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The Heart iQ Blog

Reflections from Christian on relationships, circle work and the practice of living from the heart.

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“Proactive boundaries are around practicing speaking your truth, sharing your needs, sharing your preferences” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 2:59
Teaching

Reactive vs. Proactive Boundaries - A Healthy Way To Use Your Anger

Christian explains the difference between reactive and proactive boundaries, using a live exchange about anger to show how waiting for a line to be crossed makes boundaries impossible to learn.

Christian Pankhurst7 Jul 20173 min read
“Anger is the natural assertion of in-the-moment, spontaneous boundary that is done with kindness.” Heart iQ article illustration. Video
Relationships

Why Anger is Essential for Happiness

Christian explains why anger, when connected to genuine self-worth and a felt sense of value, becomes healthy fuel for boundaries and aliveness rather than destructive rage or repression.

Christian Pankhurst9 Mar 20173 min read
“The real art is in remembering to apply it and reapply it” Heart iQ article illustration. Video
Relationships

Why Anger is Essential for Happiness - Part 2

Christian coaches a woman disconnected from her rage, showing how disowned anger can be reclaimed as fuel for self-worth, boundaries and presence rather than suppressed or acted out unconsciously.

Christian Pankhurst9 Mar 20173 min read
“How do we learn to stay open? By watching how we close.” Heart iQ article illustration.
Relationships

Are You Limiting Your Abundance and Joy?

Explores why receiving joy, love and abundance can feel uncomfortable, showing how unworthiness surfaces as we open the heart and how separating emotional energy from its expression restores wholeness.

Christian Pankhurst9 Mar 20172 min read
“You get to learn about yourself through other.” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 10:00
Relationships

An Introduction To Heart iQ Circle Work

Christian explains how Heart iQ circle work uses a resonant group field to mirror a person's inner world back to them, turning other people into a source of self-recognition and healing.

Christian Pankhurst18 Jan 20173 min read
“Our own heart intelligence is an absolute must if we are to share this with others” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 30:03
Teaching

When You Can Lead A Circle, You Can Lead Your Life

Christian explains the Medicine Concept and the amplified field, using a live coaching demonstration to show how tracking present-moment feeling shifts someone from head-centred to heart-centred leadership.

Christian Pankhurst20 Dec 20163 min read
“Purpose is an attitude. It's a state in which you step into.” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 33:05
Teaching

Are You Meant For More?

Christian argues that purpose is not discovered by searching but built through repeated small acts of stepping in, drawing on his own path from teenage disco organiser to Heart iQ founder.

Christian Pankhurst9 Dec 20163 min read

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