Vanessa Pettis

Highly compassionate, empathic, inquisitive, and connected, Vanessa has always learned the laws of life rather intuitively. This gift of strong intuition allowed her to achieve academic success and professional success -- living her dream as an educator, fitness instructor, holistic well-being coach, registered nurse, and psychiatric nurse practitioner student (2025 - 2028). Personal success did not come as intuitively, but she is grateful to be experiencing true happiness and fulfillment, even through the darkest times of her life. Within a 1.5-year time frame, she left her first “dream” job, got divorced, and attended 3 funerals of loved ones. Fast forward to 2025, she works as a nursing supervisor at a high-acuity psychiatric community hospital. Though she loves working at a psychiatric hospital, it is the hardest job she's chosen to do. She is now happily and gratefully remarried, loving life as a mother of 5 daughters and 1 son (yes, he's the baby!).

Vanessa is that grounded optimist who always seems to know the precise formula needed to achieve magic and miracles in a modern society; she truly knows how to make a way out of no way, which was instilled in her through her humble beginnings, having been homeless twice in life. Along with her two brothers, she was raised by a single-parent, hardworking, and loving mother who, herself, grew up under the poverty line in the inner cities of New Jersey. While she now has a strong relationship with her Dad, a Trinidad and Tobago native, he spent his young adulthood life having to first find himself before he could step into fatherhood.

One thing that did not come intuitively is Vanessa’s ability to integrate the worlds of science and spirit. She would ask, how is it possible for “God” to exist, logically speaking? Where is the “proof”? Through an open mind and heart, she was able to experience what it felt like to be blindly religious, a skeptical atheist, an exploring agnostic, and openly spiritual. She is now a passionate Jesus follower and she understands that everyone has a unique path to happiness and truth during their time here on earth. She hopes to shed a little light on the law of love that will help us all along the way. This book represents her perspective from 2016, which is when the book was published.