The Women We Become: Myths, Folktales, and Stories About Growing Older

By Ann Thomas

Book Overview

In many cultures, women are revered as they grow older. Their wisdom, insight, and strengths are recognized as treasuers to be shared. Our Western culture is different-as women age they are frequently ignored and cast aside by a youth-oriented society. For millions of women facing midlife, the prospect of getting older is intimidating, bleak, and anything but a source of power. Now, in this magical new book, author Ann Thomas uses myths, folktales, and stories to help women get in touch with their spiritual selves as they move into and through the second half of life. The Women We Becomeexplores the difficult and sometimes frightening aspects of aging, and reveals the tasks or pathways toward meaning and fulfillment in old age. Chapters include: The Reality of Death Accepting Life's Limits Relating to the Dark Feminine The Search for Meaning About the Author Ann G. Thomas, Ed.D.is an interpretive storyteller and licensed psychotherapist in private practice in Northern California. She has worked with women in midlife and beyond for more than thirty years, and has served on the boards of organizations providing services to the elderly.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761506543
• ISBN13: 9780761506546
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Prima Lifestyles
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Breathtaking!

This book swept me away from the moment I opened it to the very end. In today's fast paced society, we miss the stories, the myths, the folklore handed down from generation to generation by women of the clan...great grandmothers, grandmothers, mothers, sisters, aunts. I felt like I was wrapped in a beautiful quilt of tranquility and left each session of reading this book with such awe. So much to think about and ponder each time I opened the book. We forget how important relationships between women are. Excellent reading. I was challenged and yet the bittersweet realization of not having this in my own life brought a twinge of pain which Ann Thomas' writing more than made up for.Another title similar to this book and I would rate it 4 stars is "In The Company Of Women".I gave a copy of this book to my therapist and she loved it too.