Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul (Prose Poetry and Meditations, Affirmations) - Hardcover

Woodman, Marion; Mellick, Jill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1573241008 ISBN 13: 9781573241007

Publisher: Conari Press, 1998

Synopsis

Including 365 meditations for body and soul, this volume is designed to appeal to those readers who are looking for a deeper approach to daily inner work. It is organized into themes such as: perfectionism, conscious femininity, body, and finding one's own voice.

About this title

Review:

The second printing of Coming Home to Myself revives a popular and noteworthy book that does indeed bring women home to a more intimate connection with their feminine selves. Not quite poetry and not quite prose, this collection of quotes offers a series of bite-size excerpts from the writings of Jungian therapist Marion Woodman (Leaving My Father's House, Dancing in the Flames). As Woodman calls it, this is a "surprise child" that was born from the creative mind of artist and psychotherapist Jill Mellick (The Natural Artistry of Dreams), who initially imagined excerpting Woodman's quotes and illustrating them with her watery, Zen-like paintings. Woodman's kernels of wisdom are organized beneath 34 different headings, such as "Unmasking Myself," "Rites of Passage," and "Coming to Love." For example, under the heading of "My Body" a Woodman quote reads as follows: "If the dream says something is wrong with your body, check. Long before you do, your body knows when something is wrong." Or, "Give your body an hour a day. If it's not worth an hour an a day, there's nothing your body can tell you and not much else anyone else can do." Under "Reclaiming My Own Energies," we find this nugget: "A mother who is identified with being mother has to have children who will eat what she gives them and do what she wants them to do. They must remain children." This is the kind of book you can open to any page and find a quote worth pondering for a moment or a lifetime. --Gail Hudson

About the Author:

Poet, artist, and writer Jill Mellick, Ph.D., is the coauthor of "The Worlds of P'otsunu", and author of "The Natural Artistry of Dreams". She travels and teaches internationally, focusing on the use of the arts for psychospiritual dimensions and has been in private practice for many years as a Jungianoriented clinical psychologist and registered expressive arts therapist. She lives in Palo Alto, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Conari Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1573241008
• ISBN 13: 9781573241007
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280