Emerging Woman: A Decade of Midlife Transitions - Softcover

Rogers, Natalie

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9780960563401: Emerging Woman: A Decade of Midlife Transitions

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0960563407 ISBN 13: 9780960563401

Publisher: Personal Pr, 1980

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A moving personal account of Natalie Rogers' quest for independence after 20 years of being immersed in marriage and motherhood. It is a journey of both pain and ecstasy told with courage, sensitivity and uncompromising honesty. Self published in 1980, it has been an underground book which has been translated into seven languages.

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About the Author:

As a psychotherapist, Natalie Rogers, Ph.D., R.E.A.T., discovered that using the creative process -- visual art, movement, sound, and writing -- enhances the inner journey of the client and facilitates communication between client and therapist. Her mission over the past thirty years has been to provide enticing, person-centered environments where people can awaken their creative juices and discover their soul or spirit through all media. Of particular interest is incorporating the epxressive arts in cross cultural work and conflict resolution. She has led trainings in Europe, Russia, Latin America, Japan, and the U.S. She was founder and is now faculty Emeritus of the Person-Centered Expressive Therapy Institute, Santa Rosa, California. She is an adjunct professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and the Institute of Imaginal Studies. She has three wonderful, professional daughters and four creative grandchildren.

Review:

I intended to sit down for a few minutes and skim your book, but found myself drawn in and became more and more curious, so I read it all through....What has emerged is a picture of a courageous woman who has experienced many of the events that other woman are experiencing in the process of becoming their own persons....You have reflected on your experiences and the feelings evoked by them and...speak frankly....Other women who are also 'solo' [will] recognize that they are not alone in their sufferings, their uncertainties and their joys. -- June Singer, author of Androgyny

My daughter has written a personal, sensitive and moving book about her own journey as a woman. She has used her psychological knowledge as she looks into the mirror to view her inner changes. To learn from understanding our own experience is a difficult task, indeed, and to share through writing and expressive art is courageous....it is a beacon illuminating the pathway to a strong, creative, loving womanhood. This book confirms what I have long believed: what is most personal is most general. Women in general will respond precisely because it is so revealing of the intensely private story of one woman. -- Carl R. Rogers, author of On Becoming a Person

[Emerging Woman is] at times compelling, provocative, even electrifying in its boldness, directness, honesty....It will challenge women and men...to examine their own attitudes. -- Clark E. Moustakas, author of Loneliness and Love

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