While Martha Char Love has spent her career life exploring the intelligence and psychology of gut feelings, she does not write "Mom’s Island Bakens" as a professional but as a Mom and lifetime family cook who has always had the well-being of her family’s gut and health in mind. She has used her long years of cooking experience coupled with her professional counseling abilities to write a book to guide people who have found it a necessity due to illness or simply a smart move toward well-being to strive to make healthy changes to their diet. Martha Char Love, MA, PMA, is also the co-author, along with her colleague Robert W Sterling, of "What’s Behind Your Belly Button: A Psychological Perspective of the Intelligence of Human Nature and Gut Instinct", available on Amazon. She has made exploring and studying the intelligence of the gut response her life work as a former counselor and professor in psychology in community colleges; a licensed school psychologist for Alachua County Schools K-12 in Gainesville, Florida; and a researcher in the field of Analytical Psychology.