Here All Dwell Free: Stories to Heal the Wounded Feminine - Softcover

Nelson, Gertrud Mueller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597527114 ISBN 13: 9781597527118

Publisher: Wipf and Stock, 2006

Synopsis

Every human being lives a fairy tale -- an unconscious myth that works on us, shapes us, and points to our truth. Often the story is filled with danger and foreboding. The good news is, for those who examine it closely, the story also carries with it balm and healing. 'Here All Dwell Free' is an in-depth exploration of two classic fairy tales that have particular significance for women. The Handless Maiden will resonate in a special way with women who feel powerless in the contemporary world. In a similar way, Briar Rose is about falling asleep and waking, of abandonment and allowing oneself to be discovered by love. While the stories recounted here may be ancient, they speak to us today in unmistakable symbolic language, inviting us to enter them, live them, and be made whole again.

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From the Inside Flap:

being has both masculine and feminine characteristics, but because our civilization undervalues the Feminine, she hides within each individual and stands in need of healing. In Here All Dwell Free, Gertrud Mueller Nelson shows us how the wisdom of folk mythology offers us both the diagnosis of our ills and the healing prescription we seek for our feminine natures.
Nelson takes two Grimm's fairy tales and demonstrates how they refect the dilemma of modern women, and men, as they struggle to free and heal the feminine within their own personalities and their very culture. In "The Handless Maiden," a miller's daughter sacrifices her flesh-and-blood hands to preserve her father's material, mechanical world. In "Briar Rose," a princess is cursed by a forgotten mother-goddess to sleep, deathlike, until her dormant feminine nature is awakened.
In a mesmerizing interpretation of these two women and their passages to healing, Nelson shows us the difference between passivity and

About the Author:

Gertrud Mueller Nelson is an artist, writer, lecturer, and educator. Raised in Minnesota, she attended the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, studied printmaking in Cologne, and graduated from the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich. Her other books include 'To Dance With God' (called by Bill Moyers an important book in my life for some time now), several volumes of liturgical clip art, and a children's book, 'A Walk through Our Church'. She lives in San Diego.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1597527114
• ISBN 13: 9781597527118
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384