Yes. Winter IS coming (when it comes to your love life).

Yes. It’s that time again: summer time. And for some of you that means good times ahead. Woo hoo. You know, weekend getaways with your partner, hand-holding balmy beach walks, practice empty nest time with your spouse if your kids are away at camp. But for many who are looking for love but haven’t found it yet, the heat is most certainly on. And no matter how high you turn up the air conditioning and how low you put the lights, it’s still not going to feel winter enough to make staying home alone to watch (or rewatch) Game of Thrones legal when love is on your summer “writhing” list.  

If you want it hot this summer, {read on}.

I love coaching people about love, unraveling their thought patterns, sorting through all of the competing “voices” in their heads, and helping them face the truth, so they can make the change they so deeply desire.

The process I devised to do this isn’t complicated; in fact, it’s so straightforward that I find I can apply it to many different types of people at every stage of love – finding it, fixing it or just figuring out what they want from it.

Ready for my cut-to-the-chase method? Want to know how you can measure whether you’re on the right track to finding your dream partner, whether you’ve already found them or simply whether or not you should even go on that third date?

The Quick and Dirty Love Formula: The Three H’s:

There are three different parts of you that need to align before you can be fully satisfied in love. They are (be prepared for a little vulgarity) your head, your heart and your hoo-ha. The voices of these three are equally important to listen to, but they don’t always work together. They compete for dominance, they masquerade around as the truth, and – you guessed it – they shape the patterns you live and love by.

Let me elaborate …

1. The head: tells you what looks good on paper, what’s practical, what’s smart. When you meet a new person, your head asks all the right preliminary questions: Do we live in the same city? Have similar beliefs? Do we both want children, make enough money, come from stable families? Your head will draft a good pitch for why this person does or doesn’t make sense for you, and it might often be a hard one with which to argue.
2. The heart: wants you to go deep. Do you truly care about this person? Could you have an intimate conversation for hours and be genuinely interested in what they’re saying? Do you feel intrigued, inspired, and even awed? Do you respect them, believe in their dreams and do YOU feel respected? Do you trust this person? Your heart asks,”am I moved?” and, it will always tell the truth, if you listen closely enough.
3. The hoo-ha: wants to be turned on! Your animalistic, physiological preferences can override even the best intentions of the head and the heart, and I’ve seen it happen in different ways: you can’t stop thinking about your hot sex, even though she was a terrible match for you. You care deeply about your amazing friend (and maybe considered taking it further!), but you just can’t stand his teeth, or her hair, or whatever it is. When picking a mate, your hoo-ha wants to know: am I HOT for this person? Do I want to make out in bed with this person, even in the morning with morning breath? Do I think I could always feel turned on by him/her? Is there something I find fundamentally sexy or cute about this person?” The voice of the hoo-ha is speaking up for your physical and sexual needs, and it’s backed (like it or not!) by thousands of years of human evolution.

Getting to the Truth

I put the three H’s to work on a long-time client of mine – a successful, financially independent, hard-working, small business owner in her mid-30s, who was sexy as hell. When she went through yet another break up recently, I had her take a written head, heart and hoo-ha inventory of every guy she had ever dated, starting with her very first boyfriend. Her last few boyfriends looked great on paper, turned her on, took her out to dinner, went on great trips – fun times, but, there was no heart connection. She just wasn’t crazy about any of them! So, after a few months of dating, the relationship would fizzle out and she couldn’t figure out why.

We discovered a pattern of her’s – she had been using her financial success as a reason not to get hurt and she had been trying to protect her heart by ignoring its needs. We got down to her truth: she hadn’t had a serious heartfelt connection to a man since college, and she felt it.

Oh, how I do heart a good turning point moment!

It’s where I get to work my mojo. Once we figured out what needed work, I had her write her deepest desires, in the present tense, in the voice of her heart. It sounded a little like this: “I feel butterflies when we kiss. I feel safe in his arms. I am inspired by him; I see myself loving him for a long time. I feel giddy imagining us in 10 years on a beach in St. Barths!”

Setting Up Rules

After we heard what the heart wanted, we set up a new dating rule for her to live by as she started seeing people again and was done with seven month relationships with men who didn’t pass the 3H test. The new rule:

❤ If she didn’t feel a connection to her heart by the second date (she felt intrigued, nervous, and flustered), she was to promptly cut herself off from having a third date and move on.

Now she fully understood what she wanted, and she knew how to measure whether or not she was getting it or, better yet, feeling it.

Not long after we set up her new dating rule, my client called me in a little bit of a panic – she’s going on her third date with a guy she met recently through a friend. She had had two amazing dates, couldn’t stop thinking about him, felt crazy about him and more alive than she’d felt in years. She was nervous, emotional, and a little scared – like a 13-year-old with a mad crush! “Congratulations!” I told her, “it sounds like you just may have found another important H: happy.”

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The truth is, we all know what we want – consciously or otherwise.

So often, though, we sell out on ourselves and are easily sidelined by our own subconscious feelings and personal theories about the world that are influencing our thoughts and actions without us even realizing it. You can gain so much insight into yourself through simple methods like investigating the three H’s – an insightful inquiry that draws out the hidden details of what’s missing, what’s not working, and what needs to change in a way that’s easy to understand and hard to ignore.

If you’re searching for a genuine connection this summer, do the test of the three H’s on yourself and look for a pattern. Be honest! If you’re in a relationship and asking questions, the test of the three H’s will tell you the truth about how you’re really feeling. And, chances are if you are wondering, so is your partner.

If you’re swooning over your significant other, walking down the beach holding hands and counting your blessings, congratulations! Why not use the three H’s as a road map to determine exactly why it’s working so well for you? I promise, this is a profound discussion worth having (even with morning breath), in any intimate relationship, long or short term.

Love,
Lauren

P.S. – I’m so excited to talk about the 3Hs at Wanderlust Vermont this weekend at a special coaching session! Learn more and register.