(Which must be why complete strangers have told me their entire life stories upon meeting me, but that’s for another blog entry.)Īs well as giving her audience her own life experience, Blackie provides the framework for the Eco-Heroine’s Journey, a story structure which I believe is greatly lacking in today’s storytelling knowledge base. I am always open to the stories of another person. I am a perpetual student of life in that regard, and I know that much about myself will never change. I love being an audience for anyone to verbalize their lived experiences and pass on the knowledge they gained. I have to admit, I am a sucker for real people telling me their real stories.
So many of the topics I love to read about in fantasy stories, but laid out before me with the beauty and impact that only raw honesty and vulnerability can convey. She includes the intimate details of her struggles with her career and desires for something “more” in life, her struggles in marriage, and her struggles within her own self. She expertly weaves a variety of landscape-focused folklore stories within the telling of her own life experiences as she details the ways in which she travelled and grew into the author who was able to write this book for others to read. She feels like a version of myself simply born in a different time and place, but with the same motivations to tell stories that affect great change on a personal and societal level that I possess in my current form. Honestly, I think men would benefit from reading it as well at this point, but as I am only able to write from my own experience, I can only speak to the ways that it moved me as a woman.īlackie is a storyteller focused on mythology and psychology, as she continually reminds us throughout her written work.
Sharon Blackie, the amazing author that she is, has detailed what I believe to be one of the most essential books for all women to read in their lifetimes.
I’ve searched and searched for things that would bring me answers as to why things suddenly came to a crashing halt in my world and nothing has left me satisfied. As I’ve said before – I’m not quite sure exactly how or why it happened to me and not other people in my life, but little by little it did. I’ve felt powerless and afraid of the world and all it’s experiences for a while, years if I’m being honest. If you read any other posts on this blog, you know I’ve been going through a more spiritually focused journey for a while now and really struggling with a fair majority of things in my life. I have close to no idea how I will ever be able to encompass this book in a measly review on my blog, but I am going to attempt it nonetheless.įor me, this book was everything I was searching for in a book during the time of my life when I found it.
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