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Imagine a Woman in Love With Herself: Embracing Your Wisdom and Wholeness
Imagine a Woman in Love With Herself Embracing Your Wisdom and Wholeness Author:Patricia Lynn Reilly Vanquishing once and for all the tired biblical theory of woman as the cause of man's fall from grace, Imagine a Woman in Love with Herself empowers women to move from self-loathing to self-love, from self-criticism to self-celebration. It dismantles the question "What's wrong with me?" by exploring its historical, theological, and personal orig... more »ins. Patricia Lynn Reilly explores 20 self-affirming qualities that encourage women to be the authors of their own lives and to cultivate knowledge and love of themselves.
Each section is filled with reflections and meditations that ask readers to reclaim their inner resources and reconnect with the essential truth about themselves. How often, in relationships, have we given our partners gifts, compassion, understanding, space to express themselves? In marriage and in romantic relationships you love, honor, and cherish your partner. But what about loving, honoring and cherishing yourself?
Life begins with a pure appreciation for oneself. A baby girl loves to be herself. When she looks at her body, does she think, "I'm too pudgy"? When she reacts emotionally to the world, does she think, "I'm too sensitive"? Infancy offers us a template for self-acceptance, but unfortunately many of us gradually forget this experience. We forget how to love and accept ourselves.
Giving expression to your creative impulses was once as natural to you as breathing. But then creative expression became work?assigned by parents and teachers, aimed at achieving specific performance goals. As natural creativity becomes work, it can lose its pleasure. Now you can reclaim that pleasure, and your creative originality, by enlisting the transformational capacities of your imagination.
Imagine a Woman in Love with Herself takes you on a journey of self-exploration that's both fun and down to earth. It offers insight and a viewpoint you can use to approach everything in your life?relationships, career, vacations, home, hobbies?with clarity, conviction, humor, and a sense of play. It is a potpourri of insights, explanations, novel views, self-directed meditations, and gentle exercises.
Imagine a Woman in Love with Herself is a unique, life-affirming book for women, combining creative and spiritual techniques to find a window looking into the beauty within.« less