Monday, February 9, 2015

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.

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About the Book:

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.

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  • 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.
Thank you for this interview!  I’d like to know more about you as a person first.  What do you do when you’re not writing?

I love to read, walk in nature and travel.  Right now, in addition to writing I am also teaching graduate courses in Healthcare Administration. I am a nurse and attorney with a long career in hospitals as Director of Risk Management and as In-house Counsel in California and Arizona.

When did you start writing?

I have done a lot of writing in my career.  But this book started as some quick tip sheets on relationships that I wanted to give away on my website. Then I wanted to illustrate it with paintings of how I think of the angels of inspiration.  Once I had the portraits of the angels done, it grew from there.

As a published author, what would you say was the most pivotal point of your writing life?

Courage to press the button – that all the revisions are done and the book is done. 
(I can always see something where I think, if I just changed one more thing….)

If you could go anywhere in the world to start writing your next book, where would that be and why?

I would spend a week in London for inspiration, and week on the beach in Jamaica to recover from London.   Then I would stay in a beautiful hotel on a lake or river in the mountains to write – maybe Lake Louise in Canada.  It is easier to hear your heart when you are closer to nature.

If you had 4 hours of extra time today, what would you do?

Sit by the pool and read something just for pleasure – probably a historical romance!

Back to your present book, Open Your Heart for Happy Relationships – 10 Shift Keys - What Your Angels Have Been Trying to Tell You for Centuries, how did you publish it? 

I self-published with Amazon Create Space. I wanted to be in control of the cover, colors, angel portraits, interior layout, and font and fleuron choice.  I did not want to go through the cycle of submission and rejection (and possibly no acceptance) that traditional publishing entails.  As an avid reader, I love Amazon.  The thought of my book on Amazon was enticing.

In writing your book, did you travel anywhere for research? 

No

Why was writing Open Your Heart for Happy Relationships – 10 Shift Keys - What Your Angels Have Been Trying to Tell You for Centuries so important to you?

It is a way to say thank you for the answers I had been given.  I am a mix of romantic and hopeful with practical and pragmatic.  I didn’t like the way my life was going – so I have been on a lifelong search for what would work better.  When I found ways that worked in the real world - I wanted to share what I learned over the years.

Where do you get your best ideas and why do you think that is?  

When I am just waking up, when I am in the shower and when I am in nature.  Under those conditions – I believe we are more open to inspiration from the divine and from our own hearts.


Any final words?

There is always hope that life and relationships can get better.  The message of my book is  - Love is the answer, but don’t get it mixed up with self sacrifice. Also, there are simple ways to change.  We can stop the ways we usually respond in relationships and life (learned in childhood) that keep us unhappy and our relationships unfulfilling.

Love your very clever Blog title and Thank You!!
Eve Picquette

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