedicated space while you work on doing what you love.
If there’s enough interest, I’m planning to offer a Meaningful Work Momentum workshop in the near-future, at pay-what-you-can pricing. This would be during a weekend—a one-day, online workshop where you can work towards something you really want to do, in community, and with optional 1:1 coaching or energy healing.
If that sounds interesting, please let me know so that I can gauge interest.
Warmly,
Louise
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