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The bridge from Maiden to Mother has been broken.
When the goddess culture was stolen and buried,
so too were women’s rites of passage into our wild, intuitive
femininity and maturity.
With
Maiden to Mother, Sarah Durham Wilson excavates these ancient
rites, guiding us through a sacred and crucial initiation from the
immature Maiden into the archetypal Mother—the powerful, safe,
compassionate, full-bloom feminine life force that exists within all
of us.
Becoming the Mother is every woman’s
birthright—regardless of whether or not she raises children. The
Mother is who we needed as a child, who we were meant to be in this
life, and who the world needs us to be now.
Wilson
teaches that while pre-patriarchal cultures honored women’s natural
cycles, today’s society infantilizes women, idolizing youthful
traits such as “pretty, pleasing, and polite” in order to keep us
distracted and dependent. While a healthy version of the Maiden will
always remain part of us, there comes a time when we must no longer
let her wounds and immaturity guide our lives. We must step into our
mature, feminine fullness.
In this journey, you
will travel with Inanna—the ancient Sumerian goddess who ventured
through the Underworld to meet her severed, dark sister and emerged
fully integrated and empowered, giving us an archetypal map to inner
strength and wholeness.
Through personal stories,
rituals, teachings, and practices, Wilson helps women heal the
Mother Wound and dismantle our internalized patriarchy with its
false, constricting standards for the feminine, so we may live with
authenticity and feast on the richness of life. “Midlife is not, as
our culture proposes, where a woman’s power ends,” writes Wilson,
“but where it really begins.”
In The Press
“Sarah provides deep wisdom and guides us along the most important
journey of our lives, from maiden to mother. This book is exactly what
the feminine in each and every one of us needs in order to fully step
into our fullest expression and our greatest power.” —LeAnn Rimes,
internationally acclaimed singer, songwriter, and Grammy® Award
winner
“I remember when I was at home giving birth to my
first child, Brave. I had just begun active labor. I started to panic
and call for my mother, Davi. My midwife came close and said, ‘You are
the mother now.’ It was a powerful moment, an awakening. I was forced
to let go of my maiden, ready or not. So many of us are thrust into
Mother with nary a blueprint to guide us. Unmothered ourselves, this
can be treacherous terrain. Sarah brings her gentle and deep wisdom to
walk us through the ancient rites lost to us. Her words have helped
me, and now they will help you.” —Cree Summer, actress and
singer
“Maiden to Mother is a timely and powerful
book for all women to read and engage with. This time in history is
what I call the ‘Sophia Century’—a century that will be defined by the
rising, maturing, and full self-expression of the feminine in women
and also in men. Read this book, engage with the beautiful ideas in
this book, and then find your wings and SOAR!” —Lynne Twist,
bestselling author of The Soul of Money
“The words
and teachings that Sarah shares so generously with the world are
forged in the fire and heat of her fully lived experience. Vital and
vulnerable, strong and tender, Sarah is a mystic, a wise woman, and a
way-shower, and she will take you on an initiatory journey to deeply
meet yourself, to navigate the terrain of womanhood, and to claim your
power and presence. I hold Sarah in the deepest reverence. She, and
all that she shares in the world, is fierce, much-needed medicine for
us all.” —Lisa Lister, bestselling author of Witch and
Code Red
“At the heart of Sarah’s book and work is a
returning to ourselves in a society that has, in so many ways,
attempted to pull us away from our essence. The work of
Maiden to Mother invites us to remember, return to, and
reawaken who we are underneath the conditioning we’ve received, in
order to show up more fully, vibrantly, and wholly in our lives and
within ourselves. This book is a balm, a gift, a mystical weaving of
wisdom, and a nurturing companion that will ignite healing for so
many.” —Lisa Olivera, author of Already Enough
“Only Sarah Durham Wilson could make this tale so moving,
so funny, so open, and so soulful, in words that sparkle like a love
song. In Maiden to Mother, she goes intimately deep into grief,
heartbreak, and spiritual rebirth. It’s a bravely personal but
universal guide to exploring the dark places of the heart and finding
fresh wisdom there.” —Rob Sheffield, contributing editor at
Rolling Stone and New York Times bestselling author
“Sarah
Durham Wilson is giving voice and vocabulary to a swelling movement of
people who want to cast off the inheritance of patriarchy but haven’t
seen a clear alternative. Reclaiming the feminine in all of her phases
is the vital work Durham Wilson is engaged in, and I am thrilled that
she’s chosen to share it with us.” —Caterina Scorsone, actress
“In a world that worships the maiden, this
beautiful book is an invitation to move into the archetype of Mother,
which is the most profound gift we can offer ourselves, our inner
child, the earth, and the collective.” —Ruthie Lindsey, speaker
and author of
There I Am: The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing
“Maiden to Mother is part archetypal medicine and
part map for a woman’s brave and loving return to a whole and healed
self. Sarah Durham Wilson suffered a mother wound that nearly crushed
her, and she has risen up and courageously found her way home to her
own heart.” —Sil Reynolds, RN, author of
Mothering and Daughtering: Keeping Your Bond Strong Through the
Teen Years
“Sarah Durham Wilson delivers a confronting and
enlivening challenge to men and women in this book—challenging men to
examine how they perpetuate the ‘forever maiden’ syndrome, while
offering women a clear and truly needed path of excavation,
integration, and liberation.” —John Wineland, men’s group
facilitator, speaker, teacher, and author of From the Core
“Sarah Durham Wilson guides, teaches, and writes from an
embodied place of having journeyed into the dark depths. Over the
years of knowing her, I have seen this extraordinary witch enter deep
communion with the Mother archetype, tending a most sacred
relationship and thus feeding Her true force—so often forgotten by
modernity. An offspring of her intimate soul journey is this book, and
ultimately a contribution to the healing and resurrection of the Great
Mother Goddess Creatrix energy so needed on our planet at these times.
Sarah reminds us that it is by awakening, embodying, and living from
the wholeness of the Mother archetype within us that the powerful love
of Goddess will take her rightful place upon the living Earth.”
—Marysia Miernowska, author of
The Witch’s Herbal Apothecary and director of The School of the
Sacred Wild
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