Crones Don't Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women (Easyread Large Edition) - Softcover

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1458745058 ISBN 13: 9781458745057

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant, 2012

Synopsis

In this new book, Crones Don't Whine, Bolen's playful sense of humor and keen insight combine to offer women thirteen qualities to cultivate. Engage in these small practices and you're bound to be a happier person who's doing her bit to make the world a better place. These qualities are not cultivated overnight, Bolen writes. Crone years are “growing” years, when women can devote their time, energy, and creativity to what really matters to them. Bolen offers us a blueprint: Crones don't whine. They're juicy, and they trust their own instincts. They don't grovel. They do meditate. They choose the path with heart. Crones are fierce about what matters most to them. They speak the truth with compassion. They listen to their bodies, reinvent themselves as needed, and savor the good in their lives. Turn to these thirteen brief pieces again and again, in bad times and good, alone and with others - because “Crones Together Can Change the World” as Bolen points out in an inspirational, call-to-arms bonus essay.

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Review

Bolen, a psychiatrist and professor at the University of California Medical School, believes that women need to stand up for their rights, wants and desires and can't afford to be complainers or whiners. Explains Bolen, the author of The Millionth Circle and Goddesses in Older Women, "To be involved and engaged in life is a juicy proposition. Every juicy crone taps into a wellspring or a deep aquifer of meaning in her psyche." They are, according to Bolen, smart, compassionate, courageous and humorous. In these brief essays, she offers commonsense wisdom, calling on women to empower themselves, but also to fight against any emotional demons or problems they have. For example, in discussing women who have been abused or otherwise have some secret from their past that they're ashamed of, she writes, "At some point in their lives, most remember fearing that this truth would become known. Crones, however, also recall when and with whom they broke this taboo of silence as the beginning of feeling whole. To speak the truth is to be able to say, this is who I am." Fans of Bolen's quirky, spiritual tone will find these words comforting. However, much of the text discusses why women need to be juicy crones without offering much practical advice to improve one's life. -Publisher's Weekly, Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

"Women over 50 are a country to which this youth-obsessed culture has few guides. Whether we're living there now or hope to be, Jean Shinoda Bolen gives us sign-posts to this land of wisdom, joy, freedom, and leadership." --Gloria Steinem

"A wise and honest book. Profoundly important to the sustainability of our species and world." --Alice Walker

"This is a lighthearted manual on how to become a juicy and wise old woman. I certainly want to be one of those crones who doesn't whine!" --Isabel Allende

"Her humor so available, her wisdom so needed--speaking as a crone, that is!" --Olympia Dukakis

About the Author

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst in private practice, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, and an internationally known lecturer. She is the author of numerous books including Goddesses in Every woman, Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women and Save the World, Crones Don't Whine and The Millionth Circle.

About this edition

• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1458745058
• ISBN 13: 9781458745057
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100