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Martha Char Love

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Martha Char Love is the co-author of "What's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective of the Intelligence of Human Nature and Gut Instinct". She was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and grew up primarily in Georgia and Mississippi. She presently lives in Honolulu, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. She received her BS in Elementary Education in 1968 and an MA in Educational Psychology in 1970, with a 5th year certificate in Psychometry in the School Psychology department at the University of Georgia. She was a counselor/instructor in the '70s and early 80's, working as both a career counselor and instructor at Meridian Junior College and later in a large community college, Santa Fe Community College (SFCC), in Gainesville Florida Martha Char Love is the co-author of "What's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective of the Intelligence of Human Nature and Gut Instinct". She was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and grew up primarily in Georgia and Mississippi. She presently lives in Honolulu, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. She received her BS in Elementary Education in 1968 and an MA in Educational Psychology in 1970, with a 5th year certificate in Psychometry in the School Psychology department at the University of Georgia. She was a counselor/instructor in the '70s and early 80's, working as both a career counselor and instructor at Meridian Junior College and later in a large community college, Santa Fe Community College (SFCC), in Gainesville Florida, as well as a licensed School Psychologist for the Alachua County Schools K-12. It was at that time that she first wrote a text for her classes with her colleague, Robert Sterling, about the gut instinctive responses that they were discovering with people they were working with in career exploration.

In 2005, she received her MA in Depth Psychology and continued her study of the gut instinctive response in a research study at Sonoma State University in Northern California. In 2008, she received her PMA in Art Therapy. After years of study and new medical breakthroughs supporting the intelligence of the gut brain, she and Robert Sterling have written a groundbreaking book, "What's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective of the Intelligence of Human Nature and Gut Instinct" introducing a new Gut Psychology exploring the intelligence of human nature and gut instincts. They have also recently published a second book on gut instincts titled "Increasing Intuitional Intelligence: How The Awareness of Instinctual Gut Feelings Fosters Human Learning, Intuition, and Longevity."

She also has a recent cookbook published titled: "Mom's Island Bakens: Over 50 Altered Recipes For a Happy Gut and a Healthy Heart." While Martha Char Love has spent her career life exploring the intelligence and psychology of gut feelings, she does not write "Mom's Island Bakens" as a professional but as a Mom and lifetime family cook who has always had the well-being of her family's gut and health in mind. She has used her long years of cooking experience coupled with her professional counseling abilities to write a book to guide people who have found it a necessity due to illness or simply a smart move toward well-being to strive to make healthy changes to their diet and thus their cooking. ...more

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	What's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective of the Intelligence of Human Nature and Gut Instinct by Martha Char Love (Goodreads Author), Robert W. Sterling 4.11 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Increasing Intuitional Intelligence: How the Awareness of Instinctual Gut Feelings Fosters Human Learning, Intuition, and Longevity by Martha Char Love (Goodreads Author), Robert W. Sterling 4.45 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mom's Island Bakens: Over 50 Altered Recipes For a Happy Gut and a Healthy Heart 4.46 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maggie's Kitchen Tails Dog Treat Recipes and Puppy Tales to Love by Rosemary "Mamie" Adkins (Goodreads Author), Douglas E. Adkins, Martha Char Love (Goodreads Author) 4.94 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Elephant Memory! Increasing Your Own Memory Through Gut Feeling Awareness!

Science has shown that elephants do have excellent memories that decode and identify survival skills and imprint important data to be used later when needed. And for the elephant, this memory seems to increase with age and experience, leaving the younger of the herd at risk if the elders are captured or killed by poachers. Let's talk now about how we humans can improve our memory retrieval s Read more of this blog post »

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“If your eyes can not cry, then your gut will."
The head and heart may be in denial of your human needs, but the gut will always carry the wisdom of your needs met and unmet, and thusly respond.”
― Martha Char Love, What's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective of the Intelligence of Human Nature and Gut Instinct

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“The presence of the inner feeling of emptiness directs our attention to a past experience of guilt and to our inner feeling awareness of the cause in the past. We must be sensitive to that feeling and accept it in order to chase down the cause, ferret it out, reassess the value of the experience to us in order not to further project the blame in anger outward to an external cause.”
― Martha Char Love, What's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective of the Intelligence of Human Nature and Gut Instinct

tags: anger, emptiness, guilt, psychology, psychology-quotes, self-help-book

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“But we live on the cusp of a Renaissance in consciousness of who we truly are and, thus, we can now begin to thrive in this exciting age of our humanity’s journey toward a greater life and a more fundamentally intelligent evolution of our species.”
― Martha Char Love, What's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective of the Intelligence of Human Nature and Gut Instinct

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“Just like it is so important to understand the difference in thinking and feeling to increase our Emotional Intelligence, it is important to take the time to understand the difference in emotional feelings and gut feelings to further increase our intelligence and facility of intuition that we call Intuitional Intelligence.”
― Martha Char Love, Increasing Intuitional Intelligence: How the Awareness of Instinctual Gut Feelings Fosters Human Learning, Intuition, and Longevity

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“Our Human thinking brain operates by way of prediction, comparing new experiences to and constructing its perception from what is already believed to be true due to past experience. Without a mature intuition – thinking and feeling balanced and united—even groups trying to work together will only be capable of experiencing what has been going on in this sensory brain since about the 8th Century to the present.”
― Martha Char Love, Increasing Intuitional Intelligence: How the Awareness of Instinctual Gut Feelings Fosters Human Learning, Intuition, and Longevity

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“The way to Elfin is found on the path
That weaves through the Misty Forest
That lives between the Mountain of Vision
And the River of Reality”
― The Silver Elves, The Magical Elven Love Letters, Volume 1

tags: elves, esoteric, pagan, spiritual-quotes

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message 12: by Aqsa (last edited Feb 10, 2019 08:12PM)

Feb 10, 2019 08:12PM

Martha said: "I like that you are up for any genre as long as it is a good book! Would recommend The Elves of Lyndarys: A Magical Tale of Modern Faerie Folk by The Silver Elves. "

Thank you, Martha, for the request and the amazing recommendation :) I'll add it asap!

Looking forward to interacting a lot with you :)

P.S. I won't be notified if you replied here. You'll have to dm me or comment on my profile, thanks :)

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message 11: by Martha

Jul 09, 2016 06:14PM

♥♥Mari♥♥ wrote: "Hi, Martha! WOW, it's so GREAT to meet you!! I've added two of your books to my shelves, and am now following you! Thank you so much for the friend request!! : )"

Hello, Mari,
So good to be connected. I see you love books, from Classics to Science Fiction to Academics. I am enjoying reading your personal book reviews and look forward to your new ones.

By the way, thank you for shelving two of my books and I hope they bring important meaning in your life.

Yours,
Martha

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message 10: by ♥♥Mari♥♥

Jun 11, 2016 10:18PM

Hi, Martha! WOW, it's so GREAT to meet you!! I've added two of your books to my shelves, and am now following you! Thank you so much for the friend request!! : )

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message 9: by Martha

Feb 26, 2016 03:29AM

Michael wrote: "Oranit: Crossed Lines
One of the protagonists is an anti-Psychiatry Psychiatrist. As I get further and further from the beaten path stumbling upon you was surprising.
I am getting ..."
Hello, Michael! Oranit sounds like a book that a number of my friends would like and I will make some recommendations to these potential readers of your book. I am not much of a fiction reader myself and presently have a task of reading and editing 35 books by one non fiction author, so I am not adding many to-reads on my shelves right now. I am happy to be connected to you, however, and love that you are writing with a non-conventional, perhaps even futuristic, point of view of Psychiatry in your novel.
Best of luck,
Martha

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message 8: by Michael

Jan 16, 2016 01:29PM

Oranit: Crossed Lines
One of the protagonists is an anti-Psychiatry Psychiatrist. As I get further and further from the beaten path stumbling upon you was surprising.
I am getting into the 'Wisdom Of The Body', Chinese medicine, Yoga and even the importance of gut flora.
My new book, with the same protagonists and another murder, is quite non-conventional if not critical of modern Psychiatry.
I see you are a reviewer - is it bon-ton to as for a review?
I am new here and haven't a clue. If it is a howler then accept my apologies.
As far as I can make out - you are not into KINDLE. Am I correct?
Keep well.
Michael

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message 7: by Thomas

Sep 06, 2015 05:00AM

Hi Martha, thank you for your friend request and I look forward to sharing bookish thoughts with you! :)

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message 6: by Martha

Sep 24, 2014 02:35AM

Tara wrote: "Hi Martha,
Thank you for wanting to be my friend. I just might have to check your book out. I so believe in the mind body connection. It is so amazing. =)"

Aloha, Tara. I just saw your comment, sorry it took so long for me to see it. I should look down at the bottom of this page more often. It is great to be connected to like thinkers of mind-body awareness. Be sure and let me know how you like my book if you do read it. Take care!

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message 5: by Tara

Mar 22, 2014 07:19PM

Hi Martha,
Thank you for wanting to be my friend. I just might have to check your book out. I so believe in the mind body connection. It is so amazing. =)

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message 4: by Martha (last edited Sep 29, 2013 08:11PM)

Sep 29, 2013 08:09PM

Robin wrote: "Hello Martha, thank you for being my friend.
Peace and happiness be with you,"

So happy to know you Robin, and Bright Blessings!

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message 3: by Robin

Sep 29, 2013 04:51PM