Reading and Inspirations
This page is a resource for books, poetry and other resources that inspire me, my work and the way I live my life. I offer them to you with the intention that you might find them in some way moving, stirring and also inspiring ~
- Soulcraft ~ Bill Plotkin
- Wild Mind ~Bill Plotkin
- Nature & the Human Soul ~ Bill Plotkin
- The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic ~ Martin Prechtel
- Braiding Sweetgrass ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Four Shields: The Initiatory Seasons of Human Nature ~ Steven Foster and Meredith Little
- Grandfather ~ Tom Brown Jr
- Coyotes Guide to Connecting with Nature ~ Jon Young, Ellen Haas, Eva McGown
- Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World ~ Joanna Macy & Molly Young Brown
- Widening Circles ~ Joanna Macy
- The Wild Edge of Sorrow ~ Francis Weller
- Long Life Honey in the Heart ~ Martin Prechtel
- The Smell of Rain on Dust, Grief & Praise ~ Martin Prechtel
- Bone, Dying into Life ~ Marion Woodman
- Women Who Run with the Wolves ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
- Audios by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, in particular, Theatre of the Imagination
- If Women Rose Rooted ~ Sharon Blackie
- Soil & Soul ~ Alistair Mackenzie
- Spell of the Sensuous ~ David Abram
- The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible ~ Charles Eisenstein
- Waking The Tiger: Healing Trauma ~ Peter Levine
- The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma ~ Bessel Van Der Kolk
- My Grandmother’s Hands ~ Rezmaa Menakem
- Poetry by David Whyte, Mary Oliver, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Stafford and so many more…
Links to sites of organizations that inspire and support me ~
Animas Valley Institute: https://animas.org/
School of Lost Borders: http://www.schooloflostborders.org/
Low Impact online directory: https://www.lowimpact.org/
8 Shields Institute: http://8shields.org/
To order the Earthpathways Calendar 2019 where two of my poems are published please visit: https://www.earthpathwaysdiary.uk/
Women! Enjoy reading an article I wrote in Aeva magazine a couple of years back. It’s called, The Descent of the Soul & The Deep Feminine
Here is an audio recording of me speaking about Transitional Rites on an 8 Shields monthly call: