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WHISPERS OF THE SOUL
...SOMETIMES GENTLE
...SOMETIMES FIERCE
A collection of poems that range from expressions of gratitude for the gifts of nature, to musings about aging and the fragility of life, to insights about women's issues and concerns, to observations about the complexities of family dynamics, to reflections about writing and therapy.
Table of Contents
Spindrift
Leftovers
Two Sides
An Old Story
Therapy?
For Elizabeth
A Lesson Learned
Sunday Morning Song at a Small Chapel
The Interview
"Does it Still Bother You?" He Asks
A Morning in Arizona
Neglecting the Feminine
Or Else
Options
A Day
Why
Early Morning
Kindness
Two Daughters
Enough?
A Woman's Way
Turning Fifty
Living with Breast Cancer
A Cautionary Tale
A Young Boy
A New Year
A Dream of Becoming
Age Spots
For Linda
Easter
Ordinary Time
Drawing a Rune: Protection Reversed
The New Year
Cold
The Search
The Patriarchy
Dream Words
Me and the Grands
Warnings
What Will It Take?
Violation, According to Margeaux
Words
A Gathering of Women
Little Deaths
They Call it Transference
Flattened
Choices
A Little Too Close
How Many?
Full
Speaking of Fairy Godmothers
Reasonable Limits
Soul Play
An Inner Guide
The Cancer of Silence
Getting a Mammogram
Writing
A Woman of the Patriarchy
Wording the Process
December
The Seduction of Order
Green for Healing
The Web
Rich
The Journey
About the author
Patricia Greer, MA, PhD, is a retired psychotherapist and Jungian analyst who has worked primarily with women for more than thirty-five years. She has listened to their stories and has felt privileged to walk with them on their paths of individuation, of becoming more fully and authentically themselves. She is the author of two previous books: Breast Cancer, A Soul Journey, an exploration of the potential insights and wisdom that may be gained from a life crisis, and the companion volume, Soul Play, A Workbook to Inspire and Guide Your Soul Journey.In her work, in her writing, and in her life, she has long been a seeker of soul, a journeyer who looks into and underneath ordinary moments to access a depth of understanding and meaning.
