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PREFACE

Desire, ask, believe, receive.Stella Terrill Mann

Stranger on a Plane

Just as you probably are, I am uncomfortable asking for help. A few years ago, however, when my personal life began falling apart, I was forced to seek the help I had avoided for so long.

In my late thirties, after several years of focusing intently on my career, I found myself single and almost completely isolated from other people. Somehow I had disconnected with my world and wasn’t sure how to reestablish friendships and loving relationships. Fortunately I discovered how to reconnect and become more open and vulnerable.

I was encouraged by the insights of one of my teachers, Sonia Choquette, to become less relentlessly independent. Sonia is the author of several ...

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