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  Date / Time: 10/27/2009 8:17 PM UTC

  Hope42Day Interviews: Best-selling author, spiritual leader and recovery expert Karen Casey
  

  "Cultivating Hope" is Karen Casey's latest book of weekly readings to help us to open up our minds and hearts.  Karen is the best-selling author of 20 books including her first book (which I received from my 12-step sponsor in 1987), "Each Day a New Beginning: Meditations for Women".
  
  

  I love interviewing people like Karen, who within a few minutes enable us to see their authenticity and their willingness to be vunerable so that they can allow a higher power to use what they have learned (and continuing to learn) to help others.  In the greatest sense of the work, this to me means "service".  Karen was moved to write, "Cultivating Hope" after her own spiritual path set off in a new direction after 9/11.  In our interview, I asked Karen what the word "hope" means to her and she said, "having a vision that something will make a difference". 
  
  In my own 12-step experience, I have found that the doorstep between the first step off AA, which is surrendering to what is and the second step to us opening our minds up to the idea that there may be something else out there (besides us) at the helm of this ship we call life, is the willingness to allow hope in to our minds and hearts. "Cultivating Hope" is just the kind of book we can tuck into our toolbox of recovery.
  
  For more information about Karen Casey and her latest book, "Cultivating Hope" you may go to www.womens-spirituality.com.
  
  
  

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