I, Martha Love, am the author, along with my colleague Robert Sterling, of the new book “What’s Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective of the Intelligence of Human Nature and Gut Instinct". This book explains what your gut feelings are actually capable of telling you about your inner instinctive needs, how to listen to the voice of your gut, and how to use both of your brains—head and gut—to work together for your optimal health and well-being.
Although numerous books and articles have recently talked about the gut instincts as valuable in giving us useful hunches in the decision-making process, “What’s Behind Your Belly Button?” goes much further and explains how gut feelings not only have a psychological intelligence of their own, but are also understandably rational in their functioning and reflect in their own voice how well the two instinctive human needs of acceptance and of control of one’s own responses in our lives are being met. While we have tried to make this material easy to understand, the psychological explanations of gut intelligence and instincts in this book are comprehensive and based upon clinical studies with hundreds people in our counseling careers spanning over 40 years of studies.
Utilizing the research of Dr. Michael Gershon, M.D. on the gut brain or second brain, the work of Dr. Lise Eliot who charts the development of children from conception through the first five years of life, recent research of our own in the Psychology Department at Sonoma State University, and our vast clinical experience in career counseling and psychometry, we have presented an interpretation of recent medical research into a new revolutionary understanding of gut instincts and a more accurate behavioral understanding of the Self and human nature than has previously been available.
We recommend "What's behind Your belly Button?" for anyone looking for a hopeful view of humankind and a method for getting in touch with gut instincts to reduce stress, cope with fear and anxiety, deal with health issues and make efforts to stay healthy, and to increase optimal problem-solving and life-decision making abilities. It is a book that would be useful for general audience readers as a self-help book, as well as for scholars of psychology, education, neurology, medicine, and business organizational leadership interested in the well-being of healthy decision-making and the human condition. “What’s Behind Your Belly Button?” is now available for purchase on Amazon.com.
Thanks,
Martha Love
