Many Christians want to love well-but few have been taught how easily good intentions can cause harm when care is rushed, unexamined, or driven by unacknowledged pain. Love Your Neighbor as Yourself is a reflective, formational journey into what faithful care actually requires. Drawing from lived experience, ministry, failure, incarceration, and restoration, Darren Wayne Penrose invites readers to slow down, look inward, and learn how love is meant to form before it is expressed. Through honest stories and guided self-examination, readers explore how trauma, urgency, survival patterns, and unexamined assumptions quietly shape the way we love others. Rather than offering formulas or quick fixes, this book helps readers learn to care with humility, discernment, and restraint. Written for Christians who want to love without controlling, help without harming, and serve without losing themselves, Love Your Neighbor as Yourself offers a slower, truer path toward faithful love-one grounded in honesty, patience, and trust in God's work beyond our control.