Date Essence for Sweetness: A Tiger by The Tail

I recently spoke by phone with a gentleman who attended a series of my pets workshops in the Bay Area. As it turns out, Dr. Johnson didn’t have pets of his own and said he came to the classes for other reasons: to find an essence to help him deal with diabetes-related kidney problems.

A practicing psychiatrist in a maximum-security prison, he offered the following insights about our Date Essence (for tender sweetness):

“Nothing in this world could have kept me from grabbing that granola bar in my kitchen cupboard. I started on your Date Essence, and it’s still sitting there. I have no desire for it. To go 24 hours with no sweets: come on! Diabetics have a fierce sweet craving that seems unstoppable–like, no way, the bull’s loose and won’t stop.

“I think a lot of diabetics could benefit from using Date Essence. I never noticed the commonality before (of personality profile). There’s something about the diabetic personality that’s straightforward, and too much so, without the sweetness—like, bam, they just come right at you!

“You have to be a wounded healer to be good at what you do, standing on both sides of the window. As a psychiatrist, I’ve never heard any talk about the diabetic personality.

“This insight is good stuff. I can think of family members and friends with diabetes who are pretty much right to the point in their judgments and the way they come at people—maybe too direct—and I can see that they don’t know how to escape from their behavior.

“This was the last thing I would think about. Ms. Devi, you’ve got a tiger by the tail here. You have your hands on something very powerful.”