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Join a respected Jungian analyst for a deep dive into the emotional and symbolic journey of motherhood.Motherhood is the true hero's journey-which is to say that it can be as harrowing as it is joyful, and enlightening as it is exhausting. For Jungian psychoanalyst Lisa Marchiano, this journey is not just an adventure of diaper bags and parent-teacher conferences, but one of intense self-discovery.In Motherhood, Marchiano draws from a deep well of Jungian analysis and symbolic research to present a collection of fairy tales, myths, and fables that evoke the spiritual arc of raising a child from infancy through adulthood. After all, this kind of storytelling has always been one of the most important conduits of humanity's collective wisdom-and Marchiano provides each tale alongside keen insights into the timeless archetypes they represent.Balanced with real-life case stories from Lisa's own practice and in-depth questions for personal reflection, Motherhood explores how events like pregnancy, the calamities of childhood, and the empty-nest experience are invitations to an adventure into the wild frontier of your own soul. Here you will discover:. How the challenges of motherhood send you on journeys into your innermost source. Seeing the value of conflict with your child even while working to solve it. "The dark passage" of confronting and dispelling the energy of childhood wounds. "The thirteenth fairy"-how to recognize when we are resisting inconvenient or uncomfortable truths. Understanding how anger, rage, and aggression arise in parental relationships. Recognizing the ways that you have been taught to ignore your deepest instincts. How to navigate the inevitable periods of grief that accompany your child's many life changes. Why much of successful mothering requires surrendering your sense of controlWith Lisa's gentle but straightforward guidance, you'll return from this inner journey in possession of the treasured knowledge needed to clarify your values, embrace your disowned parts, and claim the mantle of motherhood in the full bloom of your empowerment.

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A deep journaling tool for becoming less reactive, and more responsive and open to love.Resiliency is our capacity to respond from the heart. It has everything to do with Love and inclusiveness, and nothing to do with getting tougher. Resilience is a foil to the ego-mind's way of dividing everything into "right or wrong." The heart's response to our emotions and experiences is always more welcoming and spacious. And that's what this self-exploration is for: to welcome in all of our fears, questions, and gifts. You'll be befriending doubt, creating more loving thoughts, and using Loving Kindness to witness your interior experience and visions of the future.This journal is a resilience tool.Every passage, reflection prompt, and tear-out in this journal can become a portal to your inner wisdom-and loving.From page to page, you'll explore.... "How would life change if I stopped trying to fix myself?". "Where in my life can I become more open and accepting?". "What is it that my heart wants to say to my mind?". "How have my doubts and worries served me on my journey?". "If I look at myself with a loving gaze, what shifts?"While yearly vision quests are a great practice, it's regular reflection that keeps us close to our life force-and to each other. And the more often we reflect on what's meaningful in our life, the more light we will find to steer by.

Look at your relationship with your kitchen, and you discover the unconscious recipe guiding your life. All the ways you live and love begin in your kitchen. And it's in the kitchen where you'll find the way to your true self. A place to nourish your being and heal with the freedom, beauty, and permission you have always longed for.With The Kitchen Healer, Jules Blaine Davis invites you into the messy beauty of her healing kitchen and asks, "What are you really hungry for?"Jules teaches that how we were or weren't nourished in our childhood kitchens shapes every aspect of our lives today, and so it is through the kitchen that we find healing from the stress, overwhelm, and trauma that so many of us carry. Though this book contains recipes-with ingredients both traditional and emotional-this isn't your typical cookbook. This is a book that will shine a light on how to cook up the life you deeply long to live with food you love to make.As you rest and receive in the cozy glow of Jules and her kitchen, you'll begin to understand that the freedom to turn on the fire-in the kitchen and in your life-is one and the same.