Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening - Softcover

Sorin, Fran

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446694029 ISBN 13: 9780446694025

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

"Digging Deep teaches the art of living creatively―from envisioning and creating the garden of your dreams to cultivating and embodying more imagination, passion, and play in your daily life."―Andrew Weil, M.D.,  #1 New York Times best-selling author of Spontaneous Happiness

Digging Deep does for gardeners what Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way and Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones has done for millions of writers and artists: it shows how to approach your passion with an eye towards freeing your spirit and living a creative and joyful life. If you're yearning to get out of the rut you're in and cultivate more meaning and connection in your life, you'll find the encouragement and tools to make it happen in Digging Deep.
 
Overflowing with tips, exercises, and resources, Fran Sorin's empowering guide offers much-needed inspiration in today's technology-obsessed and often nature-deprived culture. This new edition features a foreword by Larry Dossey and a new introduction, where Sorin encourages us to discover the magic that takes place every day―in the garden and in life―as we engage in a playful type of creating.

In her acclaimed classic, Sorin, who is a coach, speaker, writer, trainer, the CBS radio news gardening correspondent, Huffington Post contributor, and co-founder of the award-winning blog GardeningGoneWild.com, shows you how to apply her Seven Stages of Creative Awakening to unearth and connect with your own creative essence in every area of your life. 

        
You can learn more about Fran and receive free tools to help you improve your life at: fransorin.com

About this title

About the Author

In addition to being an author, I am a broadcaster, Ecological Landscape Design Consultant, Spiritual Ecologist, Ordained Interfaith Minister, and Soul Tender. 

All of my work -- whether I am writing, designing a garden, or guiding someone to a broader understanding of their potential through my soul tending practice - is based on my deep belief that our need to connect to the earth is an inherent trait - and that by doing so, we heal and experience more joy in our lives.

My faith in the healing power of nature informs everything I do. Each of us benefits from being surrounded by the beauty and therapeutic effect of nature - at home, work, and in the city or town where we live. To facilitate the ability for city dwellers to interact with nature, I focus on ecological landscape design, vertical green walls, green roof gardening, urban gardening, and sustainable urban agriculture.

In my Soul Tending practice, I help clients unearth the divinity within themselves and facilitate the expansion of their consciousness and personal growth. This sacred work is a natural result of my spending several years on deep inner spiritual work, practicing mindful gardening, being in nature, and becoming an Ordained Interfaith Minister.

I am a CBS Radio News Garden Contributor - my garden features are heard several times a week on CBS Radio stations throughout the country. I've been a Regular Contributor on The Today Show and made appearances on Live with Regis and Kelly, CNN, HGTV, Discovery, DIY, Comcast, and NBC10 in Philadelphia. I've been the GardenSmart Contributor for USA Weekend Magazine a Contributing Editor for Radius Magazine, and was instrumental in developing the iVillage Garden Channel. 

I sit on The Advisory Board of The Healthy House Institute and The Housekeeping Channel.

You can read some of my articles and learn more about me at:

fransorin.com
gardeninggonewild.com

From the Back Cover

"What I hope to do in this book is to take you through my seven stages of creative unfolding within the context of your garden: Imagining, Envisioning, Planning, Planting, Tending, Enjoying, and Completing. You will learn all you need to know to design the garden of your dreams - even if you have no idea what that garden is right now - though that is just the tip of the iceberg. A magnificent, thriving garden is the by-product of a magnificent, thriving gardener, and really, this is all about you. The tulips and roses and evergreens will be beautiful, I promise, but they will pale in comparison to the inner glow you will radiate once your creative fires have been lit...." from DIGGING DEEP

From the Inside Flap

Release your creativity to enhance your garden --- and discover how gardening can enhance your creative self. The goal of this book is to make both an astonishing transformation of a piece of land and a fundamental change within you.

In DIGGING DEEP, garden designer Fran Sorin shares the techniques she uses with her clients to turn their outdoor spaces - no matter how large or small - into exquisite gardens that reflect their inner selves. Through enjoyable exercises aimed at new and experienced gardeners alike, you will learn to 'think outside of the vase' with impromptu flower arranging .... translate a mystical vision into a tangible garden design ..... build real-life walkways inspired by the pathways of your heart.....sharpen your powers of observation by spotting tiny daily changes in nature ... and discover how fabulous public gardens, from San Francisco to Florence, Italy can stimulate your thinking with a myriad of possibilities.

With step-by-step instruction in planning, planting, nurturing, and harvesting, this elegantly designed volume will help both your garden and your imagination germinate and grow. Whether you create an environment of placid ponds and stepping-stone, plant orange Asiatic lilies alongside bright fuchsia gladiolas, or put spring lilacs in a green Mason jar, you will free your ideas and release your spirit by producing the garden only you can create .... to view, contemplate, and enjoy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446694029
• ISBN 13: 9780446694025
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224