We are thrilled to share that Karen Chrappa’s memoir, BEYOND FEAR: A Woman’s Path to Enlightenment, has been recognized in the prestigious 2025 Eric Hoffer Book Awards.

First named to the highly selective Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List—a distinction reserved for fewer than 5% of all nominees--BEYOND FEAR has now received an Honorable Mention in the Memoir Category.

The Eric Hoffer Book Award honors excellence in independent publishing, celebrating books that are thought-provoking, original, and impactful. Each year, judges recognize a grand prize winner, runner-up, and honorable mentions across multiple categories, alongside the coveted short list distinction.

Karen Chrappa’s recognition affirms the resonance of her powerful story—one of healing, awakening, and reclaiming strength in a world shaped by fear and patriarchal dominance.

We are deeply honored by this acknowledgment and grateful for the growing community of readers who continue to embrace BEYOND FEAR.

“There are not many who have witnessed this…”

That’s what Karen Chrappa heard—alone, under the stars on a remote mountain in New Mexico—when she came face to face with an ancient Andean spirit. In her recent interview with Canvas Rebel, Karen shares this extraordinary moment, alongside deeply personal stories that shaped her journey as a healer, writer, and seeker of the Divine Feminine.

From childhood visits to Welfare Island to a life-changing coca leaf reading in Peru, Karen opens up about the pain she’s carried, the lessons she’s unlearned, and the resilience that led to her writing Beyond Fear: A Woman’s Path to Enlightenment.

Read the full interview on Canvas Rebel and step inside the spiritual, emotional, and physical path that led to her powerful memoir.

A medicine wheel reading for the Solstice shows us the way of Beauty. The beauty of our Earth Mother, in all her elements, is the way of our beauty too. 

We are the air in our breath, the fire in our belly, the waters in our blood and the earth of our body. We are the wild undomesticated beauty in all of Nature. 

We release outdated beliefs that we must be perfect or "nice" in order to be beautiful. As we hold beauty as our truth, our life is nourished by the sweet nectar of all that is sacred. 
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May the Solstice be a portal to the Sacred Way of Beauty 

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