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Fran Sorin

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Fran Sorin is an author, coach, speaker, trainer, writer, CBS radio news and Huffington Post contributor. She is also a veteran of the media—as a media trainer, broadcaster, journalist, celebrity spokesperson, and inspirational speaker.

Her book, Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening, was groundbreaking when published in 2004. It was the first book to address gardening in the context of creativity and as a tool for well-being and personal transformation. The New Revised Edition is even more vital today, because our culture has become increasingly obsessed with technology and progressively more “nature deprived.”

By the time Fran graduated from the University of Chicago, she knew that she wanted to combine her passion Fran Sorin is an author, coach, speaker, trainer, writer, CBS radio news and Huffington Post contributor. She is also a veteran of the media—as a media trainer, broadcaster, journalist, celebrity spokesperson, and inspirational speaker.

Her book, Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening, was groundbreaking when published in 2004. It was the first book to address gardening in the context of creativity and as a tool for well-being and personal transformation. The New Revised Edition is even more vital today, because our culture has become increasingly obsessed with technology and progressively more “nature deprived.”

By the time Fran graduated from the University of Chicago, she knew that she wanted to combine her passion for living creatively with a deep desire to help people experience more fulfilling lives. She has spent more than 30 years studying, researching, experimenting, and working on her self and with clients on getting to their authentic creative selves.

Once Fran decided that 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 the regular gardening contributor on NBC’s Weekend Today Show, and made several appearances on CNN, MSNBC, Lifetime, HGTV, DIY, and the Discovery Channel. She has also been a celebrity spokesperson for OurHouse.com, MSNBC, and Garden Weasel.

Fran is celebrating her twelfth year as a CBS Radio News correspondent. Her Digging Deep gardening features are heard several times a week on CBS Radio stations throughout the United States. She has also written dozens of articles about gardening and well-being for USA Weekend Magazine, Radius Magazine, and iVillage. Fran was instrumental in developing iVillage’s Garden Channel and was their "Green Thumb” gardening expert.

She is also the co-founder of and contributor to the award-winning gardening blog, www.gardeninggonewild.com

Fran’s website, www.FranSorin.com, focuses on personal development and offers free resources to help improve your life. ...more

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	New Revised Edition, Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening 3.96 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2004 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Digging Deep: Unearthing You’re Creative Roots Through Gardening by Fran Sorin (Goodreads Author), Larry Dossey, Erika Fromm 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Wouldn’t you love to experience more well-being in your life every day this year? Who wouldn’t? The problem is that right now, at the beginning of the New Year, we’re being inundated with messages saying that we need to immediately make some sweeping changes in our lives by taking a course, going on a diet, […] Read more of this blog post »

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“For me, the feeling of my hands in the dirt offers a deep, primordial
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― Fran Sorin, Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening

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“You cannot simply tap your creative nature once and then expect to be done with it. It is a lifelong process: a continual commitment to being open to possibility, trusting your instincts, experimenting, taking risks, and revising.”
― Fran Sorin, Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening

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“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
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“According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous. (quoted by Carol Lynn Pearson in Consider the Butterfly)”
― Deepak Chopra, SynchroDestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles

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