As a speaker, award-winning creator, workshop leader and lifestyles coach, Patrice Dickey allows others align their vision and values to create richer, extra significant lives on each degree. After having reinvented herself severa times through many paradigm pitfalls and life shifts, she knows how to walk the speak!
Her ardour these days is her guides and workshops in spiritual growth and existence transition. In the beyond, for 15 years she become one of fewer than ten woman Dale Carnegie sales training teachers in the world, continuously receiving high-quality scores.
She is writer of the inspirational e-book "again to the garden: Getting from Shadow to joy," its partner audiobook, "selected Chapters from returned to the garden," and a chain of DVDs on self- empowerment, such as "Treasure Maps: Charting Your direction to Lifelong success" and "affect Made clean: Making Connections That sell."
posted in 2006, "returned to the lawn" has received five awards in contests such as Writers Digest, the global IPPYs and nice Books usa in inspirational/non secular classes, in addition to first prize for non-fiction from the Atlanta Writers club.
In demand as a speaker for company workshops and keynotes on topics including "think the life you adore" and "affect Made smooth: Making Connections that promote," she has been an trainer in Atlanta, Georgia, at Emory university's middle for Lifelong getting to know considering 1999. She evolved and teaches famous instructions "Get the existence you adore" and "Yogativity™ (Yoga to tap Your Creativity)." She is likewise a Registered Yoga teacher.
PD Communications, her a hit PR consulting firm which she ran for sixteen years, served such clients as British airways, a number of the world's pinnacle surgeons, fitness and wellbeing clients, and other high quality, excessive profile companies.
She nevertheless frequently contributes articles to national and local magazines on wellbeing, fitness and top vacation spot spas. (anyone has to do it! She laughs).
Tyler: Welcome, Patrice. To begin, will you inform us how you'll outline "again to the garden." Is it inspirational, self-assist, autobiography?
PD: hello Tyler-it is actually a first-rate magical lawn comprising all those elements you point out, with masses of weeds, dust, rocky places & hard-packed clay; in addition to the hopeful perennials, the colourful blooming annuals, aromatic shrubs and ornamentals. It is a ramble down the direction of opportunity, via the valley of the shadow and returned to pleasure. In other words, life.
In 2006, shortly after the e book turned into launched, i used to be interviewed through James Taylor of FGTV on his 1/2-hour show "Writers in cognizance." James has interviewed the GREATS like Frank McCourt, Cormac McCarthy and innumerable others in his career, and the taped interview he did of me is to be had on my website at http://www.Patricedickey.Com
He commented that as a professional librarian he should area "again to the lawn" in any variety of classes: the memoir, the autobiography, as well as inspirational, instructional and religious-and most of all of the "Honesty segment." It become a brilliant compliment to me while he said, "this is an true book."
Tyler: Patrice, why did you pick the name "lower back to the garden: Getting from Shadow to pleasure?"
PD: For several reasons. A part of the back story is that it evokes the innocence of the Woodstock generation and Joni Mitchell's stunning track (additionally included by way of Crosby, Stills & Nash at the Woodstock album) about getting returned to that Eden in our hearts & minds-a time while we believed we could make a without a doubt tremendous impact on the sector, and we fought for exchange in society.
Now, we infant Boomers who have "had all of it" need to step as much as the plate and store the lawn for future generations-by altering some of our unfavourable habits like rampant consumerism-those erroneous attempts to fill ourselves up with the aid of shopping for things-in addition to our dependence on resource-suckers and gas-guzzlers. Also with the aid of teaching our children to experience unstructured time in nature in order that they want to shop it.
Some other purpose is that, earlier than I genuinely stepped onto the route of Self-focus, Self-recognition, Self-admire and Self-Love, which I describe in my e book, I had the proverbial "black thumb" and could not hold a single plant alive.
My outer realm meditated the tragedies and self-hatred of my internal life-i used to be no longer very type to myself or others-which include flora!
Now, my home inside the Enchanted woodland of Avondale Estates supports a lovely garden, numerous flowers and vegetation, and it is an area of healing for all. I paintings with coaching clients on my screened porch 3 seasons of the yr, and for them simply to appearance out over this beautiful expanse is a restoration and calming enjoy.
But some other reason I chose the name "back to the lawn" is that i like the gardening metaphor. The garden and nature superbly exhibit the cycles of life. In our rush-rush society, we're hypnotized (frequently via advertising and marketing and the media) into wondering that once one phase comes to an quit that we should without delay leap into the subsequent aspect-not actual!
Whilst we come to an finishing, we should be willing to spend a while in the void, mastering the powerful lessons there and regaining our strength, before the following new starting.
Observe the manner seeds, while planted, spend a long term within the dark before they spring forth into their glory. Then they cycle via existence as well, finally replenishing the soil when their stays are mulched below. There may be also the complete drama of the animals, the birds and the insects inside the garden. All of us have our places in lifestyles and our unique, precise roles.
And, getting right down to the gardening metaphor, people don't relate to the glossed over model of existence-they relate to the dust! We all have lots of manure in our lives, and it's our desire whether or not we're going to use it as fertilizer, or simply depart it in a big stinking pile. There may be masses of dirt on this ebook-my own and other humans's!
Tyler: exquisite metaphor, Patrice. You said you were now not type to plant life inside the past. What brought you again to Nature and its capacity to heal?
PD: Tyler, i have got to tell you, in trying to heal myself of the classic (and extremely more dramatic than most) circle of relatives problems, i have skilled pretty much every shape of shrinkage and therapy acknowledged to man. For me it was either heal or die.
I couldn't stuff it underneath like loads of people pick out to do with paintings or sex, workout or buying or meals, gambling or alcohol or drug addictions-and on account that i would seen how dependancy and mental contamination labored on my mother, I knew that route was not for me. I had to locate balance.
When i found stability within myself, and whilst i believed I deserved to have a happier existence, I moved to the Enchanted wooded area of Avondale, manifesting exactly what I had was hoping for-a lovely, garden terrace stage office in my home, a tranquil, personal space, and a two-level screened porch (the new bathtub sits on the 'Lido Deck'-so dubbed through the workmen).
I had no longer deserted nature-and it had no longer abandoned me-thru all the years earlier than this. In my previous houses i'd take long walks day by day, and practice Tai Chi in beautiful public parks and gardens. It really is one of the motives I aid Park delight, which leads & advocates for parks & inexperienced area all through metro Atlanta. I definitely believe inside the healing elements of parks, and so does Park pride.
Tyler: You stated Eden, and gardens are often a Christian image. Is "again to the lawn" a spiritual e-book, or will non-believers also locate it useful"?
PD: "again to the lawn" is greater of a religious e book, even though I do cite a number of examples from the Judeo-Christian subculture. I additionally include examples from many other fantastic non secular and non secular traditions along with Buddhism, Confucianism, Shinto, Taoism, Hinduism, Islam and even Greek mythology (and probably greater-i have constantly been fascinated by humanity's search for meaning and internal peace).
Everyone who studies international religion will recognize that among the equal memories are reshaped by later generations-and different religions-to lend meaning to their contemporary questions.
For folks who are non-believers, they are able to replacement the words Love, better Self, life pressure or Nature for my shouts out to God during the e-book. It's all of the identical element, basically, and in my opinion too many wars are fought over semantics.
Tyler: Why need to humans read "lower back to the lawn"?
PD: i'm sharing what i have found out over time from hundreds of teachers and the authors of inspirational books who've helped me open my attention to new opportunities and happier, greater fulfilling approaches of residing.
As I inform individuals in my very own lessons and workshops, once your awareness expands into new worlds, you may in no way stuff it back into that smaller container where it used to stay. It demands more!
Of course it's always our choice whether or not or not we'll be aware of the clarion call of our better Self to grow into our complete expression, into the joyous lives we are intended to live. Frequently books function publications into those rich nation-states inside us that wait for our discovery, unlocking and sharing with others.
I offer this e-book as one capacity key to the inner global: a exceptional type of "self-help" ebook, non-linear, with out checklists and sporting activities, due to the fact the path of existence not often shapes up as a immediately line.
Incredible thinkers in the course of records, together with John Lennon, have shared the knowledge that "lifestyles is what happens whilst we are busy making other plans." do not we realize that!
The recovery coronary heart does now not perform through lists and schedules, but with the aid of suits and starts offevolved, one leap forward and two steps lower back, treading antique territory till it suddenly breaks into the clearing of pleasure.
It grows into wholeness through pointers, suggestions and the sudden flash of recognition-the Aha! Epiphanies that it isn't always by myself in its struggles. "lower back to the lawn: Getting from Shadow to joy" is an amble thru the sorrows that darken our lives again into the light of complete creative expression; of coming across who we truely are; of finding ourselves, subsequently, "at home."
it's far a ramble via the lives of many regular humans whose tremendous outlooks, internal electricity and heartfelt glory in lifestyles itself have made them my heroes and sheroes. May additionally their heroic trips function notion.
This meditative adventure thru my garden, into nature and thru this global and the following with many cherished teachers is supposed to assist reassure, calm and guide any hurting or frightened souls who are in the recovery method themselves, and all folks who are seeking to drag themselves as much as the following degree.
In my research of the workings of the unconscious thoughts, which believes some thing we inform it, exact or terrible, i've determined that in conveying comparable messages in lots of extraordinary ways, resistance starts offevolved to melt away and diffused, effective high-quality shifts arise.
As people study, they too will shift in many surprise-running, powerful approaches. Each person's well being does make a distinction to the arena.
Tyler: Why did making a decision to write down and post this e-book?
PD: This book (and others) have been calling out to me for my entire existence. In fact, i lately located one of my early "journals" (in which my mother wrote what I dictated when i was approximately four and could not write). It changed into the tale of a bit flower at a luau. I could not believe it-it had a joke on the quit; i can immodestly say I chuckled when I re-examine it!
Clearly, i've written different books earlier than this one-each were "fiction" but of path we understand fiction is frequently masses of thinly disguised truth!
I wrote the ones the difficult manner-a web page a day-the use of the computer laptop. It's like breaking rocks, scrutinizing each word because it comes out; reshaping sentences until my head ached. I have not executed some thing with the ones yet due to the large editing they still want.... But a few day possibly.
On this 1/3 one, I determined that i'd write a non-fiction incorporating the testimonies of humans who've attended my "Get the lifestyles you love" magnificence which i have taught at nighttime at Emory considering 1999. Now extra than 19 lessons-and lots of achievement testimonies! Over time I accumulated those that truely resonated and wrote them in my magazine.
Then when I had the longhand stream-of-recognition "framework" that I employed to write down this e-book, i was capable of insert bright examples of human beings whose lives have definitely shifted the use of the ideas I train.
I determined to submit it because, after having had a a hit PR profession for two decades, i used to be ready to transport on to the next issue, speaker and creator-and it's constantly pleasant to have a platform-that's my book.
Tyler: I understand the book has many brief memories in it. Could you tell us a piece about those tales-are they non-fiction or autobiographical?
PD: One is the story of the empty nester who regarded in my class via numerous uncanny bits of synchronicity-she had no clue what to do along with her lifestyles, and he or she turned into in deep grief over the recent loss of life of her sister from brain cancer. She absolutely reinvented herself by means of doing the assignments along with the Treasure Map. She accompanied the sychronicities and power to evolve into her new life as a holistic chef. What a victory! She is an suggestion to me.
Different tales consist of the broke graduate scholar who changed into able to construct a swimming pool in her again yard. "that is all because of that insane exercising you made me do, Patrice," she stated when we sat through her pool four years after the elegance-it changed into the precise picture she had described within the imaginative and prescient bright exercising!
Some other is the story of my exquisite buddy Janet Smith, an artist in Memphis, whose head injury as a teen, I consider, HELPED her broaden her art-plus the tale of her mother and father who owned Justine's in Memphis-a landmark restaurant-what exquisite bon vivants they had been!
Many others are sprinklings of poetry and tune, mythology from Greek or Hindu or different religions, in addition to my personal testimonies approximately a number of the uplifting, and some of the extremely harrowing studies in my own family.
Part of my personal tale includes the normally i have used the techniques I teach in elegance to scrape myself up off the tarmac, after my mom paralyzed herself in an alcohol-fueled rage.
Tyler: tell us a bit bit about yourself and the direction you've got taken to attain where you are today. Your introduction may be very impressive, but what has motivated you to be so successful and especially to encourage others?
PD: With all i've learned in dragging myself returned from the brink of self-destruction, and with tale-telling being one of my gifts, it's best herbal for me to share those ideas that have been life savers for me. One in all my preferred charges inside the elegance is: "research from the errors of others. You can not live lengthy enough to make all of them yourself!"
Tyler: Patrice, I apprehend you have got a heritage in training. How has that motivated you on your writing?
PD: people generally tend to consider testimonies or vivid examples higher than facts or expository writing-and so I make my factors come to lifestyles by using sharing how these thoughts have helped actual humans in real conditions make real adjustments.
In truth, i would given a communicate at the international Congress of Esthetics rapidly after my e-book changed into posted-1000 skincare experts and hair stylists in a conference hall in Dallas. Afterwards I bought loads of copies of my book-the people were thrilled to have a street map of the way to "get the life they love!"
numerous months later I Googled the ebook, and became surprised to find out that a younger girl had positioned "again to the lawn" with the aid of Patrice Dickey on her MySpace as her favored e book-that is a 21-year-vintage esthetician in damaged Arrow, ok, who calls herself "SlapMeAndCallMeNorma" (which of course made me guffaw out loud!) Her remark, and this is probably the most important praise I ought to receive, was this: "maximum fantastic self assist book i've ever study. It truely works!"
Tyler: I understand you also are very lively in some of different ways which include being a motivational speaker, life educate, and yoga teacher. How do you stability these sports together with your writing-do you locate they gasoline each other?
PD: they all suit together. Yoga maintains me sane and balanced and in appropriate circumstance; plus i take advantage of a number of yoga knowledge in my talks and workshops to assist those who are extraordinarily harassed. I consist of many of my realizations from yoga practices inside the book as well.
Tyler: Patrice, your e book is designed to assist people transform their lives. What do you observed is the principle motive that holds humans again from having the lifestyles they need, and how will "lower back to the garden" help them?
PD: As I discover on every occasion I ask this question inside the "Get the existence you adore" class, it is worry. We are able to view worry as false proof performing real, or possibly even friendly energy saying Resistance!
We speak that worry may be treated in numerous approaches-we will Flee the whole thing and React or we can Face everything and recover. Worry surely is an phantasm; human beings can trade their critiques of it-and this frequently takes plenty of internal paintings, which on occasion humans are afraid to do!
Tyler: What do you suspect it is that human beings fear maximum, and what do you think is the secret to overcoming that fear?
PD: We took a survey in a single elegance and those chose worry of failure and worry of rejection (public talking turned into manner up there too).
Basically, failure and rejection spell annihilation. This will be traced lower back to our earliest days on the earth when rejection virtually DID suggest annihilation. The Neanderthals banded together to face wild foes-and if they had been rejected, or outcast, they might be destroyed in the wild.
There are many strategies to conquer fear-systematic desensitization (with the assist of a professional counselor) is one.
Hypnotherapy has helped me triumph over a lot of my fears of failure and rejection-as an example at some stage in the system of writing "again to the lawn" and stalled more than once, I used hypnotherapy to get bounce-began.
Tyler: Is it authentic you are working on a workbook to go together with the e-book?
PD: yes, the workbook, in addition to the collection of DVDs, a number of that are on my website online at and the CD Audiobook of decided on chapters. Plus I now have individual chapters to be had as mp3 downloads on my website for only $.99 apiece!
Tyler: What type of response have you acquired so far from readers?
PD: people who take some time to tell me their reaction say they in reality like it. Several humans have offered ten or extra copies to present to all their pals and loved ones. They say they chortle and cry over the tales. No doubt there are plenty of individuals who saved their opinions to themselves!
I recently attended a party in which a lovable woman whom i would never met informed me she periodically recycles all her books-but that mine is one of the few that she cherishes and intends to maintain.
Plenty of testimonials are on my internet site at
I additionally produce a complimentary Ezine known as "Your guide to the existence you like" which comes out at the proper time, on a everyday basis; it's full of equipment and pointers, angle shifts, and usually a few cool mind sweet with that hopeful flavor! Oldsters can have a look at archived troubles of the Ezine on the site.
There's a complimentary e-book as well, entitled "one hundred and one simple methods to Kick the depression dependancy & Get Happier without Prozac"-i've used these very techniques more times than i can let you know to scrape myself up off the dirt and start all yet again. Each time i'm surely down, I take a look at my ebook once more and remind myself simply to do some of the matters I advocate!
Tyler: Patrice, what are your future projects, dreams and goals? Will there be more books?
PD: proper now i am partnering on a few terrifi transformational workshops; people can research greater approximately what i'm as much as at i am additionally developing more uplifting electronic fabric like DVDs & mp3s.
As a ways as my next writing venture, you already know an writer is never supposed to disclose what is subsequent-it's like spilling the juju (wink!)
Tyler: thank you for joining me nowadays, Patrice. Earlier than we pass, would you inform our readers where they can find out extra records about "returned to the lawn" and how they can purchase copies?
PD: it may be ordered at any bookstore, and if you actually need to aid the author, puh-leeze visit my internet site at (Did you already know that while you purchase a ebook from Amazon, the writer eventually receives maybe approximately a nickel?)
At my web site, if you want you can join the complimentary Ezine "Your manual to the lifestyles you like" with equipment and hints, attitude shifts and funky thoughts sweet with that hopeful taste! There's additionally masses of articles and informative free interviews at the site if you're searching out something uplifting right away.
I've some notable specials going right now too, wherein humans can get the ebook & CD mixture for about 1/3 the bookshop rate.
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