My Love Letters are Marion Woodman-inspired teachings. Teachings on love, archetypes, rites of passage, healing one’s motherline, and one’s relationship to their body and to food… to name just a few.
Take a little time out today (8 minutes more-or-less) to ingest a morsel of archetypal wisdom!
Some of my favorite podcast interviews with luminary hosts.
Daring to Dream
Learn about Jungian analyst Marion Woodman’s approach to working with dreams and experience a dream circle. Karen Brody interviews me about how to work with our dreams. In this Daring to Rest podcast episode, I share about the 5 stages of a dream, archetypes in dreams, why dreams are important, how to explore your dreams, and why Marion Woodman’s work is particularly accessible to women on a quest for wholeness. I also work with three women to help them explore their dreams. This interview was the beginning of the monthly dream circle which I lead inside Rested, Daring to Rest’s community which supports women to dare to rest and dream. If you are interested in learning more about this offering, go HERE.
I think that the best place to start with Marion Woodman is with this compilation of her interviews: Conscious Femininity: Interviews with Marion Woodman. In my own initial experience of Woodman, these interviews helped introduce me to the language of Jungian archetypes, and to Woodman’s unique interpretation of the feminine archetypes in particular. This introduction prepared me to dive into her books (which I have listed below in her bio).
If you learn best by listening, there is an audiobook which I like to call Marion Woodman’s “best hits”: Sitting by the Well: Bringing the Feminine to Consciousness Through Language, Dreams, and Metaphor. This is a compilation of some of her best talks.
There is a magnificent documentary of Marion’s life- Dancing in the Flames: A Film About the Greatest Mystery of Life and the Woman Who Understands It Like No Other which can be accessed here.
And when you feel drawn to dive into any of her many amazing books:
Marion Woodman was a writer, international teacher and workshop leader, and Jungian analyst. With over a half-million books in print, she is one of the most widely read authors on analytical and feminine psychology of our times. She graduated from the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. Her bestselling book Addiction to Perfection is considered to be a landmark study on the spiritual and psychological roots of addiction in women. Her other books are The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter, The Pregnant Virgin, The Ravaged Bridegroom, Leaving My Father's House, The Maiden King, Dancing in the Flames, Bone: Dying Into Life, and Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman’s Body & Soul.
