Excerpts from Returning to My Mother's House
Index of excerpts:
Noted author and visionary Dr. Christiane Northrup describes Returning to My Mother's House,". . . As I read her book I felt like I was drinking sweet cool water after being thirsty for a long time. I drank it up, every page. There is a piece of our collective woman’s story that Gail describes that I’ve never read anywhere else. [ read more ]
". . . This is the story of how I returned to my mother’s house and reclaimed my own female wisdom, taking back what both Mom and I had betrayed. I see now how my story is so many of our stories. It is the story of both men and women who have abandoned their inner lives, leaving behind their hearts where deep dark feelings reside; putting aside their intuitive imagination where dreams flourish; ignoring the invisible worlds where the irrational and the mysterious offer their incomparable gifts; and disowning the realms of silence, simplicity, and solitude where the interior matures. Modern life rarely acknowledges or even allows space for such things. But we ignore these things at our peril, both as individual human beings and as an earth family." [ read more ]
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A collection of compelling and essential quotations taken from the pages of Returning to My Mother's House. [ read more ]
At the heart of spiritual activist Gail Straub's memoir is the issue of choice – in particular a woman's choice whether or not to have children. This book speaks to the place in all women that wonders how things might have been different if they did or did not have children. [ read more ]
Copyright ©2008 by Gail Straub. Excerpted with permission from the book, Returning to My Mother's House, by Gail Straub, published by High Point Press, ISBN 978-0-9630327-5-1. Please request permission before duplicating or distributing this material.
