Episode 8: Heather Haigh: Living by Heart

Jul 9

In this episode of Books to Better your Life, host Anne Brinkman interviews author Heather Haigh, who shares about what brought her to write Living by Heart: A Guide to Discovering Your Harmony Within. She shares how emotions come up within coaching and the corporate environment and how her heart focus allows herself and others to be better leaders and individuals.

(Get the transcript here.)

In this episode, you’ll learn about:

What brought Heather to write this book
What Living By Heart really means
Some simple starting steps to try out living by heart yourself
The challenges and discoveries Heather had along the way
How to make sure this book is not shelf-help but enables your self-coaching

Noteworthy quotes from this episode

“I think when we believe that our emotions are information, and we stop assigning good, bad, right, wrong, those sort of black and white labels to it, we will recognize how much wisdom and insights come from our body."

“ Accepting emotions and acknowledging emotions is not permission for bad behavior.”

“ But sometimes, when we work so hard to try and manage our emotions, we get caught in them, and we can't actually move forward from them.”

“Leaders are being told that they need to come to the table with more empathy. Leaders are being told they need to come with with more active listening, with more awareness and concern for well being of their employees, like there's so much that's really heart centered in the underlying of those skills”

“Especially in the corporate world of North America, we've been very programmed to listen mostly to our heads. What's the logic, what's the facts, where's the evidence, right? So so much of what we're doing is operating in that above the neck, in the head space, for validation and confirmation and expertise, right?”