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    If Women Rose Rooted: The Journey to Authenticity and Belonging
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    If Women Rose Rooted: The Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

    Written by Sharon Blackie

    Narrated by Heather Wilds

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    About this audiobook

    This is the second edition of a uniquely empowering, international word-of-mouth bestseller about wild landscapes, female mythology, and the challenges facing modern women. It is a book for any woman who has ever lost her way and who sees a wasteland at the heart of modern existence and longs to live a more authentic, rooted life once again.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Audio
    Release dateOct 17, 2017
    ISBN9781541481985
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    If Women Rose Rooted: The Journey to Authenticity and Belonging
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    Sharon Blackie

    Dr Sharon Blackie is an award-winning writer, psychologist and mythologist. Her highly acclaimed books, courses, lectures and workshops are focused on the development of the mythic imagination, and on the relevance of myth, fairy tales and folk traditions to the personal, cultural and environmental problems we face today. As well as writing five books of fiction and non-fiction, including the bestselling If Women Rose Rooted, her writing has appeared in anthologies, collections and in several international media outlets - among them the Guardian, the Irish Times, the i and the Scotsman. Her books have been translated into several languages, and she has been interviewed by the BBC, US public radio and other broadcasters on her areas of expertise. Her awards include the Society of Author's Roger Deakin Award, and a Creative Scotland Writer's Award. Sharon is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and has taught and lectured at several academic institutions, Jungian organisations, retreat centres and cultural festivals around the world. ww.sharonblackie.net

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    Reviews for If Women Rose Rooted

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    • 3/5
      Amazing book, amazing author but the narrator sounds like she’s listing, as if every sentence is part of a list. Not engaging and repetitive tone regardless of what the sentence contains.
    • 5/5
      Heartbreaking and real. Thank you Sharon for your gift to both humanity and women everywhere.
    • 5/5
      Beautifully written and an inspiring read. I thoroughly enjoyed this book
    • 4/5
      A book that resonated very much with how my life is unfolding at this time and that has helped me to recognize why from an early age, I felt certain ways about certain things - especially those that I was supposed to accept and not question, but felt so innately wrong or out of place.
      Very much worth a read, Even if you don't think you were looking for different answers in life. Not being religious myself, much of this was easy for me to digest. But I suspect even those who are quite religious, but have an open mind, would find plenty to work with in this book. After all it is all about finding your deeper soul, your calling, )though perhaps not in the sense some think of a calling) and living your story.
      My one disappointment and reason for 4, not 5 stars, was the narration - the intonation and rhythm of the narration was odd, sometimes not seeming the same as the punctuation and it didn't quite carry the richness of the story. I wouldn't let this put you off listening to it as an audiobook though!!
    • 5/5
      Incredible. So nourishing and eloquent. Certainly not just for women either. Great narrator too.
    • 5/5
      Best Audiobook i listened to this year. Might listen to yearly.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic life-changing book, it really resonated with me. It will be a book I will return too.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I am a man, and I read this book as part of an attempt to better understand the challenges that we collectively face. To me, the imbalances I feel and perceive in the world are, in large part but not solely, borne of one imbalance - the way women are regarded and treated. I have my misgivings about the emphasis on "the patriarchy" as our modern Big Bad Wolf, because I feel that this reduces a very complex and old story to a binary separation of good and evil. This isn't useful today. With this in mind, Sharon Blackie's writing has offered much to learn and grow from, and I feel better equipped to redress the imbalances in my own life after having read If Women Rose Rooted.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I loved the connection of myth to experience. I believe stories are here to teach us. The Celtic myths in this book were brought to life.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I actually requested that my local library here in New Zealand purchase a copy of this book for their collection because I wanted to read it. It is an amazing read, especially the folk tales which are included within!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      A wondrous journey of courage and self-reflection. The guide for any woman on a similar journey.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      I fortunately I found the narrator’s voice very clipped and unnatural. I couldn’t listen. For a topic so rooted this is a real shame. English RP has its place .... better on ‘The Crown’ than here!!!

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      This book has an identity crisis. It's part travel memoir, part Celtic mythology, and part self-help. Any of those would begged, but trying to wave them together into a cohesive whole didn't quite work for me. She was just trying to do too much in one book. I loved the writing about her travels and life in the remote places. I just returned from a trip to Scotland so it was easy to visualize. This part of the writing was pretty straightforward and solid. The mythology I liked ok-- could have used more of it, maybe longer or with more background and context to the stories. However, trying to make them "fit" into the main plot lines was very forced. The self help part of the book was the weakest I thought. She had some very keen and well stated insights that I marked and will return back to. But the solutions presented seems so extreme, and not really at all practical for most women in the world. She was trying to make a point to stop focusing on practical and LIVE, but her own path to this was way more doable than it would be for most. So I was left trying to map the concepts into my world, and it doesn't map very well. Still, some good point were made. Overall, I think this book could have been half the length had she not had to go on for paragraphs/pages trying to convince the reader that the three components were all tightly related.

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    • 2/5
      Terrible narrator with the same intonation at every sentence. Very difficult to keep my attention. As far as the book goes, for me personally it's a bit too focused on us poor women and how much we've been abused and how much domestic violence there is and men being the bad guys.

      2 people found this helpful