Around the world, throughout time, cultures have marked the intimate and transformative events of a woman's life - the onset of puberty, her first sexual experience, conceptian, childbirth, menopause - with myths and rituals. Today, such significant feminine rituals are missing, but these transitions still profoundly affect a woman's body, mind, and soul. Offering a compelling vision of psychotherapy as a sacred space for women's rites of passage, Jungian analyst Virginia Beane Rutter brilliantly illuminates the emotional lives of women. "Woman-to-woman therapy," writes Beane Rutter, "is the ritual container for the lost feminine in our culture." Modeling on intrinsically female pattern of change, woman-to-woman therapy is a process involving stages of containment, transformation, and emergence. It is a place for a woman to uncover and make conscious the motivating stories and myths in her individual psyche. Here, a woman has the opportunity to listen to her own voice perhaps for the first time. With insight and understanding, Beane Rutter connects the practices, myths, and archetypal images of cultures post and present (the Navajo, Neolithic Catal Huyuk, and Ancient Greek) to the life experiences, dreams, and therapeutic processes of three contemporary women. In so doing, she traces the emotional, physical, and spiritual journey of the "cultural heroine" who, through her individual process of initiation, transformation, healing, and self-awareness, courageously takes up the task of all women.
Addressed to mothers, aunts, and grandmothers, a collection of celebratory stories about feminine power and the bond between girls and women is designed to assist the passage of girls into adolescence with confidence. Original. 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. IP.
Addressed to mothers, aunts, and grandmothers, a collection of celebratory stories about feminine power and the bond between girls and women is designed to assist the passage of girls into adolescence with confidence. Original. 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. IP.
If you are the mother of a teenage girl you will have no trouble relating to the archetype in Greek mythology of Persephone returning from the Underworld to be reunited with her mother, the goddess of the harvest, Demeter. This book covers your daughter's teen years and early 20s. All of the questions you struggle with are directly addressed here. The emphasis is on positive solution-oriented strategies that show how mothers can use the uproar associated with the teen years to learn about themselves and their children, and to help their daughters cope -- in a positive way -- with the pressures inherent in coming of age. "Gives us the bridges we need to connect our world to theirs.
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