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Colorado Couple Launches New Meeting Your Magnificence Book Series
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Book Summary |
Meeting Your Magnificence:
111 Ways to Live from Your Higher Self
What if the answers exist not in the world around you – but inside you?
Life coach and ordained minister Carolyn Golbus and floral photographer Gary Gleason come together in a collaboration full of love and spiritual wisdom to help readers live from their higher selves, honor their desires, and experience true joy.
Each page-long chapter contains a spiritual message accompanied by immediately-applicable exercises and mesmerizing original floral photography, all of which remind us to pause, look closely, and realize – you are exactly as you are meant to be. A guidebook as insightful as it is visually stunning, Meeting Your Magnificence: 111 Ways to Live from Your Higher Self is a must-have companion for modern day readers on the path of spiritual awakening.
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Press Release |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | June 26, 2024
Contact: Gary Gleason | 970-948-7680 | support@MeetingYourMagnificence.com
COLORADO COUPLE TO LAUNCH NEW BOOK SERIES
ASPEN, CO – Aspen residents Gary Gleason and Carolyn Golbus this week announced the launch of their new book, “Meeting Your Magnificence: 111 Ways to Live from Your Higher Self”, which will be released this fall by Dallas-based Brown Books Publishing Group. This is the first book in a three-part series on spiritual awakening.
“In 2017 I moved to Maui for a year and started writing daily inspirations on topics that I’ve seen people struggle with in my years as a minister and a coach,” said Golbus, a first-time author and doctoral candidate at Delphi University of Spiritual Studies. “What emerged was a series of writings that guide the reader gently back to their innate inner wisdom – something so easily lost or ignored in the hectic pace of society today.”
After completing the manuscript Golbus started thinking about what visuals might accompany publication. That’s when she thought to tap the photographic talents of her partner, Gary Gleason, and turn it into a coffee table book. Brown Books Publishing immediately saw the merit of the idea and offered Golbus a publishing contract.
“We had pitched the manuscript to a number of publishers of spiritual books,” Gleason said. “We got a few nibbles, but no bites. But when we decided to turn it into a coffee table book it became a whole new thing.”
The photography in the book is of flowers, but not in the way you typically think of floral photography. Most of the images are extreme close ups – more like abstract art, providing an intimacy that is undeniable.
“I had already taken some shots that ultimately made it into the book, but really those were the launching pad,” Gleason said. “I find that the closer you look the more you see. That is especially true with flowers... I had no idea about their many secrets. It was a thrilling exploration.”
“Meeting Your Magnificence: 111 Ways to Live from Your Higher Self” is the first in the three-book series. It is available for pre-order now, and will be in bookstores November 2024.
About the Author | Carolyn Golbus
Carolyn Golbus, Mh.D, is a life and relationship coach, spiritual retreat leader, musician and author of the book series, Meeting Your Magnificence. A 1987 graduate of the University of California/Los Angeles (UCLA), Carolyn is an ordained minister and has been certified by the Life Coach Institute of Orange County. She has over a decade of experience as an energy practitioner and coach.
In 2024 she received her Doctorate of Metaphysics and Healing from Delphi University of Spiritual Studies in McCaysville, Georgia. Like most spiritual leaders today, Golbus has diverse platforms, including social media, through which she shares her writing, workshops, and private coaching. Dr. Golbus currently resides in Aspen, Colorado.
Author’s Statement
About the Photographer | Gary Gleason |
Gary Gleason is a photographer, writer, musician, athlete, linguist, and entrepreneur. He is a Vipassana practitioner in the Goenka tradition, a yogi, and an eager student of awakening. Over the course of his world travels he has developed a photographic style uniquely his own, using small digital technology to reveal beauty in the smallest of subjects. A 1986 graduate of the University of Colorado, Gleason was named a Fulbright Scholar in 2008. He has lived and worked across the globe in numerous capacities and is eternally grateful for the wonders of this incarnation.
Artist’s Statement
Tragic Note |
These press materials were developed in June 2024 with intended release following the Independence Day Celebrations in the United States.
On July 4, author Carolyn Golbus was in a bicycle accident in Aspen, Colorado and subsequently died of her injuries.
The Aspen Daily News ran this frontpage story about Carolyn and her remarkable life entitled “Seeking Strength over a Life Cut Short. ”