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Winner of five awards, including a Nautilus Gold Award and the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Short-List Award, Doorways to Transformation will equip you with the right tools to unlock your inner potential and support your creative and spiritual growth. ""Doorways to Transformation is a powerful reminder that we are all artists and creators, crafting and shaping our lives and destinies with every thought, belief, and action. The stories, insights, and guidance shared in this book provide rich and fertile fodder for many absorbing and ultimately transformative conversations."" -Sandie Sedgbeer, author, TalkTV presenter, host of OM Times Radio's flagship show and founder of The No BS Spiritual Book Club The creative process is not just about crafting the work unique to your particular calling. It is ultimately about entering into and creating the life you are destined to live. And more often than not, it is about living larger lives than we ever thought possible. Doorways to Transformation invites you to uncover all of who you are and dare to express it. It is an offering for the soul-a manual for everyday spiritual and creative growth. It is about pursuing transformative living and crafting a life of meaning as you do. Mining the sacred from the mundane, Karen Kinney offers a treasure trove of jeweled truths intended to bolster both your creativity and your larger life. Drawing from her experience as a professional artist and writer who has engaged in contemplative spiritual practice for over 20 years, she leads you on a liberating journey of greater self-awareness and expansion. Offering fresh perspective and insights gleaned from living cross-culturally, Karen shares reflections on the creative process, abundance, stepping into your power, navigating fear, growing still, and embracing the unknown. In becoming acute observers of our own lives and surroundings, letting what we see and experience touch us at a deep level, we open up to change. This is the simple yet profound act of allowing our lives to be altered by the ordinary. Doorways to Transformation will awaken new growth and inspire you to go after the life calling to you, reminding you that you have the power to act as an agent of change in your own story.

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Doorways to Transformation  is such a gem. Kinney's brilliant nuggets of wisdom were like delicious, warmth-inducing shifts that melted slowly in my soul. I felt myself awakening to a gentler, more attentive and intentional way of being in the world. Doorways had the effect of lifting veils from my eyes. -CATHERINE DEMONTE, psychotherapist and author of Beep! Beep! Get Out of My way! Seven Tools for Powerful Creation and Living Your Unstoppable Life Doorways to Transformation is a personal and expansive delve into who we really are as creative beings. This book delivers guidelines, inroads, and insights into everything from how to grow still, to seeing clearly, to embracing the detours. -TERRY PERSUN, award-winning novelist and poet Karen Kinney brings clarity and conviction to the organic connection between creativity and spirituality. Each chapter is a meditative moment, inviting us to pause, reflect, and bring inquiry to our own experiences. Kinney is a trustworthy guide along the path of living an authentic and integrated creative and spiritual life. -COLETTE LAFIA, international retreat leader, author of The Divine Heart: Seven Ways to Live in God's Love This tender, insightful book is a welcome guide for creatives and for anyone seeking to live more authentically. Karen Kinney's gentle wisdom is a balm and a lodestar. -AMY GOTTLIEB, author of The Beautiful Possible Doorways to Transformation gave me repeated opportunities to take a deep breath, reflect, and nurture my creative spirit. Karen shifts our energy from worry to wonder. I love a book that can do this-not only guide, but remind us that our own way of thinking needs a fresh perspective. -MELISSA CISTARO, author of the award-winning memoir Pieces of My Mother Doorways to Transformation is lovely as a journey, very easy to read, intelligent, and engaging. I experienced magic from this offering and was deeply moved. -RENE NORMAN, ceramicist, abstract painter, therapist in the healing arts If you are interested in manifesting an abundant, fulfilling life, Doorways to Transformation is the perfect choice. It offers the reader a journey of gentle self-reflection. You'll be gifted a new perspective-one ripe for cultivating freedom, joy, and peace. -REBECCA LEFEBVRE, artist and author of Within: Find Your Truth, Nourish Your Heart, Love Yourself Karen Kinney, in Doorways to Transformation, offers readers a compendium of gentle guidance for the artist within every one of us. Each chapter is a charming invitation to follow the author's hard-earned wisdom toward a richer, fuller expression of our creative selves. -REV. DEBORAH MOLDOW, founder of the Garden of Light

Doorways to Transformation is such a gem. Kinney's brilliant nuggets of wisdom were like delicious, warmth-inducing shifts that melted slowly in my soul. I felt myself awakening to a gentler, more attentive and intentional way of being in the world. Doorways had the effect of lifting veils from my eyes. -CATHERINE DEMONTE, psychotherapist and author of Beep! Beep! Get Out of My way! Seven Tools for Powerful Creation and Living Your Unstoppable Life Doorways to Transformation is a personal and expansive delve into who we really are as creative beings. This book delivers guidelines, inroads, and insights into everything from how to grow still, to seeing clearly, to embracing the detours. -TERRY PERSUN, award-winning novelist and poet Karen Kinney brings clarity and conviction to the organic connection between creativity and spirituality. Each chapter is a meditative moment, inviting us to pause, reflect, and bring inquiry to our own experiences. Kinney is a trustworthy guide along the path of living an authentic and integrated creative and spiritual life. -COLETTE LAFIA, international retreat leader, author of The Divine Heart: Seven Ways to Live in God's Love This tender, insightful book is a welcome guide for creatives and for anyone seeking to live more authentically. Karen Kinney's gentle wisdom is a balm and a lodestar. -AMY GOTTLIEB, author of The Beautiful Possible Doorways to Transformation gave me repeated opportunities to take a deep breath, reflect, and nurture my creative spirit. Karen shifts our energy from worry to wonder. I love a book that can do this-not only guide, but remind us that our own way of thinking needs a fresh perspective. -MELISSA CISTARO, author of the award-winning memoir Pieces of My Mother Doorways to Transformation is lovely as a journey, very easy to read, intelligent, and engaging. I experienced magic from this offering and was deeply moved. -RENE NORMAN, ceramicist, abstract painter, therapist in the healing arts If you are interested in manifesting an abundant, fulfilling life, Doorways to Transformation is the perfect choice. It offers the reader a journey of gentle self-reflection. You'll be gifted a new perspective-one ripe for cultivating freedom, joy, and peace. -REBECCA LEFEBVRE, artist and author of Within: Find Your Truth, Nourish Your Heart, Love Yourself Karen Kinney, in Doorways to Transformation, offers readers a compendium of gentle guidance for the artist within every one of us. Each chapter is a charming invitation to follow the author's hard-earned wisdom toward a richer, fuller expression of our creative selves. -REV. DEBORAH MOLDOW, founder of the Garden of Light

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Karen Kinney is an award-winning writer, visual artist, and teacher. At her core, she is a mystic and guide, channeling wisdom through her creative work. For over 20 years, she has practiced and studied contemplative spirituality and this is the basis from which her creativity is birthed. She has pursued a multifaceted art career, exhibiting work nationally and internationally. Her art resides in numerous private collections, including those of Stanford University, actor Bob Odenkirk, and NPR's Guy Raz, and was purchased for the Lionsgate film ""The Lincoln Lawyer."" She has designed installation work for the Los Angeles International Airport and painted murals in LA and Mexico. In addition to writing books, Karen is a freelance writer and her articles and essays have appeared in numerous publications. Karen has taught about nurturing creative freedom at the University of Hong Kong, the San Miguel de Allende International Writers' Conference in Mexico, and at workshops for artists and writers in the States. Learn more at karenkinney.com.

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