The Official And Now Love Podcast: www.andnowlove.com Dr. Loren Weiner: www.lorenweinerphd.com In this powerful episode, Cynthia Marks and Dr. Loren Weiner name what most of us feel but rarely say out loud: the world doesn’t have a “politics problem” so much as a love problem. Loren defines love as the experience of being supported, nurtured, respected, and emotionally held—and explains that wherever love is absent, pathology takes over. They connect this to the earliest imprint: a baby unconsciously takes on the mother’s distress to survive and can walk away believing “I’m bad,” which later limits our ability to receive love (and therefore give it). The heart of the episode is a sequence of patient dreams showing how healing progresses—and how the internal saboteur fights back when someone gets closer to their true self. You’ll hear vivid symbols: bright colors that feel “creepy,” the feminine being “arrested,” a speech that can’t be found, a self put “on ice” behind closed doors, and finally a transcendent dream of being welcomed into love and growing taller. The takeaway is both confronting and hopeful: the outer world reflects inner turmoil, and the most radical change starts inside—by reclaiming feeling, learning what love actually is, and allowing yourself to receive it. Host: Cynthia Marks, creator/host of And Now Love. Featured Guests: Dr. Loren Weiner, Clinical Psychoanalyst Core ideas: love problem, internal saboteur, mother imprint, unconscious, dreams Episode length: 01:02:54 Follow our socials: Instagram / / andnowlove.podcast Facebook / / And Now Love Podcast Youtube / / @AndNowLovePodcast TikTok / / and.now.love.podc 0:00 — Love vs Pathology: Naming the Real Problem 7:50 — Imprint + Survival: Why We Think We’re “Bad” 15:10 — The Missing Feminine: Learning to Receive Love 22:05 — Spirit vs Religion: Pure Love vs Manmade Rules 28:55 — Why Dreams: A Direct Line Past the Intellect 34:25 — Dream #1: Bright Colors That Feel “Creepy” (Saboteur Shows Up) 42:10 — Dreams #2–4: Arrested Feminine, Lost Speech, Put on Ice 52:45 — Dream #5: Welcomed into Love (A Dream for All of Us)