Daring to Dream: Reflections on the Year I Found Myself - Softcover

Ely, Karen

9781411693821: Daring to Dream: Reflections on the Year I Found Myself

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1411693825 ISBN 13: 9781411693821

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub, 2006

Daring to Dream takes the reader through a year in the author's life - a year of rebirth following the end of a 32-year marriage - into those private moments of anguish and reflection where we discover that we have the strength, wisdom and power to grow from life's most challenging experiences. "It is about a year in time, a year when I lived on the top of a mountain in near total silence and found myself. It was a year of sadness and loss but, more importantly, it was a year of incredible magic." Karen Ely's journey toward an authentic life and a stronger sense of herself is both heartbreaking and exhilarating. Her honesty reaches out invitingly, encouraging all women to turn their attention inward and listen to the beatings of their own hearts.

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From the Back Cover:

"I cried with the recognition that I am not alone."

"Reading Daring to Dream was like talking to a friend I needed at the moment."

Daring to Dream: Reflections on the Year I Found Myself is Karen Ely's intimate chronicle of loss and renewal following the end of her 32-year marriage. The author's journey toward an authentic life and a stronger sense of herself is both heartbreaking and exhilarating. Throughout the book, her honesty reaches out invitingly, encouraging all women to turn their attention inward and listen to the beatings of their own hearts.

"Karen Ely's book, Daring to Dream, reveals an honest, authentic writer's voice. The reader comes away wishing for more, more." - Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way

"Reading Karen Ely's account of finding her soul again, and burnishing it in the glow of her truth, is an archetypal story that we are all so hungry for and you will devour and learn from hers with gratitude. Karen is dedicated to helping women meet themselves on the path of life and celebrate their own beauty and their own meaning." - Jennifer Louden, author of The Woman's Comfort Book and The Life Organizer

"A truth-filled memoir packed with the raw feelings of one woman who dared to change her life. Karen Ely's story will push other women toward their own authenticity." - Joan Anderson, author of A Year by the Sea

About the Author:

KAREN ELY’s thirty year career in non-profit management -- from domestic violence and sexual assault to drug prevention and welfare-to-work -- has helped assist thousands of women through difficult life transitions. In 2003 Karen fulfilled a lifelong dream of creating a women's spiritual retreat program. Located in Sedona, Arizona, A Woman's Way is her latest project in a life filled with commitment to issues affecting women. It is her hope that this book and A Woman's Way will benefit other women searching for a spiritual center and a path to finding themselves, for she believes that it is the ultimate journey.

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