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Award-winning author: Crow Moon, Burning Woman, Creatrix...
Founder: @womancraft_publishing
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📚✨ My essential reading list for reclaiming the feminine. As a therapist, PhD student, and holistic feminist, these books have profoundly shaped how I understand our healing, our intuition, and our collective history.
Whether you are looking to reconnect with your wild nature, unlearn societal programming, or reclaim your inner authority, these belong on your bookshelf:
🐺 Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés – The ultimate blueprint for reconnecting with the Wild Woman archetype.
🌿 Medicine Woman by Lucy H. Pearce @lucyhpearce – A powerful guide to untamed feminine power and healing.
👁️ The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker @gdbaprotects – Essential reading on trusting your intuition and survival signals.
💄 The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf – A critical look at how physical perfection is used as a tool of social control.
🏺 When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone – A foundational historical dive into ancient goddess-worshiping societies.
What are you reading to fuel your inner fire lately? Let’s chat in the comments! 👇
Holistichealing #Feminism #Therapy therapistsOfInstagram #women WomenWhoRunWithTheWolves #reading Feministbooks #books DivineFeminine PsychologyOfWomen WomenHealingWomen PhDLife

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As a holistic feminist therapist getting my PhD, I am constantly looking at how we can bridge modern clinical frameworks with the ancient, indigenous roots of healing. Western psychology has a habit of pulling individuals out of their ecosystems and bloodlines, treating mental health as something that only happens inside a vacuum.
But true, decolonized mental healthcare requires us to look at the ancestral architectures of wellness. If we want to help clients heal somatic and systemic trauma, we have to look at the frameworks that came long before the DSM.
Here are 3 books that completely reframe what “therapy” actually means, and why ancestral wisdom belongs in the clinical container:
📖 1. Burning Woman by Lucy H. Pearce @lucyhpearce
Essential reading for understanding the collective “sisterhood wound” and the historical policing of feminine autonomy. This text is an incredible tool for examining how modern clinical spaces often pathologize passion, intuition, and somatic rage as “dysregulation” instead of seeing them as vital life force.
📖 2. The Green Witch by Arin Murphy-Hiscock @arinmurphyhiscock
While it presents as a gentle folk guide, this is secretly a masterclass in eco-somatics and grounding. Our nervous systems are millions of years old and genetically optimized to regulate through simple, local earth-attunement. This book is a wonderful on-ramp for helping clients tap into bioregional plant safety and seasonal rhythms as tools for stabilization.
📖 3. Walking in the Secret Manner by Mark Saint Pierre & Tilda Long Soldier
A profound, deeply respectful look into the holy, complex spiritual and psychological healing traditions of the Lakota holy women. This text completely shatters Eurocentric psychological structures, offering an invaluable perspective on medicine, community care, dream incubation, and non-Western lineages of profound psychological restoration.
We cannot heal the modern psyche by ignoring the deep roots of where we come from. Reclaiming ancestral frameworks isn’t a trend it’s a clinical necessity. #reading #books #therapist #feminism #healing therapy psychology

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This is a short preview of my poem ‘Dress up for yourself’, that is featured in full length in ‘Too Much Woman’.

It’s such an honour to have my voice included in this international compendium @womancraft_publishing by one of my favourite authors: @lucyhpearce .

I mean, she wrote ‘Burning Woman’, such an important book for women on letting our voices be heard. 🔥

💃 You can pre-order ‘Too Much Woman’ (and many other remarkable & must-read books for women) at Womancraftpublishing.com

💃 ‘Dress up for yourself’ also appears in ‘Wild Woman Rises’, my self-published poetry book.
There are just 15 copies left of the Dutch edition
(see 🔗 to get yours).

💃 …or you can wait for the all-English edition - coming soon!

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I’m so excited that my voice will be included in this international compendium: ‘Too Much Woman’!

Among the words of 70 diverse writers, two of my poems will be featured:
🔥‘My voice has been silenced’
💃 ‘Dress up for yourself’

My deep gratitude goes out to @lucyhpearce and @womancraft_publishing . Thank you for making the voices of women heard in so many ways!

ABOUT THE BOOK:
‘Have you been called… or thought of yourself as:
Too Emotional?
Too Big?
Too Ambitious?
Too Sexual?
Too Weird?
Too Loud?
Too…?

For generations, women have been told to make themselves smaller: quieter, softer, less demanding, less visible. “Too much” has been used as a weapon — a way of silencing, shaming and diminishing women who refuse to fit neatly into the boundaries set for them.

Too Much Woman says: enough.

This vibrant third Womancraft Compendium is a celebration of women in all their complexity, contradiction and glorious muchness. Through poetry, essays, personal reflections, and art of all kinds, more than 70 writers and artists from around the world explore what it means to be a woman who cannot – and will not – be contained.

These are voices reclaiming desire, ambition, anger, pleasure, creativity, vulnerability, power and possibility. Voices speaking to the experiences of those who have been judged, shamed or silenced for being too visible, too passionate, too complicated, too sexual, too powerful – simply too woman.

Come and reclaim your muchness.
Embrace your enoughness.
And discover that perhaps you were never too much at all.

With an introduction and foreword by Lucy H. Pearce, founder of Womancraft Publishing.

👉👉👉You can now pre-order the book for €14.99 at womancraftpublishing.com

10% of proceeds from the book will be donated to women’s charities.’

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Ireland, you’ll always own a piece of my soul. Thank you for your gifts and offerings. The opportunity to stand on this ground as I welcomed Midlife Isis to the world. The women I’ve been blessed to spend time with, the beautiful food, the wild landscapes, the sea- ohhhhhh, the sea…….

This land is wild with mist and wind, ravens and moss, stone and ancient voice.

The most awake, alive sea I’ve ever experienced. Stone people standing guard at the gate of the wild Atlantic.
Fairy glens and ferns, shells and seeds.

I’ll never forget this time. I’m full up with gratitude and awe. 🍀
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#ireland #midlifeisis #witchlife #writinglife #emeraldisle
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In addition to writing and editing "Motherline Grimoire" over the last couple of years (arriving December 7th, woot!), I am also excited to share that I was offered the opportunity to contribute some of my poetry to Womancraft Publishing's upcoming compendium "Too Much Woman," which was compiled and edited by the amazing Lucy Pearce. Pre-orders are open now; if you're so inclined, go grab yours! ❤️

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✨Practical Magic Season with Womancraft✨ The eve of September is here and this week we embrace the practical magic of writing and offer a free workshop of Nature & Magic! You’ll find the link in our stories - join us on the 9th and spark this new season into life! 🍁✨
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The kettle is singing. The herbs are drying by the window. The midnight margaritas are ready, and there are stories waiting to be told...
✨Your stories.
Come along each week, try a ritual, make something, share what you’ve discovered—and tag #womancraftpublishing in your photos and words for the chance to win some Womancraft magic of your own.
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You can share magic connected to the weekly theme or anything lovely about autumn, and we’d especially love to see your favourite Womancraft books woven into your season of magic: tucked into a cosy corner, out in the garden, or wherever your reading takes you!
✨The season of #PracticalMagic arrives!

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We’re just about a week and a half out from release.
I’m still reeling that this beautiful creature is real and ready to be in your hands. 🙌🏽
Even more, though, is my gratitude and awe that so many incredible women I admire took the time to read it and offer praise.
Midlife Isis has been a true soul revolution in my own life. I’m so proud and humbled to offer its wisdom to you, dear woman.

She’s almost here!!!!!!
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#midlifeisis #midlifeinitiation #midlifewoman #thepassionofisis #sarahlarosaauthor

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The writing process has been an exercise in patience and trust. Back in 2019, I found clarity on what my first book was going to be. And then I wrote it in a matter of months. It just poured out of me. And then I had a professional read it and give me feedback. She tore it to shreds in the most tactful way possible. And I grieved for a while, stopped writing in order to lick my wounds. Then, I got over myself and started over. Second draft. Went through the same process. Said goodbye to yet another version. Took a break. Grieved. Started the third draft. And now, I’m looking back with IMMENSE gratitude that more experienced writers than me were willing to tell me the hard truths in order for me to dig deeper, write better. It’s not even remotely the same book! And thank God for that.

Today, I was honored to meet with author and publisher @lucyhpearce, whom I’ve long admired, to receive personalized feedback on my book proposal. I took her “How to Get Published” online course last year (she’ll be offering it again next May), applied what I learned, then booked a private mentoring session to help me fine tune the proposal. Her instruction has given me the practical nuts and bolts AND confidence to start submitting to agents. If you’re like me, stepping onto the writer’s path with little knowledge of the publishing world, Lucy’s mentorship is an incredible place to start.

Here’s to this next exercise in patience and trust—facing rejection as often as necessary until I find the YES.

#lessonsonfalling #writingprocess #howtowritebookproposal #getpublishednow

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Uma is glad to return to Buddhafield to share Cosmic Naps AKA Total Yoga Nidra every morning 08:45–09:45 in the Yoga Tunnel of Love, and then to offer MotherPeace Tarot readings in her Healing Yurt in the Medicine Circle each day, with afternoon Cosmic Naps AKA Total Yoga Nidra at 3pm in the Healing Yurt 💚✨🎹

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When I was a little girl, I dreamed of writing a love story and having it published.
At 47, that dream is coming true.
The love story of my midlife journey, finding myself amidst the ruins and within the dark night of the soul is held in the pages of this beautiful book.

I will be forever grateful and heart-filled to @inner_traditions for welcoming my words into their beautiful publishing home.

To the women who not only read my manuscript, but offered their praise and endorsement of Midlife Isis ~ ‘thank you’ seems a pale way to acknowledge what the gift of your time, energy and support has meant to me. You are queens and I am so deeply grateful for your encouragement.

To you, darling reader- this loveliness will be coming so soon now, and my heart is bursting to see it in your hands and heart. She’s on her way!

Expect lots more content with the actual book now! 🤩✨❤️
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#midlifeisis #wisewomanpath #sarahlarosa #newrelease #midlifewomen

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The Creative Reflective Journal : My Reading List

As part of the Transpersonal Arts Counselling training I am undertaking at @tobias_school of Art & Therapy, I had to complete a year of creative, reflective journaling.

These are the books that inspired and enlightened me on the path!

Do you have any other recommendations?

#therapybooks #artjournal #creativejournaling #therapeuticarts #arttherapy

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