Help Wanted

By now, you've probably figured out I clearly need help...professional help.  I hired a Love Coach.  Let me tell you how that happened.

When I retired almost two years ago, I set some goals.  I had been living quite a frenetic life for too long.  I needed to slow down.  I needed to go inward.  My life had been sorely lacking in reflection.  I was going from meeting to meeting, soccer game to soccer game, occasionally, with a happy hour thrown in there.

The closest I got to introspection was my all too infrequent visits to my acupuncturist, Susan.  Bear in mind, I hate needles.  But several years back, I was in screaming pain from osteoarthritis in my hip.  Desperate for relief, I tried every alternative before getting surgery.

That's when I met Susan.  First, she asked me to talk to her for at least 30 minutes about what's going on in my life before she decided where to place the needles.  I hated the needles between my toes but other than that, the needles weren't bad at all.  Susan, wise woman that she is, always felt I needed the heart protector needles.  YA THINK??!!

I told her I wanted to go on a retreat and she suggested Omega in upstate New York.  She confessed she couldn't wait to get out of there for a hamburger because the food was all vegan.  No problem for me.  I sign up for the Soul Connections workshop led by John Holland and Colette Baron-Reid.  All I knew was that they were mediums.  I've always had a great affinity for mediums having been raised near a spiritualist colony in Florida.

John and Colette turned out to be a huge draw--hundreds of people were there.  Sharing conversations with dead relatives of people in the audience really doesn't sound like it could be comical, does it?  It was better than any comedy club I've ever been to.  Another woman was a pet medium and cats and dogs were coming through who were very upset with their owners because they didn't like the owner's boyfriend or girlfriend or the TV shows they were watching.  Anyway, that's where I first heard about Hay House Radio.

Radio for Your Soul.  I downloaded that app pronto onto my iPhone along with John Holland's Oracle Cards, The Psychic Tarot.  I started listening to the Hay House shows.  Not obsessively, just when I was driving around.  Colette and John had their own shows.  Marianne Williamson and Caroline Myss had shows.  I listened to Alan Cohen's Living Your Truth and the Live from The Chopra Center Show.

One day, I'm plugged in and I'm listening to Flourish!, Dr. Christiane Northrup's show.  Her guest was Dr. Diana Kirschner, author of Love in 90 Days, The Essential Guide to Finding Your Own True Love.
I PERKED UP!!!  She said to go to her website and schedule a 40 minute free consultation with one of her trained psychotherapists.  And, so I did, immediately.

Within a day, I got a response with a questionnaire asking me to honestly detail my love life.  I'm sure that set off some psycho-babble.  But, two days later, I got a scheduled appointment with a request for a picture.

My Love Coach introduced herself.  Her name was Susan.  Ahhhhh, very good sign.