The Book

http://www.globalredcircle.com/book/


The Global Red Circle: Standing in Truth, Unleashing Our Most Powerful Selves is a collection of twenty heartfelt, compelling, and life-affirming letters by and about women. Its mission is to build a global sisterhood through which women can heal and nurture themselves and each other through the sharing of their wisdom.

The founder originally thought she would write all the stories herself but soon realized more could be accomplished by asking women from diverse backgrounds to contribute to the project. She could hopefully begin to help is break down some barriers and inspire women to suspend judgment about other women they assume are different than they are by seeing into their hearts and walking with them through their experiences.

The book took ten years to complete. Kim realizes now that finding contributors, compiling letters, and putting it all together could probably have been done much faster, but crafting The Global Red Circle was her evolution to unleashing her most powerful self. Throughout the journey, she confronted her fears and feelings of unworthiness and ultimately her reason for living.

She started first by writing stories of her own pivotal experiences. Then devised a set of contributor guidelines and the Global Red Circle brand began to take shape. Then she began asking women she knew and admired to contribute stories. Some were referred to her. Others she discovered while watching documentaries or in her daily travels. The stories are in the form of letters because Kim wanted the book to feel like a conversation – a very special and intimate conversation.

Along the way she felt it important to try to effect positive change in women’s lives. So in July 2011 the first Red Circle gathering was held in the founder’s home so that she could put into practice the premise of the book. The Global Red Circle was born.