myangelstory

Inspired by Angels
Britt Nesheim

Britt's Angel Story, Embraced by Angels

© 2003, 2008 Britt Nesheim

Guided to the Angel Healing Circle

“What do you mean you can feel other people’s feelings? That’s impossible!” A middle aged man with gray-black and straight hair was speaking to
me with indignation from across the room. I was a student taking classes at the Servant Leadership School of an ecumenical church off of Dupont
Circle in Washington D.C. taught by a minister named Elizabeth O’Connor. My mother had recommended that I read a book called Our Many
Selves: A Handbook of Self Discovery which teaches Christians how to master personal suffering with joy and forgiveness. I had just graduated from
Wellesley College, a private liberal arts college for women working for the Brookings Institution, a public policy think tank, a few blocks away from
Elizabeth’s church. Elizabeth had elected to deepen our spiritual understanding by showing us the Bill Moyer’s video series A World of Ideas and
then discussing the spiritual meaning of the topics presented by each of the interviewees. We had just finished watching a video on community. I
was shy but had spoken up in a classroom of middle aged adults in spite of my relatively young age in order to explain why I do not like living with
other people. I said simply and calmly, “I have trouble living in community because I can feel other people’s feelings.”

After the man across the room challenged me, I was stunned but answered honestly saying, “I don’t know. I just do.” No one else said a thing and
Elizabeth continued teaching the class.

After class, a much softer, gentle speaking man approached me. I imagined him to be in his fifties. I remember that his hair was dark and curly.
Much more gently than the first man, he said, “I think you would really like this prayer group called the Angel Circle.” I was lonely, far away from my
family who lived in California, with few friends and was excited to meet other people who liked prayer. I asked the man for the contact information
which he gladly gave to me. Had I known that the Angel Circle was metaphysical, I probably would not have gone.

At the time I knew nothing about angels, spiritual healing or metaphysics. I wanted one thing, to feel God’s love the way people described it in
church, as sublime and blissful. I called the phone number the man had given me and introduced myself to a woman named Martha. Martha lived in
the upper northwest district of Washington D.C. and I made plans to attend the next Angel Circle meeting. When I arrived, a woman in her fifties or
sixties dressed in soft, comfortable clothing answered the door and welcomed me with a hug. I was amazed that a stranger welcomed me with loving
arms. I melted in her embrace.

Martha escorted me to a window shelf and pointed to a small dish filled with small strips of white, protected paper about two inches long and a half
of an inch wide. “Pick one,” she said. I placed my hand inside of the dish and drew out a card with a one-word angel message. It said something like
“Joy” and portrayed an artist’s interpretation of a joyful angel. I wondered what the cards were for.

The card I had drawn was one of The Original Angel Cards created by Kathy Tyler and Joy Drake while they spent time at Findhorn Foundation. I
bought a deck recently and was amazed to see that they are actually entitled The Original Angel Cards. The cards were created as part of a board
game to help you make a personal connection with angels. They were published in 1981 before Kimberly Maroony’s Angel Blessing cards,
published in 1995, and before Doreen Virtue’s first angel oracle deck called Healing with the Angels published in 1999.

I placed the angel card back in the dish on the window sill and sat down on the couch. In Martha’s living room, chairs were arranged in a circle. A
dozen or more women and a few men were gathered. I recognized one of the men as the man who invited me to the circle. Later I learned that the
man was Martha’s boyfriend. I do not recall his name. Martha started the circle by asking people to introduce themselves and to share an angel
story. “An angel story,” Martha explained, “Is anytime you feel like God or the angels have been there for you. It could be an answered prayer or an
event in your life that helped you realize that you are loved and protected by the angels.” I had nothing to say and I listened carefully.
When the introductions and angel stories were over, Martha invited people to sit in the center of the circle, share what was on their heart and
explain to us what they wanted the angel’s help with. Some people were shy, others eager. Once a person sat on the stool in the center of the
circle, they addressed their concerns and worries to angels. When the person was done talking, three to six women and men gathered around the
person, laid hands on them, and spoke encouraging prayers addressed to angels. When the healing was done, the person who had asked for
healing hugged each of the healers who had worked with them as an expression of thanks. As I watched the ritual unfold, I recognized that the
participants had a sincere desire to help and to heal with love and without judgment. The healers were compassionate and expressed gentle,
nurturing energy which I needed very badly. I did not understand why people were addressing the prayers to angels. This confused me and made
me feel uncomfortable because I was used to addressing my prayers to God and Jesus. But I was so awed by the nurturing love that I kept an open
mind.

After several people had received healing, I sensed that Martha was closing the circle. I turned to Martha and said, “I want a turn.” She nodded and
pointed to the stool in the center of the circle. Afraid, I got out of my comfortable seat on the couch and sat on the stool. I turned to face the window
and stared outside. To my surprise, emotions suddenly surged inside of me. The emotions were so strong I was terrified. I knew I had to speak and
tell these people what I needed healed. I was afraid of crying if I expressed myself. I began speaking, “I want to thank all the angels in this room…”
My voice broke and I started to cry and then I started to sob. Martha became overwhelmed and hesitated. She directed her attention to a woman
who sat behind me. The woman behind me had blonde hair and was dressed in what I know today as goddess-wear. Her clothes were orange.
“Would you like to do this one?” Martha said to the woman in orange. The woman in orange stood up, laid her hands on my shoulders and said a
simple prayer, “I ask that this young woman’s family and friends comfort her.” With her hands on my shoulders I felt tremendous heat pass through
my body that relieved me of hurt feelings. The woman in orange must have hugged me afterwards but I do not have a clear memory of that. I did not
understand what had happened to me. I only knew that it felt good and I felt loved in a way I had never felt loved before. I had found my spiritual
home, but I knew nothing about angels. That bothered me and I committed to myself to do some research.

After the circle broke up, I wondered into the kitchen and picked up a hot pink flier that advertised classes taught by a woman who lived in Carmel,
California. I filed the flier and I attended Martha’s Angel Circle regularly.

You Are Psychic

The two years that followed were very stressful for me. I moved to New York City following the first man I had ever fallen in love with. We broke up
and I headed home to California to seek emotional refuge with my parents. My mother did not want to nurture me nor want me to live in her house,
so she found me a house sitting job. I struggled with feelings of depression and the broken heart of a child. A few months later, with my father’s
help, I accepted a position as a product marketing analyst with a software company in Monterey and moved to the Monterey Peninsula. Missing the
Angel Circle, I took at the hot pink flier I had picked up at my first Angel Circle meeting out of my files and read it. The contact information was for a
woman who lived in Carmel, a neighboring city to Monterey. I called the number, introduced myself to Lyndall Demere, Ph.D, D.D., Spiritual Director,
and asked her if she held Angel Healing Circles. She said yes and invited me to come.

Lyn held the Angel Healing Circles at the Sunset Center in downtown Carmel. At the first Angel Circle meeting in Carmel, I recognize Lyn as the
woman who had laid healing hands on me at the very first Angel Healing Circle I attended in Washington D.C. “Wow! What a coincidence,” I thought.
Lyn and I had not exchanged names at my first Angel Circle meeting and she had been visiting so I met her only once. The angels had my full
attention. I found out later that Lyn had taught Martha how to facilitate Angel Healing Circles and had traveled to Washington D.C., Lyn’s home
town, to teach classes. But who would have ever thought that two years after receiving spiritual healing from a woman I did not know at my very first
healing circle without seeking her, that I would end up in her backyard as her student! This was the first of several synchronicities that year that
convinced me that a guiding intelligence greater than me was at work in my life.

Lyn held Angel Circle meetings once a week on Friday nights. She encouraged us to come regularly explaining that if we came often, after one year
our lives would get better. I believed her realizing that my depression was gradually lifting and went every week. I met my first spiritual girlfriend
there, Shaheen. We are still great friends. Shaheen resonates with fairy energy but is not familiar with the concept of incarnated spiritual beings.
Like incarnated fairies, Shaheen is shy, keeps to herself usually, and loves to garden and paint. My favorite painting of hers is of a fairy. Nature is
her sanctuary. She has an extremely sensitive metabolism. Each of the rooms in her home is painted in a unique color. Recycling organic waste
comes very naturally to her and is not an effort. Several of the photos she has sent me of her baby son show her son holding a flower. Shaheen
was very taken by the honesty with which I expressed my inner most feelings. After several months of watching me cry at the Angel Circle, Shaheen
bluntly asked me one day, “Was your mother really that mean?” Her question helped me realize that my feelings of sadness were very deep. The
depth of my sadness from my childhood relationships with my parents was revealed to me again several years later as well when a psychic girlfriend
had a vision of me dying in a car accident on one of the small highways passing through the farm lands that connect the Monterey Peninsula with
Santa Cruz. Had angels not protected me, I was preparing to die of sadness while living in Carmel, a theme which repeats itself in my many lives.

Lyn’s Angel Healing Circle was different from Martha’s. Lyn made more comments about metaphysics than Martha did. I had a lot to learn and
started reading new age books fervently. I also started to pay attention to a higher awareness inside of me that I called my intuition. This intuition
would give me deeper and metaphysical understanding without reading books. I did not realize that I was living in a community with a concentration
of metaphysical spiritual believers. Carmel is a close second to Sedona in the United States for its popularity with lightworkers, primarily because of
its beauty and a spiritual retreat center in Big Sur called Esalen founded in the 1960s. Casual interactions with people in the area, like at a grocery
story, had a spiritual focus. The spiritual culture is palpable.

Every now and then Lyn would ask me to lay hands on people and say healing prayers for them. What I struggled with the most was feeling what
other people were feeling. Knowing what they were feeling helped me craft prayers that were meaningful to people. Many people were very sad.
Some carried a lot of negativity or density with them, so sometimes the healing work was stressful for me.

After attending the Angel Circle for about a year, shortly after my twenty-fifth birthday, a woman who was very sad, sick and depressed came to the
Angel Circle. She spoke of a husband, who was unemployed, three kids she was supporting, and broken ribs from coughing too much because she
was sick. Lyn turned to me and said, “Would you like to do this one?” I was afraid I could not handle it, but I love a challenge, and I respected Lyn’s
leadership and wanted to please her, so I got out of my chair and laid hands on the woman’s shoulders. As soon as I did this, I felt everything the
woman felt. She was so sad and in so much pain that I started to cry. Two women were standing to my right and left. Seeing that I was crying and
could not speak, they started to pray. Suddenly I heard Lyn say in a commanding voice, “Wait! This is what happens to me. Don’t stop! Finish the
prayer!” Lyn got up out of her seat, stood behind me and raised her hands above me saying in a strong voice, “I’m right behind you!” I knew that
something important was happening but I did not understand what. All I wanted for the woman was for her to feel better. I formulated a prayer that
expressed my desire and commanded God and the angels, “I ask for all of the healing energy of the universe to come here right now! There is so
much suffering here!” As soon as I spoke, I felt a powerful rush of energy pass through my body into the woman in the chair which relieved her of
her hurt feelings. I did not know it at the time, but angels had worked through me to heal and uplift the woman’s energy.

When I was done, I was shaking. My body had never felt anything like that before. Lyn told me to sit down next to her and pronounced to the group,
“Britt is a real psychic. Everyone in this group should learn how to do what she did.” “What!” I protested to Lyn telepathically. “I’m not psychic.
Psychics read crystal balls and tarot cards. I’m not psychic. What’s a real psychic?” I was rattled and confused. I did not understand that tarot cards
and crystal balls are used for divination, the art of interpreting messages from the divine. I did not realize that I was learning how to connect and
communicate with angels and use their energy to heal people. I mentally juxtaposed the image of a psychic with what my parents had taught me to
be, a professional in the business and technology world. I was very afraid that being psychic would make me different from people that I believed
were successful. This became an inner struggle of mine for many years to follow. At the time of this writing, I am learning that this fear stems from
tragic past life experiences as a persecuted priestess. I wonder now if my immediate juxtaposition of learning that I am psychic was a subconscious
realization of the fears that would face me later as I come out of the spiritual closet and that I would have to overcome.

When I left the Angel Healing Circle that night, I saw lights in the dark sky that defied space. Headlights emanated filaments of bright white and
rainbow colored light that made the headlights look like stars. When my windshield should have cut off the beam, the light continued inside of my
car as long as my eyes were focused on the source. “That’s weird.” I thought to myself. In addition to the tiny star-like beams of light, I also saw what
looked like a thicker, more solid, yet softer moonbeam of light extending far into the heavens. “What is that?” I wondered. Around the center of each
headlight I saw the rainbow spectrum encircling the inner most light. “Maybe Lyn is right. Maybe I am psychic.” But I had no idea what that meant
and I had no understanding of what I was seeing.

I called Lyn the next day and scheduled a spiritual counseling session. On the day of our appointment, I walked into her office, emphatically sat
myself down on the couch and said, “I admit that I am sensitive, but I am NOT psychic!” Calmly, she said, “But you are.” She was so sure of herself. I
had great confidence in her from her work at the Angel Circle and trusted her. Due to my college education in the Boston vicinity, the intellectual
capital of the east coast, I definitely needed a spiritual mentor who valued intuitive intelligence and education for women, something Lyn was
passionate about. She had obtained her Master of Arts degree in psychology from Temple University and was studying with the University of
Metaphysics for advanced degrees in divinity and metaphysics. I felt comforted by Lyn also because like me she grew up in a well-to-do
neighborhood, wore nice expensive clothes and drove a used BMW five series and the divorce of a husband who took the family on ski vacations at
Vail in Colorado. Lyn described the dichotomy between her two lives to me once as, “I grew up in cocktail parties.” Lyn was not able to give me the
analytical understanding that I sought on what it means to be psychic. Instead she recommended that I watch a movie called Powder. The movie
portrays a young man with albino skin who has trouble living in community because he can feel other people’s feelings and thinks that unkindness is
cruel. The boy also possesses powerful healing abilities. The movie comforted me but still did not explain analytically what I was experiencing.
For me and many others, the inner spiritual worlds open up when we seek personal healing. Participating in the Angel Circle, I became obsessed
with angels and asked them for help with everything. I learned that angels want to help and to heal us but that we need to ask for their help.
Practicing hands-on healing with people who came to the Angel Circle opened me up psychically. I realized that people with healing hearts can
connect with the celestial realms, home of the angels. Many people benefited from my hands-on healing and angel prayers. I found compassion,
warmth, and loving support from the older women at the Angel Circle which I needed.

That year I experienced many synchronicities and answered prayers. Good things came to me rapidly. I met, fell in love with and married my
husband within two years. We are still together, in love, and committed, but definitely not without challenges. Feelings of low self-esteem,
abandonment, emotional rejection and depression began to disappear. Eventually, I healed myself from depression with the angels using limited
traditional psychotherapy and no anti-depressants. I came to believe that many earth angels choose emotionally difficult childhoods to make them
strong in order to teach others how to do the same.

My confidence in my intuition increased. To my surprise, when I posed questions to my angels, I would telepathically receive answers. Lost in places
like downtown San Francisco, I would ask for and receive directions from my angels that got me to my destination with no trouble. I trusted the
heightened sense of awareness inside of me to help me make decisions that spiritual people call intuition, divine guidance, or guidance from your
higher self. When I trusted this guidance, things worked out very well for me. Trusting my intuition became part of my individuation process. I used it
to help me make decisions on my own.

At this stage in my spiritual development I believed that I was a spiritual healer and that I could help people with prayer and hands on healing but did
not feel psychic in the sense of knowing things without learning about them. This bothered me.

Gloria, Incarnated Elf, and Angel Lights

While living in Carmel, I met the man who became my husband. My husband loves my angel work from a distance and has always been very
supportive. A year after I met him, he graduated from a Ph.D. program in electrical engineering and took his first job with a semiconductor company
in Idaho. We married and I moved to Idaho. I took a job with a major company in Boise. One day at work sitting at my desk typing away on the
computer keyboard at the office, I saw a bright, white and translucent light the size of the end of a pen cap scuttle across my keyboard. “What’s
that!” I mentally shouted jerking in my seat. I was getting used to having strange things happen to me. I craved analytical understanding of my
experiences.

When I left Carmel, Lyn powerfully encouraged me to start my own Angel Healing Circle. I had no instruction, just one-and-a-half years of
experience under her direction. I was scared but did it any way. A woman at the Angel Circle I started in Idaho invited me to a talk by a woman
named Gloria Benish who is a miracle healer. Gloria’s healing work is so powerful that when she lays hands on people with aides and cancer, the
ailment goes away. (A handful of people after reading this ask me how to contact Gloria. At this time, I do not know how to get in touch with her.) I
was still very shy and skeptical of new age teachers still believing that the new age community had a lot of strange people in it. I was more
comfortable with people like myself who grew up in nice neighborhoods, were well educated and shopped at department stores. The woman who
invited me convinced me to go to the talk anyway. Gloria offered a free Friday night lecture followed by a class on Saturday. I went to the free
Friday night talk and sat in the front row. I have no idea why I was sitting in the front row.

Gloria is what students of Doreen Virtue refer to as an incarnated elf. Gloria is short in stature. She prefers to wear baggy sweatshirts and tights.
Her eyes sparkle with radiant mischief and joy. She expresses innocence and love that is palpable. She is a self-proclaimed motor mouth. Her
writing style is simple, comical and creative. Wearing large, noisy Christmas bells on the ends of her pointed shoes during a lecture comes perfectly
natural to her. After working with large groups channeling loving energy all day long, she distresses by hugging trees. Does she not remind you of
an elf?

On Friday night, Gloria spoke enthusiastically about her spiritual awakening and lectured us on love as a state of mind without judgment or fear.
Looking at Gloria, I saw myself, a child-like soul passionately in search of God’s love, and I started to cry. Looking back on this experience with a
deeper understanding of my spiritual origins which are part fairy, I may have identified with Gloria due to her fairy energy. Resonating with her fairy
energy may have helped me open up my heart and release sadness in the presence of loving energy. I have also learned from readings that I have
the heart of a child and am very passionate. Gloria is very similar and helped me open up by just being herself.

Gloria saw me crying in the front row and loudly in front of a group of about fifty adults she started talking to me. “Why are you crying?” She walked
over and hugged me saying, “I never let go until I see the Light! You are coming to the work shop tomorrow aren’t you?” ”Well,” I said mentally, “I
wasn’t planning on it.” It was hard for me to avoid her. I was in the front row and she had just made my tears public to the entire group. A few
minutes later she asks me again, “You are coming to the workshop tomorrow aren’t you?” By the end of the talk she hand me convinced. I told her
out loud to the entire group, “Yes, I’m coming to the workshop tomorrow.”

At the workshop Gloria taught us her Miracle Healing technique and explained the lights that I saw scuttle across my keyboard at work. “If you are
seeing tiny white lights that look like sparkles or diamonds, you are seeing the angels.” “Oh,” I thought to myself. “That’s what those are.” I had
found one analytical answer to my bizarre spiritual experiences.

Angel Readings at Saks Fifth Avenue

I did not like living in Idaho so my husband found a job in Phoenix, Arizona and we moved. Phoenix is not far away from Sedona a spiritual center
popular with New Age believers. For the second time without planning it, I ended up in a location filled with people who believe in metaphysical
spirituality. I was struggling to make emotional peace with my career in enterprise software and I longed for spiritually satisfying and emotionally
rewarding work. I wanted some type of training, education, or certification which would give me the recognition I desired to be an income earning
healer.

Standing in the bathroom of my new house I saw a big green dot slowly appear and then disappear against the white backdrop of the bathroom wall.
I had no idea what I was seeing. The size of the dot was larger than the small angel light I had seen in my office a year earlier and it did not move,
just appeared and then disappeared. I assumed I was seeing my spirit guide. A few months later the dot’s color changed to blue. I imagined that my
guides had changed to new ones. Today I understand that the lights I was seeing are Archangel lights which can appear at any time to any
ligthworker connected to Archangel consciousness. Green is Archangel Raphael and cobalt blue is Archangel Micheal. Archangel Micheal appears
to me a lot and he has appeared many times while I have been writing this book. I usually see angel and Archangel lights when I am relaxed
watching television in my family room.

I started an Angel Circle at a metaphysical church in Phoenix called the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment. At the Angel Circle while praying for
others I began to receive thoughts I knew were not my own because they contained vocabulary and ideas in them I did not understand. I called
these thoughts angel messages.

At the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment I met and became friends with a woman named Dehbra who practices numerology readings. One evening
while eating dinner with Dehbra, she challenged me to believe that I could do readings. “No I can’t,” I said. “Yes you can,” she insisted. I was
flabbergasted. “What if she’s right?” I had to admit I was jealous of people who bravely gave messages to each other on stage at the church I
attended. “I was told I was psychic,” I thought to myself. “Why don’t I feel psychic?” I wanted to know.

After one of the services, the Director of the Center of Expanding Consciousness, Judith, introduced me to a woman who had begun teaching
classes at the center on angels named Ann Albers. Ann is a well known angel teacher in Arizona. Ann took one look at me and said, “Do you get
messages from angels?” I have no idea what she saw, intuited or felt and never asked her. I shyly answered, “Yes,” thinking that the thought
impressions I was getting at the Angel Circle while praying were from angels because I was asking for help from the angels in prayer. “Great!” Ann
said, “Because I’m stuck and need some help. Can I call you?” “Yikes!” I mentally thought. “A teacher wants my help!” I said yes anyway and gave
her my phone number.

Ann never called, but a week later I got a call from Saks Fifth Avenue asking me to help them with a promotion of guardian angel compacts by giving
their customers angel messages. I agreed. I had never given anyone a reading before. I thought I would go to the store, pray and tell people what
was on my heart from the angels. I suspected that Ann had referred me. When I checked, I found out she had.

I prepared for the event by getting my hair and make up done professionally and dressing up Saks style. When I arrived, the sales people sat me
down at a tiny table next to the Estee Lauder make up counter. The first woman sat down for a reading. I asked her, “What do you know about
angels?” She said nothing. So I explained the difference between angels and deceased loved ones to her. Then I closed my eyes and prayed,
“Dear angels. Please give me messages that would be meaningful to this woman.” As soon as I finished the prayer my mind and my mind’s eye were
filled with thoughts and images which I relayed to the woman verbatim with absolutely no censoring. The messages were filled with helpful personal
information and recommendations. When I was done, the woman confirmed everything I said was true and thanked me for being so helpful. I was in
shock. I had done my first reading with absolutely no instruction, in public, and I was getting paid. I did not know that what I was practicing is referred
to as angel readings. Several women sat down to receive readings. Without me noticing, one woman took her engagement ring off to test me. The
first words out of my mouth were, “You are getting married.”

Dehbra came by Saks, and we ate lunch together. I explained to her that I could turn on and turn off my ability to read others in detail. She
explained that in her case the information is always right in her face. I thought, “How amazing that our ability to perceive psychically can be turned
on and off in my case but was always right in front of Dehbra’s eyes. How wonderful that we can know in so many different ways.” I concluded that I
do not receive specific messages for others unless I ask.

Now that I know about my angel origins, I know that my angelic origins give me the ability to connect with angels and receive messages from them.
Doing angel readings for the first time in this life with no instruction impressed me. The angels told me that I was set up to give readings to people
for the first time at Saks instead of at a metaphysical bookstore because I felt more comfortable at Saks due to my childhood upbringing than I did at
a metaphysical bookstore. As a child and young adult my mother took my sister and me shopping at department stores like Saks in downtown San
Francisco to be sure we wore the latest styles.

A few weeks after performing angel readings at Saks, I complained to my angels that I was spiritually bored and begged them to create a career for
me out of my spiritual work. I recognized that I did not have the tools, experience, skills or confidence to do this. I wanted to know analytically how a
spiritual practice would work in business terms. I was stuck on the idea that I needed a degree to be a spiritual counselor. I was afraid of practicing
counseling without some kind of protection from state regulations around psychotherapy and counseling. Now that I am experienced giving readings
and asking for money in return and know more about the regulations around psychotherapy and spiritual counseling, I understand that you do not
need a degree, only confidence to overcome any fears you have about receiving money in exchange for healing.

A girlfriend of mine named Candee came to the Angel Circle regularly. She began to receive angel messages the year we met. One day at the
Angel Circle, Candee handed me a book with the title Angel Therapy explaining, “Britt, this book is for you. The angels commanded me to give you
this book. I was at the bookstore, I saw it peeking off the shelf, picked it up, and thought to myself, ‘What a nice book.’ Then I heard the angels say,
‘Give the book to Britt!’ I was upset and said to them, ‘This looks like a very nice book. What if I want to keep it and read it myself?’ They said it
again sternly, ‘Give the book to Britt!’ So here it is. This book is for you. The angels want you to have it. I have not read it.” The angels had my
attention again.

Angel Therapy is written by Doreen Virtue. In it are channeled messages from the angels on personal topics we all struggle with. I enjoyed reading
the messages in the book. The angel messages in Angel Therapy felt like the thought impressions I was getting at the Angel Circle while praying.
What amazed me the most was that in Angel Therapy Doreen teaches what I practiced at the Angel Circle, that communication with angels heals our
minds and our lives. The significance of the connection overwhelmed me.

My work at Saks produced enough customers for me to earn my first angel-based income. I was curious about Doreen and searched the Internet for
more information. After reading Angel Therapy, I did a World Wide Web search and learned that Doreen Virtue was teaching classes on spiritual
counseling which fit into my budget. The money I had earned doing readings at Saks more than covered for the expenses. I signed up for the
classes and flew to Orange County.

I accidentally signed up for the third of a series of three classes. The students in this class were graduating. It did not bother me. In her lecture,
Doreen confirmed many of the things the angels had already taught me. She put analytical thoughts around the psychic experiences I was having
which helped me piece together many unanswered questions. Topics that were covered included asking for and receiving angelic assistance which I
practiced, a definition of angel readings which I unknowingly already practiced, the effectiveness of prayer which I experienced often, angel and
Archangel lights which I saw, the meaning of angel chills which I experienced often, the healing power of forgiveness which I understood from my
Christian background, over coming the fears of the ego with love-based consciousness taught to me by Gloria Benish, and energy healing which I
practiced at the Angel Circle. It was as if I had been simultaneously enrolled in the same course virtually learning the same material through my own
experiences. Topics new to me which she covered included a definition of four psychic senses, mediumship, spirit releasement, oracle card
readings, automatic writing, cord cutting, vacuuming and the forgiveness coral with Archangel Michael. Doreen also gave us practical instructions
on how to jump start a career as an angel focused spiritual counselor, explained how to ask for and receive payment, and taught us the importance
of client confidentiality. She encouraged us to rely on the law of attraction to draw clients to us and to use our intuition to design unique spiritual
practices. Best of all, she walked us through how to think and heal our way through many fears which lightworkers have about putting their lightwork
into practice. My memories of this guidance is so strong that I can recall it today.

Doreen’s staff made a mistake and accidentally certified me after completing class three without me completing classes one and two. I felt so bad
about this and wanted to know what was covered in the classes that I missed that I signed up and paid for both classes one and two. At one of the
follow on classes Doreen recognized me as one of her graduates and encouraged me to mentor the new students. I did not have the heart to tell
her about the error. Instead I interpreted it as a symbolic gesture from my angels that I had already graduated from their course. This proved to be
partially true. Participating in the classes I missed boosted my confidence and introduced me to other like-minded lightworkers. Much of the material
I understood well already. I received my certificate in 1998 before Doreen changed the name of her course from Certified Spiritual Counselor to
Angel Therapy PractitionerTM.

Angel on Earth

When I moved to Arizona I did not secure a job before leaving Idaho. Before the events leading up to taking Doreen Virtue’s classes, I spent the first
three months in Arizona at home looking for a new job. In the afternoon, I watched Oprah Winfrey. One day she had the cast of Touched by an
Angel on the show. I caught the tail end of it. At one point Oprah asked one of the male cast members, “Do you think that some people were sent
here to be angels for other people?” Before the cast member had a chance to answer, chills rippled down my spine and through my entire body.
“Okay, okay, okay!” I mentally yelled at my angels. “I get it. I get it.” By this point I was used to experiencing spontaneous angel chills which are
confirmation from the angels that what is being said is true for you. In spite of the angel chills, I did not correctly understand the message the angels
were giving me. I thought the angels were encouraging me to pursue my work as an angel healer and communicator. It took the angels three more
attempts to help me understand their message.

At one meeting of the Angel Healing Circle I started at the Center for Expanding Consciousness in Pheonix Arizona, I prayed for a crippled girl, cried
when I felt her pain and the angels love, and channeled a lot of healing energy. When this happened, the girl’s mother saw me in angel form and
told me what she saw afterwards. I did not tie the mother’s vision of me with the angel chills I experienced watching the Oprah Winfrey show. The
angels tried again.

While living in Idaho, I had become friends with a woman named Mari who sat behind me at work. One day at work she had provocatively said to me
from the other side of the cubical wall, “Ya know Britt, I think my mom’s psychic!” It didn’t take us long to become friends. Mari is very psychic
herself. A few years after we both left Idaho, Mari revealed to me that the day she provoked me with the comment about her mother’s psychic
nature, she knew I was psychic. While living in Arizona, I would call Mari for emotional comfort and support when I struggled. On one call during
which I sought out spiritual solutions to a challenging relationship with my manager at work, Mari said to me, “I keep hearing, angel on earth, angel
on earth. I don’t know what that means but its true and it’s you.” I did not know that it meant ether. Angels are tireless and they do not give up on us
until we understand what they want to teach us.

As described early, due to angelic guidance, I enrolled in Doreen Virtue’s Certified Spiritual Counselors course. At the end of the last day of class,
Doreen began lecturing us on incarnated spiritual beings. She explained that many people are actually spiritual beings from the angel, fairy or
starry realms in human form. Incarnated spiritual beings belong to a class of lightworkers called earth angels. Each earth angel’s spiritual mission
relates to their spiritual origins. Incarnated angels heal people in one-on-one relationships as our guardian angels do. Incarnated fairies heal nature
and have strong interests in plants, animals and art. Star beings help their galactic partners by keeping the vibration of the earth uplifted and in
harmony with the rest of the intergalactic universe. They have strong interests in healing with energy and multi-dimensions. Later, Doreen defined a
fourth grouping of earth angels as wise ones. Wise ones are not incarnated spiritual beings. Rather they came from the stars a long time ago and
have had a past lives as priests, priestesses, wizards, witches, sorcerers, sorceresses, shamans, or high-priestesses. Wise ones keep the spiritual
ways of the past alive.

Suddenly the messages the angels had been giving me made sense. I was an incarnated angel. I sat down to practice mediumship with a friend
name Bronnie, who for a time after this class worked as Doreen’s assistant. Bronnie had identified with Doreen’s description of star beings and
asked me “Are you a star being?” I said “No, I think I’m an angel.” As soon as I said that, Bronnie saw angel wings on my back. Now there was no
doubt in my mind that I was an incarnated angel. Since then several psychics have seen etheric angel wings on my back. I was happy thinking of
myself as an incarnated angel until my fairy friend Debra Ann challenged me to think that my soul possessed fairy characteristics as well.