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Meet Linda
Welcome to Embrace Your Creative Spirit!, the website describing WisdomSources PLLC, a business encompassing counseling, life coaching, speaking and training. We rarely know what we are going to be asked to deal with in life. Wouldn’t it be helpful to know the real secret to staying calm, able to access wisdom and creativity as we face life’s personal and professional challenges? Like you, I’ve had my share of “stuff” to deal. I’ve been married, widowed and remarried. I’ve weathered major health challenges. I’ve changed careers several times. I’ve been financially strapped. I’ve started business endeavors, failing at some, succeeding at most. I’ve parented children in these tumultuous times. I’ve had to deal with my own moods, insecurities and life “mess-ups.” I know what it means to be depressed and to feel anxious, but I’ve also learned how to feel mostly joyful, calm and loving! For most of my adult life I searched psychological theories and spiritual understandings for inner peace and emotional resilience. I wanted peace of mind and I wanted to help others have it. Five years ago, on Valentine’s Day, I had just completed a talk on the “Power of Unconditional Love in Healing” at a medical center, when my future husband, William F. Pettit, Jr., MD, a psychiatrist, introduced himself. He suggested we get together to talk about an interest we had in common: how to access wisdom and peace in a sustained way. Bill introduced me to the writings of Sydney Banks, a soft-spoken man who had a fortuitous and profound spiritual insight over forty years ago and discovered how we use three spiritual Principles - Mind, Consciousness and Thought—to create our experience of life. Through Bill, I was very blessed to meet Sydney Banks and have listened to him at retreats and conferences, read his books and watched his videotapes numerous times. The purest way to glimpse his understanding of how our spiritual and psychological natures work together is to go directly to his website at http://www.sydneybanks.org . If you go there with an open mind and heart, willing to listen to a paradigm-shifting understanding of how life really works, you stand a good chance of having an insight that will change your life! As I began to glimpse the nature of The Principles some nice things happened. I got emotionally calmer and quieter. I lost my equilibrium much less. I was able to stay more grounded and have greater mental clarity in times of personal and professional challenge. I recognized wise and creative thinking more quickly, which gave me a big edge in handling problems of all shapes and sizes. As a result, I felt more confident and able to “do life” with much greater spontaneity and enjoyment. I became a better person, friend, parent, family member, partner, businessperson and leader. As I began to pass along what I understood about The Principles to my family, friends and, especially, my clients, they usually felt much better, too. And, like me, they began to live far more effectively. It is possible, no matter what you are up against now, or have been through in the past, to experience life in a calm, mentally healthy way. Every insight you need to have a peaceful, mentally healthy experience of life is inside of you. Understanding the Principles discovered by Sydney Banks will help you find what you are looking for: lasting peace, love, joy, wisdom and creativity. Many of us mistakenly believe that we will have peace when external factors are going “just right”: when we have good jobs, plenty of money, the right weight, complete health, or nice relationships. However, the reality is that peace is an inside job. And, once we know how to have it, we much more easily see our way to healthy, contented and satisfying lifestyles. I’ve been a professional helper in one form or another, as well as a motivational speaker, since 1983. I’ve taught at universities, corporations, nonprofits, churches and retreat centers. Since 2001, I’ve been a coach. I’m a graduate of the MentorCoach Foundations Program. In 2008, I was certified by Sydney Banks to share The Principles he discovered.
Licensed in West Virginia as a psychologist, I earned a doctorate in counseling psychology from West Virginia University in 1991. My master’s degree is in counselor education from Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan. I earned my B.A. in Journalism at Michigan State University.
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