Interview with Eve Picquette, author of 'Open Your Heart for Happy Relationships'
Eve Picquette has been looking for love, joy and fun all her life.
Along the way she has had lots of experiences - some with more fun than others!
A licensed attorney, she served as director of risk and quality management at
hospital corporations in California and Arizona for thirty
years. She is also a certified NLP life coach, matrix, EFT and Angel Therapy
practitioner. Eve Picquette received her MSN in community mental health at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, and her Juris
Doctor from the University of California, Davis.
Author of Open
Your Heart for Happy Relationships: 10 Shift Keys -What Your Angels Have
Been Trying to Tell You for Centuries and companion Mini Meditation
MP3's, she lives in Arizona, and her present happy work is teaching and
advising clients regarding having more love and joy in personal and business
relationships.
For More Information
- Visit Eve Picquette’s website at www.AdvisorIsIn.com for free Angel Reading and other gifts.
- Connect with Eve on Facebook and Twitter.
- Contact Eve.
About the Book:
Title: Open Your Heart for Happy Relationships: 10 Shift Keys – What
Your Angels Have Been Trying to Tell You for Centuries
Author: Eve Picquette
Publisher: Enchanted Eve, Inc.
Pages: 78
Genre: Self Help/Inspiration
Format: Paperback
Author: Eve Picquette
Publisher: Enchanted Eve, Inc.
Pages: 78
Genre: Self Help/Inspiration
Format: Paperback
How many times have you read or seen something that made you
want to change your life and relationships – but you didn’t know how?
Introduced by two angels, Hope and Impatience, Open Your Heart for Happy
Relationships: 10 Shift Keys - What Your Angels Have Been Trying to Tell You
for Centuries answers the “how” question. Eve Picquette shows readers how
to:
·
Open their hearts to love
·
Shift their lives, using 10
keys—how-to-do-it ideas created with the help of angels of inspiration—to
change in real and satisfying ways.
In this lighthearted, uplifting, and beautifully illustrated
gift book, each chapter opens with images of the author’s angels and quotes she
believes were angel-inspired sometime in history. Readers may also download
companion MP3 Mini Meditations available on Amazon.com. They are “Dared to
Shift” their thoughts and behaviors and these shifts will improve lives and
relationships: • Shift 1: Always Connect to Love • Shift 2: Just Stop It,
Really • Shift 3: It’s All About You • Shift 4: It’s Not About You • Shift 5:
Give Up on the Past • Shift 6: Expect the Best Future • Shift 7: Appreciate Everything
Now • Shift 8: Re-Choose Your Relationships • Shift 9: Handle Conflict with
Grace • Shift 10: Love So it Can be Felt.
If you are ready to try these simple shifts, the results
will amaze you. Every encouraging and comforting word in this beautifully illustrated
self-help book will lead you to the path of peace, happiness, and fulfillment.
A treasure to own, it would also serve as a thoughtful, caring, and loving
gift.
For More Information
- Open Your Heart for Happy Relationships: 10 Shift Keys – What Your Angels Have Been Trying to Tell You for Centuries is available at Amazon.
- Watch the book trailer at YouTube.
- Discuss this book at PUYB Virtual Book Club at Goodreads.
Q: Welcome to The Writer's Life! Now that your book has been published, we’d
love to find out more about the process.
Can we begin by having you take us at the beginning? Where did you come up with the idea to write
your book?
As an attorney, I have always done a lot of
writing, so that part was easy.
I did not intend to write a book in the beginning.
I just wanted some answers for myself. I always wanted to live the Prayer of St.
Francis – “…let me sow love… where there is darkness, light….” I wanted to feel
happy and have happy relationships – but I could not consistently maintain either. I always know that there are solutions to
everything, if I can only find them. I wanted to know
why my life was not working very well, and what would work. The book is the result of my life-long
search. Since my angels inspired me to
hope and keep looking for answers, I wanted to use angels of inspiration as my
theme. Once the artist finished the
paintings of the angels – It turned into a book that just had to be finished!
Q: How hard was it to write a book like this and do
you have any tips that you could pass on which would make the journey easier
for other writers?
I usually write when there is something jumping up
and down wanting to be put on the page, so the writing was not hard. The delays have been caused by self-doubt,
and the obsession to make the book better – to fix something, make a point more
clearly, or to add one more thing of value.
Q: Who is your publisher and how did you find them
or did you self-publish?
I self-published with Amazon’s Create Space. I love design and wanted to have control over
the cover, angel illustrations, and the layout, font and fleuron choice. I did not want to go through the submission
and rejection that traditional publishing entails. (Of course, what I was
really worried about was never getting an acceptance, at all!) The enticement of having my book on Amazon
was irresistible.
Q: Is there anything that surprised you about
getting your first book published?
There is an amazing amount of information available
on the Internet for writers. In
addition, you must have discrimination to avoid buying into every new idea or
marketing ploy. Each is cleverly designed to convince you that you must have it-
if you are ever to achieve literary success!
I, unfortunately, was convinced a few too many times!
Q: What other books (if any) are you working on and
when will they be published?
I am beginning my next book, which is about
continuing to step into the light, even if you feel like you are in the “dark
night of the soul”. Sometimes when we
think we are finally in the light – life zaps us back into the dark. This book is about what I found works to “get
out of the dark” in which we sometimes find ourselves. It will be done in early 2015.
Q: What’s your favorite place to hang out online?
I am a mix of “all is well” romantic and practical
pragmatist. To keep my feet on the
ground, I love the posts of Barry Ritholtz – The Big Picture. He hits so many topics of finance and world
economics as well as a fascinating array of other interests. I also like to be jolted by people who can
see things from a different view, perhaps, than the main stream. So I have enjoyed Timothy Ferris’ books and
blog as well as Ryan Holiday, author of The
Obstacle is the Way. I find Ramit
Sethi’s Brain Trust interviews exceptional, as well. When I really want to laugh, I love political
cartoons from any side of the street!
Q: Finally, what message (if any) are you trying to
get across with your book?
Love is the answer,
but don’t mix it up with being an unselfish martyr - and -
There are simple
tools that miraculously fix some of the automatic things we do (learned in
childhood) that keep us unhappy and our relationships unfulfilling!
Q: Thank you again for this interview! Do you have any final words?
There is always hope for something more, no matter
where you are in your life.
I try to live by the Winston Churchill quote –
Never, never, never give up.
Thank You!
Eve Picquette
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