Maybe you've heard about the Five Love Languages, but maybe they've at times felt...kind of limiting? Confusing? Problematic, even? 

There's a reason for that, and you're not alone. That's why Anne Hodder-Shipp decided to reimagine some things: 

• What "The Modern Love Languages" are and how they're different than what we might already be familiar with (it's not just that there are 18 of them!)
• How you can apply The Modern Love Languages in your life way beyond your romantic relationships
• Whether or not it's important to find people whose love languages "match" your own
• The origins of the "original" Five Love Languages and why they might be more harmful than helpful
• Taking sex and relationship education onto social media in the 2020s
• ...and more!

ABOUT ANNE:

Anne Hodder-Shipp, CSE, ACS, (she/they) is an award-winning certified sex and relationship educator dedicated to providing accurate, expansive, and compassionate care. They are the founder and lead educator at Everyone Deserves Sex Ed, a sex ed and professional development organization, and they work with people and couples of almost any age to help build skills, knowledge, and confidence around identity, pleasure, relationships, and communication.

Most recently, Anne wrote the groundbreaking expansive love language ebook, Speaking from the Heart: 18 Languages for Modern Love, and its accompanying guide, The Speaking from the Heart Workbook: A Practical Guide to the Modern Love Languages.

SHOW NOTES:

themodernlovelanguages.com

The Modern Love Languages workbook

EDSE's sex educator certification

@theannehodder on Instagram

@theannehodder on TikTok

True love, real love, "the one"... the way people describe love is pretty and aspirational, but ultimately super vague. What does love actually feel like? How do you know it's love and not just old habits or displaced desires? Is love even a noun at all, or is it an action?

In this episode, I talk to partners in life, love, and business, Dr. Carrie Kholi-Murchison and Holley Kholi-Murchison) about:

• How to truly be in relationship and partnership with someone else....and also honor yourself and your own desires.
• Re-evaluating and reflecting about the way you relate to love
• HOW THE HECK do you separate your own self-love from the love you experience from someone else — especially if that person fills many roles in your life?
• and more!
  
  (this episode is a Best Of The WANTcast rebroadcast — so if you loved it the first time around, listen again to gather even more gems you might have missed!)

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ABOUT HOLLEY

Holley M. Kholi-Murchison is an artist and cultural geographer began her career more than 15 years ago. She is not just a writer, a strategy consultant, an entrepreneur, a speaker—she is an explorer and a trailblazer, forging her own path and teaching others to do the same.

ABOUT KHOLI

Dr. Carrie Kholi-Murchison, also known as Kholi, is a writer, editor, critical thinker, entrepreneur, and growth strategist. She’s been helping individuals and organizations realize their visions for more than a decade.