A startlingly honest portrait of a woman's sensuality, sexuality, and spirituality . . . and the seeming madness of a passionate life. Visual and emotional narratives on romantic love and the soul, a lifetime of falling in and out of love and the agonies of infatuations. For anyone who has searched for true love.
When black patent-leather shoes and petticoats were in, Charol was a tomboy and undaunted adventurer. In West Texas, her fifth-grade teacher at a small country schoolhouse told Charol she could write. Me? It took only a little bit of encouragement to bolster this redhead's confidence. She wrote her first novel that year. She was eager... and she had a dream.
The first of Charol's thirty published narrative verses came during high school; two won awards in national anthologies. During junior college, boys occupied all of her attention so she didn't resume creative writing until after her divorce many years later. Looking for love in disco clubs, after years of impetuous one-night stands, infatuations and countless heartbreaks, she turned once again to writing and poured her desire into creative passion. The still small inner voice of her soul arose with great clarity and light filled all of her dark inner corners. Committed to the graceful light within, Charol discovered compassion, which freed the burden on her heart and taught her forgiveness.
Charol's first book, The New Humanity, won a 2002 CIPA Book Award. She has published 125 articles, book reviews, short stories, and book excerpts... and has several books in development. As a clairvoyant and higher-self teacher, Charol has counseled over 11,000 individuals. Her newsletter, Global Citizen, reached an international audience in the 1980s. In 2004, she founded Books for Iraq, a nonprofit charity that sends donated books to Iraqi children and adults to inspire hope and provide tools for self-determination. Charol graduated from the University of Colorado with a B.A. in English and literature, philosophy and world religions. Today, she is a freelance book editor and ghostwriter living in Denver.
I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can is one woman's journey from perpetual bottomless despair and yearning for love to discovering and embracing the lightness of being.