Growing Hope (RWW)

Hope, as best-selling author Sue Patton Thoele points out, seems to be in short supply these days. Everywhere she turns people are looking for ways to experience the simple, human power of hope. Thoele, who has written about courage, confidence, and soul, was looking for hope herself when it occurred to her that hope is essentially homegrown. In her book, she offers an antidote to the chaos and negativity of our times, ways for each of us to grow our own hope.

Thoele has compiled a book of healing words and powerful insights for people who do too much and know too much. The book's heartening prose passages, quotes, anecdotes, and inspirational thoughts foster fledgling hope in the hearts of those trying to cope with economic downturn, international turmoil, media overload, and soul-depleting busyness. Sue Patton Thoele has brought strength and inspiration to nearly a million readers with her heartfelt wisdom and step-by-step process for facing tough issues in order to find a place of greater self-awareness and serenity. Growing Hope continues in that tradition with reflections and enriching practices that lead readers from pessimism to positivity, and includes chapters about rediscovering hope, cultivating hope, holding on to hope, and finding the seeds of hope.

Thoele's encouraging words and radical common sense chart a path readers can travel toward the discovery that hope doesnt die.

Sue Patton Thoele, who lives a step-by-step process for finding and growing hope in our lives has sold an impressive 900,000-plus books on the challenges of living a spiritual life. Sue Patton Thoele is a psychotherapist and author of ten books, including The Woman's Book of Soul, The Women's Book of Courage,and Freedoms After Fifty. She and her husband Gene live in Boulder, Colorado near their children and grandsons.