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Imagine a Woman in Love with Herself: Embracing Your Wisdom and Wholeness
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Excerpt From the Introduction
Imagine A Woman In Love With Herself is based on twenty stanzas of my popular poem “Imagine a Woman.” The book expresses the heart of my fifteen year ministry supporting women to author their own lives, to name their own gods, and to grow in knowledge and love of themselves. Each stanza of the poem is followed by a series of woman-affirming reflections and meditations to carry you into your day…into your life.
In preparation for reading the book, read through the poem. As you do, imagine standing in front of a woman-affirming mirror. The book invites you to look upon yourself with loving kindness. Gazing at your own true reflection, you will discover that everything you have longed for “out there” is already within you. It is my prayer that you will accept the book’s invitation to descend into the richness of who you are, re-claim your inner resources, and grow in knowledge and love of yourself.
Our beloved planet is in desperate need of women who have moved from self-loathing to self-love, from self-criticism to self-celebration. Women who design woman-affirming solutions to the challenges confronting humankind as it enters the 21st century. Women who use their personal and communal resources to give birth to images of inclusion, poems of truth, rituals of healing, experiences of transformation, relationships of equality, and households of compassion. Women full of themselves!
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