![]() It was only when “that mourning ceased I was able to love again” (x). The emotional pain hooks endured in the wake of lovelessness rendered her unable to effectively give or receive the love she needed. hooks spent years of her life trying to recover the unconditional love she received only briefly as a child, in an effort to reclaim the sense of safety she felt as a little girl. It was only once hooks began to heal from the trauma of her past that she was able to begin a new journey with love. In the Preface to All About Love, hooks reflects on her complicated history with love and the overwhelming, and at times debilitating, grief caused by the lovelessness she experienced throughout both her childhood and adulthood. hooks remains steadfast in her belief in the power of love and, through her writing, invites readers to join her in the active, mindful pursuit of love. Throughout the book, hooks includes anecdotes about her personal journey toward understanding and manifesting love while using the research of other scholars to support her theories. ![]() ![]() Concerned about contemporary notions of love, hooks’s essays present “new ways to think about the art of loving, offering a hopeful, joyous vision of love’s transformative power” (xxix). Hooks describes All About Love as a roadmap for readers that “tells us how to return to love” (xxix). ![]()
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