Clara Thinks to Us: Q&As

Three years have passed since I published my first book: Clara Thinks to Us, a novel of hope from the memories of an old lady. It's based on my life experience with optimistic twists to painful experiences. It was a way to overcome my fear of death, amongst many other cathartic benefits.

I am grateful for all the feedback and readers who have been interested in finding out more about this old woman. She lived in four different countries and ended up thinking, almost at random, about her past. Our current present is in the novel's past because it is set in 2055. You can download the ebook from Amazon.

Without further ado, here are six questions and answers about Clara Thinks to Us.

Q2: What was Clara’s most powerful provocation when moving to Cyprus.

A2: The sedentary ways of the locals, their attachment to the land of their ancestors and the sentimental value they attached to trees.

Q3: How did she walk away from her dream after 3 years of working so hard on becoming an online marketing consultant? How did she find her real truth and let go without grudges or feeling like a failure?

A3: She used the knowledge and experience for her true calling of defending homemaking as a valid and valuable choice for modern women, spreading the truth about holistic medicine and finding her tribe. She admitted failure as an entrepreneur on digital marketing and then embraced public speaking and her private practice of The Wave. Admitting failure provided the leverage to turn the page and start fresh. She followed her gut feeling to find her truth by admitting what was not in line with her values.

Q4: How did she successfully integrate into Cyprus, I.e what was her turning point. ?

A4: once she surpassed the longest period of time she had ever Lived in one place and she was truthful to her desire of belonging, a feeling she never had the chance to develop due to the nomadic lifestyle of her parents. Integration came as a result of establishing connections with people on her same “wavelength”, members of her tribe. She knew that wherever she’d go, true friends were always scarce but they were so valuable. Also, her children who didn’t inherit her ability to adapt to changing environments as quickly as she did, made her realize the importance of settling down in one place and making it home. 

Q5: If Clara could do it all again. Would she, in all honesty, change anything?

A5: No. Clara is the author’s best case scenario.

Q6: If Clara could name three things in order of what made her happiest in her life what were they?

A6: 1 Diego, Rose and George. 
2 Alexis
3 Music 

Thank you for such great questions. You’ve all made my day

You REALLY attract what your fear: Write to overcome it

Three years after writing my autobiographical novel, the reason WHY I wrote the book has become clearer: I was afraid of dying so I killed myself in the novel, at 88.

Once I completed my first book, Clara Thinks to Us, I created this blog as a way to explain my incursion into authorship. Heal by Writing was a title right on target. I was indeed healing from an autoimmune condition, expressed as food intolerances. I was intolerant to so many kinds of food that I thought "If I don't heal, I will surely starve to death".

I am now free from food intolerances. I know I have ONE intolerance that will be impossible to overcome because it is determined by my genes, so I avoid it and I can manage all the other limitations to have a balanced and healthy diet. I am now sure I will not die in the short term from starvation due to intolerances.

You truly attract what you fear

I have recently experienced what I feared most: infidelity first hand. I am a child of an unfaithful spouse and I went through all the counselling that came with overcoming such an ordeal. I thought I had it all worked out. I had a plan B for when it happened. I had warned my spouse since before we committed that I wouldn't be able to overcome such betrayal. And we took measures to prevent it. But if you FEAR it you ATTRACT it. Law of Attraction, they call it. 

It hit me today when I thought of how I'm not afraid of having a car accident. I'm always placing myself in the percentage of the population who always manages to avoid clashes. And I haven't had an accident since someone bumped into me when I stopped suddenly at a red light in my birth country, Venezuela. I was 18. It's been over 30 years since then and I haven't had another car accident. 

I also placed myself in the minority who succeed in a developing, corrupted country like Venezuela. I placed myself in the minority who manages to marry a foreigner and never return to chaos. But I didn't place myself in the subset of the population where there are no infidelities. I just feared it would happen to me. So, once I discovered writing as a means to HEAL, I wrote different scenarios about my fear. 

Creating scenarios

• My best case scenario was my Novel of Hope in which infidelity did not happen. Alexis was faithful to Clara for over 27 years. 
• I created happy endings for friends whose marriages were breaking previous to my own infidelity experience. I wrote a series of books in Spanish, Mejor Sola. 
• I imagined what I would do in case the infidelity symptoms I was experiencing at home corresponded to the pathology. I wrote a book in my head.

Facing reality: facing your FEAR 

Once I had unequivocal proof that I was facing infidelity as a spouse, after I had experienced it as a child, I proceeded to implement Plan B. Everything happened very fast because I had already considered all the possible options in my head. 

Even though my fear had become a reality, I was prepared to face it. I knew I could find a hopeful outcome in ways I had imagined in my books. But I had not imagined the turn of events that could occur in the face of reality. 

Writing truly helped me face my fear and process it in an efficient way. I might even write a book about it one day. Do you think it could help you or others? Let me know in the comments.