“The fairytale industrial complex has been lying to you,” says love coach and podcast host Francesca Hogi. Having spent years talking to thousands of people about their romantic hopes and dreams, she introduces a new possibility for our collective romantic future, one that recognizes that each of us holds the keys to true love within ourselves.
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@ShahrezadNorMohammadiy9116
February 14, 2024 at 10:25 am
❤Be the person who breaks the cycle. If you were judged, choose understanding. If you were rejected, choose acceptance. If you were shamed, choose compassion. Be the person you needed when you were hurting, not the person who hurt you. Vow to be better than what broke you—to heal instead of becoming bitter so you can act from your heart, not your pain.
@AyuCell-Intan
February 14, 2024 at 10:27 am
Happy Valentine’s Day🌷
If you have true gratitude, it will express itself automatically.
It will be visible in your eyes, around your being, in your aura.
It is like the fragrance of a flower.
In most cases if there is a beautiful flower, the fragrance will be there naturally.
The flower and its fragrance cannot be separated…
@AyuCell-Intan
February 14, 2024 at 10:28 am
💘Valentine’s Day 🥀
A love letter from those who have passed on…
Take the love you have for me
And radiate it outwards
Allowing it to touch and impact others
Take the memory you have of me
And use it as a source of inspiration
To live fully, meaningfully and intentionally
Take the image you have of me in your mind
And allow it to fuel you
To take action
Seize the day
And be reminded of what is most important in life
Take the care you have for me
And let it remind you
To care for yourself fully
And shower yourself with your own love
And take the pain and grief you feel
Following my loss
And alchemize it into
Love, compassion and beauty
Build a castle
From the wreckage of my passing
And allow it to unlock your greatness and potential
And empower you to become more than you ever thought you were capable of being
And know that I can never truly leave you
And will always remain beside you
Watching over you in spirit
And that the love I have for you lives on
Through the connections you form
The kindness and compassion you share
And the future relationships and friendships you cultivate.
And until we are one day reunited
I will remain with you
Through the storms and chaos of life
And am always beside you
Walking with you, laughing with you, crying with you and smiling with you
And I am proud of you for being strong
I am proud of you for being brave
And I am proud of you for being you.
@AyuCell-Intan
February 14, 2024 at 10:29 am
Happy Valentine’s Day🌹
“There are times in your life
where it is necessary to envision
a brighter and more beautiful future for yourself
and to believe that it is possible.
To know that no matter how dark
your present surroundings may be,
lighter times lie ahead,
and to know this to be true in your heart.
And to let that inspire you
to wake up each day
and walk by faith, not by sight,
speaking these words to yourself:
“I am willing to endure the difficulties of today
to the best of my ability;
to heal what I may heal,
love what I may love,
and release what I may release,
because I know that more beautiful times await me,
and so this inspires me to live fully now
for the future version of myself
who will be grateful to me
for not giving up on myself and my dreams,
while making the most of my current circumstances
and finding as much beauty as I possibly can
in the present.”
@artchemist4460
February 14, 2024 at 10:29 am
Is it just me or does this talk basically say “you dont have to be perfect to be loved.”
@user-sy1he9nk6q
February 14, 2024 at 11:53 am
Yeah, I got that impression too. I didn’t see she adding many new ideias in way. Basically “love is all around” or something. I didn’t quite get the big difference about romantic love and what she is describing.
@excalipoor
February 14, 2024 at 10:35 am
She looks familiar. Then I remember she was on Survivor twice.
@viliamvacula8111
February 14, 2024 at 10:47 am
Did she survive?
@SibylleLeon
February 14, 2024 at 10:48 am
This, all day long! ❤
@China-129
February 14, 2024 at 11:07 am
“You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea.” *— Sophocles🗿*
@China-129
February 14, 2024 at 11:07 am
“I can respect any person who can put their ego aside and say; i made a mistake, I apologize and i am correcting the behavior.”
@Catherine0fRussia-1234
February 14, 2024 at 11:30 am
Happy Valentine’s Day💖
Sometimes you look up and there just seems to be so many more stars than ever before.
They burn brighter and they shine longer and they never vanish into your periphery when you turn your head.
It’s as if they come out for us and to remind us that their light took so long to come to us, that if we never had the patience to wait, we never would have seen them here, tonight, like this.
That as much as it hurts, sometimes it’s all you can do, wait, endure and keep shining, knowing that eventually, your light will reach where it is supposed to reach and shine for who it is supposed to shine for…
@Catherine0fRussia-1234
February 14, 2024 at 11:30 am
Happy Valentine’s Day💖
“Love is not about ownership, but appreciation.
The secret of love may be found in this rose.
To love the rose
is not to possess it or to pluck it
but to savour its beauty
and witness its magnificence
and in the process,
to be made more beautiful.
This is how you may love even when the one you love is not near you, even when the one you love is no longer with you and even when the one you love knows not of you. Because love is not found outside of you, but is found within you, for it is a way of seeing and engaging with the world.
To love
is to be inspired
and to be transformed for the better.
And so there is no pain in loving, because to love is not to lose anything, but to gain everything.”
@dameanvil
February 14, 2024 at 11:33 am
0:23 💔 Romantic love has been commodified into a fairytale fantasy perpetuated by media and marketing.
1:49 💡 Consider prioritizing self-love and authenticity in romantic relationships over societal fairytales.
2:02 🗝 True love is attainable by embracing foundational values such as respect, intimacy, and commitment.
2:44 💖 Each individual possesses the capacity for love and has the potential to experience true love without external validation.
3:09 🌟 Embracing love authentically contributes to a brighter and more inclusive romantic future for everyone.
@djayjp
February 14, 2024 at 11:35 am
No. There’s much learning and wisdom needed to be in a healthy relationship.
@djayjp
February 14, 2024 at 11:37 am
Too short, lacking in meaning, and with appeal to too-many warm & fuzzy-sounding words.
@kaylorado
February 14, 2024 at 11:42 am
Love comes from within
@user-sy1he9nk6q
February 14, 2024 at 11:50 am
I didn’t understand the difference between the love she describes and the love that is “sold” as ideal. Everything she described is exactly what is sold. What exactly is she proposing?
@sammoore5228
February 14, 2024 at 12:13 pm
“ChatGPT, write me a three-minute motivational TED Talk on the myth of ‘happily ever after.’”
@chinchillin6280
February 16, 2024 at 10:29 pm
😂😂
@Kismet-1001Nights
February 14, 2024 at 1:29 pm
فلسطين 🇵🇸
—
الجوع في الضفة الغربية.
المزارعون لا يتمكنون من بيع منتجاتهم، والمشترون غير قادرين على الوصول إلى الأسواق بسبب القيود المتزايدة على الحركة.
أسعار المواد الغذائية ارتفعت بشكل كبير، فيما ترتفع أيضا معدلات البطالة والفقر.
😊
🙏🏻
@Kismet-1001Nights
February 14, 2024 at 1:30 pm
السودان 🇸🇩
—
جوع حاد وانتشار للأمراض وأكبر أزمة نزوح في العالم: السودان بعد 10 أشهر من الصراع.
“25 مليون سوداني يحتاجون إلى مساعدات إنسانية. يواجه 18 مليونا منهم الجوع الحاد، و5 ملايين في مستويات الطوارئ من الجوع”.
😊
🙏🏻
@Kismet-1001Nights
February 14, 2024 at 1:30 pm
منظمة الصحة العالمية تحذر من كارثة تفوق التصور إذا وقع توغل عسكري واسع النطاق في رفح.
ومن غزة قال مسؤول المنظمة في فلسطين إنه يرى الخوف في أعين الناس عندما يتساءلون “ماذا عسانا أن نفعل؟” ونبه إلى أن المستشفيات مثقلة بالأعباء وتقترب من حافة الانهيار.
😊
🙏🏻
@Kismet-1001Nights
February 14, 2024 at 1:31 pm
البطون الخاوية تؤجج الاضطرابات.
“لتجنب التهديدات المتنامية للسلم والأمن الدوليين، لابد من العمل الآن لكسر العلاقة المميتة بين الصراع والمناخ وانعدام الأمن الغذائي”.
– الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة أمام مجلس الأمن الدولي
😊
🙏🏻
@askdearfranny
February 14, 2024 at 2:21 pm
Thank you for watching! ❤❤❤
@_---__
February 14, 2024 at 3:45 pm
Outstanding job!! Great video 👍🏾
@Claus-dx2qy
February 14, 2024 at 3:49 pm
Make love, stop turning agape and eros into a pseudo-intellectual prosthesis of a worn-out Hollywood lecture.
@Lady-E.
February 14, 2024 at 5:20 pm
Bring them home now!!!!!
@user-qs3gu4ld8p
February 14, 2024 at 8:03 pm
Francesca, the tribe has spoken.
@ColdMotivation-rf8fg
February 14, 2024 at 9:43 pm
What a powerful video!! Very appropriate since it’s valentines ❤ never listened to such a short Ted talk before but this one is top ten best I’ve ever come across in terms of value given 🙏🏾
@EskeAndersen
February 15, 2024 at 12:32 am
It’s not that you’re being lied to about romance. It’s much worse than that. It’s that you want to be lied to.
@vicrollon3140
February 15, 2024 at 3:44 am
Happy V-day to all! ❤
@vicrollon3140
February 15, 2024 at 3:46 am
To love is to be physical, mental and spiritual … 😂
@nverend4450
February 15, 2024 at 5:07 am
The result is constant, you can’t change it. You are the manipulation on how to react the result, “happy ever after” is a definition for something going on someone’s expectation. If you not gonna change to get what is not on your current life, your life will be in an undesignated destination.
@andersemanuel
February 15, 2024 at 4:15 pm
Lock up platitudes. This video should be there.
@nomosfoster2457
February 15, 2024 at 4:52 pm
Grown man crying over here.
@nguyen_thuy_lam
February 15, 2024 at 4:59 pm
HAPPILY EVER AFTER?? TxT just crossed my mind. I LOVE YOU TXT I LOVE YOU ENGLISH
@zeroths2254
February 15, 2024 at 8:04 pm
❤ this
@jovelynbag-o__
February 16, 2024 at 8:53 pm
“commodifocation of romantic love”, as if it’s the only thing one could ever live and hope for
@jovelynbag-o__
February 16, 2024 at 8:55 pm
No hate to those that are in love and in a relationship. But I guess we must first put emphasis on finding love and worth in yourself first before trying to find it in another person. The other way around make us seek for an ideal, rose-colored thing that’s not necessarily always butterflies and sparks in reality. This is the reason why nowadays some leave their relationship when it’s no longer ideal, without exhausting all means to fix it. Then on the hunt again for the next fantasy.
@myparceltape1169
February 17, 2024 at 6:41 am
But if your status is determined to be High by the one whom you determine to be of High status.
You are the complex, just the two of you.
@harriemeeuwis978
February 17, 2024 at 12:12 pm
It’s still a wish list that says: what do I get out of it. That’s why most relationships end in divorce: two egocentric people trying to live together. That doesn’t work well.