Martha Char Love

Martha Char Love is the author along with co-author Robert W. Sterling of "What's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective of the Intelligence of Human Nature and Gut Instinct" and also of "Increasing Intuitional Intelligence: How the Awareness of Instinctual Gut Feelings Fosters Human Learning, Intuition, and Longevity". She was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and grew up primarily in Georgia and Mississippi. She received her bachelor's degree in Elementary Education in 1968 and her MA in Educational Psychology in 1970, with a fifth year certificate in Psychometry and license as a School Psychologist . She was a counselor/instructor in the '70s and early 80's, operating as a career counselor and educator at Meridian College and later in a large community college, Santa Fe Community College (SFCC), in Gainesville, Florida, and as a School Psychologist for the Alachua County Board K-12. It was at that point that she first wrote a text for her classes together with her colleague, Robert W. Sterling, concerning the gut self-regulated responses that they were discovering with individuals they were counseling in career exploration.

In 2005, she received her MA in Depth Psychology and continued her study of the gut self-regulatory response in a research study at Sonoma State University in Northern CA. In 2008, she received her PMA in Art Therapy. With 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?" introducing a new Gut Science exploring the intelligence of gut instincts. She presently lives in state capital, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.

She also recently published a book titled: "Mom's Island Bakens: Over fifty Altered Recipes For a cheerful Gut and a Healthy Heart." Martha Char Love has spent her career life exploring the intelligence and science of gut feelings, she doesn't write "Mom's Island Bakens" as an expert nutritionist but as a mom and lifelong family cook who has continuously had the well-being of her family's gut and health in mind. She has used her long years of cookery expertise in addition to her education of human needs and gut response awareness to put in writing a book to guide those who have found it a necessity due to sickness or just a sensible move toward well-being to try to create healthy changes to their diet and their cookery.