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Goddeses in Everywoman - Book Review |
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Book Reviews -
Women's Health and Psychology
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Written by DivaTribe Member Lara
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 Goddesses In Everywoman, by Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
Goddesses In Everywoman, a new psychology of women is a wonderfully well-written book that touched my very psyche of trying to empower myself and all the parts of my mind that mesh together to drive me in one direction or another.
The Goddesses
Artemis:
Goddess of the hunt and the moon, personifies the independent, achievement-oriented feminine spirit.
Athena:
Goddess of wisdom and craft, represents the logical, self-assured woman who is ruled by her head rather than her heart.
Hestia:
Goddess of the hearth, embodies the patient and steady woman who finds comfort in solitude and exudes a sense of intactness and wholeness.
Hera:
Goddess of marriage, stands for the woman who considers her roles as student, professional, or mother secondary to her essential goal of finding a husband and being married.
Demeter:
Goddess of grain and the maternal archetype, represents a woman's drive to provide physical and spiritual sustenance for her children.
Persephone:
Maiden and queen of the underworld, expresses a woman's tendency toward compliancy, passivity, and a need to please and be wanted by others.
Aphrodite:
Goddess of love and beauty, the 'alchemical' goddess governing a woman's enjoyment of love and beauty, sexuality, and sensuality, impels women to fulfill both create and procreative functions.
So which Goddess are you? This book explains that all goddesses live within us and it's our general, genetically made up selves that decide which goddess to fight, quell or cultivate.
At first, I have to admit I was wary of how a book describing mythical goddesses could help me figure out my own realities on womanhood. However, after delving in I found myself nodding my head from time to time as the exact depictions of woman's habits were explained through a driving force of a goddess. Do I think I have The Goddess Hera running rampant through me when I desire to be a good wife? No. But I do have so many complex parts - personalities - if you may, working together and sometimes against each other to design my way of living my life and how I react to everyday situations.
I recommend this book - it's an interesting read that opens up many inner conversations and awareness. In the quest to better yourself this a good step on getting to know yourself first.
This review is available for reprint.
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