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Summary: This tape changed my life
Review: I am grateful to the person who recommended this tape to me. I was indeed the stone child - the motherless child. I had fallen into such deep depression that I did not know if I could go on living. The first time I listened to this tape something happened inside my heart, I discovered a small flame of life within that I had never known was there. Clarrisa's warm voice, enouraging words of insight and hope renewed me and lifted me out of my depression. I listened to her tape over and over day after day and something changed inside. And because of the change deep within my life changed too. I finally found that what I was looking for outside was actually within me all the time. Thank you Clarrisa for helping me find it within. I look forward to listening to all of her tapes and continuing on this journey of warming the stone child and connecting to my own internal mother within to guide me through my life.
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Summary: There is a nurturing internal mother inside us all
Review: I could never say enough about any book or tape by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. This audio tape in particular has meant a lot to me in healing wounds of childhood neglect and abandonment. Each time I listen to these stories my internal mother grows, becomes stronger, and is more able to nurture me in a way I have never experienced. Dr. Estes talks about what an unmothered child experiences, but she also helps you see that you have special gifts and powers, and only need to search within to find and free them.
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Summary: Special Gifts
Review: I got Warming the Stone Child after reading Women Who Run With the Wolves (another great title by Clarissa Pinkola Estes). It is really superb. The author address the unique pain that accompanies being an unmothered child. She shows how this pain, left undealt with, can affect us for a lifetime. She also acknowledges those many people who have felt that while they were not physically abandoned, they were still unmothered (something our culture has been slow to do). Using archetypal myths and storytelling the author helps us to first identify ourselves within the myths - and then identify coping mechanisms that we can take for ourselves out of the myths. A really nice addition, she also helps us to identify the special and unique gifts that come out of being an unmothered child. Specifically, and often referenced on the tape, is the gift of powerful intuition. The author speaks to those who, through the pain of their upbringing, developed a highly sensitive trouble or 'BS' monitor. I believe many women will find tons to identify with this in themselves. The audio tape is read by the author, which makes it nice because it feels more like she's talking to you than reading from her book. I listened to this in the car one night going somewhere alone. In the darkness, alone, it had a very etherial feeling. I would definitely recommend this tape to anyone who has been abandoned or has felt somehow unmothered.
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Summary: Special Gifts
Review: I got Warming the Stone Child after reading Women Who Run With the Wolves (another great title by Clarissa Pinkola Estes). It is really superb. The author address the unique pain that accompanies being an unmothered child. She shows how this pain, left undealt with, can affect us for a lifetime. She also acknowledges those many people who have felt that while they were not physically abandoned, they were still unmothered (something our culture has been slow to do). Using archetypal myths and storytelling the author helps us to first identify ourselves within the myths - and then identify coping mechanisms that we can take for ourselves out of the myths. A really nice addition, she also helps us to identify the special and unique gifts that come out of being an unmothered child. Specifically, and often referenced on the tape, is the gift of powerful intuition. The author speaks to those who, through the pain of their upbringing, developed a highly sensitive trouble or 'BS' monitor. I believe many women will find tons to identify with this in themselves. The audio tape is read by the author, which makes it nice because it feels more like she's talking to you than reading from her book. I listened to this in the car one night going somewhere alone. In the darkness, alone, it had a very etherial feeling. I would definitely recommend this tape to anyone who has been abandoned or has felt somehow unmothered.
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Summary: Ms. What a fantastic resource!
Review: I heartily recommend Warming the Stone Child. She goes right to the heart of healing the core issues of anyone who has experienced abandonment by a crucial nurturing figure. I have listened to this tape over an over again after it was given to me as a gift. Her stories and wisdom have helped to nurture my psyche in many important way. I return to it again and again.
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Summary: True help for the pain of despair-it is like "magic '
Review: I loved this tape sooooo much. It helped me on a deep level where I yearned for a mothers love. I recommend it so very much to those who have a deep yearning for love. It really heals
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Summary: Warming the heart
Review: I purchased 'Stone Child' after reading 'Run with the Wolves.' I continue to be amazed by Estes' story telling abilities. In Stone Child, she describes myths and their meaning with fluidity and insight. It's not at all about abondoned children (as i originally thought when I purchased it) but about the deep need everyone has to belong, and how we experience great pain when that desire is interupted. I can't imagine how anyone could not see themselves in at least one of the stories she shares. This is a wonderful, healing tape.
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Summary: Just what I need in my life right now
Review: I really don't know what I would have done had I not found this tape. Someone recommended it to me. I feel like the stone child in the tape and I feel like the life is nearly gone from me, the will to live has been quickly fading. She has pointed me in a new direction of healing and hope. Dr. Estes has a soothing and caring voice. Her stories, Jungian explanations and warmth fanned the tiny ember in my heart into a small flame. Maybe if I learn to love myself and care for myself this tiny flame can grow strong. I highly recommend this tape to anyone who was abandoned in childhood and abandonment can be emotional as well as physical. I did not know if there was hope. After listening to her I think there is.
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Summary: Primer on self-nurturing. It could change your life.
Review: If you grew up without nurture, how do you learn to nurture yourself? This tape contains an answer that is not confusing, not hard to understand, and is within easy grasp for putting into action. Excellent discussion and examples. An interesting experience to listen vs. read; I took notes early on, but now I know it well. I often go to sleep with it--musing about the familiar text and appreciating the warm voice.
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Summary: More about Warming the Stone Child
Review: The pain of abandonment - both literal and metaphorical - can cast a shadow on our entire experience. Warming the Stone Child investigates the abandoned-child archetype in world myths and cultures to find clues about the process of healing the unmothered child within us all. Using myths, fairy tales, and Jungian theory, Dr. Estés melds many sources into a brilliant examination of the orphan figure through the ages. Collapsing behavior and inferiority complexes are indications that a person may have suffered preadolescent abandonment. These people are also intuitive, adaptable, quickly attached, and courageous. Above all, the abandoned child spends a lifetime in search of the lost part of the self that was hidden away and now lies buried deep in the unconscious. Another classic session with the author of Women Who Run With the Wolves.
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