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"Who is a woman before socialization? Why do we struggle in relationships? Why do we suffer? How can we find abiding peace? By midlife, a woman may become conscious of some of the ways culture has overdomesticated her, and she may have become aware of her own wild, instinctual animal nature. The wild woman archetype within a woman's psyche is an expression of her innate, soulful essence. Many women within patriarchy become socialized in a way that leads them to be overly ""civilized"" or overly ""domesticated"" almost from birth and that domestication affects how they express their sexuality and conduct relationships. When a woman becomes conscious of the wild woman archetype, she then becomes free to explore sexuality and relationships on her own terms. Paradoxically, the struggles experienced in relationships and with sexuality may be the catalysts that bring her into deeper engagement with psyche and into the realm of the wild woman archetype. This is explored as a process of psychological development that occurs at midlife in relation to Carl Jung's notion of individuation. The psyche has an impetus towards unification and wholeness--towards becoming an in-divisible whole. Relationships can serve as the alchemical vessels of a woman's psychological transformation. Tracking the Wild Woman Archetype finds that the paradoxes and impossibilities of love serve to create a more profound woman who is more conscious of the manifold world of unconscious archetypes. It tracks the process of individuation and alchemical transformation through the study of texts, the author's lived experience, and imaginal ways of knowing, such as dreams, synchronicities, and active imaginations."

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Chapter 1 The Base Metal 9Coexist with Bears 10The Wild Virgin to The Wild Woman 12The Goddesses 17Alchemy 22Bear 29Chapter 2 The Wild Woman Archetype 31Initial View 33Lions and Tigers and Bears, and a Surfng Yogini 42Peaks and Vales 50A New Paradigm 52Artemis 57Re-View 64Chapter 3 Women's Psychological Development 65Initial View 70Individuation 79Sacred Experience and Sufering 83Psyche and Eros 87A Human Ending as a New Beginning 91Feminine 101Open to Life 108Re-View 110Chapter 4 Relationship 111Initial View 113Wild Motherhood, Feminine Feminists, and the Old Paradigm 117Love as the Alchemical Vessel 120Personifying and Projections 131A Circle of Love 139Re-View 147Chapter 5 Sexuality 149Initial View 152Claiming the Body Afer Separating 156Claiming Sexuality 161Female Phallus 165Pleasure, Play, Paradox, and Longing 175Sacred Sexuality 180Re-View 184Chapter 6 The Gold 187The Wild Woman 190Perfection versus Wholeness 198Show Up and Surrender 201Projection 203Relationship and Sexuality 207Aferword 211References 215

Chapter 1 The Base Metal 9 Coexist with Bears 10 The Wild Virgin to The Wild Woman 12 The Goddesses 17 Alchemy 22 Bear 29 Chapter 2 The Wild Woman Archetype 31 Initial View 33 Lions and Tigers and Bears, and a Surfng Yogini 42 Peaks and Vales 50 A New Paradigm 52 Artemis 57 Re-View 64 Chapter 3 Women's Psychological Development 65 Initial View 70 Individuation 79 Sacred Experience and Sufering 83 Psyche and Eros 87 A Human Ending as a New Beginning 91 Feminine 101 Open to Life 108 Re-View 110 Chapter 4 Relationship 111 Initial View 113 Wild Motherhood, Feminine Feminists, and the Old Paradigm 117 Love as the Alchemical Vessel 120 Personifying and Projections 131 A Circle of Love 139 Re-View 147 Chapter 5 Sexuality 149 Initial View 152 Claiming the Body Afer Separating 156 Claiming Sexuality 161 Female Phallus 165 Pleasure, Play, Paradox, and Longing 175 Sacred Sexuality 180 Re-View 184 Chapter 6 The Gold 187 The Wild Woman 190 Perfection versus Wholeness 198 Show Up and Surrender 201 Projection 203 Relationship and Sexuality 207 Aferword 211 References 215

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Stacey Shelby, Ph.D, is an author, speaker and depth psychotherapist. She is also a Registered Clinical Counselor (RCC) in Canada, a certified clinical dream tender, and she has studied in shamanic and yoga traditions. She has a thriving clinical practice in Squamish, British Columbia, where she works with adults in various stages of personal transformation. She is gifted at working with the symbolic language of the soul and she is dedicated to honoring the soul as it presents in the lived experience of daily life.

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