Library Journal--In this feminist memoir, Straub, a writer and teacher of empowerment principles, memorializes her mother's unfulfilled life. Soon after she grew up, went into the world, and began teaching, her mother died a premature death from heart disease. At one point, Straub, overworked and burned out, realized she had given up her "feminine" life--one of contemplation and intuition--for a masculine one of overachievement and workaholism. As she untangles these threads, she processes her grief over her mother's death. For those interested in women's issues and spirituality.
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Returning to My Mothers House is Gail Straub's poetic, heartfelt, and very personal journey story, but it is also my story, your story, and the story of a culture in desperate need of taking back the wisdom of the feminine. I came away from the adventure of reading this book full of hope for the restoration of the feminine in each of us, and our world."
--Elizabeth Lesser, cofounder of the Omega Institute and author of Broken Open and The Seekers Guide"There isn't a woman alive who won't be able to relate to this lyrical, poignant, and beautifully written story. Like Elizabeth Gilberts
Eat, Pray, Love, Gail's story will help women gain insight and wisdom that not only will help heal their relationship with their mothers but could, quite frankly, help save their lives! Bless you, Gail, for doing work that heals all of us."
--Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and Mother-Daughter Wisdom, from the Foreword