Katherine Woodward Thomas - Calling in The One: 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life

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To my beloved husband, Mark, and our beautiful daughter, Alexandria the fruits of my labor

Katherine is truly gifted! Her magical techniques and seminars are life-changing... especially if your heart is blocked to receiving love. Her insight and wisdom can assist anyone wanting to find The One. Her processes worked for me... I am now in an amazing committed relationship with my life mate!

RENEE PIANE, author of Love Mechanics: Power Tools to BuildSuccessful Relationships with Women and cofounder of RapidDatingUSA.com

You cant get what you want until you know what you want. Katherine Woodward Thomas helped me to define what I was looking for and helped me to create a path to call in the love of my life. Now, just about a year later, Im shopping for engagement rings. It works.

DEBRA TENNEN, M.D., ophthalmologist

Working with Katherine Woodward Thomas opened my heart and mind to embracing and healing all aspects of The One in me. Yes, I have called in the love of my life, a lover beyond my wildest dreams! Most important, Ive called inand live inLOVE.

KAREN RUSSO, corporate trainer

Katherine is brilliant at helping to create an inviting space for your divine-right partner to show up. Within six months of working with her, Paul showed up and we are building a vision of a shared life together. I am grateful to her for her support, clarity, and inspiration.

WANICE LAMOYNE, founder and CEO of Principles at Work

This course became my lifeline, best friend, and guardian. It gave me what I craved most: the compassionate understanding, loving support, and practical tools to guide me in releasing old blocks and patterns that were inhibiting love from entering my life. The work required some time and dedication, but as Id made the commitment to do it diligently and honestly, I was amazed to find it comforting and pleasurable. Just two weeks after finishing the course, my life has more meaning, Im happier, and I actually love me. The most challenging predicament I face is how to schedule time for each of the five great guys who are calling me right now!

DEBRA KAUFMAN, television writer and producer

The One I had to call in first and foremost was myself; and this course gave me the tools to do that. I am now standing in the vision of the great love I always wanted in my life, but never before truly believed I could have. I am now creating it. A beautiful, healing journey into the heart, expanding it to let more love out, and welcome more love in. Definitely a life-changing experience on many levels.

MAGDA MOLINA, actress

Special Thanks

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

All accomplishments in life, both great and small, can be traced to the influences and efforts of many. This book is no exception. It has taken the love and support of many wise and caring people over the years to help me arrive at a place in my life where I have something valuable to say. The collective kindness and generosity that I have received in my life is a debt that I can never repay directly, and can only hope to pay forward for the rest of my life.

I do, however, wish to thank certain people for helping me, not only to write this book, but to become the person who was capable of writing this book. To my vision keepers, Naomi Benghiat and Jennifer Holt, thank you for steadfastly holding the vision of what love could, and would, look like in my life, when I was too weary to care; and for the depth of your devotion to the fulfillment of my dreams. To Lora Cain, for providing many, many hours of encouragement, editorial advice, and edification. To Tamira Hughes, for being the incredible gift that you are, sweetly arriving in my life just in the nick of time. To Natalie Lehman, for your kind and loving support. To Benjamin Dover, for pointing out potential pitfalls and thus guarding my every step like a pit bull. To my agent, Angela Rinaldi, who, with great kindness and care, skillfully managed to shepherd this work into the world. To my editor, Jennifer Kasius, for blessing this project with the magnitude of your talents and creative abilities. To Nancy Hardin, for your generosity, commitment, and common sense. To Carrie Thornton, for so graciously and adeptly stepping up to the plate as we came into the final stretch. To Karen Minster, for enhancing my words with your beautiful design. To Teresa Alas, for keeping my daughter safe and loved on those long afternoons of writing and rewriting. To Philippa Burgess, for your sound advice and ever-optimistic encouragement. To Douglas Evans, for being one of those rare and special people who actively seeks to bless and prosper those around you. And to Maureen OCrean, for insisting that I write all this down in the first place.

I also want to thank my clients and students for trusting me with your hearts, and for teaching and inspiring me constantly. To every psychotherapist, spiritual teacher, and healer Ive ever had, including Dr. Anne Brooks, Reverend Chris Faulconer, and Debu Ghosh, for your amazing generosity, wisdom, and counsel as well as your willingness to travel into the depths to help me find my way home. To Marianne Williamson, whom I knew when, and who has consistently modeled for me what it is to be a woman on fire, burning brightly for the forces of love. To the Agape International Spiritual Center and Landmark Education, for helping us all to expand our capacity to love and be loved.

Thank you also to my brothers, Todd Grupe and Scott Grupe, for being a source of love and light in my life. To my mother, Sandra Pullman, for your support and generosity over the years as well as the magnitude of your much-treasured love; and to my father, Robert Kersch, who, after all is said and done, has loved me well. To all of my past loves and ill-fated romantic liaisons, from whom Ive learned everything thank you from the bottom of my heart and please forgive me my flaws.

Most of all, I thank my husband, Mark Austin Thomas, for the steadfast constancy of your love, the countless hours of your wise and encouraging counsel, and for your unrelenting belief in me. To our daughter, Alexandria, thank you, sweetheart, for being born. Youve opened my heart wider than I knew possible.

Preface: My Story

Be realistic.
Plan for a miracle.

Bhagwan Shree Rajineesh

This is what being single was like for me. I am an attractive, charismatic womanpetite, with a curvy figure, olive complexion, and unruly dark hair. I love people fervently and I have a profound need to be deeply connected to them. I hated, hated, hated being alone in life. Yet, by the time I reached my fortieth birthday, I was a true-blue, card-carrying member of the fastest-growing group in America, the never-marrieds.

I had no problem meeting men. As a matter of fact, my favorite advice to my gal pals was that old saying Men are like buses. If you miss one, another will be along in ten minutes. In other words, dont spend too much time grieving when they disappoint you. And believe you meI spoke from experience.

When I was nineteen, I had a boyfriend who, responding to my nurturing and caring nature, told me that it would be a tragedy if I never had children. His words haunted me as the (tick, tick, tick) years passed.

When in my late thirties, having just finished graduate school en route to becoming a psychotherapist, I sat reading Gail Sheehys book