GROW is a guided journal that follows the patient process of nature from seed to bloom, facilitating readers to write their way into deeper awareness and cycle through personal discoveries. With thoughtful questions, powerful quotes, and illuminating meditations, GROW creates a mindful space that fosters awareness and transformation. GROW is for anyone interested in enriching their sense of inner peace.  

Christie Havey Smith, M.A. is a Los Angeles-based author specializing in narrative non-fiction literature. Since 2007, she has been creating and facilitating workshops in the Los Angeles area that foster awareness, creativity, healing, and personal development. Christie has her M.A. in Theology from Loyola Marymount University with specialized study in spiritual direction and Jungian psychology. She also holds a certificate in Meditation and Mindfulness from The Greater good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Christie’s passion lies in the health and happiness of the human spirit and in the effects of meditation on personal well-being and social change. She is also the author of From Three Feet off the Ground, the charismatic story of her following her toddlers in a humbling yearlong lesson on how to see the world.