Ellen Vora: Season of the Witch, Gebunden

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A provocative call for women to awaken to their innate connection to the magic that gives life its depth, meaning, and transcendence---from the author of The Anatomy of Anxiety

Witch: /wiCH/ noun: Any woman who has reclaimed the intuitive, mystical, and embodied ways of knowing that our culture tries to shame and suppress

We are caught in a crisis of disconnection. The cost of this shows up everywhere: in our bodies, which cry out with digestive issues and chronic conditions; in our relationships, where we've lost the communities that once held us; and in our day-to-day, where we feel rudderless, anxious, and incapable of navigating our lives without outsourced advice.

For years, Yale and Columbia-trained psychiatrist Ellen Vora has taken a holistic approach to helping her patients navigate these challenges. But when she herself experienced a shattering loss, she realized that true healing will never come from a wellness program. What we need is an openness to mystery.

According to Vora, every woman possesses a natural connection to magic, but our culture's biases have severed our ties to the mystical. In Season of the Witch , Vora examines those biases and reveals the five practices that can help us reclaim the full spectrum of our intelligence: embodiment; presence; valuing the yin; being open to mystery; and serving the collective.

By engaging with these practices, we become witches: women who walk through the world with a quiet conviction, anchored in our own knowing, grounded and resilient, trusting that we are whole onto ourselves---women fully alive to mystery. This is what true witchiness looks like: not an escape from reality, but a deeper way of being in it.