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Warming the Stone Child

Written by: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Narrated by: Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Publisher's Summary

The pain of abandonment, both real and metaphorical, can cast a shadow over our entire adult experience. Warming the Stone Child investigates the abandoned child archetype in world myths and cultures to find clues about the process of healing the "unmothered" child within us all. Spiced with Dr. Estes' wonderful storytelling, Warming the Stone Child is a unique listening experience with a practical edge.
©1990 Clarissa Pinkola Estes (P)1997 Sounds True

What the critics say

"Dr. Estes’s palpable emotional engagement (and obvious desire to speak to those in pain) can be heard in the flowing, calming sound she creates with each interlocking syllable, reflective pause, and change in vocal intensity. The arresting beauty in both her writing and narrative performance will make listeners believe that they can internalize the mother’s ability to soothe themselves and find emotional balance, whether or not they ever received such mothering." (AudioFile)

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Powerful insights

Dr. Estes offers compelling insights into childhood trauma through the use of myths and fairytales. Profound and inspiring. I highly recommend this audio book to anyone exploring these issues and on the path to healing your wounded inner child.

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valuable

incredibly informative I had many aha moments and will cherish this book and reread it

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Hope for the Abandoned

This short program provides important guidance to the abandoned and unmothered looking to change their stories and heal their wounds. Having thoroughly appreciated this offering from Estes, I will be exploring more of her work.

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Love Clarissa’s storytelling

Breathtaking. I love how the author weavers the stories into archetypes. Her voice is strong and wise.

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Healing offered in the form of story telling

I found that this listen was incredibly healing, Clarissa is a true storytellar. While she tells tales, she is offering them up with guidance in a calm assuring voice. She is an example of an external mother archetype, a representation of what this book is about. Beautiful

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she is my guru

I just soak up her insights
I think she brilliantly puts light on what it's like to be a sensitive woman in the world. she has been my guiding light for a few years now.

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Dr. Pinkola Estés never disappoints

A wonderful collection of unique stories, beautifully told, and respectfully and expertly mined for their timeless lessons. There is healing in these stories for the abandoned, hungry, cold child who can learn to warm themselves by the hearth of their own fire, lit by the inextinguishable spark of their intuition.

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A Path to Lead Myself On

Far more comprehensive than any self help book I’ve ever read. A deep understanding of my own psyche and clear instructions on what to do with the parts of me that are not quite yet whole.

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interesting and inspiring

I'm not Jungian, so I may be missing a layer of the narrative. The allegory and symbolism were a bit random. nice and encouraging listen for this unmothered child.

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Truly a light in the dark

As one suffering from PTSD, these stories and their deeper meaning have given me hope. Hope that I too have a light within me that, with time and love, will help me heal, and thrive.

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