“Love and Love’s Energy” with Tara Boothby

In this episode, we’re joined by Tara Boothby, a registered clinical psychologist, working in BC and Alberta for nearly 20 years. She is an Experiential Attachment Focused Therapist and a certified Emotionally Focused Couples, Family, and Individual Therapist and Supervisor. She is also currently doing a second Master's degree at St. Stephen's University, where she is studying themes of theology, social justice, and literature.

We speak to Tara about her new book Love and Love’s Energy. Tara reflects on her roots in evangelical Christianity, her path into psychology, and how attachment theory can help us understand love, not as an abstract ideal, but as something embodied and deeply formative.

Together we explore the tensions many carry around faith, forgiveness, and growth, and what it means to see ourselves and others with greater gentleness. Tara offers thoughtful insight into seasons of existential unraveling and the search for a God who meets us in our questions rather than our certainties.

What emerges is a hopeful reminder: love, in all its complexity, has the capacity to heal, reconnect, and reorient us toward a more grounded and generous way of being.