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Chiron Publications announces today's release of Tracking the Wild Woman Archetype by Stacey Shelby
Chiron Publications is pleased to announce today's release of Tracking the Wild Woman Archetype: A Guide to Becoming a Whole, In-divisible Woman.
By midlife, a woman may become conscious of some of the ways culture has overdomesticated her, and she may have become aware of her own wild, instinctual animal nature. The wild woman archetype within a woman’s psyche is an expression of her innate, soulful essence. Many women within patriarchy become socialized in a way that leads them to be overly “civilized” or overly “domesticated” almost from birth and that domestication affects how they express their sexuality and conduct relationships.
When a woman becomes conscious of the wild woman archetype, she then becomes free to explore sexuality and relationships on her own terms. Paradoxically, the struggles experienced in relationships and with sexuality may be the catalysts that bring her into deeper engagement with psyche and into the realm of the wild woman archetype. This is explored as a process of psychological development that occurs at midlife in relation to Carl Jung’s notion of individuation. Relationships can serve as the alchemical vessels of a woman’s psychological transformation. Tracking the Wild Woman Archetype finds that the paradoxes and impossibilities of love serve to create a more profound woman who is more conscious of the manifold world of unconscious archetypes. It tracks the process of individuation and alchemical transformation through the study of texts, the author’s lived experience, and imaginal ways of knowing, such as dreams, synchronicities, and active imaginations.
“Stacey Shelby’s book on the archetype of the wild woman is a brave and deeply thoughtful and honest exploration of the complex, mysterious and often troubling interconnections between love, sexuality, and our search for inner wholeness,” says Christine Downing, author of The Goddess.
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| Stacey Shelby, Ph.D., is an author, speaker and depth psychotherapist. She is also a Registered Clinical Counselor (RCC) in Canada, a certified clinical dream tender, and she has studied in shamanic and yoga traditions. She has a thriving clinical practice in Squamish, British Columbia, where she works with adults in various stages of personal transformation. |
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- The Base Metal
- Coexist with Bears
- The Wild Virgin to The Wild Woman
- The Goddesses
- Alchemy
- Bear
- The Wild Woman Archetype
- Initial View
- Lions and Tigers and Bears, and a Surfing Yogini
- Peaks and Vales
- A New Paradigm
- Artemis
- Re-View
- Women's Psychological Development
- Initial View
- Individuation
- Sacred Experience and Suffering
- Psyche and Eros
- A Human Ending as a New Beginning
- Feminine
- Open to Life
- Re-View
- Relationship
- Initial View
- Wild Motherhood, Feminine Feminists, and the Old Paradigm
- Love as the Alchemical Vessel
- Personifying and Projections
- A Circle of Love
- Re-View
- Sexuality
- Initial View
- Claiming the Body After Separating
- Claiming Sexuality
- Female Phallus
- Pleasure, Play, Paradox, and Longing
- Sacred Sexuality
- Re-View
- The Gold
- Perfection versus Wholeness
- Show Up and Surrender
- Projection
- Relationship and Sexuality
- Afterword
- References
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