Femme Lead S01 E05 Cardiologist Dr. Madalina Petrescu on 'Living from the Heart'.
In this interview, Madalina Petrescu M.D. is sharing what it truly means to live a heart-centered life. She goes beyond the traditional healing of the physical heart and dives deep into living life from your heart. She talks about how to live an aligned life, a whole, and balanced life, what true health really means, involving all aspects of self including physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
Madalina has always been attracted to the space of the heart and the healing arts, becoming a cardiologist in 2004. She currently works at Swedish Medical Center, in Seattle Washington. She holds leadership positions in advanced imaging of the heart and has served as faculty at national conferences on cardiovascular topics.
Her own personal challenges led her on a life journey into the heart, awakening her to the deeper meaning of conscious living and to what true healing means. She is also a Certified Consciousness Parenting Coach and an international best selling author. She is a certified practitioner and facilitator of heart-opening modalities such as Reconnective Healing, and Kundalini Activation Process.
Madalina shares her authentic life journey, how she came into her profession as a cardiologist, the walls she hit against, and how she discovered that her greatest challenges turned out to be the greatest gifts that led her on the path into her own heart connection, truth, and wisdom.
In the process, she shares the pearls of how it is possible to show up to the world and serve others by first honoring oneself so she can serve from a full and overflowing heart. She is married to Cris and together they have two beautiful daughters. She loves connecting with nature through outdoor adventures such as hiking, camping, and much more. She also loves to travel, explore cultures, and engage in spiritual practices and heart-centered healing modalities.
Madalina co-authored 3 books that became international best sellers:
1) Ignite your Female Leadership. Thirty-five outstanding stories by women who are inspiring the world through feminine leadership.
2) Ignite your Parenting. Real-life, heartfelt stories to help parents find balance and joy in raising happy children.
3) Ignite Love. Real-life stories of defining love and manifesting more of it in your everyday life.
Resources:
- Louise Hay "You Can Heal your life".
- Wayne Dyer.
- Michael Singer "Untethered Soul".
- Eckart Tolle "The Power of Now".
- Paulo Coelho "The Alchemist".
- The Tao Te Ching, also known as Lao Tzu.