Love, Greed, and Community Shadows

 Reading: Chapters 7–9

This week, hooks pulls back the curtain: love does not exist outside systems. Our inherited silences often live alongside greed, societal pressures, or fractured communities. Here we examine how ancestral grief intersects with social patterns, and what mutual love could look like in practice.

Discussion / Reflection:

• Where have you inherited patterns of withholding, fear, or transactional love?

• Which parts of your community carry ancestral love that you can lean into?

• Hooks highlights mutuality—who in your life mirrors the love you give, and where are there imbalances?

Journal Prompt: Map your “love community”—both living and ancestral. Notice where reciprocity exists, and where repair is needed.