motherhood: facing and finding yourself
What if motherhood helped you become who you were meant to be?
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Parenting, with its intense physical and emotional extremes, can be a crucible in which we are tested and altered.
In the alchemical vessel of motherhood, the heat is turned up high. Outdated parts of our personality are melted away, and new structures are forged. Motherhood is a dizzying high wire act, a masquerade, and a communion with mortality. It is a falling from and finding of grace, a falling in and out of love, and heartache by the hour.
Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself uses the universal wisdom of fairy tales and myth to examine mothering from a unique vantage point, the psychological growth of the mother herself, and looks at how the joys and challenges of raising children can be a vital part of the journey to wholeness.
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A Mother Feeding her Child, Willem van Mieris 1707
The moment a bundle of joy arrives, a world of work and worry attend as well, and never leave. As the carrier and vehicle for life’s continuation, the mother is called to daily sacrifice of her own needs on behalf of another’s...Motherhood offers women and men a new appreciation of the archetypal field from which such challenges and resources come.
James Hollis, PhD
Jungian analyst, bestselling author, former director of the Jung Society of Washington, DC
Motherhood is going to the top of my recommended reading list for new moms! Lisa Marchiano has written a book all women need to read as they step across the threshold into motherhood.
BRITTA BUSHNELL, PHD
Author of Transformed by Birth
Lively, accessible, and warm, Motherhood draws on the inexhaustible well of myth, dream, and fairy tale to explore a mother’s inner journey.
Linda Schierse Leonard, PhD
Author of The Wounded Woman and On the Way to the Wedding
There could be no better guide than Lisa Marchiano to the transformative adventure of parenting in all its joys, terrors, and opportunities to step beyond comfort into a deeper relationship with oneself and the world. This wise and fiercely compassionate book helped me understand the experiences of the mothers in my life and seems certain to become a dog-eared companion on my own journey as a father.
Oliver Burkeman
Author of The Antidote
Venus and Cupid, Luca Cambiaso 1570
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