Overview

Girl God Books presents SACRED BREASTS, an inspirational anthology featuring artwork by Barbara O'Meara and others. In a culmination of wisdom, intuition, lived experiences, and the vast knowledge of contributing women writers we hear their energetic voices through essays, prose, poetry, prayer/song, sacred ritual, and much more - alongside motivational quotes by positive female role models. Packed with exhilarating, insightful, and honest writing from sisters, daughters, mothers, grandmothers, goddess mothers, lovers, friends, healing practitioners, therapists, wise and wild women - as we learn to celebrate our breasts. Wide-ranging topics covering our relationship with our breasts include: in the womb, girl-child, teenage years, puberty, body positivity, sacred sexuality, pregnancy or not, giving birth or not, breastfeeding or not, menopause, health and healing journeys, crone years, spiritual care, sacred ceremonies/ritual, adornment and breast mythology. 'Sacred Breasts' informs us, encouraging and gently motivating us to love our breasts. An empowering new book rousing women to fully live our breast lives.

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Reviews

""Our breasts are indigenous healers. Their contribution to all of humanity is miraculous. In this book, women speak to, of and from their breasts. Their words direct us to the power of the feminine body, and to cherish and honor our Sacred Breasts."" - Stephanie Mines, PHD, author of We Are All in Shock: Energy Healing for Traumatic Times ""A heartful, breasty book that embraces the many experiences of women and their breasts through poetry, prose, stories, ritual and art. From the tender and pleasurable - to the losses, pain, abuse and the reclamation - to the feeding, love and abundance. Sacred Breasts was inspired by Barbara O'Meara who sadly died before the book was completed. The coming together of female creativity to finish this book in her honour feels like an act of love that somehow embodies the sacred nature of breasts in its pages and its heart."" -Carly Mountain, author of Descent & Rising: Women's Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth.

Author Information

Trista Hendren founded Girl God Books in 2011 to support a necessary unraveling of the patriarchal worldview of divinity. Her first book-The Girl God, a children's picture book-was a response to her own daughter's inability to see herself reflected in the divine. Since then, she has published more than 50 books with hundreds of contributors from across the globe. Originally from Portland, Oregon, she now lives in Bergen, Norway. You can learn more about her projects at www.thegirlgod.com. Barbara O'Meara (April 11th, 1963 - October 5th, 2023) was a professional visual artist, art activist, published writer & co-editor of Soul Seers Irish Anthology of Celtic Shamanism. Her 20 Solo Exhibitions included 'B.O.R.N.Babies of Ravaged Nations'. International juried shows include ASWM 'Wisdom Across the Ages', Lockhart Gallery New York 'Contemporary Irish Art' & Herstory 'Brigid's of the World' & 'Black Lives Matter'. Community Arts include 'Stitched With Love' Tuam Baby Blanket laid out onsite at the Mother & Child Institution by survivors and families, at KOLO International Women's Non Killing Cross Borders Summit in Sarajevo and held by Bosnian women war survivors. 'Sort Our Smears' Campaign at 'Festival of FeminismS'. 'Home Words Bound' publication with National Collective of Community Based Women's Networks where her paintings accompany writing by Irish women about the Pandemic. She continually developed empowering women's 'Art as Activism' projects through her final weeks. She was honoured to feature in many Girl God Books including as featured artist of My Name is Brigid, which launched on Brigid's Day 2022.Barbara passed peacefully in the care of her beloved family on October 5th, 2023. She was in the midst of compiling Sacred Breasts: an Inspirational Anthology for Living Your Breast Life, which was completed and published in her honor by her co-editors. www.barbaraomearaartist.com Dr Karen Ward is a Shamanic Supervisor and Teacher and her heart beats with Celtic soul as a wild, free, untameable Elder.Trained in the Celtic lineage and Druidic traditions, she co-founded the Slí An Chroí School of Irish Celtic Shamanism with her husband John Cantwell. Her Moon Mná women's circles offer online courses incorporating Celtic Rites of Passage inspired by the archetypal energies of the Irish Goddesses. Karen is the author of renowned book Change a Little to Change a Lot 2009, co-editor of Soul Seers - an Irish Anthology of Celtic Shamanism 2019 with eco-activist artist Barbara O'Meara, Goddesses of Ireland: ancient wisdom for modern women and the annual Moon Mná Diary-Journal 2017 to date. Her Secrets of Ageless Ageing 2022 was an Irish Times bestseller. She is a Counselling Psychotherapist and Supervisor, leading worldwide online workshops teaching her Energy Therapy technique based on Celtic Shamanism to fellow health practitioners.Karen co-rediscovered the Brigid's Way Celtic Pilgrimage in 2013 and was gifted the wisdom to write Brigid oracle cards in 2024. She lives in Beara, West Cork, where the Cailleach reigns supreme.drkarenwardtherapist.ie / slianchroi.ie moonmna.ie / brigidsway.ie

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