Learning to Love by Galina Singer | Substack

Welcome to Learning to Love: The Story Already Written

This isn’t a beginning. It’s a remembering.

Jun 2, 2025 • Learning to Love

We Are Losing the Capacity to Relate.

It’s not even 2 weeks into the New Year and I find myself putting extra effort into remaining grounded and steady.

Jan 14 • Galina Singer

I’m Almost 60 — and I Finally Dropped the Wrappers

And I see that I’m not alone in this.

Jan 7 • Galina Singer

Entering 2026 Unwrapped

I step into 2026, stripped to bare minimum.

Jan 6 • Galina Singer

From my Heart to Yours, as The Year Closes.

Dec 30, 2025 • Galina Singer

Most Popular

How to Become a Well-Loved Woman

Jul 18, 2025 • Galina Singer

I’m Done Battling My Body

Jul 10, 2025 • Galina Singer

I Paid for Everything — and I Danced

Jul 2, 2025 • Galina Singer

Is it Perfect? No. But it Was Never Supposed To Be!

Jun 21, 2025 • Galina Singer

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Love & Relationships

There Is No Such Thing As Healthy Relationship.

There is no such thing as a healthy relationship.

Nov 30, 2025 • Galina Singer

I Was About to write to His Mother and Make Him the Bad Guy 🤦‍♀️

Last week something happened between me and my husband that in the past could have provoked the end.

Nov 11, 2025 • Galina Singer

Your Sexuality Issues Did Not Start With You.

slowing down to feel pleasure is healing

Nov 3, 2025 • Galina Singer

Love from Another is Unsustainable: We Change, we Lie, we Age, we Die.

Galina Singer, Sept 08 2019

Oct 30, 2025 • Galina Singer

Why You'll Never Receive Love Where You Are Looking For It.

“I love you!”

Oct 28, 2025 • Galina Singer

Motherhood & Family

The Girls Didn't Come Home... And I Felt At Peace.

The girls didn’t come for Thanksgiving.

Dec 8, 2025 • Galina Singer

My mother turned 81 years old last week.

I sincerely do not remember her ever sounding happier.

Oct 22, 2025 • Galina Singer

The Toxic Programming we Inherit from our Mothers

Galina Singer, June 17, 2020

Oct 9, 2025 • Galina Singer

From Mother to Wise Woman: Parenting Adult Children with Courage and Grace

By trying to influence my daughters with my advice,

Sep 11, 2025 • Galina Singer

Healing the Inner Child: The Key to Freeing Our Adult Lives

This is the child that was making choices and dictating my life until just a few years ago.

Sep 10, 2025 • Galina Singer

Relating To Culture

We Are Losing the Capacity to Relate.

It’s not even 2 weeks into the New Year and I find myself putting extra effort into remaining grounded and steady.

Jan 14 • Galina Singer

I’m Almost 60 — and I Finally Dropped the Wrappers

And I see that I’m not alone in this.

Jan 7 • Galina Singer

Entering 2026 Unwrapped

I step into 2026, stripped to bare minimum.

Jan 6 • Galina Singer

From my Heart to Yours, as The Year Closes.

Dec 30, 2025 • Galina Singer

Bondi Beach: What we Say at Home Shapes the World.

The world does not begin on the news

Dec 15, 2025 • Galina Singer

Safe To Be Me

SAFE TO BE ME: #1

SAFE TO BE ME means: I make a point to celebrate my own milestones. This way any outside validation becomes a nice surprise, not a need filler.

Jun 14, 2025 • Galina Singer

SAFE TO BE ME: #2

SAFE TO BE ME means: I understand that the part of me that gets triggered in relationships is a younger part of me and needs my compassion, not judgment…

Jun 14, 2025 • Galina Singer

SAFE TO BE ME: #3

SAFE TO BE ME means:that I’m okay with not being okay.

Jun 14, 2025 • Galina Singer

SAFE TO BE ME: #4

SAFE TO BE ME means:the blood, sweat and tears of my lived experience - my inner knowing - is more valuable to me than any intellectualized concepts.

Jun 14, 2025 • Galina Singer

SAFE TO BE ME: #5

SAFE TO BE ME means:’m ready to accept my life “as is,” surrendering control, no longer needing life to look like my illusion of it.

Jun 14, 2025 • Galina Singer

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