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Romance Girl Valerie Beck attended a spa night to benefit the American Heart Association's "Go Red for Women" campaign and was featured in Today's Chicago Woman, April 2007, top photo on the left.
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Romance Coach Valerie Beck was featured in a February 2007 event listed in TimeOut ChicagoTimeOut Chicago
February 1 - 7, 2007, Around Town, Saturday 3, City Picks
Sugar and spice
Red Kiva, 1108 W Randolph St at Aberdeen St (866-533-9884, info@220communications.com). El: Pink, Green to Clinton. Bus: 9 (24 hrs), 20 (24 hrs), 127. 2-5pm, $10. Love it or hate it, Valentine's Day is just around the corner. At this event geared to both men and women, love experts, authors and poets such as "romance coach" and Chicago Chocolate Tours founder Valerie Beck will discuss her book on an eight-step plan to help you find the man of your dreams. Get a Life in the City-Chicago author Sheena Jones will also be on hand, as well as poet Paulette "Passion" Stinson, and author and poet Tia Dionne. Making a special guest appearance is sensuality training coach and founder of Good Gyrrl Inc., Relana Johnson, who will give a brief demonstration of moves to awaken your inner vixen. Special activities for men are also on tap.
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| Newspaper: | State Journal-Register | ||
| Date: | Feb 11, 2007 | ||
| Section: | SUNDAYAM | ||
| Page: | 43 | ||
| Headline: | Sign language / Tucked among the skeptics are a few therapists who seek answers from the stars | ||
| Byline: | Julie Cellini/correspondent | ||
| Credit: | Julie Cellini can be reached at Jcellini@ameritech.net. | ||
| Contributed Byline: | NoContributedByline | ||
| PhotoBy: | Kathleen Riley Young | ||
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| Keywords: | ASTROLOGY. HEALTH | ||
| Story Type: | LOCAL |
Valentine's Day can be brutal.
What do you do when there are no chocolates, no mushy Hallmark card and the candlelight dinner is for one, not two?
"Look to the stars," suggests Catherine Baskett, an astrologer and licensed psychotherapist in Tucson, Ariz.
Baskett is one of two astrologers on staff at Canyon Ranch, a health resort that emphasizes all manner of alternative approaches to physical and mental well-being. She also sees private clients and prepares astrological charts to help couples build better relationships.
At her seminars she hands out roses, heart-shaped candies and advice to those looking for loving relationships. Her goal is to get singles and couples with sun signs such as intense, controlling Scorpios and social, superficial Geminis to better understand each other and take advantage of optimum times for growth in their relationships.
"It begins at birth," she says. "The position of the 10 planets in the solar system at the place and time you are born is unique to you and reveals your strengths and challenges. Astrology shows you how to use your planetary cycles to your advantage and allows you to apply your energy pattern more effectively. We're part of the universe, not separate from it.
"We're all balls of electro-magnetic energy. If the people who come to my office knew how much I can see in their charts, some probably wouldn't show up."
Baskett also uses the position of planets projected onto a world map to locate the most auspicious places people should travel for love, money and adventure. For fun, she charts hot celebrity couples like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and reveals in her lectures the challenges they face in their high-profile relationships.
So what do the planets say about the stars?
"Brad is pragmatic," she says. "A born business man. His chart shows an extremely ambitious person with his feet planted firmly on the ground. He's experiencing 'growing pains' in terms of what he wants to do next, but this is a very good year for him. I see that in the position of his planets - that's his basic energy pattern.
"Angelina is more like a grizzly bear mother - she's headstrong and fiercely protective. She can be hasty and outspoken, and she requires a lot of freedom. Their positions of the planet Mars, which indicates desire, are so alike they are almost at a deadlock. They need to do some major bridge building, because when they disagree it can be very stressful. What I don't see in their charts is that the two of them will get married."
Basket says astrological charts aren't destiny. They reveal periods, and even actual dates, of both positive and negative opportunities for each individual. Unlike generalized horoscopes in newspapers and magazines, charts are specific to the individual. They reveal obstacles and psychological blocks of which people usually are not aware.
Not surprisingly, when it comes to romance, Baskett says she looks at the cycles of Venus, the love planet, as it circles the sun.
"If Venus is in the Virgo sign on your chart, you'd be more likely to find love at your workplace. Venus in Sagittarius can indicate you'll meet your love while traveling. Venus in Neptune - well, that can be you'll find the love of your life in a bar.
"There's nothing 'woo-woo' or new age about astrology. People have been practicing it for 5,000 years. Walt Disney, Stephen Spielberg, Nancy Reagan - they all practiced it at one time or another. It might surprise you to know there are plenty of astrologers on Wall Street."
Astrology has plenty of skeptics, too.
Dr. Joseph Bohlen, a psychiatrist with a practice in Springfield for the past 20 years, had his own astrological charts done in the 1970s when he was an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota. He says it was a fun thing to do and talk about, but he doesn't vouch for its credibility.
"Astrology data can be so over-interpreted," he says. "Making deeper and deeper correlations, I think it gets beyond being meaningful. There are a couple psychotherapists in Springfield who also practice astrology, but it doesn't get talked about. It isn't something readily understood or accepted.
"What I know about the human psyche is that it's very formative, plastic and open to suggestion," Bohlen says. "A third of the people in any medical trial will feel the medicine is working even if it is just a sugar pill."
Couples make up about 25 percent of his practice, Bohlen says. Often, the major concern that brings them to him is that they feel stuck in a relationship, unable to improve and grow. His approach to couples therapy is to work with them to explore their options.
He first helps them examine what he calls their "tool kits" - the lessons they were taught by their parents, plus what they learned in their own adult experiences. He works on what is missing, such as communication, introspection and listening skills.
Good relationships are based, he says, not on the stars but on shared vulnerability. The capacity to be transparent to someone else and let them get beneath the armor and facade that human beings put up to protect themselves.
For Chicago entrepreneur Valerie Beck, relationships need an even more basic element - time.
Author of "Romance Around the Corner: 8 Steps Toward Attracting the Man of Your Dreams and Having Fun in the Process," Beck was a Harvard-trained corporate finance attorney working 80-hour weeks at a prestigious loop law firm when she decided life - and love - were passing her by.
"I never set out to write a book," she says. "I just needed to figure out how to get a date."
Married at 22 and divorced at 29, Beck said her problem wasn't getting back into the dating mix. She was never in it in the first place.
So she gave up a lucrative career in law and used her experiences in the dating scene and her ability as a researcher to self-publish her book. It's available on Amazon.com and at Barnes & Noble Booksellers.
She's also giving seminars on how to go from being a dateless wonder to a dating diva in eight steps. And she recently started Chicago Chocolate Tours, a guided walking and tasting adventure at various high-end chocolate shops. Her customers range from bachelorette parties to conventioneers. Her dream is to make it an international enterprise with romantic chocolate tours of the world's great cities, including, of course, Paris.
"What in the world could be better," she asks, "than romance and chocolate?"
Well, how about an astrology chart chock full of opportunities for love and romance?
"I think astrology is a way to open doors to self-knowledge," Beck says. "Like I tell the women in my seminars, when you know yourself, you're a lot more likely to find Mr. Right, instead of settling for Mr. Right Now.
"I'd definitely study the stars for that."
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Romance Around the Corner was on the radio when Romance Coach Valerie Beck spoke about entrepreneurship on Linda Padgurskis's Financial Wellness show on Chicago's 1530 AM radio station, on Thursday, January 25, 2007.
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Your Romance Coach Valerie Beck is featured on the front page of the New Year's Day 2007 edition of the Chicago Tribune. Click here or read below for the story.
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Wishing, hoping, doing
By Bonnie Miller Rubin and Johnathon E. Briggs, Tribune staff reporters
January 1, 2007
Is there anything so exhilarating as a fresh start?
A new year carries infinite possibilities. The mere turn of the calendar's page makes us vow to weigh less and exercise more, to gain more autonomy or plug a hole in the soul. And yet, as much as we thrill to every story of a banker-turned-bookseller or a police officer who hit it big in Hollywood, most of us are still here, tethered to our keyboards and cubicles.
We want to address that canyon-size gap between our expectations and our reality, but something holds us back. Maybe that explains why fatigue and depression are two of the most common health complaints for Americans.
So, on this first day of the new year, how can we tackle this epidemic of malaise?
"Start by doing something different, even if it's as simple as changing your route to work," advises Diane Grimard Wilson, a Chicago job consultant, author and firm believer that small steps can lead to big changes. "Just the declaration of `I'm going to change something' can bring out your intuitive intelligence ... triggering an awareness of those gut feelings we all have but often ignore."
And once that door is open, who knows where you will go? Here are four Chicago-area residents who resolved to reinvent themselves--to find more meaning, seek more adventure and have more fun.
Name: Ron and Michelle Tenny
Age: 50
Goal: More adventure
At first glance, Ron and Michelle Tenny seem unlikely risk-takers. High school sweethearts comfortably ensconced in midlife, they lived for 40 years within a 5-mile radius in the south suburbs.
So in 2000, when the Flossmoor couple vacationed in Alaska and began toying with the idea of opening a bed-and-breakfast there, they encountered a bit of eye-rolling.
Beyond being rooted to their hometown, Ron Tenny was a workaholic, logging 60-hour weeks running a family-owned water treatment chemical company--hardly a guy who could be happy so far from the action.
What skeptics didn't know is that the Tennys' passion for the outdoors, and skiing in particular, kept propelling them forward, trumping the obstacles.
"This place pulled us in like nowhere we've ever been," Michelle Tenny said. "It's just so energizing having all that nature right outside your door."
So, on a subsequent trip, when the couple looked at a piece of breathtaking property, he said, "OK, this can always be a dream, or we can go for this."
Last week the Tennys packed up for Girdwood, Alaska, 45 minutes south of Anchorage, where their Hidden Creek B&B is poised to open next month.
Of course, many steps, personal and professional, had paved the way. Their two children, now 20 and 23, left for college. The family sold the business.
Ron Tenny spent the following summers overseeing construction of the B&B, while Michelle Tenny--an at-home mom and volunteer--entered the culinary program at Kendall College.
Even after they wrote the initial check, "it was still easy to tell ourselves that the property was an investment ... that we had a way out," he said.
But Ron Tenny recalls that in 2005, as they watched the excavator break ground, they suddenly looked at one another and said, "What the hell have we done?"
Nonetheless, watching the 4,800-square-foot upscale lodging take shape has been a shot of pure adrenaline.
The best part: collecting rocks for the giant stone fireplace. The worst: when Ron Tenny told his wife's parents, who live five minutes from the couple's front door, that he was taking their daughter 3,600 miles away.
Now, Ron Tenny isn't bragging about landing a new client but about getting a new vacuum cleaner. Michelle Tenny will oversee the dining room, featuring locally grown produce. Even the prospect of opening in the dead of winter has not dampened their enthusiasm.
"In Alaska, there's no such thing as bad weather," she said.
"Just bad clothing."
Name: Michael Miller
Age: 69
Goal: More meaning
Michael Miller wrapped up a prestigious 45-year career as an anti-trust lawyer in late 2005, walking out the door with a pair of remarkable realizations.
Decades of advising wealthy corporations and individuals had given him the wherewithal to pursue what interested him.
And for all that success, he was missing something quite basic.
"It's hard to say I did anything in my legal career that made life better for any individual," he said with disarming frankness.
So he plunged into a second career as a social worker, one that now has him balancing graduate studies with rounds at a Woodstock psychiatric hospital, where he helps patients prepare for their own new lives once they are discharged.
The inspiration was right in front of him. He had served on the board of Metropolitan Family Services, which bills itself as the oldest and largest non-sectarian family service agency in the Chicago area. He had seen how the right therapeutic interventions could strengthen and support people in tough times.
"I longed to do more than just write a check and attend meetings," he said. "I had made all the money I needed ... now I wanted to give something back."
But starting over takes self-assurance along with a bankroll.
In September, when he enrolled in the master's degree program at Loyola University Chicago, he found he was one of the oldest students in his class. His decision also raised eyebrows among friends and colleagues.
But his family--which includes five children and stepchildren, ages 22 to 43--was enormously supportive.
"My wife likes to say we have two in college," he said, counting his son Matthew, a senior at the University of Wisconsin.
Twice a week he drives 40 miles from his Highland Park home to the adult behavioral health unit at Centegra Memorial Medical Center.
With his distinguished demeanor, it would be easy to mistake Miller as the medical director instead of a student intern.
But as new as it sometimes feels, Miller finds that he hasn't completely walked away from the experiences of 45 years.
"In many ways, interacting with patients is not that different than with witnesses," he says.
"You learn the facts, you gain a measure of trust and you make sure you ask the right questions."
Name: Valerie Beck 
Age: 37
Goal: More fun
For a woman who describes herself as a "5-foot-2-inch giggle," Valerie Beck found little to smile about at her job.
The Harvard-trained corporate finance attorney worked grueling 80-hour weeks at the Loop offices of Winston & Strawn, rising before dawn and returning home just in time for "Law & Order"--on a good day.
She was frequently sick, underweight and so sleep-deprived that she once fell asleep on a date. Ouch.
"I realized that if I didn't make a change, nothing would ever change," Beck said.
So in 1999 she started moonlighting as a Mary Kay cosmetics representative. Soon she left the $130,000-a-year law job and became so successful in sales that she twice earned bonuses that Mary Kay awards to top-performing sales directors.
"I wasn't really looking at it as a future," said Beck, who now coaches a team of 50 women.
"It was just to have some balance in my crazy law life. Something feminine and fun."
In 2005 the Gold Coast resident had another idea: What could be more fun than romance and chocolate?
That year she self-published a book, "Romance Around the Corner: 8 Steps Toward Attracting the Man of Your Dreams and Having Fun in the Process!" and began giving monthly seminars on how to go from "dateless wonder" to "dating diva."
On a shoestring budget, the self-confessed chocoholic launched Chicago Chocolate Tours, a guided walking and tasting tour of the city's most popular chocolate stores.
Beck offers the 90-minute tour three times a week to groups ranging from bachelorettes to conventioneers. The tour's motto? "Uplift through chocolate."
"I wanted to do something where people on their way to meet me are really excited and, when they leave me, feel better about themselves and the world," said Beck, who envisions expanding the tours to New York, London and Paris.
Beck concedes that stepping away from the status of being a high-powered attorney to a hawker of cosmetics, romance and chocolate was a bit intimidating.
But relatives, especially her mother, were supportive because they saw how miserable her life had become.
"People always ask me, `Isn't it scary giving up that job security?'" said Beck, whose ventures brought in $500,000 last year.
"I feel more secure now than I did then because my job was dependent on all kinds of forces that were not under my control. Now it's up to me."
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Copyright © 2006, Chicago Tribune
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Valerie (red beribboned) and her Remarkable Woman friends Check out your Romance Coach Valerie Beck in the Summer 2006 issue of Remarkable Woman Magazine!
Valerie is featured twice: she's a flirty model in a flirty dress, and her book Romance Around the Corner gets a beautiful book review by editor-in-chief Karla Lynn Williams. 
Remarkable Woman Magazine review
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New: Read a fun article by Valerie, on how to turn up your feminine energy, in Women Identity Purpose e-Magazine.
Women. Identity. Purpose.
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Pink Cadillac expressYour Romance Coach Valerie Beck rolled into living rooms during these Valentine's Day-based media appearances:
The Chicago Sun-Times listed the Romance Around the Corner Valentine's Day Party
Press: February 2: An article on Valerie appeared on page 7 of Skyline Newspaper and in other Pioneer Press papers. You can read the article below.
Press: February 5: An article on Valerie and her flirting tips appeared on page 2 of The Chicago Tribune's Q Section. You can read the article below.
Radio: February 9, 7:00 pm CST: Valerie appeared on Internet radio on the "He Said She Said" show at www.powertalkfm.com.
Radio: February 14: Valerie was interviewed on Champaign, Illinois, radio station WBCP.
Television: February 10: Valerie gave flirting tips on Chicago's WGN TV Channel 9.
Chicago Tribune listing of the Romance Around the Corner Valentine's Day Party
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Copy of the February 5 Chicago Tribune article
Chicago Tribune – Sunday, February 5, 2006 – Q Section – page 2
How To: Flirt
A gorgeous guy walks into a coffee shop, and you wonder how you can get his attention. After all, Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching. Do you smile? Do you – dare I say – bat your eyelashes? “Flirting has become a dying art in America,” says Chicagoan and flirt expert Valerie Beck, author of “Romance Around the Corner: Eight Steps Toward Attracting the Man of Your Dreams and Having Fun in the Process!” (iUniverse, $22.95).
Beck will teach her flair for flirtation from 8 to 10 p.m. Friday at Moonstruck Chocolate Café, 320 N. Michigan Ave. (free, with chocolate samples). If you can’t make it, Beck offers these tips:
- Turn it up a notch. “Keep feminine energy up and just have a ball.”
- Hold your head up high. When you’re confident, “you notice the world around you.” Plus, “a confident man likes a confident woman.”
- Make eye contact. Beck highly recommends “The Shy Eye Flirt.” In her book, she describes it simply as “Look at him, look down, look up again, then down again.”
Beck asserts that “men go wild!” Who knew that was all women had to do?
But Q wanted to know: Does her advice work for men? Some of it is designed for women, but “tips such as being confident and being fun work for men as well.” She also advises men to break the ice and say hello. “He doesn’t need a fancy line – just the guts to come over.”
- Anywhere, anyplace. “You can flirt on the train, in the café, anywhere.” And the world is certainly Beck’s oyster. The author was recently at Fox & Obel grocery store and did her never-miss shy-eye flirt at a guy. “He got excited and started flirting with me in the grocery line.”
Perhaps not to make her boyfriend jealous, she quickly added that she met her paramour by – what else – flirting with him on Michigan Avenue. “There’s not a bad place to flirt; you never know when you’re going to meet the man of your dreams.”
- Don’t shut him down. “I believe in being funny and polite. … Treat it like a business transaction. Be cheerful and move on.”
In the age of Internet dating, “remember to keep it fun and lighthearted [online].” Don’t grill him, “it’s not the Supreme Court justice confirmation hearings.”
Whether you’re online or in line at the bookstore, remember: “The more you flirt, the more they flirt back with you.”
If the flirting fails, cheer up – at least you don’t have to share your chocolate.
- Kelly Haramis
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Skyline Newspaper – Pioneer Press – February 2, 2006 
Valerie Beck signs a book for Connie Bennett
Skyline Newspaper article The dirt on flirting
Dating Diva shows you how
By Felicia Dechter
Staff Writer
Ladies, if you want to be prepped and ready for Valentine’s Day, and dramatically increase your chances of meeting Mr. Right, head over to Moonstruck Chocolate Café, 320 N. Michigan Ave., from 8 to 10 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10 for some free Flirting Lessons.
Learn the tricks of the trade from romance coach Valerie Beck, who has gone from “dateless wonder to dating diva.” Beck, author of the recently-released book, “Romance Around the Corner: 8 Steps Toward Attracting the Man of Your Dreams and Having Fun in the Process!,” will guide participants through 10 key strategies of the age-old technique of flirting.
“A lot of things we know in our hearts…it’s old-fashioned wisdom,” said Beck, a Gold Coaster. “Meeting people doesn’t have to be hard, or scary.”
A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Beck originally planned on a career in law, and practiced it in Germany for a short time. A “geeky girl” in high school and college, she got married, then divorced, and found herself, “dateless and clueless,” by the time she was 30.
“I tried dating aids such as the Internet, and got more and more frustrated,” said Beck, now 36. “It was time to make another check as to who I am. I wanted to meet a man, but the right man. I wanted to meet the man of my dreams…I knew he was alive and walking the earth.
“Dating was hard, scary and frustrating,” she added. “When I was a little girl, I had big dreams about my career and life. Then reality took over.”
So, Beck took a “crucial step,” and stopped her negative self-talk, and took on a more positive mental attitude. She soon had a string of handsome guys around her, and friends started asking her secret. Her advice evolved into seminars, and eventually, a “fun, easy, not mystical woo-hoo,” book.
“I didn’t set out to be an author. I set out to get a date,” laughed Beck, who also leads walking tours through downtown on Valerie Beck’s Chicago Chocolate Tour.
Flirting, Beck says, improves circulation, mood and promotes good skin. Without revealing too much of her lesson’s secrets, if you want to meet a man, Beck recommends starting with her No. 1 tip, which she has dubbed, the “Shy-Eye flirt.” Anyone using that technique will have “amazing results,” she said, and it should be tried 10 times a day!
Here’s how the Princess Di-like move works: Make eye contact, then look down, then shyly look back up out of the corner of your eye, like Diana used to do. The Shy Eye, Beck said, will produce, “traffic-stopping results.”
“Men go wild for that,” said Beck, who now has a boyfriend she adores. “He thinks he’s made the first move. So do the Shy-Eye flirt with 10 guys and you’ll have no trouble.”
Beck, also a sales director for Mary Kay Cosmetics, will share her Top 10 tips online and on TV. At 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 9, she will be on Internet radio at www.powertalkfm.com , and the following morning between 7 and 9 a.m., Beck will appear on the Channel 9, WGN Morning News Show.
RSVP at (312) 925-5377 or romancearoundthecorner@yahoo.com .
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Flirting Lessons Friday: Just in time for Valentine's Day, sharpen your practical flirtin' skills with lessons by romance coach Valerie Beck, author of the newly released book Romance Around the Corner: 8 Steps Toward Attracting the Man of Your Dreams and Having Fun in the Process. Beck will guide participants through ten key strategies for how to attract someone using the age-old technique of flirting. The dubs: Friday, February 10, 2006 from 8pm to 10pm at Moonstruck Chocolate Cafe, 320 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60601 |
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Romance Around the Corner is featured in the January 2006 newsletter for Kreations and 220 Communications:
| The Network- For Customers Of Kreations and 220 Communications | January 2006 |
It is said that necessity is the mother of invention. Well in Valerie Beck's Case necessity invented a whole new career for the Harvard Trained Lawyer. She simply needed a date! Her 8-step Romance Around the Corner plan is fast developing into a phenomenon. Through trial and error (and error and error), she developed 8 steps involving personal development, intention, and attraction that transformed her from being the dateless wonder to being the girl whose phone never stops ringing. When her family and friends noticed that she began going out on dates - and lots of them - with wonderful men, they asked her what happened, how they could do it too, and whether any of these men had brothers! So, Valerie put her 8 steps into seminar and book form.Romance Around the Corner: 8 Steps Toward Attracting the Man of Your Dreams and Having Fun in the Process! She also holds romance seminars, does romance coaching by teleseminar and in personal coaching sessions, and is a popular speaker at women's events. Today, Valerie is dating the man of her dreams, and she knows that if the 8 steps work for an ex-geeky, ex-clinically depressed, ex-burnt-out, recovering attorney, they will work for you too!
Valentine's Day is around the corner, and so is Romance!
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FROM DATING DISASTER TO DATING DIVA:
Romance Coach Shows Women How to Turn Up Their Feminine Energy for Valentine's Day and Every Day
(Chicago)—According to the Greeting Card Association, over 1 billion Valentine’s Day cards are sent per year worldwide, and the Society of American Florists reports that 180 million roses are produced for Valentine’s Day. But depending on a woman’s relationship status, she might see Valentine’s Day as either divine or depressing. What’s a gal to do if Cupid hasn’t connected her with the man of her dreams?
“Turn up your feminine energy!” says romance coach Valerie Beck, author of Romance Around the Corner: 8 Steps Toward Attracting the Man of Your Dreams and Having Fun in the Process. “Like attracts like. Feel like a victim, and attract a victim – or a victimizer. Feel like a nobody, and attract no one. Feel happy and attractive, and you’ll find a confident man who likes a confident woman.”
Beck, a Harvard-educated former corporate attorney who developed 8 steps that took her from dateless wonder to girl whose phone never stops ringing, says that meeting a great man is partially about being in the right place at the right time, but that “first and foremost you’ve got to be in the right frame of mind. Grow into the authentic you, and use the power of intention and attraction to attract – not attack – a wonderful man who enhances your already wonderful life. Stop thinking a good man is hard to find. With the right attitude, you can let him find you.”
Romance Around the Corner: 8 Steps Toward Attracting the Man of Your Dreams and Having Fun in the Process combines old wisdom, things our mothers told us, common sense, and contemporary savvy to help women transform themselves, inside and out, so that they can attract the right one by being the right one. Beck puts the “self” back in “self-help” by giving women techniques to raise their deserve levels, love themselves, monitor their self-talk, look and feel their best, and become fantastic flirters.
The most recent U.S. Census data revealed that 2.2 million people get married every year, which breaks down to around 6,000 people each day. “Tell yourself that the man of your dreams is alive and walking the earth, and that you are attracting him like a magnet,” suggests Beck. “Don’t use work or a busy life as an excuse for not getting out and having fun. Whether you have a date for Valentine’s Day or not, turn up your feminine energy, and let your light shine!”
Romance Around the Corner: 8 Steps Toward Attracting the Man of Your Dreams and Having Fun in the Process is available to order through iUniverse at 1-800-AUTHORS or www.iUniverse.com , or through major booksellers. For more details, visit www.romancearoundthecorner.squarespace.com .
About the Author: Valerie Beck went from dateless wonder to dating diva. She created an 8-step plan to attract wonderful men by transforming her thoughts and habits, and she helps women everywhere enjoy success in dating and life. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Beck left the practice of law to become a multiple entrepreneur. In addition to being a romance coach, she is an Independent Sales Director for Mary Kay, and she owns Chicago Chocolate Tours. Beck lives and dates in Chicago.
Media Contact:
Valerie Beck
Romance Around the Corner
312-925-5377
romancearoundthecorner@yahoo.com
www.romancearoundthecorner.squarespace.com
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Posted on Barnes and Noble:
A reviewer, a big city dweller., December 13, 2005, Five Stars
Powerful, Precise, and Practical
ROMANCE AROUND THE CORNER by Valerie Beck is funny, elegant, and most of all-practical!! This little gem provides 'tips' on finally finding that special gentleman, as well as giving advice your Mother would want you to know. In fact, by following Ms Beck's advice you will not only find your special gentleman, you will also begin to improve your self- esteem. The 'Shy Eye Flirt' that Ms Beck recommends is so effortless, yet so effective! Who knew??? I also appreciate how the author always 'sums up' each chapter, plus I enjoy her anecdotes. I must admit that I was somewhat skeptical about this book, but I can now state that following Ms Beck's plan is idiot-proof because it is certainly working for me!!! One Happy Lady
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Posted on amazon:
5 Stars An Awesome Book!
Reviewer: Erin (San Antonio, TX)
I highly recommend Ms. Beck's "8 Steps" -- it is a witty, intelligent, insightful and fun guide to finding that special someone!
5 Stars Uplifting, witty; highly recommended!
Reviewer: Ness in Tampa
This book can help you more actively love and accept yourself regardless of if you have a significant other.
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