Synopses & Reviews
In
Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening, author Fran Sorin guides you - step by step- through her 7 stages of creative unfolding. You will learn all you need to know to design your personal paradise - in both the garden and life.
- Why you're creative and always have been.
- How to re-awaken your creative spirit and develop techniques that will help you design your own unique, personal landscape in your garden and life.
- To appreciate the process of gardening, not just the end result.
- The seven steps of creative awakening that will help you develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to move forward.
- How to use your 'creative muscles' to help you get unstuck in the garden and in life.
- To have confidence and know that you can create the life you're supposed to be living.
- To use gardening as a conduit for living a more joyful, healthier, and meaningful life.
If you take one thing from this book, let it be to play. Not just in your garden, but play with ideas, projects, and possibilities.
Digging Deep guides you to give shape to your dreams and helps you bloom along with your flowers!
Synopsis
- Gardening is America's #1 pastime: Over 70 million households in the U.S. are engaged in gardening activities, and consumer sales of gardening materials exceed 26 billion dollars a year.- Books that teach people to foster their creativity, like The Artist's Way (Tarcher, 1992) by Julia Cameron and Writing Down the Bones (Shambala, 1986) by Natalie Goldberg, are perennial bestsellers.- The foreword to this book was written by renowned clinical psychologist Dr. Erika Fromm, Professor Emeritus in Psychology at the University of Chicago.- Fran Sorin has been a regular contributor on NBC's Weekend Today show, and has appeared on LIVE with Regis and Kelly, HGTV, the Discovery Channel, Lifetime, and NBC10 in Philadelphia. She is the host of a weekly call-in radio show, writes for USA Weekend, is the gardening expert for iVillage.com, and has served as the media garden spokesperson for MSN.com. She operates a garden design business and teaches hands-on workshops in her own garden in Pennsylvania.
Synopsis
For experienced and would-be gardeners alike, this beautiful book leads readers through a process at creative discovery that encourages them to bloom right along with their gardens. 224 one-color line drawings.