One thread: love.

I'm Gayle Berry. My friends and family know me as Prema.

I was a lawyer. I learned how rules, standards and responsibility hold a society together. Then I had three children in three and a half years, and learned something the law never taught me: that love is the only foundation that holds.

That discovery became my philosophy: love creates love. It's the law behind everything I've built since, and the title of my book.

So I left law and began teaching parents how to love their babies through touch. It started with two students in my front room. Twenty-four years later, Blossom & Berry has trained more than 3,000 practitioners in over 30 countries, reaching more than a million families. Everything we teach is rooted in the Indian tradition of nurturing touch, and I credit it by name, always.

Along the way I co-founded Love Support Unite, a charity for mothers and babies in Malawi, which has raised more than £100,000. For that volunteer work I was honoured with the Points of Light Award by the UK Prime Minister. I've spoken at TEDx and written two books, Love Creates Love and You Are One In A Million.

At fifty I changed my name to Prema, a Sanskrit word for love, as a commitment to the life I was choosing. A year later I married Jigs Patel, and we now live in South Goa, where we host gatherings in our home. Together we also make the Love, Sex & Food podcast: conversations about intimacy, desire and nourishment.

I've learned that I'm not here to coach anyone. I'm here to hold one law, and live it in public: love creates love. Care, community and service are how that law is practised. I work with leaders who want to hold it too.