Meet Karen Bentley

Hi. My name is Karen Bentley, but my friends and my family affectionately call me "Big Heart," a title that reflects my dedication to living love, to demonstrating love, to teaching love, to writing about love, and to speaking about love. Many people already have an understanding of romantic love and familial love, but very few understand what it means to love from a spiritual perspective -- without attachment to any one specific person or without demanding that certain agreeable conditions are present before love is extended.

This awareness of non-romantic love is still quite rare and unusual here on planet Earth, but I have it. This is what makes my books, seminars and boot camps so compelling, powerful and different. They really stand out from the pack. After all, once the mind is opened with a new and uplifted idea about love, anything becomes possible -- anything at all. Maybe you will experience happiness beyond your wildest expectations. Maybe you will experience a miracle in your life. Or maybe you will finally come to love and accept yourself, as you are, right now, without any judgement about badness or wrongness.

Author

Altogether I've written 17 books including The Sugar-Free Miracle™ Diet Handbook, the entire Sugar-Free Miracle™ Cookbook Collection series, The Book of Love and 10 Radiant Ideas, as well as numerous booklets, manuals, nationally-published articles and Letters to Editors. Most recently, I wrote a children's book, Faeries in my New Hampshire Garden, for my two beautiful granddaughters, Sophie and Molly, and for everyone else who is enchanted by the idea of unseen, but loving helpers in our midst.

Speaker/Seminar Leader

For the last ten years I have been passionately teaching adults about how to use the power of love to solve problems, particularly problems having to do with stopping unwanted and/or out-of-control behaviors. Any behavior can be stopped: anger, anxiety, over-eating, smoking, drinking, drugging -- you name it. The good news is that once you learn how to tap into and rely on your own inner and sacred strength, stopping self is not as hard as you've been led to believe. And even more, the skill of stopping self can be generalized and transferred to other problematic areas in your life.

Hundreds of people have successfully learned how to stop unwanted behaviors. The secret is the release from fear and the total reliance and trust in Love. Love is not just a wild emotion. It is a power that is available to all of us, whenever we need it. I teach how to recognize and use this power. There are no coincidences in life. You have been searching for a solution, and here it is. There's an old Buddhist quote that says "when the student is ready, the teacher appears." Are you ready?

Physical Educator Extraordinaire!

You will come to remember your goodness and loveliness through your own body. The body is the means for your transformation. Or said another way, it is the primary tool that you will use for learning. The tool, however, is not what's most important about you. What's important is your own awareness of Self as Love. When you finally make the choice to stop attacking self and to start treating your body in a harmless way, you begin to directly experience self as Love. This is how and where the work is done!

My job is to show you how to work with your body instead of against it. I translate abstract spiritual concepts into practical, doable bodily actions or non-actions. In one way or another, I have personally been working with and vigorously applying physical education principles for much of my adult life. In 1988 I graduated summa cum laude from Northeastern University in Boston, MA with a Bachelor of Science degree in education/exercise physiology. I was also class valedictorian and winner of the Boston Bouve' Award for Academic excellence.

World's Biggest Heart Maniac

Because love is symbolized by the heart, I aspire to be the Guinness World Record holder for the largest collection of unique heart objects. There are currently just under 1,000 heart objects in my collection. Each one represents the remembrance of love. After reading one of my books or attending one of my programs, many people feel inspired to add a heart to my collection. Perhaps you will be, too.