How we met

In 2013, our friend Ines Simpson of BC was offering the Simpson Protocol course at the Ontario Hypnosis Centre in Toronto and like most of us Instructors do, she offered a free seat to graduated students to sit through the course again as an update.

As a matter of fact, before she found fame with her Protocol, I had taken the Simpson Protocol from Ines when it was a one page handout and a demo at the National Guild of Hypnotists summer learning institute in Massachusetts. It's now a 4-6 day course.

However, this time she had added an EFT tapping segment to the course, so I booked a (free) seat.

Ted was of course the expert on EFT and over the afternoon of the first day when he presented his segment, the 25 or so of us were all tapping away on ourselves, grinning like drunken fools and repeating out loud, "Although I feel pretty dumb doing this, I don't care what other people think. As a matter of fact, I feel pretty great that I don't care what other people think about me ..."  

Later that day we posed for the inevitable pictures and when it came my turn, Ted, about a foot shorter than me, slipped his arm around my waist and with typical lawyer directness said, "I don't know why, but I like you. We should get together and chat."

We did, and became fast friends after that, solving the problems of the world on Skype from time to time or belabouring the subject via texting; with him staying at our home when he came to the Canadian Hypnosis Conference and us dining together nightly at the NGH Convention in the US.