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Summary: My true unmothered child story!
Review: A 22 years old stone child from Miami! I am a typical example of an Unmothered Child. When I was a kid, I did not receive guidance and love neither from my mother, father and sisters. I did not receive affection, hugs and kisses from them just because I was different in many ways. As a result, since the age of 2, my innocence was taken away from me and I became a victim of sexual abuse and humiliation for a period of 7 years caused by several cousins and members of my family. They wanted to sniff out my love..the love of a real dolphin heart. But despite of so much pain, I have healed and I learned to have compassion towards others. I fought against everybody to defend whom I am...to be accepted with my beliefs and desires and not change them to accommodate other people's happiness without considering mine first. As a result, my internal light is stronger than a 100 bulb because I did not fall down and I thrived to be who I wanted to be and thanks to Warming the Stone Child, I was re-born again because this tape has changed my life completely. Now, I have the tools to develop an internal mother within myself by knowing what I did not have in the past...what I have now and what I need know in order to be in balance with myself....the secret is simple...as Clarissa Pinkola Estes said, "in order to grow an internal mother, you have to be willing to be decent and good to yourself;" and this the key in order to move on and learn how to love yourself and others. With love, Carlos
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Summary: Deeply nurturing and healing
Review: As a healer, I have had access to many tools and philosophies which have shaped my work with people in pain. Few have moved me or been as essential to me as "Warming the Stone Child." I have listened to this tape many times over, and have each time heard something new and nourishing. I recommend it to members of my online healing community (The Wounded Healer Journal at twhj.com) and many report that it has been transformative for them. I urge you to buy yourself a copy, and to buy copies for anyone you know who has emerged from trauma or child abuse. Like all of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes' works, it's good medicine.
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Summary: Deeply nurturing and healing
Review: As a healer, I have had access to many tools and philosophies which have shaped my work with people in pain. Few have moved me or been as essential to me as "Warming the Stone Child." I have listened to this tape many times over, and have each time heard something new and nourishing. I recommend it to members of my online healing community (The Wounded Healer Journal at twhj.com) and many report that it has been transformative for them. I urge you to buy yourself a copy, and to buy copies for anyone you know who has emerged from trauma or child abuse. Like all of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes' works, it's good medicine.
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Summary: This tape is her most important work to me
Review: Did you ever say to yourself man is this person needy, clinging, or way to much drama here or to little drama are they on the planet? Why don't they react to things like normal people do? How come I feel like I can't ever make this person happy? They always need more. Why don't they know alcohol and drugs will kill them? Just can't figure out why such a nice girl is married to this really abusive guy? Their is a human need to be mothered and this tape examines it with honesty and dignity. But most important is if the motherless survive, and they do and can the strength that lies within will overcome anything known to mankind. For it takes tremendous strength to be a motherless child to learn to love and give without giving to little or to much with no example to follow, no blueprint. Most mothers have their own children to care for. Sisters and brothers are not old enough themselves to mother but they try...... For those reading this holding on, hold on a little longer don't give up. Clarissa has given us the blueprint, the model, surround yourself with people who love you and practice, practice learn to let go, learn about family from healthy people with loving families, study, learn, nurture yourself, but not self indulge the answers do not lie in alcohol, drugs, sex, food, or any other item we become attached to. After listening to this tape I finally understand the need to be loved. What a mother is why she is so important. It takes a whole lot of people to fill the loss of a mother to a child. This motherless and fatherless child has survived become strong, steady, happy..... Remember you are strong you can do it ask for help when you need it and believe....
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Summary: There's hope
Review: Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes gives advice and support to the unmothered child in all of us (some of us are more "unmothered" than others -- this audiobook is especially for us). She teaches through age-old stories, fables and themes found in many cultures throughout the world. She gently explains how there always remains a spark within the most burnt-out life. She explains how the unmothered child is specially equipped with intuition, coping skills and defensive mechanisms which can shape an artistic and intellectual life (as well as drive one into a bad or destructive relationship). In short, she points out the gifts and blessings of the unmothered child, as well as the handicaps. There are two take-home messages from this tape: parents, please love, shield and care for your offspring and find as many ways as possible to express that love, and 2) no matter how lonely and unsafe the past was, it need not doom the present or future.
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Summary: There's hope
Review: Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes gives advice and support to the unmothered child in all of us (some of us are more "unmothered" than others -- this audiobook is especially for us). She teaches through age-old stories, fables and themes found in many cultures throughout the world. She gently explains how there always remains a spark within the most burnt-out life. She explains how the unmothered child is specially equipped with intuition, coping skills and defensive mechanisms which can shape an artistic and intellectual life (as well as drive one into a bad or destructive relationship). In short, she points out the gifts and blessings of the unmothered child, as well as the handicaps. There are two take-home messages from this tape: parents, please love, shield and care for your offspring and find as many ways as possible to express that love, and 2) no matter how lonely and unsafe the past was, it need not doom the present or future.
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Summary: Freedom from the bondage of abandonment
Review: Dr. Estes warms my soul with a sense of encouragement and hope. The shackles and bondage that accompany any human who has been "left behind", are released in a soothing, gentile manner. We are transported by the myths and legends told, feeling as if we were actually there! Then, through her explanations(interpretations), although deep yet not pretentious we are left with a true sense of who "we" are. As she so poignantly says"You can not heal, what you will not feel."
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Summary: Poignant, Insightful, and Encouraging
Review: Estes tells several stories that pertain to the orphan, abandoned, neglected, and "umothered" child. In Jungian analysis, all parts of a dream, fairy tale, or myth are really components of ourselves. We can re-write the ending and claim healing for ourselves by becoming our own Mother. She recounts the English tale of the Stolen Woman Moon, Inuit fable of The Stone Child, Little Red Cap (which is an early version of Little Red Riding Hood), and other stories. She then talks about how, in Jungian analysis, all parts of a dream, fairy tale, or myth, are really components of ourselves. Estes also mentions that the fairy tales and stories we strongly identify with, especially as children, become a type of script for many of us--myths for our own life. If the story doesn't have a happy ending traditionally, we need to change the ending of how we want the "tale" to turn out in our own lives. Of all the stories on the tape, it was the last story that moved me the most, though. She shares that the story of the Lost Dog, which was her favorite growing up. The lost dog goes wandering from house to house, looking for a home. The dog gets chased away, yelled at, and so on. No one wants to dog around, let alone make him a part of the family. The dog is so weary and feels so alone. He then sees a house at the end of the rail road tracks that has a light burning within. He says to himself in despair This is the last house that I will try. He scratches the door, and it opens. The house is filled with children that were having a birthday party, and they squeal in delight at the presence of the dog--thinking that he was a birthday present. Oh, to be received as if you were a present instead of a scourge or a nuisance! Since all elements of a story/myth are within, and parts, of ourselves, it comes back to becoming your own Mother. Your own welcoming party. Your own celebration. Your own guide, comforter, and nurturer. If you have an internal wounded, abandoned, orphaned, or neglected child, realize that you can "grow your own Mother" inside. A partially burned piece of wood always has an ember inside, waiting for a wind to blow on it and coax it to become a flame once again. There is a part of you that can Mother--the child within. When we turn to our inner child, nurturing it and loving it, we heal the child, the inner Mother, and the other parts of ourselves, as well. One of the words for God in the Old Testament is El Shaddai, and in the Hebrew, this is a feminine word that literally means "Many-breasted One". There is a Mother heart of God, not matter which way you choose to connect with this Source or Divinity--or what you choose to call it. Something beyond us that is loving, nurturing, caring, and safe.
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Summary: Poignant, Insightful, and Encouraging
Review: Estes tells several stories that pertain to the orphan, abandoned, neglected, and "umothered" child. In Jungian analysis, all parts of a dream, fairy tale, or myth are really components of ourselves. We can re-write the ending and claim healing for ourselves by becoming our own Mother. She recounts the English tale of the Stolen Woman Moon, Inuit fable of The Stone Child, Little Red Cap (which is an early version of Little Red Riding Hood), and other stories. She then talks about how, in Jungian analysis, all parts of a dream, fairy tale, or myth, are really components of ourselves. Estes also mentions that the fairy tales and stories we strongly identify with, especially as children, become a type of script for many of us--myths for our own life. If the story doesn't have a happy ending traditionally, we need to change the ending of how we want the "tale" to turn out in our own lives. Of all the stories on the tape, it was the last story that moved me the most, though. She shares that the story of the Lost Dog, which was her favorite growing up. The lost dog goes wandering from house to house, looking for a home. The dog gets chased away, yelled at, and so on. No one wants to dog around, let alone make him a part of the family. The dog is so weary and feels so alone. He then sees a house at the end of the rail road tracks that has a light burning within. He says to himself in despair This is the last house that I will try. He scratches the door, and it opens. The house is filled with children that were having a birthday party, and they squeal in delight at the presence of the dog--thinking that he was a birthday present. Oh, to be received as if you were a present instead of a scourge or a nuisance! Since all elements of a story/myth are within, and parts, of ourselves, it comes back to becoming your own Mother. Your own welcoming party. Your own celebration. Your own guide, comforter, and nurturer. If you have an internal wounded, abandoned, orphaned, or neglected child, realize that you can "grow your own Mother" inside. A partially burned piece of wood always has an ember inside, waiting for a wind to blow on it and coax it to become a flame once again. There is a part of you that can Mother--the child within. When we turn to our inner child, nurturing it and loving it, we heal the child, the inner Mother, and the other parts of ourselves, as well. One of the words for God in the Old Testament is El Shaddai, and in the Hebrew, this is a feminine word that literally means "Many-breasted One". There is a Mother heart of God, not matter which way you choose to connect with this Source or Divinity--or what you choose to call it. Something beyond us that is loving, nurturing, caring, and safe.
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Summary: enlightening
Review: Highly spiritual. Dr. Estes uses the power of myth, fairytale, and storytelling to touch the readers most intimate feelings. Soothing, beautifully read. Empowering. thank you Clarissa!
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