Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening - Softcover

Sorin, Fran

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0990791920 ISBN 13: 9780990791928

Publisher: Braided Worlds Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

If you’re yearning to get out of the rut you're in and cultivate more meaning and connection in life, Digging Deep offers the encouragement and tools to make it happen. Overflowing with tips, exercises, and resources, this instructive and inspirational guide is even more vital in today’s technology obsessed and increasingly nature deprived culture than when first published 10 years ago. From Fran, you’ll learn how to bloom right along with your garden and use gardening as a conduit for experiencing creativity as a rich and dynamic lifetime journey. The 7 Stages of Creative Awakening will take you through the steps of removing self-doubt and replacing it with strategies that will help you trust your instincts, let your imagination run wild, take risks, envision and design the garden of your dreams, reclaim your playfulness, and live the life you’re meant to— one filled with creativity, joy, and well-being.

About this title

About the Author

Fran is a multi-disciplinary gardening and creativity expert and a veteran of the media--as a media trainer, broadcaster, journalist, celebrity spokesperson, and inspirational speaker. Fran has trained top managers, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, senators, and a U.S. presidential candidate on how to deal with the media in a compelling, effective, and authentic manner. From the moment that Fran decided she wanted to share her passion for gardening with a large audience-- and approached the local Fox TV station in Philadelphia about doing some gardening TV features--she became a fixture on the TV circuit. She spent years as a gardening authority on Philadelphia's Fox and NBC stations, was a regular gardening contributor on NBC's Weekend Today Show, and made several appearances on Lifetime, HGTV, Discovery, CNN, DIY, and Comcast. Fran is the CBS Radio News Garden Correspondent and has written dozens of articles about gardening and well-being for USA Weekend Magazine and Radius Magazine. She has spent more than twenty-five years working and developing community projects that have served the diverse community of West Philadelphia, including Radnor Recycles for Refugees and Shooting For The Stars, a not-for-profit organization and motivational program for elementary students. She has recently initiated a community garden and learning center on the grounds of a church in an underprivileged neighborhood of West Philadelphia. Fran is a graduate of The University of Chicago with Honors in Psychology and One Spirit Interfaith Seminary.

From the Back Cover

The gentle wisdom and inspiring exercises in Fran Sorin's insightful and empowering book will ignite your imagination, engage your mind and hands with new possibilities, and encourage you to trust your instincts and take risks. Whether you're a beginning or experienced gardener, discover how the Seven Stages of Creative Awakening can help you connect more deeply with your creative and authentic self, in the garden and in life, and plant seeds of joyful abundance that will blossom for years to come.

Edition details

• Publisher: Braided Worlds Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0990791920
• ISBN 13: 9780990791928
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254