Let's Celebrate Love - In All It’s Forms

Last weekend, my little sister Helene got married. A beautiful ceremony in City Hall here in Oslo, followed by an intimate dinner with our closest family. The brides were absolutely stunning (if you’d like to see a few photos, you’ll find them here).

There were speeches that made us laught, pause, and smile at each other across the table. I even got to be the toastmaster for the first time, and it was so much fun.

I genuinlely love wedding speeches — the stories, the humor, the emotion. There's something moving about hearing people say out loud what they usually just assume that the other knows. 

And it made me think: we don’t do that very often. We celebrate love at weddings, maybe on anniversaries or birthdays. But what about the rest of the time?

Love is such a core part of being human. Decades of psychology research show that the quality of our relationships is one of the strongest predictors of well-being and even physical health.

But love doesn’t only live in romantic relationships. It’s in friendships that last through the years, in the people who make us laugh, in the ones we can be fully ourselves with. It’s in small gestures, like a message that says “thinking of you,” a shared meal, a warm hug.

Love helps us feel anchored. Like we have people to lean on when things are uncertain.

So here’s a small invitation for this week:

• Who can you reach out to and remind that they matter to you?

• How can you celebrate love? And not just the grand, cinematic kind, but the quiet, everyday kind that keeps you going?

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