On episode 192 I am joined by Maureen Murdock, PhD. Maureen is a psychotherapist, writing teacher and the author of seven books, including The Heroine’s Journey:Woman’s Quest for Wholeness, a ground-breaking book which revealed a broader understanding of the female psyche on both a personal and cultural level. Murdock is also the author of Unreliable Truth, The Heroine’s Journey Workbook; Fathers’ Daughters; Spinning Inward: Using Guided Imagery with Children and is the editor of an anthology of memoirs written by her writing students entitled Monday Morning Memoirs: Women in the Second Half of Life.

Murdock’s research on myth and memoir culminated in her book, Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory. She teaches memoir writing in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program as well as privately in Santa Barbara, California. Murdock was Chair and core faculty member of the MA Counseling Psychology Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara and is adjunct faculty in depth psychology at Sonoma State University. She has been a guest lecturer at The C.G. Jung Institute, UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, UC San Diego, University of British Columbia, The Naropa Institute, The Omega Institute, The Oasis Center, University of Creation Spirituality, University of Massachusetts, and others.

She has been an educational consultant for a number of school districts and she co-created a program in human development for students in the Los Angeles City Schools to deal with conflict resolution and diversity issues after the uprisings in the early 1990s. 

In this episode you will hear:

03:30 30 years of The Heroines Journey

06:00 The Heroes Journey left something missing for women

09:30 A back injury and the separation from the feminine

12:30 why she might disconnect from the feminine

13:30 all the responsibility, no respect

16:45 thank you Disney! You can be evil or dead!

19:00 rejecting the feminine and all those who show it

24:00 ascending to the Goddess

25:30 the universe is partnering with the woman along the journey

27:30 coming face to face with the Goddess

28:30 not rising to the light too soon

31:00 the essence of the feminine

33:00 healing the wounded masculine

36:00 integrating the masculine and feminine

39:30 Mother - relationship to matter

42:00 Memoirists are contemporary myth makers

44:30 what is home and where do I belong?

I hope this interview inspires your heroine’s journey.

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Ryan

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