Imagine a Woman in Love with Herself: Embracing Your Wisdom and Wholeness

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Summary: Amazing!
Review: I am impressed with the deliberate focus on women's socialization and it's translation into adulthood. It's activities are incredible - but not easy to do. Keep a journal by your side for this read as you will need it. It's uninteded consequence is that I can be a better mom to my daughter - helping her to navigate through her unique development with clarity.

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Summary: A Guidebook for Regaining Strength
Review: I am impressed with the deliberate focus on women's socialization and it's translation into adulthood. It's activities are incredible - but not easy to do. Keep a journal by your side for this read as you will need it. It's uninteded consequence is that I can be a better mom to my daughter - helping her to navigate through her unique development with clarity.

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Summary: Awful, Just Awful
Review: I really wanted to like this book. I have been schooled in the wisdom of "original blessing" as a corrective for the concept of original sin, and well, I'm a woman. So I thought this book would be right up my alley. Reilly goes overboard, however, in rejecting _any_ attempts at self-discernment as negative. There is such a thing as self-assessment that is accepting, positive, and life-affirming, without necessarily approving of everything that we accept about ourselves.

In the end, by overlooking the necessary distinction between "acceptance" and "approval," the book limits the possibilities for growth that it can nurture. And that's a shame. It is, ultimately, patronizing to believe that women are too fragile to handle self-critique. We can be our own best critics, but this book won't help.

Conclusion: stand by with the insulin shots while reading this one.

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Summary: Disappointed in Depth and Direction of this Book
Review: In her intro, Patricia Lynn Reilly states that her intention in writing "Imagine a Woman in Love with Herself" was to hold up a "woman-affirming mirror," reminding women of the truth about themselves when they forget. I was drawn to her book by the poem "Imagine a Woman." I stayed with the book to the very end because in gentle, yet bold language, Patricia stayed true to her intention. Reading each word, each meditation, each blessing was like looking into a kind-hearted, truth-telling, essence-honoring mirror. By the time I finished the book I was grateful to be a woman and I wrote a vow of faithfulness to my own life and capacities. I am now a woman who loves herself as I did "in the very beginning." As Patricia reminded me: "In the very beginning the girl-child loves herself." Read it and give it to every woman in your life!

Rating:
Summary: Amazing!
Review: This book is worth every penny it costs and more. She puts words to the feeling so many woman have: what is wrong with me or am I lovable? All I can say is buy it, read it, and you will find a whole new world of love and peace opened up to you.

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Summary: Be a women in every sence of your soul!!!
Review: This is a book every women should read!
The message that Patricia L. Reilly is expressing is one of affrimiation to the feminine soul. A way of living, of being strong, soft ,centered and free in one's soul
I will never part with my copy!!!
I Absolutley loved it!!!

Rating:
Summary: Be a women in every sence of your soul!!!
Review: This is a book every women should read!
The message that Patricia L. Reilly is expressing is one of affrimiation to the feminine soul. A way of living, of being strong, soft ,centered and free in one's soul
I will never part with my copy!!!
I Absolutley loved it!!!