Women’s Wisdom
Women’s Wisdom • Relationships and Intimacy • Caring for Our Elders • Tools for Change • Living and Dying
WOMEN’S WISDOM
A Woman’s Book of Life: The Biology, Psychology, and Spirituality of the Feminine Life Cycle
Joan Borsyenko, Ph.D.
This Harvard psychoneuroimmunologist and prolific author was the first to connect the dots in women’s health, wisdom and spirituality, reframing our cyclical hormonal shifts as the strengths and vital gifts women bring to the world. She named our Guardian phase, the impulse to new creative purpose at midlife, as a gift of longevity. Hormonal and neurological research interwoven with insights into 7 year cycles of renewal in evolving feminine consciousness and capacities. Product Details
A Woman’s Spiritual Retreat: Teachings, Meditations, and Rituals to Celebrate Your Authentic Feminine Wisdom
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D
Women connect with spirit through our bodies and senses, rhythms and intuition. Guided practices from this master teacher put you in touch with the essence of your spirit. Includes the parts of a spiritual practice, phases of a woman’s life, seasonal rituals, bringing forth gifts of the past, how to work with synchronicity, guided meditations, journal writing, and more. Ideal to use in women’s circles. Listen to excerpt. 6 CDs. Product Details
Women Who Run With the Wolves Myths & Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D.
Through peerless storytelling of folk tales this Jungian psychologist and cantadora (storyteller) illustrates how societies strip the feminine spirit, and how what is wild in a woman frees its creative and regenerative nature. A bestseller in print for its insights into women’s spiritual development, the stories come alive with magic and power in the telling. Listen to CD excerpt. Product Details
Goddesses in Older Women
Jean Shinoda Bolen, Ph.D.
This Jungian psychologist wrote Goddesses in Everywoman, and Crossing into Avalon, about her own midlife passage before naming these powerful Greek archetypes of wisdom, compassion, outrage, sensuality, and healing humor that women grow into and express over 50. Discussions about growing older, individuation, meaning, empowerment, third wave feminism, and Act Three in women’s lives. Product Details
At the Root of This Longing
Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst
Carol Flinders, Ph.D.
This scholar of women mystics identifies four key points where the paths of spirituality and feminism seem to collide—vowing silence vs. finding voice, relinquishing ego vs. establishing ‘self’, resisting desire vs reclaiming the body, and enclosure vs. freedom – and describes the source of these conflicts and how they can be reconciled. She speaks to the alienation women can experience from themselves, each other, and from the sacred. She draws inspiration from mystics whose spirituality and feminism were not mutually exclusive, and who would not allow damage to their sense of personal power. Product Details
RELATIONSHIPS & INTIMACY
To Love and Be Loved
Ondrea & Stephen Levine
The Levine’s long and pioneering work with the dying brought them insight into what it means to be alive and in love. They suggest that the essence of intimacy requires us to “swim across the reservoir of each other’s grief.” Beyond psychological explanations they show how couples face and overcome the fears that harden and close their hearts, and replace the with mercy. Transformational exercises and meditations to counter the mercilessness in our nature to truly love. Listen to an excerpt. 7 CDs. Product Details
On Intimacy: How to Create a Remarkable Relationship
Harriet Lerner, Pd.D.
What does intimacy mean? How does it feel and how can you create it? Menninger Clinic psychologist Lerner’s confronts cherished myths about women and intimacy. Drawing from her work with women and their families, she sees intimacy as most challenged by emotional distancing – or by its mirror opposite – by too much intensity. She offers ways to work with yourself and your partner to identify and get beyond this common dynamic that leaves couples confused and estranged.Product Details
The Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide
to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
Harriet Lerner, Ph.D.
The starting point in this classic is that anger is a signal that deserves our attention and respect, yet women still learn to silence their anger, deny it, or to vent it in a way that leaves them feeling helpless and powerless. Engaging, accessible and peppered with women’s stories, Lerner shows you how to identify your true sources of anger and to use it powerfully and appropriately to create meaningful change. Product Details
The Dance of Deception: A Guide to Authenticity and Truth-Telling in Women’s Relationships
‘Harriet Lerner, Ph.D.
A complex exploration of truth-telling and deception, privacy and secrecy, and honesty and pretense in women’s lives. She notes how women who express what might disrupt harmony are censured, and sees privacy as both necessary and damaging to women’s self-knowledge. She recommends truth-telling among women in conversations that allows women to be and to explore who they are. A nuanced unpacking of an invisible, private and seldom talked about influence in women’s lives. Product Details
Mother-Daughter Wisdom: Creating a Legacy of Physical and Emotional Health
Christiane Northrup, M.D.
Combining personal reflection, clinical experience and research, Northrup examines how the mother-daughter relationship sets the stage for women’s health and well-being. Women’s most deeply ingrained beliefs about themselves as women come from them as powerful female role models, and behavior in relationships reflects those beliefs. She explores the five facets of feminine power, breaking the mother-daughter “chain of pain”, the power of forgiveness, and how to deal with a difficult mother or daughter. 5 CD set. Product Details
Uncoupling: Turning Points in Intimate Relationships
Diane Vaughan, Ph.D.
A study of how people break up, by a sociologist, herself uncoupled, examining the stages of uncoupling over ten years from both partners’ points of view. She suggests it’s possible to recognize the universal patterns while they’re happening, from keeping secrets, to displaying discontent and collaborative cover-ups. Helps to normalize a universal experience, and for those in early stages of uncoupling, to identify what’s happening, what steps to take to avoid a breakup, and to help make sense of feelings and actions during a breakup. Product Details
Spiritual Divorce
Divorce as a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life
Debbie Ford
Chopra Center teacher of shadow work, Ford suggests that women see divorce, no matter how excruciating, as a spiritual wake-up call and enormous opportunity for spiritual growth. Rather than blaming, justifying, or rationalizing, make a life commitment to learn about how the shadow aspects of yourself play out in your life and relationships. Includes exercises or meditations to learn how to love and accept your entire being, as you are, warts and all. Product Details
The Irritable Male Syndrome: Managing the Four Key Causes of Depression and Aggression
Jed Diamond, Ph.D.
Many European countries accept male menopause as a passage similar to that in women. Diamond suggests that it emerges as an irritability syndrome in midlife, and if untreated it can spiral into anger, violence or depression. He focuses on the overpowering need of some men to break away and be free, and see their partners as holding them back. Useful insights for women who may notice puzzling behaviors in their partners. Includes diagnostic questionnaires, counsel for men on how to recognize and handle difficult feelings and steps for what to do if either partner wants to leave the relationship. Product Details
CARING FOR OUR ELDERS
Elder Care Team
Membership Resource Site for Caregivers
No one can manage the care of an elderly person alone. This site is dedicated to helping everyone involved in – or who will some day be involved in – caring for an aging adult. There are many resources and lots of support with membership focused on only one thing – helping you quickly find information, articles, features, how-to’s, discussion group and a forum for fellowship with caregivers. Monthly subscription – $7.75. Product Details
The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer’s Care
Virginia Bell, MSW and David Troxel, MPH
This compassionate and grounded guide offers insights, practical suggestions and emotional support for caregivers caring for people with Alzheimer’s disease. Describes an approach that shows you how to listen, what to listen for, how to problem solve, how to encourage positive behavior, and improve communications. Read our review At Amazon Product Details
TOOLS FOR CHANGE
The Noble Heart: A Self-Guided Retreat on Befriending Your Obstacles
Pema Chödrön
American Buddhist master teacher Chodron describes how at the core of our most painful experiences lie the seeds of awakening. As our greatest asset, our vulnerability can guide us through life if we learn to sheds its armor and open fearlessly to it. A step-by-step guide to cultivate the soft spot that is the gateway to your noble heart, your innately unlimited friendliness. Includes meditations and study guide. Listen to excerpt. 12 CDs. Product Details
Take Time for Your Life
A Complete Program for Getting Your Life into Balance and Honoring Your True Priorities
Cheryl Richardson
Veteran “personal trainer for the soul” life coach reminds us that self-care helps connect you to your wise self to reveal your true priorities in an authentic life. Life skills and a blueprint for action to restore balance amidst the conflicting demands of family, career, and purpose. Useful and actionable values-based principles, checklists, exercises, and success stories program for life change. Listen to excerpt. 4 CDs.Product Details
Excuses Begone! How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits
Wayne Dyer, Ph.D.
How to change self-defeating and habitual thinking patterns …I’m too busy …I can’t afford … and examine your beliefs in a new light. Dyer suggests that no excuses are worth defending and describes conscious and subconscious crutches to help eliminate the need to explain your shortcomings. His program helps release mental and emotional programs and patterns that have outlived their usefulness so you can feel and live more authentically. 8 CD set. Product Details
Lifelines
How Personal Writing Can Save Your Life
Christina Baldwin
When Baldwin began writing years ago, a new category had to be created to describe how the practice of journal writing and reflective exercises build self-awareness and understanding. This master CD set explores ways to use journaling practice to organize your life and reveal a deeper meaning in your experiences. Take you through a step-by-step process to transform experiences of chaos and fear into clarity and gratitude. Listen to excerpt. 6 CD set. Product Details
Gratitude, The Essential Practice for Self-Fulfillment
Angeles Arrien, Ph.D.
Research continues to emerge showing how the daily practice of gratitude can significantly change your life, including improving sleep, overall energy, and emotional well-being. What it doesn’t reflect is its power to bestow a deep well-spring of inner peace, and renewed joy and creativity. In her evocative style, Dr. Arrien offers an inspiring call to open your heart and experience the profound gifts that come when you become truly grateful for your experience of life. Listen to an excerpt. 3 CDs. Product Details
A Meditation to Help with Anger and Forgiveness
Belleruth Naparstek, Ph.D.
Designed to promote feelings of acceptance and forgiveness, of self and others; motivate and heal; reduce anger and blame; evoke compassion and empathy; encourage feelings of safety and support; encourage future success. Approx. 60 min. Product Details
Health Journeys: Four Meditations for Unlocking Intuition
Finding Answers in the Wisdom of the Heart
Belleruth Naperstek, Ph.D.
Four exercises from the bestselling Your Sixth Sense helps you solve puzzles and access answers from the right side of your brain. The four meditations include: (1) Simple, Heart-Focusing Imagery; (2) Imagery to Dissolve into Universal Wisdom; (3) Imagery for Receiving an Answer as a Gift; and (4) a Heart-to-Heart Paired Meditation to Find Insight for Another. With complete instructions and tips for getting the most out of using the imagery. (70 minutes). Product Details
Calling the Circle
Christina Baldwin
For everyone who longs for a community based on honesty, equality, and spiritual integrity, Baldwin offers simple and profound guidance on how to sit in a circle and speak and listen from the heart. How to start a group, setting goals, solving disagreements with respect, and accessing creativity and caring. For women’s spirituality or midlife groups, a new form of an ancient ritual for mutual support. Product Details
Living with Intention: The Science of Using Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World
Lynne McTaggart
Our thoughts do shape reality, but much depends on how skillfully we use our intention. Author of best-selling The Field, Taggert builds new scientific findings of the role of consciousness in a quantum universe, Explores how to use focused thought, with practical techniques to strengthen visualization, focus, and surrender, to bring your intentions into reality. Listen to an excerpt. 6 CD set. Product Details
Sacred Contracts
Carolyn Myss, Ph.D.
Dr. Carl Jung describes archetypes as symbols of unconscious energies and potentials held in common by all of humanity. With a tool box of 12 major archetypal patterns Dr. Myss explores how we can identify our personal archetypes, uncover their higher purpose, and then work with them for self-understanding and spiritual development. Shared with her hallmark humor, honesty, and intelligence. Listen to excerpt. 5 CDs plus study guide. Product Details Use with Archetype Cards: A 80-Card Deck with Guidebook for daily focus. Cards show picture the light and shadow attributes of different archetypes, with six blank cards to create your own.
Sacred Contract: The Journey
An Interactive Experience for Guidance
Caroline Myss & Peter Occhiogrosso
A fun way to seek guidance using a board game, alone or with up to four people. You get unique perspectives on life issues by working with a family of personal archetypes and their placement on the Archetypal Wheel. Includes set of archetype cards and game wheel. Product Details
Motherpeace Round Tarot
Karen Vogel
Consistent with wisdom of the ages from the Kaballah to Jung, this tool for meditation and reflection resonates more with life passages and challenges as experienced from a feminine perspective. Constructive, instructive and validating, regular use of the cards gently deepens your personal development and promotes self -love. Product Details.
Creative Dream Game
SARK
We all have creative dreams. But life often gets in the pathways of those dreams. a FUN and insightful way to release those dreams* and clear the pathways to understanding. Played with a group of friends or individually, the random effects of chance are enhanced through card play with subjects like “Time,” “Permission,” and “Gifts.” Open windows of discovery with friends, family, or on your own…and experience the power of Creative Dreams. Product Details
LIVING & DYING
Conscious Aging
On the Nature of Change and Facing Death
Ram Dass
An early leader on conscious aging, Ram Dass brings the fear of aging and death into focus. When you lose your fear of death, you gain a love for life. The spiritual path of conscious aging is about moving beyond youth to see clearly. Listen to excerpt. 2 CDs. Product Details
The Grief Process: Meditations for Healing
Ondrea Levine & Stephen Levine
Who grieves? Whether showing up as self-judgment, fear, guilt, anger or blame, everyone has grief. So begins exploration in this in-depth workshop exploring how grief can armor the heart from long time teachersand authors of Who Dies? and Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening. Initially developed for hospice residents, the Levines use classic principles of awareness training techniques with a series of exercises to resolve grief through meditation, including forgiveness meditation. Includes a 23-page study guide. Listen to excerpt. 3 CDs. Product Details
A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as if it Were Your Last
Stephen Levine, Ph.D.
If you had only one year left to live, what would you do? When Stephen Levine posed this question to himself, it led to a profound, year-long experiment in conscious living. Carefully planned as a series of month-by-month practices and meditations, A Year to Live brings the dying process into the full light of awareness as never to be feared. Introduces the practice of forgiveness and opening to love. Listen to excerpt. 3 CDs. Product Details
Living Well, Dying Well
From Tibet a 1200-year old Wisdom Tradition for Today’s Spiritual Seeker
Sogyal Rinpoche
To learn how to die is to learn how to live. Introduces the “sacred technology” of wisdom tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, Sogyal Rinpoche distills its core teachings about living and dying. Knowing that death is like a mirror in which the meaning of life is reflected, with humor and compassion he invites us to face death without fear. Includes talks on aging; impermanence: the great truth; two aspects of the mind; wisdom tools of Buddhism, and care of the dying. Listen to excerpt. 1 CD. Product Details
Being with Dying Contemplative Practices and Teachings
Joan Halifax
Originally taught to professionals caring for the dying, veteran Buddhist author and teacher Halifax suggests that in caring for the dying, we learn to more wisely care for the living. Kind, open, and dignified, combines Eastern and Western psychology, philosophy, and practices from many spiritual traditions to remove fear from the dying experience, examining it as a possibility for awakening. Key practices for creating a calm, mindful, sacred space to explore the meaning of death in our own experience. Listen to excerpt. 6 CDs. Product Details
