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Patrice Dickey Author of "Back to the Garden: Getting From Shadow to Joy"

Over more than two decades, Patrice Dickey has worked with hundreds of individuals and groups to help them discover their true paths, release the frustration of go-nowhere situations, and achieve their highest good.

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Changes within start trip from sorrow to joy

By Faith Dawson

Originally published on ajc.com on July 7, 2006

A spot of green park space in a big city can seem like a mini-oasis to people who are used to seeing tall buildings, traffic and litter. Knowing the importance of parks to many city dwellers and hoping to encourage people to discover inner happiness through nature, Patrice Dickey wrote "Back to the Garden: Getting From Shadow to Joy," which has stories of real people who lifted themselves up from self-defeat.

"One of the points of the book is we can't manifest a beautiful outer aspect until we have shifted something inside ourselves," says Dickey, who is also a yoga instructor and former public relations professional. "The outer garden is a reflection of what's going on inside — sort of converting your manure into Miracle-Gro. We've all got deep stuff. It's just a matter of learning how to use that as fertilizer rather than becoming buried in it."

Dickey is also the instructor of the "Get the Life You Love" course at the Emory Center for Lifelong Learning, which she says, "helps people move from their stuck place into their place of joy and most fulfilling life."

"Back to the Garden" costs $14.95 plus shipping and is available at the Park Pride Web site, www.parkpride.org. Park Pride is a local nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation and improvement of green spaces in Atlanta; Dickey says she is donating one-third of the proceeds from books bought at www.parkpride.org to the organization.

Dickey says she has always loved parks and wants all Atlantans to have access to them because of their stress-reduction and healing benefits.

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