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She’s Still Writing for Me
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The idea of striving for perfection—and, perhaps, being satisfied with nothing less—has been on my mind lately. I finally feel like I understand the role perfectionism has played in my life: a big one, but like most ideas, it’s not straightforward. My perfectionism does not look like my sister’s, which does not look like…
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Re-member Who You Are
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Back to that epigraph: “So the female void” gets cured “by a remembering or a putting back together of the mother-daughter body.” Yes. It’s the body. Healing involves the body as much as—if not more than—the mind. And it’s important to remember Eugene Gendlin’s statement: “The body is the unconscious.” Maybe memory is held…
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What Ails Thee?
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The epigraph with which Maureen Murdock has begun The Heroine’s Journey deserves a closer look, and what I post here and now may not be all I have to say about it. We’ll see. In the meantime: “There is a void felt these days by women and men—who suspect that their feminine nature, like Persephone, has…