by Krysta Gibson

(This is the edited transcript of a telephone interview where writers from several publications, including New Spirit Journal, were able to ask questions about Doreen’s newest book. The call was moderated by Lindsay Mcginty of Hay House on December 16, 2010)

Lindsay Mcginty: We are on the phone today to talk about (Doreen's) new book, The Angels Therapy Handbook, it's coming out in January 1st we are really excited about it. (Doreen) has taught her Angel Therapy practitioner course, since 1997, and since then she had helped 1,000 people to learn the skills of spiritual healing and psychic readings in concert with the Angels and Arcangels. In The Angel Therapy Handbook, she has complied all the tools, secrets, and exercises she teaches her students in one comprehensive handbook. 

Miro Lipinski: This seems an incredibly comprehensive book, Doreen. How long did it take? And I'm assuming this is like almost everything you have been teaching people about: angel therapy and angels?

Doreen: The book, The Angel Therapy Handbook, is something that I wanted to write for many, many years, partly because, in teaching the course, I was giving my students various books, and some will read this chapter, read that chapter. And I did pull from some of my previous books for gathering the material and Angel Therapy Handbook, just because I had already written it exactly like I wanted it, there was like no point to rewrite it.

I have been teaching Angel therapy practitioner course since, since the '90s, originally it was called certified special council course. And I really feel like my life purpose is a teacher of teacher, and I feel like there is a lot of spiritual teachers out there, a lot of people who - whose life is just to be spiritual teachers who just need a little push. A lot of the book is helping people to overcome their fears or insecurities plus give them the tools I feel like necessary, no matter what type of healing they are doing, whether it's angel therapy, or reiki or some sort of energy work. A lot of this material I have been writing for the last 10 years, and then the book itself took it up three years to combine it, mostly because it was almost overwhelming, so I had to think about what do I want to add in here.

The exciting part for me is that a lot of people don't realize I am also a medium, and have been since I was a child, and I have been teaching medium as part of my ATP class and then separately for about seven years and had a really good success rate with helping people to awaken their natural mediumship skills. So, for me this book is really exciting, because it's the first time in print I have ever taught any kind of mediumship work, and I feel, really, really excited with that, because I think it's something an important part of everyone's repertory for their personal growth as well as doing any kind of healing work.

Miro Lipinski: This is really aimed at everyone, whether or not they do any sort of energy work.

Doreen: That's correct. It's helping someone to connect with their personal angels themselves, and to get more clarity in their divine guidance as well as more confidence, because a lot of working with the angels involves trusting the intuitive guidance you get. So, it gives the chart that I have been teaching for many years about how to know if something is a real message, or it might be something from the ego or even a lower energy, and how to tell the difference. So, I wanted to make it so it's as if I’m sitting there one on one with someone and helping them through the questions there they might have.

Krysta Gibson: I'm curious: why do you think you were drawn to angels and spirits so young, do you think there are past life influences going on?

Doreen: I feel like every single person has guardian angels. I don't in any way believe that I'm special. I believe that my parents helped me to keep my natural psychic abilities open. I think most kids see angels or fairies, and because my parents were such open people, I kept that alive. The angels started visiting and helping me as far back as I can remember. I was lonely a lot in my childhood and the angels would come and comfort me, and help me to feel better, and at the same time they would also take me to places. I literally mean they would take me on a journey and tell me things. They would be a combination of regular angels and Archangel Michael. I was raised in a religion that hardly ever acknowledges angels, and I never even heard of Michael until I was older. Angels were relegated to Christmas and Valentines, so I didn't really have any kind framework to understand this, even though my parents were open to things like intuition and psychic abilities and manifesting. That was part of our everyday life. So, I spent my childhood most of the time feeling confused and different and afraid and alone, and I want to reach other people who might be feeling that way to let them know that this is a gift, and it’s something that can help all of us.

Krysta: Maybe it’s a message to parents because it's sounds like, even though your parents were really open, they didn't necessarily know this was going on for you…

Doreen: They had no framework to know about this. At that time they didn't have the TV shows they do now, or even the movies or the books, so growing up in the '60s it was just as time where, you know, what it was like culturally in America, was really to avoid spirituality, so I had all these experiences without any knowledge that was going on.

Krysta: Well, thank you for hanging in there.

Doreen: Oh, I tried to push it down a few times, believe me.

Christen Christensen: I think what you guys are discussing, really kind of speaks to the question that I have, which is, which messages are in your book that are appropriate to teach young children? I'm a mother of three young children and I'm just wondering if each technique is appropriate, if some of them need to be tweaked a little bit, so that children may be able to better understand them?

Doreen: That was so beautiful. I’m so touched by your question and your caring for children. And I do feel like the message that's most important for young children is working with Archangel Michael, and really helping children to identify that this is the angel you can call on whenever you feel afraid or lonely or scared, or you feel like there might be some sort of energy that's not comfortable around you, whether it's a physical energy or spiritual energy. I believe that empowers children to take charge of their environment, and also helps them to acknowledge that this is real. What they are feeling and sensing is not just their imagination. I wish someone have done that for me when I was a child.

Christen: Absolutely, I do too, and it's - it really speaks to allowing and keep to keep their abilities open.

Doreen: Yeah.

Terry: The question I have, is what sort of advice would you give people who try to shut down their gifts? Sometimes it's hard to listen. 

Doreen: Everyone has a life purpose, and the key to your life purpose is following your passion, which consumes a lot of time. We are all writers here in this group, and as you know, writing is considered to be something that's not as money making as working in the corporate world. Those of us who are artistic have a couple of different paths we can take. One is we can compromise and shut down our feelings and go get something that's more logical to pay the bills. Or we can say “I'm going to trust this, I'm going to follow my path and my passion and I'm going to write from my heart.” It's the same way with everyone's life purpose. 

If you try to shut down your angel guidance, that's the path to feeling unhappy and results in addiction. The only way to shut out the voice of God and the angels is to act out addictively whether it's alcohol or food or drugs, or behaviors. Those do work temporarily. It's the path of pain, if you choose not to listen to your angels and your life purpose. I have learned from my own pain is that God’s plan for all of us is peace. Being a role model to peace, and spreading peace through being peaceful ourselves. It's about choosing peace instead of pain -- this is the bottom line.

The angels keep talking about how intense it is in the world right now, with the economy and such. Those of us who are sensitive have to really be aware that we are absorbing other people’s stress, so we must remember to just shield and clear ourselves right now.

Michelin Bell: I'm wondering what was your process in creating this book, what did you go through in creating it, and how do you write these books.

Doreen: I actually put myself through college as a secretary, and at first I was the secretary for insurance company, and then later on did other secretarial work. I got really good at taking dictation and I feel like every job teaches us something. I really feel like I'm Arcangel Michael's secretary, and all these books, the reason that I'm considered to be prolific is just because I'm a good listener. It literally is me taking dictation when I write. I'm listening and typing as fast as I'm hearing the words. 

Mish Hancock: You said that everybody has angels, everyone has guardian angels. But there are people who have difficulty accessing their angels. What can you say to them? 

Doreen: I have also seen many people who don't listen to their angels, and I really feel like if everyone listened to their angels the world which shift. We wouldn't see any kind of greed or competition -- it would really be the world of kindness that we can envision right now. So for those who struggle with hearing their angels, the first place I look is at their lifestyle. A lot of it is they are numbing themselves with foods or substances, or addictive behaviors, and it's because they are afraid. I have actually found everybody has a life purpose -- you can't get here without having some sort of purpose. There are some people who have real ambitious purposes. I think they signed up to do all their spiritual growth in one lifetime or something. 

What I found is that the bigger someone's purposes, the bigger is the fear, so those who seem to not be able to hear the angels are the ones with the biggest purpose. 

I tend to reach them on real practical levels. I first reassure them, that it's not strange and just talk with the angels, and that angels are gifts from God. This helps them to get really comfortable with the idea of talking to angels. The second way is I help them to understand that the angels are here for God’s plan of peace and help you to be at peace, help me to be at peace, that's our greatest way to contribute to peace is to just be peaceful yourself. 

What robs you from peace? Usually it's the so-called little things in life, like being late to work, or needing a parking place, or trying to find your glasses, your car keys when you are running out the door, those so called little stressors. So, the angels love to help us with these so-called little things. And whether some one is new to angels or struggling, I usually ask them to experience that with me. An experiment is asking the angels for a parking place, and see what happens. Most people are open to trying that experiment, and they find that it works, and then they keep going and, they keep going and they keep going, and they keep going and just build the relationship with the angels that way. I also help them to know that the angels don't always come in a big vision with a loud voice. The angels can sometimes come as wordless words, as feeling, and as repetitive signs, like getting recommended the same book over and over and over again.

Krysta: I was wondering if you could talk about orbs for a bit. I have been in the metaphysical field for a long time, and orbs resurfaced over the last eight to ten years. What are they and why now, and why more with digital cameras than regular cameras?

Doreen: All that light is the angels letting us know that they are here. The angels have never made it a secret that they are with us; they want us to know that they are here, and they do their best to give us signs all the time. I don't know the technology of digital cameras but apparently the shutter speed is so fast, and so high a resolution, that they are capturing these orbs whenever people are bringing in a lot of angel energy. They just want us to know that they have got our backs, that we’re not alone there, that our prayers are heard, and they are helping us.

Christen: I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about how someone can differentiate if they are very empathic or clairsentient or if, in fact, they have a cords or maybe three attached to somebody that is, how they are actually picking up on someone's emotions.

Doreen: Oh yes. Well, people who are empathic definitely will have some difficulties distinguishing their own feelings from other people's feelings and they tend to take on other people's energies quite easily so that's typical to have that confusion. One of the things that seems to help is to clear yourself continuously and it really doesn't matter what form you use to clear yourself, it's all intention. I would use going into nature to clear myself -- trees and plants including having plants at your house is a wonderfully natural way to continuously clear yourself. 

Also like sea salt either going in the ocean itself or putting sea salts in the bath is very helpful. The most important thing, which I have outlined in the book is to call in Archangel Michael the minute that you feel tired instead of the assuming there is a physical reason. Ask Archangel Michael to cut the cords, that's C-O-R-D-S, which are attachments between us and other people. Just ask him to clear cords that could be draining your energy and through that method I have been caffeine free since 1996. Because we are naturally very energetic beings, we who are sensitive get so corded and so entangled and drained that we have to turn to substances to reduce our energy and using angel therapy you really can get your own natural energy going again.

Christen: When working with plants would you suggest using the intention of asking the plants to help transmute the energy or just simply by having the plant in the room does it help?

Doreen: I'm a big believer in acknowledging the plants so talking to them is beautiful, but it's not necessary.
What I have learned from working with plants over the years is that the big leafed plants are the best to absorb the energy so I like philodendrons very, very much. The ones that are not so helpful are the pointy leaved or thin leaved ones. Also rotate the plants, because the plants have taught me they don’t like to be potted too long -- it's very restrictive to them so I would plant them outside if you could, or in a green house.

Mish: I wanted to thank you for the section where you wrote about accepting money for services. I think it's so important and that really hasn't been addressed very much. I was wondering if you had any other insights into that since, writing the book.

Doreen: This is something I have been teaching in my classes. There are a lot of people who had past lives where they were monks and nuns and all their needs were provided for them. I feel like most people in the new age had this as their most recent lifetime experience, that kind of communal living. And now in America, in this century, which is very much about productivity, getting ahead, getting the money, getting the degrees etcetera and -- and they focused on what to do and they will get money. But then it will be gone and they don't know how to manage this money and they are afraid, you know, to locate or call attention to themselves. A lot of my work with the financial and helping my workers involves taking them back to their past life and helping them to understand this past. That worked with a begging bowl in that life but you chose to because be in North America at this time as a light worker for reasons. So we have got to ground ourselves and get into the system as it is known. To know its okay for you to have an individual savings account, its okay for you to plan for your retirements, all those things that normal people think to do, we can do too.

And its okay to have a job that fits your passions we don’t have to suffer for money. 

Susan: I just have a general question of how many times do we ask the angels for something specific. 

Doreen: That's a question I do get asked a lot. The angels don’t take offense if we keep asking over and over again. But they did gave me the analogy that asking angels for help is exactly like going into a restaurant and asking for an order. They said when we keep asking its like following the waiter into the kitchen and asking, “Did you get that -- did you get that?” He said this is not necessary. I ask once and then just get out of the way, and be open to -- to divine guidance that comes in and might ask me to participate in the manifestation.

Linda: Well, you pretty much covered every question that I had, and I think the only thing that was probably left hanging is that I was wondering if there was anything in the book to read that helps to heal the rift between the right and the left -- the divisiveness that that exists on our planet today.

Doreen: I am concerned about that too. The angels gave me a message after the last elections and they said it’s just extremely important that we not go into thinking this person is right and this person is wrong. Even labeling the tea party and left and right its dangerous, because it’s -- it’s another ego separation tool. For a while I was getting all of my news from The Huffington Post and MSNBC and the angels taught me that I needed to instead go inside myself. So, for instance, with this latest news release about Wikileaks, instead of taking someone else’s view on it, just ask the angels or ask the universe what about Wikileaks? 

Then go into your body, into your gut, and you can download what I believe is the truth, because everyone has their belief of what the truth is and they have their own agenda to serve. I am pretty hardcore left. I still believe that there is even a higher truth - especially to incorporate people on the right. The divisiveness could be really dangerous and it can create a lot of violence I think. So we have got to heal that by embracing that everybody wants the same thing and they are just going about it in different ways.