Description
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.
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.
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
