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Finding Your Soulmate
Setting Hopes On Benefit For Gatehouse
—it’s like ordering a latté
Arielle Ford used the law of attraction in her career before transferring its principles to her love life. BY KAREN BOSSICK
She’s been called “The Fairy Godmother of Love.” But, in reality, Arielle Ford believes you can create a soulmate for yourself, without relying on help from Cupid. “When I was 43 I decided I would create a soulmate for myself and I did—I found my soulmate in Brian Hilliard, who is now my husband. I had no intention of sharing my story with someone else. But women over 40 kept pulling me aside and asking, ‘How do I get a Brian?’ So, finally, I said: Okay. I’ll share how I did it,” said Ford. In fact, Ford—Deepak Chopra’s former publicist—has written eight books, including the international bestseller, “The Soulmate Secret,” and “Wabi Sabi Love: The Ancient Art of Finding Perfect Love in Imperfect Relationships.” She’ll offer two presentations on the subject next week at the Sun Valley Wellness Festival. She will offer a day-long workshop, “Manifesting Love,” starting at 9:30 a.m. Friday in the Sawtooth Room at Sun Valley Resort. And she will offer a presentation, “Wabi Sabi Love,” at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in the Limelight Room. Go to sunvalleywellness.org for more information. Ford, who lives in La Jolla, Calif., says that it’s our beliefs that often get in the way of finding our soulmate. “We think: ‘I’m too old. Too fat. Too damaged. All the good ones are taken. I’m unlucky in love.’ We need to use the law of attraction,” she said, referring to a belief that by focusing on positive thoughts one can bring about what they want. Ford says ordering up a soulmate is like walking into a coffee shop and ordering up a tall, half-caff, low-fat mocha latté with a splash of non-sugar vanilla syrup to go. You place your order, then begin living as if it’s fulfilled—playing music you believe your soulmate would enjoy, setting a place at the table for that person, imagining that
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Jenny Gatehouse and Sherry Roscitto check out the bleeding hearts and other flowers that Gatehouse planted earlier this spring. “She’s a fighter. She’s a sweetie. I just want to see her get her stem cells and get better,” said Sherry Roscitto, one of three caretakers who provides 24-hour care for Gatehouse. STORY AND PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK
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n 2001 Jenny Gatehouse was at her zenith following the birth of her second son Wil just one year after the birth of her first son. Little did she know that the shakiness she felt on her right side during pregnancy would come to represent the lowest point in her life. Soon after delivering her second son, she was diagnosed with colon cancer. But she vanquished it in six months with surgery and chemotherapy. The shakes, however, haven’t been so easy to get rid of. At 38, Gatehouse was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s disease— what she’d always thought of as “an old person’s disease.” Just 4 percent of the 1 million Americans who suffer from Parkinson’s have early-onset, she said. Every day for the past 13 years Gatehouse has awakened wondering what the disease would rob her of next. The legs that loved to hike up Baldy began to teeter and totter and her body swayed back and forth uncontrollably. Her speech began to slur, her words trailing to a whisper. Now, Gatehouse’s friends are coming to her rescue, hoping to reverse the effects of the disease. They’ve planned an Art Cures benefit for Jenny Gatehouse on
Thursday to raise money for a stem cell treatment that Gatehouse says could reduce her symptoms by as much as 90 percent. Silvercreek Realty, which hosted a similar event for actor Keith Moore several months ago, will throw open its doors from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday to allow people to buy art and other items donated by local artists. The realty is located at Leadville Avenue and Sun Valley Road, in Ketchum.
“She’s trying to do everything she can to work with what she’s got,” -Lisa Wood, a headhunter with Stafftopia. Gatehouse is bowled over by the generosity of friends like Levie Smith of Silvercreek Realty and she is hopeful about the outcome of the stem-cell treatment. “I want to be able to talk to my friends without struggling to say my words. I
want to run up Lane’s Trail in Adams Gulch,” said Gatehouse, now 52. Her friends just want to help. “She’s trying to do everything she can to work with what she’s got,” said Lisa Wood, a headhunter with Stafftopia. “She can get around with a walker but she needs help getting in and out of cars and up and down stairs. And she’s very uncomfortable with needing help. It’s heartbreaking to see her lonely, cut off, isolated because of her disease. So, to help her get treatment would be a dream come true.”
“Now I Am A Spaz”
Armed with an education from New England College in New Hampshire, Gatehouse followed friends to Sun Valley from her hometown of Long Island in 1984. She quickly fell in love with all the area had to offer, from downhill skiing to ice hockey, where her teammates nicknamed her “Snipper” for the way she played. She landed a job as a fundraiser for the Bill Janss Community Center—what eventually evolved into the Wood River Community YMCA. She married Phil Hebert in 1998 and had two sons, now 14 and 12 years old. After being diagnosed with Parkinson’s, she did what she could in search of a cure. In 2004 she ran the Baldy Hill Climb to
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