"Everyday that you wake up and you aren't covered in pain, or maybe you are covered in pain, but not in a coma or the obituaries, it's an irresistible day."

Bradley's attitude would no doubt please her peers planned to speak at the conference on holistic health and spiritual growth, send a smile over Norman Vincent Peale's lips and launch Barney into song and dance. Nevertheless, don't think Bradley a delusional puppet spouting affirmations. She forged a positive attitude from personal pain.

"I know the opposite of irresistible, it's called irritable, actually it's worse than that, " she said.

A painful divorce rife with rage left the mother of a teenage daughter with an emotional limp - for a time. Seeking solace, she left her steady nursing career to pursue one in music as a harp player. Although the venture made little noise in the music world monetarily, Bradley found an outlet for the stringed instrument by playing it for patients in therapy. Still, she felt her insight into the human psyche of love needed deeper tapping.

"One day I said, "God, how do you want me to teach this?"

The "this" in question was what Bradley calls the Eight Levels of Love, which start with fear and finish with the Realm of Miracles.