Book Synopsis

2 Line Book Synopsis for Digging Deep – If you’re yearning to get out of the rut you’re in and cultivate more creativity, connection, abundance, and joy in life, the updated New Revised Edition of Digging Deep—which uses gardening as a tool for creative awakening— offers the encouragement and tools to make it happen.

Short Book Synopsis for Digging Deep – If you’re yearning to get out of the rut you’re in and cultivate more creativity, connection, abundance, and joy in life, the updated New Revised Edition of Digging Deep offers the encouragement and tools to make it happen. Overflowing with tips, exercises, and resources, this instructive and inspirational guide –which uses gardening as a tool for creative awakening— is even more vital in today’s technology obsessed culture than when first published.

Medium Book Synopsis for Digging Deep – If you’re yearning to get out of the rut you’re in and cultivate more meaning, connection, and abundance in life, the updated 10th Anniversary Edition of 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 lifelong 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 joy, well-being, health, and creativity.

Long Synopsis for Digging Deep – If you’re yearning to get out of the rut you’re in and cultivate more meaning and connection in life, the updated New Revised Edition of Digging Deep offers the encouragement and tools to make it happen. Overflowing with tips, exercises, and resources, Fran’s Seven 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 joy, well-being, health, and creativity.

Focusing on gardening as a vehicle for creativity, transformation, health, and well-being, Digging Deep counteracts the disconnection and health crisis—both physically and emotionally—fostered by our technology-obsessed culture. Our country is in a national health crisis with substantial economic and social implications. The U.S. public spends more than 90% of their time indoors, leading an extremely sedentary, disconnected, unhealthy, and unnatural lifestyle. The latest statistics show that 33% of U.S. adults are obese, incurring $148 billion in medical costs annually and contributing to 18% of U.S. adult deaths. Publicly available data shows U.S. healthcare costs are the highest per capita in the world—and that amount continues to increase.

Recent research funded by Disney shows that 65% of U.S. parents see it as a “very serious” problem that kids are not spending more time outdoors. According to the survey, this is equal to or a close second to their concerns about bullying, the quality of education, and obesity. Preschoolers spend about 12 hours a week outside, by the age of 16, our children are spending less than 7 hours a week in nature.

Digging Deep helps counteract nature deprivation through encouraging daily Nature Walks and hands-on exercises where readers practice mindfulness and experiencing simply being in nature. By doing so, all of their senses are reawakened and start to feel more alive, exuberant, and connected.

This book doesn’t overwhelm readers with the whys and hows of the awakening process—or of gardening technique—but rather invites them to jump right in and experience it for themselves. People are hungry to feed their souls—not only in churches or temples, but in the everyday rhythms and actions of their lives. Day by day we’re becoming more acutely aware of our deep-seated need to reconnect with something real in the midst of this disconnected world. The more vested we become in technology, the more we yearn to return to a simpler, more authentic and natural way of life. And what better way to connect with our own naturalness than through tending the land with one’s own bare hands?

Everybody wants to be more creative, but often we’re afraid to express ourselves, fearful that we’ll be criticized. Digging Deep remedies this by gently guiding readers through a creative and spiritual awakening that instills feelings of self-confidence. Technology is an easy distraction from our roots. Studies show that it’s basically ruining our brains and our ability to function creatively. If people really want to be more creative, they need to step away from the computer and go outside.

While there are many wonderful gardening books on the market, not a single one comes close to Digging Deep in message or purpose. Most fall into one of three categories: beautifully illustrated coffee-table book, instructional how-to, or spiritual musings and/or lessons one can learn from gardening. Digging Deep stands apart because it is the only book to demonstrate how the very act of gardening is itself a method for unearthing creativity and achieving a state of well–being. It focuses on the process of gardening, not merely the outcome. It embraces both the art and craft of gardening—the craft being the how-to’s, and the art being the greater act of letting go, trusting our instincts, and coming fully alive.