Maybe Artemis
To share or not to share: that seems to be the eternal question, and there’s always a tail-ender attached: Where? We have this site, and I often think of my folio friend, wondering how…
Author: Cheryl
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She’s Still Writing for Me
The idea of striving for perfection—and, perhaps, being satisfied with nothing less—has been on my mind lately. I finally feel like I understand the role perfectionism has played in my life: a big one,…
We All Have a Journey
The take by Joseph Campbell that Murdock recounts on page 2 is interesting: In the the whole mythological tradition the woman is there. All she has to do is to realize that she’s the…
It Takes Two, Together
Now I turn to Maureen Murdock’s own words at the beginning of the introduction to The Heroine’s Journey. She tells us that she is a therapist who has worked with women, particularly those between the…
Re-member Who You Are
Back to that epigraph: “So the female void” gets cured “by a remembering or a putting back together of the mother-daughter body.” Yes. It’s the body. Healing involves the body as much as—if not…
What Ails Thee?
The epigraph with which Maureen Murdock has begun The Heroine’s Journey deserves a closer look, and what I post here and now may not be all I have to say about it. We’ll see. In the…
