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How to Live from Your Heart: Deepen Relationships, Develop Creativity, and Discover Inner Wisdom
Heart energy comes from an always loving and wise Higher Source. Nurturing, warm, quiet, refined, and all encompassing, heart energy brings spiritual growth that fosters creativity, attracts loving relationships, and engenders peace and happiness. Grounded in psychology and focusing on a bigger picture than New Age philosophies, this practical book not only teaches you how to live from your heart but also provides scads of activities to practice doing so, focusing on compassion, creativity, inner wisdom, insights into others, and the working together of the heart and mind to promote growth in our own Higher Self and the Higher Self of others. Recommended by US Review of Books and MidWest Book Review. Book of the Year Award 2016 finalist, Kops-Fetherling Legacy Award in Self-Help, Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Book Excellence Award, Readers' Favorite Book Award finalist, Best Books Award finalist.
274 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2016
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February 6, 2017
This “Heart” book helped me to understand how best to happily attract and enjoy loving relationships in my life, working through the challenges to strengthen these relationships. The practical, easy to understand short stories, showed me how to creatively work closely with family at home and friends at work in a fun-loving way and feel positive about my interactions. It shows us how we can begin our day with an open heart and remain peaceful no matter what we may encounter.
February 6, 2017
This book is a gem. It tells you with illuminating clarity and practical wisdom how living from your Heart is key to becoming the most authentic person you ever can be and become. From detailed instructions to effective examples and case stories you learn that your Heart is the most reliable source, not your mind, for deepening your relationships, inspiring your creativity and discovering inner wisdom. The key difference is that your mind assists in structuring the meaning of what your Heart reveals to you in essence.
February 6, 2017
I highly recommend this book as a guide to learning how to live in your heart. As the author imparts her wisdom on this subject, we learn that living in your heart is the place where we live in wisdom, joy, love, compassion, beauty, creativity, connection. The book provides exercises to practice being in the heart, developing self-awareness, and how to approach each day with an open heart. This book has brought a profound change in how I live my daily life and experience my relationships.
February 7, 2017
Irene van Kessel
How to Live From Your Heart is a powerful self-growth, self-awareness book. It truly inspired me to embrace life with far deeper self-awareness, enthusiasm, courage, compassion, a greater sense of wholeness, and a clearer understanding of the power of love. I have come to enjoy a far happier and more fulfilling life.
How to Live From Your Heart is a powerful self-growth, self-awareness book. It truly inspired me to embrace life with far deeper self-awareness, enthusiasm, courage, compassion, a greater sense of wholeness, and a clearer understanding of the power of love. I have come to enjoy a far happier and more fulfilling life.
January 21, 2026
How to Live from Your Heart: Deepen Relationships, Develop Creativity, and Discover Inner Wisdom is a grounded and compassionate guide to emotional awareness, personal growth, and authentic connection.
Nanette V. Hucknall presents heart-centered living not as abstract spirituality, but as a practical psychological practice rooted in awareness, compassion, and integration between heart and mind. The book skillfully bridges the gap between emotional intelligence and spiritual development, offering readers a framework that feels both accessible and deeply meaningful.
One of the book’s strongest qualities is its emphasis on balance. Rather than positioning the heart and mind as opposing forces, Hucknall explores how they function most powerfully when working together. This integration supports clearer decision-making, healthier relationships, and greater creativity, all without bypassing logic or grounding.
The concept of “heart energy” is presented with warmth and restraint, avoiding sensationalism while remaining deeply affirming. By focusing on lived experience, psychology, and personal practice, the book speaks to readers who may feel disconnected from New Age ideology yet still seek spiritual depth.
Particularly impactful are the many exercises and reflective activities woven throughout the chapters. These practices allow readers to experience heart-centered awareness directly, transforming insight into embodied understanding. The emphasis on compassion, toward oneself and others, creates a sense of emotional safety that encourages honest self-exploration.
The sections on relationships and creativity stand out for their clarity and practicality. Rather than offering prescriptive rules, the book helps readers develop discernment, intuition, and emotional presence, skills that naturally deepen intimacy and unlock creative expression.
Overall, How to Live from Your Heart is both nurturing and empowering. It offers readers a steady path toward inner wisdom, emotional maturity, and authentic connection, grounded not in ideology, but in awareness, practice, and lived compassion.
For anyone seeking to strengthen relationships, reconnect with creativity, or cultivate peace through emotional intelligence and spiritual integration, this book serves as a thoughtful and enduring guide.
Nanette V. Hucknall presents heart-centered living not as abstract spirituality, but as a practical psychological practice rooted in awareness, compassion, and integration between heart and mind. The book skillfully bridges the gap between emotional intelligence and spiritual development, offering readers a framework that feels both accessible and deeply meaningful.
One of the book’s strongest qualities is its emphasis on balance. Rather than positioning the heart and mind as opposing forces, Hucknall explores how they function most powerfully when working together. This integration supports clearer decision-making, healthier relationships, and greater creativity, all without bypassing logic or grounding.
The concept of “heart energy” is presented with warmth and restraint, avoiding sensationalism while remaining deeply affirming. By focusing on lived experience, psychology, and personal practice, the book speaks to readers who may feel disconnected from New Age ideology yet still seek spiritual depth.
Particularly impactful are the many exercises and reflective activities woven throughout the chapters. These practices allow readers to experience heart-centered awareness directly, transforming insight into embodied understanding. The emphasis on compassion, toward oneself and others, creates a sense of emotional safety that encourages honest self-exploration.
The sections on relationships and creativity stand out for their clarity and practicality. Rather than offering prescriptive rules, the book helps readers develop discernment, intuition, and emotional presence, skills that naturally deepen intimacy and unlock creative expression.
Overall, How to Live from Your Heart is both nurturing and empowering. It offers readers a steady path toward inner wisdom, emotional maturity, and authentic connection, grounded not in ideology, but in awareness, practice, and lived compassion.
For anyone seeking to strengthen relationships, reconnect with creativity, or cultivate peace through emotional intelligence and spiritual integration, this book serves as a thoughtful and enduring guide.
January 4, 2018
This book is a life changer! It compassionately teaches through exercises and case studies how to use your heart in all decision making processes. Practice the exercises and your relationships will deepen, your life's work will become clearer, and you will find for yourself a joy and a purpose that you never knew was possible. Reading this book and doing the work suggested did all this for me and more.
January 13, 2018
What an absolute gem of a book. The practical suggestions offered in this book have absolutely changed my life. It is clearly written, wise and helpful in all aspects of life.
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