The Logic Of
Illogical Love
Rose Colored Glasses
Required
April
Kirkwood has two masters in education and over twenty-five years experience in
both the public and private sectors of mental health. But with all of her knowledge she came to a
point when her personal life was spinning out of control leaving her in a web
of confusion and depression. After she
wrote her memoir, Big Girls Do Cry describing her dysfunctional family,
her thirty year affair with Frankie Valli of The 4 Seasons, and the atmosphere
of life in the sixties, she began to open the gates to the root of so many
issues we each have in life, love, and finding lasting happiness. Her newest book, The Logic of Illogical
Love, Rose Colored Glasses Required, offers methodology, practices, and
mental health as we consciously stop chasing after things outside of ourselves
and begin the process of self-development stripping aways the layers that have
kept you in despair for too long. It’s time to find your rose colored glasses
and create a real life. Your suffering
is trying to tell you something. Don’t
postpone happiness. April is a keynote speaker,
radio personality, and blogger who spreads the message that we are separated from love with others
to the same degree that we are separated from ourselves. Let nothing stand the
way of self-discovery.
1.
What really
inspired you to write your book, to force you from taking an idea or experience
and conveying it into a book?
When
my first book, Big Girls Do Cry, a memoir about my three decade affair
with Frankie Valli of The 4 Seasons came out, I was bombarded by the press and
others who wanted to know how I could possibly still have deep affection for
those who had hurt me. Little did I
realize that this simple question help me further strip away the garbage I once
called ‘living the dream.’ I found myself traveling down a path with each twist
and turn finding out how and why I was happy even in the worst of scenarios. I
began to write down all that I know, believe and practice that keeps me
grounded in peace no matter what life brings my way. This new book explains the
beauty of suffering in the logical world and it’s call to each of us to
discover our real selves. This beautiful blending of logic and illogical guides
readers to a place of well being, good mental health, and a relaxed view of
their world.
A
question to all who wonder if they should read this book, ‘Have you enjoyed the
last hour of your life?” If the answer
is no, get the book now. You have no
time to waste. Don’t postpone happiness.
Walk beyond your fear in the sun with rose colored glasses on.
2.
What is it about and whom do you believe is your targeted reader?
This
wonderful adventure is about seeing the holes in logic and finding the missing
pieces in illogic. We have as a race
gone crazy running after all of the quick fixes outside of ourselves that we
have been told is ‘living the dream.’ The
thrills of alcohol, social climbing, material acquisition, sexual excess is a
short fix leaving us ultimately barren and empty. We have become a culture of narcissistic pill
popping consumers who cannot be satisfied. In truth, these meaningless pursuits
all truly only attempts to forget ourselves so we don’t realize how fake we’ve
become and how confused we are. In short, we are all miserable surviving from
only one high to another.
The
Logic of Illogical Love is a way back to finding your authentic self
with steps, practices, examples, so you consciously rediscover who you are and
what you are here to do. The book
focusses on finding lasting romance, your life’s purpose, and dealing with
difficult situations and people. This is not a guide to God or spirituality for
those things cannot be found but must be experienced. The Logic of Illogical Love presents
thoughts and ideas that may resonate waking you and shaking you up to what you’ve
been all along…a wonderful being capable of giving and receiving great love.
The
target audience is the human race. As humans we are flawed at birth with egocentric
cravings use fear in the name of logic
that keeps us lost without sight. There
is a way to find your rose colored glasses and be fabulous, every day, every
way, for now and forever.
3. What do you hope will be the everlasting
thoughts for readers who finish your book? What should remain with them long
after putting it down?
I
want readers to become aware of their everlasting essence bridging logic
with illogic into a system of mental health that takes away the ache of
emptiness and suffering in all humans.
This reading is an exercise in unlearning involving steps as well as
exercises in awareness, detachment, spiritual knowing, and living in the now.
I
want readers to use these practices and key points to increase the amount of
light in their lives erasing the mental blackboard of all that has kept them
prisoner to logic.
Key
points to remember as begin your journey to the center of yourself:
1.
A clear understanding of negative thoughts and
belief systems dismiss them. Work for
that dismissal.
2.
It
is right and necessary to struggle and win over self-destructive emotions you
hold deep within you.
3.
Never
judge yourself by where you’ve been and what you’ve done. You owe no one and
explanation. (Your friends don’t need it, your enemies won’t believe you.)
4.
It
is a fact….you can be happy. All
you need is rose colored glasses to see what is the truth of illogical love.
5.
The
world is full of love when you are filled with love.
6.
You
are loved more than you know.
4. What advice or words of wisdom do you have
for fellow writer?
Do
not be afraid to risk it all, put it out there naked for all the world to see
when you write. Some times as I write, I cry.
I get very emotional and have to take a nap. It’s ok.
It’s what any creative work is about….setting yourself free, giving it
all, and being real. That is the only way to write and live authentically. It is your gift to others, we are waiting.
5. What trends in the book world do you see and
where do you think the book publishing industry is heading?
Technology
is changing the world of publishing opening the door for novice writers to get
their work out there. The down side is
that self-publishing brings great challenges for marketing and media outreach.
I
consider myself more as a teacher and motivator who happens to write rather
than a writer. I am just a woman sharing ideas about love and life.
6.
What challenges did you have in writing your book?
As
a Mom, girlfriend, and member of society, finding the time is always a problem
for me. I find myself feeling anxious
when I’m out to dinner with friends when I truly only want to be nestled away
by the fire writing.
As
far as content, organizing the chapters and getting order in my heart’s words
is the most difficult part of writing for me.
After I get the book outlined in some semblance of order, I can really
get in the groove and move forwards.
Lastly,
people bother me when I’m in the zone and I get upset. Ugh I want to cry out, ‘just let me write!”
7.
If people can only buy one book this month, why should it be yours?
This
is a book written by a woman growing up without money, in the midwest in the
sixties who has been through hell with a dysfunctional family, picking the
wrong men, messing up with careers, and struggles with her kids. I wouldn’t dare let a ghost writer touch my
legacy as I see The Logic of Illogical Love as my gift to others helping
them discover what they had all along. I openly reveal in nakedness what I’ve
learned, purposeful methodology and
intimate moments so you find your rose colored glasses and your higher
purpose.This is a personal book of how you, like me, with all of the messes,
can still be happy without the crap of the world leading you down the wrong
path. In stillness, in rest, in love for
ourselves is the realization of our worth and the door to finding love.
For more information: www.aprilkirkwood.com
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