Meeting the Madwoman: An Inner Challenge for Feminine Spirit
10 best books like Meeting the Madwoman: An Inner Challenge for Feminine Spirit (Linda Schierse Leonard): The Sacred Prostitute: Eternal Aspect of the Feminine, Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine, The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image, The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Repressed Feminine, The Goddess Within: A Guide to the Eternal Myths that Shape Women's Lives, Avalon Within: A Sacred Journey of Myth, Mystery and Inner Wisdom, The Book of SHE: Your Heroine's Journey into the Heart of Feminine Power, Suddenly Sixty: And Other Shocks of Later Life, Symbolism, The Feminine in Fairy Tales
| Author | Nancy Qualls-Corbett |
| ISBN | 0919123317 |
The ancient connection between spirituality and passionate love has in modern times become lost to the depths of the unconscious, leaving a broad sense of dissatisfaction and boredom in relationships. When the Goddess of Love was still honored, the sacred prostitute was virgin in the original sense...
| Author | Jean Shinoda Bolen |
| ISBN | 0062502727 |
A Midlife Quest For The Grail And The Goddess
Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen's extraordinary memoir celebrates the pilgrimage that heralded her spiritual awakening and leads readers down the path of self-discovery. In this account of her journey to Europe in search of the sacred feminine, she unveils...
| Author | Anne Baring |
| ISBN | 0140192921 |
A comprehensive, scholarly accessible study, in which the authors draw upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. They explain what happened to the goddess, when,...
| Author | Marion Woodman |
| ISBN | 0919123031 |
I took a couple of months to read The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter by Marion Woodman. I'm not sure why it took me so long, but I think it had to do with finally realizing what a victim of stress I allowed myself to be for my entire adult life, going from a skinny kid and teen to a fat middle-aged adult and wondering...
| Author | Jennifer Barker Woolger |
| ISBN | 0449902870 |
If I could pick one goddess archetype I am most like...isn't really the focus in this book. It's about how we have all these different goddess archetypes and qualities within us (and more of certain ones depending on our individual stage in life): lover, thinker, feeler, leader, mate, wild primal huntress...
| Author | Jhenah Telyndru |
| ISBN | 0738719978 |
Journey to the legendary Isle of Avalon and experience the magic, mysteries, and mysticism that have inspired women throughout the ages.
Jhenah Telyndru, founder of the Avalonian Tradition, invites you on a unique spiritual path of healing and personal revelation built upon the beloved...
| Author | Sara Avant Stover |
| ISBN | 1608682897 |
Follow Your Heroine’s Journey to Reclaim Feminine Power and Wisdom
Women face many challenging transitions on the pilgrimage from girlhood through womanhood: menses, love and heartbreak, motherhood, menopause. Devoid of a central narrative, these rites of passage too often happen...
From the bestselling author of Forever Fifty comes a new collection of poems that tickle, console, and offer the pleasure of instant recognition -- the perfect book for any woman anywhere in the vicinity of sixty. Judith Viorst's "decade" books of verse -- including It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty,...
| Author | Michael Gibson |
| ISBN | 3822870307 |
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| Author | Marie-Louise von Franz |
In this engaging commentary, the distinguished analyst and author Marie-Louise von Franz shows how the Feminine reveals itself in fairy tales of German, Russian, Scandinavian, and Eskimo origin, including familiar stories such as "Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White and Rose Red," and "Rumpelstiltskin."...
| Author | Bonnie Badenoch |
| ISBN | 0393705544 |
Neuroscientific discoveries have begun to illuminate the workings of the active brain in intricate detail. In fact, sometimes it seems that in order to be a cutting-edge therapist, not only do you need knowledge of traditional psychotherapeutic models, but a solid understanding of the role the brain...
The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine
| Author | Robert Bly |
| ISBN | 0805057781 |
From Robert Bly, author of the groundbreaking bestseller Iron John, and famed Jungian analyst Marion Woodman comes an interpretation of a primordial folktale that takes the message behind Iron John to its next phase: the reunion of masculine and feminine. Bly and Woodman interpret the archetypal...
| Author | James Hollis |
| ISBN | 0919123740 |
Is the purpose of life to achieve happiness? Who does not long to arrive some distant day at that sunlit meadow where we may abide in pure contentment? In reality we know life is not like that; our road is often dreary, the way unclear. Much of the time we are lost in the dismal states of guilt, grief, betrayal,...
| Author | James Hillman |
| ISBN | 0060906820 |
A very strange and radical book, especially from a man who later achieved very mainstream success in his field with The Soul's Code. Hillman here tries to reverse our relationship to dreams inherited from Jung and Freud.
He says that these two titans were too prone to fish out dreams from the...
| Author | Edain McCoy |
| ISBN | 1567186726 |
Now you can forget any preconceptions you might have about what it means to be a woman, and unleash your inner warrior as you embrace a timeless vision of the divine: strong, courageous, feminine. Then learn to craft your own spiritual practice centered firmly in the Celtic mystical tradition that honors...
The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness
| Author | Maureen Murdock |
| ISBN | 0877734852 |
This book is DATED. Which is interesting because it was published 18 years ago. It's kind of wild that a book like this can seem so old because it indicates to me that quite a lot has happened in the last 18 years. This book came out when I was beginning my most radical feminist years and if I'd read it then, I'd...
Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World
| Author | Carol S. Pearson |
| ISBN | 0062506781 |
A program for activating and applying Pearson's twelve archetypes to aid inner development and the quest for wholeness"The heroic quest is about saying 'yes' to yourself and in so doing, becoming more fully alive and more effective in the world.... The quest is replete with dangers and pitfalls, but...
The Body Image Workbook: An Eight-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks
| Author | Thomas F. Cash |
| ISBN | 1572245468 |
Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to accept and enjoy the way you look instead of constantly worrying about and criticizing your appearance? What if instead of focusing on your flaws, you felt confident with the body you have right now?
If you don't like what you see when you look...
