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HQP Teacher Profile
Linda Hartka-Reiss
Before she found her way to the Process, Linda was a transpersonal
psychologist and therapist, in private practice for 11 years. She
had been pursuing personal growth since her early 20s, searching
for “joy, sense of connection, presence, and love” in
her life. As the mother of five in a painful marriage, she struggled
with why she was “creating so much pain in her life.”
Nothing seemed to help.
In the midst of personal challenges and divorce, Linda attended
the Process in November 1996 and “found a new point of reference
for who I am, my Spiritual Self, my innate beauty and goodness,
and with that change, my selfloathing just died. I still have self-doubt
and patterns, but my life is filled with love, creativity, and adventure.
I believe my life is now a reflection of the shift from selfhate
to self-love. I love my life from the inside out.”
Linda became a Process teacher in January 2000 because she wanted
to share what she experienced. “Teaching the Process has restored
my faith in humanity and helped me truly love human beings,”
she said. “Every time I teach, I’m privileged to watch
people blossom into who they truly are. I just fall in love with
these students; every individual is so unique and beautiful!”
Three of Linda’s children, a son-in-law, and her husband,
Peter, are Process graduates. Their relationships have deepened
and they now relate more as equal human beings rather than taking
on the patterns of parents and children with old transference and
projections. “There was always love and closeness, but now
there is freedom in that love that wasn’t there before.”
A member of an artistic family, Linda was unable to own her creativity
before the Process. She now designs and creates glass beads and
fashions them into beautiful jewelry (see her work at www.glassartists.org/lindahartka-reiss).
Her husband, Peter (grandson of artist Winold Reiss, whose portraits
of members of the Blackfoot Nation are featured at the C. M. Russell
Museum in Great Falls, Montana [www.winold-reiss.org]), was recently
made a member of the Blackfoot Nation and named Flying Eagle, especially
appropriate as he is a retired airline pilot. Linda says, with a
smile, that this honor makes her, as Peter’s wife, “Linda
Flying Eagle.” The name fits. Peter’s post retirement
work often takes him to remote and fascinating places throughout
the world, and Linda joins him whenever her schedule allows.
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