Maureen Murdock Publications
MythMaking:
Self-Discovery and the timeless art of memoir
Maureen murdock
shambhala 2024
Like myth, memoir reveals a profound unity to the human condition--that we all share similar hopes, dreams, and desires as well as fears, losses, and heartbreaks. Psychotherapist and writing teacher, Maureen Murdock, explores connections between ancient myths and popular contemporary memoirs to help readers examine their own life patterns and map their personal stories. Examining myth foundations as well as archetypal themes, the book probes universal questions like: Who am I? Who are my people? What is my journey? Where is home? With excerpts from beloved memoirs, practical advice, and writing prompts, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the rich scope of the memoir genre. And in turn, they'll come out with a better grasp on their own life trajectory and their place within the rich tapestry of the human experience. Published March 2024.
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The Heroine’s Journey:
Woman’s Quest for Wholenness
Maureen murdock
shambhala 2020
30th Anniversary edition
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of its original publication, Shambhala Publications has reissued Maureen Murdock’s groundbreaking book, The Heroine’s Journey: Woman’s Quest for Wholeness, as well as The Heroine’s Journey Workbook: A Map for Every Woman’s Quest. The book is also available in audio format. The Heroine’s Journey describes contemporary woman’s search for wholeness in a society where she has been defined according to masculine values. Drawing on cultural myths and fairy tales, ancient symbols and goddesses, and the dreams of contemporary women, Murdock illustrates the need for—and the reality of— feminine values in Western culture.
This special anniversary edition of the book and audiobook, with a new foreword by Christine Downing and preface by the author, illuminates that this need is just as relevant today as it was when the book was originally published thirty years ago.
The Heroine’s Journey Workbook:
A Map for Every Woman’s Quest
Maureen murdock
shambhala 2020
A workbook to guide readers through the different stages of The Heroine’s Journey—healing deep wounds of one’s feminine nature on a personal, cultural, and spiritual level.
Maureen Murdock’s modern classic The Heroine’s Journey explores woman’s mythic quest for maintaining feminine values and a sense of wholeness in a society that’s been defined according to masculine values. Womankind undertakes this spiritual and psychological journey by integrating all parts of her nature. This workbook, based on workshops conducted by Murdock herself with women of all ages, can be used individually or in a group to guide readers through The Heroine’s Journey. With exercises and reflection questions for each chapter, readers will embark on profound self-exploration and gain a new sense of clarity and understanding of their own life quests. The skills learned on this archetypal journey prepare women to work toward the larger pursuit of bringing consciousness to others and preserving the balance of life on earth.
Fathers’ daughters:
BREAKING THE TIES THAT BIND
MAUREEN MURDOCK
KINDLE EDITION 2019
The most complex and unexplored relationship in a woman's life is with her father. If their bond is close, she is referred to as "Daddy's little girl." As cute as that may sound in childhood a "father's daughter" pays a high price for her favored status. In order to sustain his approval, protection, and love she often distances herself from her mother and rejects her own feminine nature. By identifying with and idealizing her father, her development as a woman is arrested in daughterhood.
In this unique and fascinating look at a pervasive personal and cultural issue, depth psychotherapist Maureen Murdock unravels the unspoken truth about daughters and the immense power the fathers they idealize have over them. Fathers' Daughters explores how these exclusive relationships affect every aspect of a woman's life. While fathers' daughters are often high achievers in the world of work, their denial of their innate feminine nature wreaks havoc on the other aspects of their lives--including their health, sexuality, creativity and ability to sustain intimate relationships.
With revealing case studies, myths, dreams, and fairy tales, Fathers' Daughters makes clear that the rewards for an exploration of the father-daughter relationship are great--as a woman breaks the ties that bind her to her father, reclaims the authority she projects onto men, and establishes a healthy, balanced relationship to herself and others.
Through myth, story, and Jungian psychology, an exploration of the shadow side of father love.
Ser mujer: un viaje heroico: Un apasionante camino hacia la totalidad (Taller de la Hechicera) (Spanish Edition)
maureen murdock
2010
Las mujeres de este tiempo, de esta cultura, tienen una búsqueda por realizar. Se trata de la búsqueda en pos de abrazar totalmente su naturaleza femenina y de sanar la profunda herida de lo femenino, aprendiendo a valorarse a sí mismas como mujeres. Es éste un viaje interno fundamental que tiene por meta la integración plena y equilibrada de la mujer como ser total. SER MUJER: UN VIAJE HERÓICO recoge la esencia de este proceso femenino. Con un discurso cálido, inteligente y lleno de visión, Maureen Murdock nos acerca al rico territorio de la psique femenina descubriendo las comprensiones necesarias para la transformación personal de cada mujer. Hay un vacío que sienten las mujeres de este tiempo, de esta cultura; un vacío que les hace sospechar que su naturaleza femenina, al igual que Perséfone, se ha ido al infierno.
Unreliable Truth
Maureen murdock
2003
Beginning with the idea that memory is nothing more than "an angle of perception," Murdock explores the recurrent question asked by writers and readers of memoir alike: what actually happened? Prompted by the loss of identity that accompanied her mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s and subsequent lost memories, Murdock offers that perhaps the faithful recording of the past isn’t where the strength of memoir lies. Instead, Murdock looks at the basic components of memoir writing and the process of self-reflection it requires as they bring awareness to the underlying patterns of life. This captivating treatise on the corruptibility of memory, willed identity and the self as reflected through the lens of memoir speaks to all attracted to this most intimate of genres, and provides tools for exploration of the self and soul through personal narrative.
monday morning memoirs:
WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE
XLIBRIS
2002
Monday Morning Memoirs is a dazzling collection of intimate stories written by ten remarkable women who first met in a creative writing class in the mid-nineties and have continued to write together ever since. This wildly different, yet amazingly similar group of women, aged forty-five to seventy-nine, have provided a unique view of the Second Half of Life across several generations. They have crafted their memories with exceptional compassion, humor, insight and attention to the cultural changes that have occurred in the last four decades. An introduction to each chapter describes the elements of memoir writing contained in each piece so that you can begin to write your life story too.
spinning inward:
USING GUIDED IMAGERY WITH CHILDREN FOR LEARNING, CREATIVITY & RELAXATION
maureen murdock
SHAMBHALA 1987
If you have ever wished you could show children and teenagers how to enrich their lives with meditation and visualization, this book will delight you. It presents simple exercises in guided imagery designed to help young people ages three through eighteen to relax into learning, focus attention and increase concentration, stimulate creativity, and cultivate inner peace and group harmony.
The use of guided imagery has been internationally recognized as an effective method of "whole brain" learning. The author's approach will have special appeal to parents and teachers who are frustrated by an educational system that seems to reward only those children who excel at verbal, linear learning. With the exercises in this book, young people can discover learning styles that are effective and enjoyable for them. These techniques of guided imagery offer adults as well as children a unique way to tap the wealth of creativity and wisdom within.