In a world in which old certainties seem to be crumbling, many women feel insecure or lost. In Ripening, Sharon Blackie insists that fairy tales are precisely the stories we need for such times.
\nIn this complimentary Author Spotlight conversation, Sharon Blackie joins Loralee M. Scott, MFA, Vice President of Institutional Advancement & Lifelong Learning at Pacifica Graduate Institute, for a depth-psychological dialogue on her forthcoming book.<\/p>\n
Long before they became bywords for people-pleasing princesses, these old stories \u2013 passed down to us through generations by our peasant ancestors \u2013 told us everything that women need to learn about the world. They might be set in difficult and dangerous times, but they insist that their heroines face the unfaceable and dig deep for previously unimagined inner resources. They teach us to be savvy, inspire us to grow in confidence, show us how to be bold and claim the future we dream of.<\/p>\n
More than anything, fairy tales are soul-food. They show us how to take hold of our own personal narratives and transform them into stories that might begin with trauma, but end with empowerment. They offer us images of startling resonance and beauty, while showing us how to recognize and make use of the possibilities that rise to the surface when broken systems are cracked open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a world in which old certainties seem to be crumbling, many women feel insecure or lost. In Ripening, Sharon Blackie insists that fairy tales are precisely the stories we need for such times. In this complimentary Author Spotlight conversation, Sharon Blackie joins Loralee M. Scott, MFA, Vice President of Institutional Advancement & Lifelong Learning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":125590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[2378,542],"mec_speaker":[1568],"class_list":["post-125589","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-free-event","mec_category-webinar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n