Lead with Love in Your Relationships
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August 3, 2025
Sunday SAGe Volume 46: Lead with Love in Your Relationships
Here is this week’s installment of Sunday SAGe, an email communication that shares wellness inspiration from The Wellness Ethic to help people thrive during the coming week (and beyond!).
Today, our focus is on bringing more love into your relationships.
Lead with Love in Your Relationships
An excerpt from The Wellness Ethic:
When you lead with love, you lead with empathy and care. You recognize that everyone has stuff going on in their life that you’re not privy to. You realize that everyone is imperfect and deserves a break. You believe that everyone deserves love, including yourself. You choose a love-centered response to life that creates the best outcomes for everyone involved.
Relationship Translation: Have love be your default position. Share your love often. Bring kindness, compassion, patience, and forgiveness to your relationships.
What It Means
Bringing more love into your relationships requires intentionality. It doesn’t have to require money or even a lot of time. You’re just creating special moments that let someone know you care about them. Here are some ideas to get you started:
When you interact with a stranger, imagine they have a family, dreams, and a need to be loved. They’re just like you. Interact kindly and notice their spirits lift. How does it make you feel?
Practice random acts of kindness regularly. Send a thoughtful gift or a kind handwritten note to a friend. Buy supplies for a teacher.
Use loving words in your conversations. Describe a person as amazing, awesome, beautiful, brilliant, caring, charming, considerate, creative, delightful, fascinating, funny, generous, humble, kind, lovely, patient, radiant, special, and other words that make them feel good.
Forgive someone who wronged you in your past. Help them move on with their life while learning from your loving example.
Be a servant leader at work. Understand the needs of those around you and make it your mission to serve them. Build your reputation for service, teamwork, helpfulness, and generosity.
Plan a special day for someone you love, including their favorite activities and foods. Leave no doubt that you love and appreciate them.
When someone is rude or insensitive to you, don’t internalize their words. Choose a kind, uplifting response. Rise above the fray to bring peace to the relationship.
Recognize milestones and successes of others. Find ways to make people feel loved when something important happens in their lives.
Provide selfless support to someone who needs help—be an empathetic friend or lend a hand without being asked.
Share your good fortune with others. If you get a raise or bonus at work, give a portion to charity or take a friend to dinner.
Yes, there is not a shortage of ideas on how you can bring more love into your relationships!
Your Call to Action
Go out of your way to bring more love into your relationships. You can start small, or do something grand. Mindfully engage in the experience as you share your love. Feel love fill your heart. Feel joy as you see how your thoughtfulness and kindness lifts others. Love is all upside!
Have a thriving week!
