The Intuitive Way of Love

Weeks ago, I shared on social media that I was working with a life coach, Steve Hardison. Steve is the subject of a book, The Ultimate Coach, written by his wife, Amy Hardison and researched by Alan Thompson.  Steve calls the book, “The Book of Being.” Steve coached me  through writing a  “document” as a statement of “the you at your inner core...the you that soars.” [page 248].

 I think of my document as the song of my soul.  In this podcast, through stories, I share what the document means to me.  I share the document.  I also share a document I wrote for my late husband, Jim, in the form of his eulogy.  I muse that we are all living from documents, acknowledged or not. Perhaps being more intentional about them can change us and, in doing so, change the world.

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Dr. Linda Pettit’s book, Leaning into Curves: Trusting the Wild Intuitive Way of Love will be out in March 2024. Linda’s life’s work is listening—to the wisdom within, to the wisdom that is expressed in heartfelt conversation, to the wisdom of Life, and to the wisdom that Love is. It is listening that empowers her words in writing, spiritual mentoring, and compelling public speaking. She is a global influencer at the intersection of psychology and spirituality.

Linda holds a doctorate in counseling psychology, a master’s degree in counselor education and a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Visit www.lindasandelpettit.com to learn more about her programs and individual mentoring.

Candid, insightful, focused – these are the descriptors that come to mind for this interview with Jamie Fiore Higgins, author of Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs.  Jamie speaks with clarity about the dangers of ignoring intuition and the cost of sacrificing personal values to the pursuit of external rewards – money, recognition, and validation from others. 

Jamie was named one of the Financial Times “Top 25 Most Influential Women of 2022, as a “teller of uncomfortable truths.”

Jamie worked as a managing director at Wall Street’s Goldman Sachs. One of just 8 percent of Goldman employees to earn the managing director title, she was the highest-ranking woman in her department. An active member of the Women’s Network Committee, Jamie ran the trainee and internship programs, recruited top equity clients, and managed $96 billion in stock. 

Jamie wrote Bully Market not only as an expose’ but to share practical ideas for building healthy workplaces that work better for men, women, and their families.

Living in New Jersey with her husband and four children, she is a trained coach. She works with teens to hone their leadership skills, with high school, and college graduates as they begin careers, with professionals as they navigate the workforce, and with mid-lifers looking to reinvent themselves.

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Dr. Linda Pettit’s book, Leaning into Curves: Trusting the Wild Intuitive Way of Love will be out in March 2024. Linda’s life’s work is listening—to the wisdom within, to the wisdom that is expressed in heartfelt conversation, to the wisdom of Life, and to the wisdom that Love is. It is listening that empowers her words in writing, spiritual mentoring, and compelling public speaking. She is a global influencer at the intersection of psychology and spirituality.

Linda holds a doctorate in counseling psychology, a master’s degree in counselor education and a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Visit www.lindasandelpettit.com to learn more about her programs and individual mentoring.

I’m so tickled to share this interview Carol Hampshire, the intuitive-creative woman who designed my new brand and website. 

“Branding is about connecting,” Carol said. Carol shared her top three secrets behind a successful brand and marketing presence.  

Carol also talked about her journey to find freedom in life and how hardship contributed to that.  She wants to help all her clients feel greater freedom in the way they show up in the world. 

Carol is a web designer and brand strategist with over 25 years’ experience. Her unique approach is being able to intuitively tap into her clients' essence and reflect that into their brand. This in turn authentically connects and attracts their target market so they sell their offers with ease and effortlessly scale their business. 

She lives in a small coastal town in South Africa and is a mermaid at heart who loves to travel, swim with dolphins and does the occasional ice bath.

I hope you enjoy Carol’s insightful, adventuring energy!

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Dr. Linda Pettit’s book, Leaning into Curves: Trusting the Wild Intuitive Way of Love will be out in March 2024. Linda’s life’s work is listening—to the wisdom within, to the wisdom that is expressed in heartfelt conversation, to the wisdom of Life, and to the wisdom that Love is. It is listening that empowers her words in writing, spiritual mentoring, and compelling public speaking. She is a global influencer at the intersection of psychology and spirituality.

Linda holds a doctorate in counseling psychology, a master’s degree in counselor education and a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Visit www.lindasandelpettit.com to learn more about her programs and individual mentoring.

Whether you’re an elite athlete, an exercise aficionado, or someone who loves to follow competitive sports, you’ll love this interview with sports performance coach, Denise Holland. She is a leader in the spiritual [yes, the “S” word] nature of human psychology behind sports performance.

Denise spent over 30 years in elite sport, competing internationally as an athlete and, more recently, as the Scotland National Coach in netball.

Since awakening to the source and intelligence behind the human experience, Denise feels she has found the jewel of athletic performance; the opportunity and possibility to live and play freely. It has transformed how she now approaches sports coaching, being more of a catalyst for insight rather than an expert in her field.

Enjoy this gentle conversation with Denise and pick up some tips and insights to up your game!

Read more about Denise and her PlayFreely program at www.deniseholland.org.

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Dr. Linda Pettit’s book, Leaning into Curves: Trusting the Wild Intuitive Way of Love will be out in March 2024. Linda’s life’s work is listening—to the wisdom within, to the wisdom that is expressed in heartfelt conversation, to the wisdom of Life, and to the wisdom that Love is. It is listening that empowers her words in writing, spiritual mentoring, and compelling public speaking. She is a global influencer at the intersection of psychology and spirituality.

Linda holds a doctorate in counseling psychology, a master’s degree in counselor education and a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Visit www.lindasandelpettit.com to learn more about her programs and individual mentoring.

I’m delighted to bring you this lively conversation with Jacqueline (JB) Hollows.  We talk about her transformative work in the U.K. criminal justice system and about her forthcoming memoir/self-help book, “Wing of an Angel” to be published Autumn, 2023. 

We also talk about where life is taking her now...to more writing and digital content creation.  JB is personable, funny, insightful, and so brimming with love!  She has followed the intuitive way.

JB is an author, a social entrepreneur, and a mental health mentor. Her tagline ‘Doing Life Perfectly Imperfect’ sums up her attitude of embracing the messiness of life’s journey and her ability to see the perfection in everyone she works with.

From a career in IT, to pioneering wellbeing programs in prisons, to co-authoring research papers to publishing books, to pivoting as a digital creative, Jacqueline embraces change and brings others along with her.

Check out her free course on taking Inspired Action.

J.B., Linda Pettit, and Maria Iliffe-Wood, author, and publisher, are joining forces to bring you an intimate writer’s retreat, Write to Connect with Spirit, in Criccieth, Wales, Sept. 21-24, 2023. We hope you’ll join us!

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Dr. Linda Pettit’s book, Leaning into Curves: Trusting the Wild Intuitive Way of Love will be out in March 2024. Linda’s life’s work is listening—to the wisdom within, to the wisdom that is expressed in heartfelt conversation, to the wisdom of Life, and to the wisdom that Love is. It is listening that empowers her words in writing, spiritual mentoring, and compelling public speaking. She is a global influencer at the intersection of psychology and spirituality.

Linda holds a doctorate in counseling psychology, a master’s degree in counselor education and a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Visit www.lindasandelpettit.com to learn more about her programs and individual mentoring.

Dr. Judith Sedgeman begins this fascinating interview with a description of how one thought about racism against childhood friends first unfolded into disillusionment but also, in the end, into a life of service to others.  In this candid interview she shares how mentors described in her memoir, “It All Began with a Bird” pointed the way to standing for what is right and following the intuitive way of love.  Judy shares powerful stories about how finding a feeling of Love has helped her clients – individuals and businesses – arrive at solutions to challenges.

Judy spent most of her adult life searching for the true meaning of service. Through careers in teaching, journalism, banking and entrepreneurship, service manifested in behaviors, but the feeling behind it remained elusive. 

In the mid-1980’s, she stumbled across a new way to understand the spiritual source of life and the transformative power of quieting the intellect and listening for wisdom to guide us. 

For the last four decades, this led her to become a mentor in the emerging field of the Three Principles and to career opportunities, peace of mind, and happiness beyond her wildest dreams as a college student longing for a rich inner life through the opportunity to serve others. 

Even as she approaches her 80th birthday, she undertakes new projects and nurtures certainty that the answer to ameliorating human suffering is close at hand, visible to all who look away from turmoil towards the peace and strength within.  To learn more about Judy and work with her see:  www.three-principles.com. 

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Check out Linda’s offering of 3-session package of individual consultations, the Apprentice’s Way Mini, and her Intuitive Way of Love Masterclass Series on the home page of her website at www.lindasandelpettit.com.  Look for Linda’s book, Leaning into Curves, to be published Fall 2023.  Sign up for publication notifications at her website.

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Dr. Linda Pettit’s book, Leaning into Curves: Trusting the Wild Intuitive Way of Love will be out in March 2024. Linda’s life’s work is listening—to the wisdom within, to the wisdom that is expressed in heartfelt conversation, to the wisdom of Life, and to the wisdom that Love is. It is listening that empowers her words in writing, spiritual mentoring, and compelling public speaking. She is a global influencer at the intersection of psychology and spirituality.

Linda holds a doctorate in counseling psychology, a master’s degree in counselor education and a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Visit www.lindasandelpettit.com to learn more about her programs and individual mentoring.

Kirstien Bjerregaard, Ph.D., MBACP is on a quest to awaken people to the possibility that they can bring well-being, wisdom, creativity, resilience and love to every life circumstance they meet.  She is a psychologist, transformative counsellor, coach, mental health and resilience educator and founder of a non-profit organization in the U.K., Field of Possibility, CIC.

After working for years on the front lines in countries requiring humanitarian assistance during crises, Kirstien found herself burned out.  She discovered a deeper resilience and re-connected with the joy of helping when she was introduced to an understanding that connects spiritual insight with psychological well-being, known worldwide as the 3 Principles.  

Kirstien works with professionals in frontline response organisations and privately, with couples and individuals. She also runs the Field of Possibility, a community enterprise offering educational activities and retreats that enhance mental well-being and resilience.

Podcast host, Linda Pettit, and Kirstien along with her sister, Sarah Webb, are offering an experiential nature-based retreat for women, The Joy of Embodied Love, at the Field of Possibility in Totnes, U.K., September 15-17, 2023. See details at https://lindasandelpettit.com/events-resources/

Kirstien loves dancing, being a mum and creating things in their physical field of possibility in Devon. She is especially proud of having co-built, with her husband Mox, family, and friends, a natural wildlife swim pond, a reciprocal roof roundhouse and a pointless point (stone circle).  You can find Kirstien at https://kirstien.com or https://field-of-possibility.org/

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Dr. Linda Pettit’s book, Leaning into Curves: Trusting the Wild Intuitive Way of Love will be out in March 2024. Linda’s life’s work is listening—to the wisdom within, to the wisdom that is expressed in heartfelt conversation, to the wisdom of Life, and to the wisdom that Love is. It is listening that empowers her words in writing, spiritual mentoring, and compelling public speaking. She is a global influencer at the intersection of psychology and spirituality.

Linda holds a doctorate in counseling psychology, a master’s degree in counselor education and a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Visit www.lindasandelpettit.com to learn more about her programs and individual mentoring.

Mara Gleason Olsen is the co-founder of One Solution, an international nonprofit dedicated to solving large-scale global challenges by helping individuals, communities, and systems to change from within. It is Mara’s life passion to help people reconnect to their innate well-being, resilience and capacity for new ideas because it is the most efficient and sustainable solution to any problem. 

Mara talks with me about her work to help people from all walks of life find well-being and solutions to tough challenges, including MIT-trained physicists, UN directors, US Marines, NHL players, Microsoft managers, prison inmates and young people in South Side Chicago, Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank.

In this moving and intimate interview, Mara acknowledges that the intuitive way of love has guided her and her family, one next small right step at a time, through a crushing personal loss. You will fall in love with this beautiful woman who is a brilliant influencer and a vulnerable, open-hearted woman, wife, mom, sister, daughter, and friend.

Prior to creating One Solution, from 2010-2016 Mara partnered with Aaron Turner to found and co-direct One Thought, a New York/London-based company that trained thousands of organizational leaders from around the world. Her “Super Power” talk to high school students in south side Chicago was featured on the popular digital platform Goalcast, viewed over 2 million times.

Mara is the author of Amazon #1 best-selling book One Thought Changes Everything. She is a sought-after speaker at international conferences, was a speaker for TEDx Countdown, and has been a featured guest on many podcasts. Mara graduated with a master’s degree from Columbia University in 2006. She sits on the board of EveryMom Chicago and Sarsen. She currently lives in Chicago with her husband and co-director of One Solution, Eirik Olsen, and their two children.

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Dr. Linda Pettit’s book, Leaning into Curves: Trusting the Wild Intuitive Way of Love will be out in March 2024. Linda’s life’s work is listening—to the wisdom within, to the wisdom that is expressed in heartfelt conversation, to the wisdom of Life, and to the wisdom that Love is. It is listening that empowers her words in writing, spiritual mentoring, and compelling public speaking. She is a global influencer at the intersection of psychology and spirituality.

Linda holds a doctorate in counseling psychology, a master’s degree in counselor education and a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Visit www.lindasandelpettit.com to learn more about her programs and individual mentoring.

Are you feeling daunted? De-energized? Unfocused? Unclear about next steps?  Scared? Chances are good those feelings are indicators of psychic dryness…a thirst for inner wisdom, hydration from the soul. The antidote is intentional solitude found both in small bites and larger chunks of time built around inward listening, pleasure, and sensory refreshment.

In this mini-podcast I share this bit of wisdom from the “Sealskin, Soulskin” tale in Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ book, Women Who Run With the Wolves:

"It is commingling with soul that causes us to glow bright with spirit, willing to assert our talents, whatever they might be.  It is that brief, even momentary, but intentional union that support us to live out our inner lives so that instead of burying them in the self-inversion of shame, fear of reprisal or attack, lethargy, complacency, or other limiting reasonings and excuses, we let our inner lives wave, flare, blaze on the outside for all to see.” – [Page 295]

Flowers come to mind. In their active phases, they bloom and blossom. They wither and dry.  They drop.  Their host greenery seems dormant – but hidden roots and shoots pull in nutrients needed for the next cycle.  Perhaps despite even our best day-to-day self-care, there are natural cycles of creativity that beg our respect and surrender. Support your next blaze with hydration from the depths of your being.

Register today for Linda’s next Intuitive Way of Love Masterclass, Shifting from Precarious to Poised, on Saturday, April 15th.  She will talk about heightened intuition as a natural outgrowth of evolving spiritual consciousness.  More details at:

www.lindasandelpettit.com/masterclass-series/

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Dr. Linda Pettit’s book, Leaning into Curves: Trusting the Wild Intuitive Way of Love will be out in March 2024. Linda’s life’s work is listening—to the wisdom within, to the wisdom that is expressed in heartfelt conversation, to the wisdom of Life, and to the wisdom that Love is. It is listening that empowers her words in writing, spiritual mentoring, and compelling public speaking. She is a global influencer at the intersection of psychology and spirituality.

Linda holds a doctorate in counseling psychology, a master’s degree in counselor education and a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Visit www.lindasandelpettit.com to learn more about her programs and individual mentoring.

In this episode, Linda and Liz Scott talk about the intuitive step-by-step knowing that guided Liz and her husband, Stu, to found Inner Compass, a nonprofit organization that points people toward their natural well-being. Inner Compass functions in their local community and is creating a pool of volunteer listeners to help the lonely and isolated feel a sense of connection and belonging.

Inner Compass’ programs are called Well-being Listening.  We talk about the power of listening to the health, the love at the heart of all human beings.  We talk about the connection between intuition and listening.  Liz explains how a metaphor, the inner diamond, reminds us of the wisdom each of us has to offer to a world very much in need of it.  We also talk about how we can hang onto hope and truth in a world that can feel scary and difficult. 

Listening is at the heart of Liz’s work …. it always has been. The thread of listening has been woven through her work as a BBC reporter, coach, facilitator, trainer, podcaster, and author of the book To Listen is to Love. 

Liz lives on the southern edge of Dartmoor in the UK and every day she immerses herself in nature, walking across the moors and watching the seasons change. 

To contact her or purchase her book, visit www.innercompassguide.com 

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Dr. Linda Pettit’s book, Leaning into Curves: Trusting the Wild Intuitive Way of Love will be out in March 2024. Linda’s life’s work is listening—to the wisdom within, to the wisdom that is expressed in heartfelt conversation, to the wisdom of Life, and to the wisdom that Love is. It is listening that empowers her words in writing, spiritual mentoring, and compelling public speaking. She is a global influencer at the intersection of psychology and spirituality.

Linda holds a doctorate in counseling psychology, a master’s degree in counselor education and a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Visit www.lindasandelpettit.com to learn more about her programs and individual mentoring.