In this episode, Rev Syd is joined by somatic healing practitioner and author Meenadchi, for a multifaceted wander through the many shapes of love. Framed by Thich Nhat Hanh’s teaching that love is a practice and Nizar Qabbani’s poem, Entering the Sea, they discuss inviting loneliness in, rather than rejecting it. Syd shares how divorce revealed a pattern of chasing love for validation and how loneliness can become a place to rest, not an escape. The conversation leads them both to reflect on loneliness within relationships, attachment and spaciousness, recognizing loneliness across the lifespan, and reimagining childhood solitude as companionship. They consider love appearing in rupture-and-repair, pattern breaks, shared honesty about loneliness, intimacy beyond romance, spiritual trust, religious trauma, and end by dreaming into possible ways to be with our loneliness, in community, together.