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Returning to My Mother's House
Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine
with Gail Straub
We all know that if our planet is to survive and thrive the wisdom of the feminine needs to shine forth illuminating both our personal and our public lives. In this workshop we create a sacred container to delve into the mysteries of our womanhood—what we have lost, how we can take back and sustain our wisdom, and how to pass on our knowledge protecting the lineage of the feminine for our daughters and future generations. Our time is intended to empower your deepest female essence and includes lecture, guided meditation, the creative arts, ritual, journaling, and small groups.
Reader's Guide
Introduction
This study guide is intended to help readers discuss and understand their own relationship to the many themes involved in taking back the wisdom of the feminine. It follows the four major phases of the book: the imprint of the feminine from our mothers, the loss of our female wisdom, how we take back our wisdom, and finally how we pass on our wisdom and protect the lineage of the feminine.
Deeper Dive
The Five Most Common Ways a Woman Loses Her Innate Female Wisdom:
- Closing her heart and running away from her emotions. Often, a seminal event forces a woman to stop expressing her feelings, stop trusting her intuition, or shut the door on her inner life altogether. This catalyst could be rape or incest, illness, divorce or marriage, the birth of a child, the death of a parent, or any loss.
The Seven Practices for Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine:
- Face your fear. Home to emotions, intuition, passion, and spirituality, the deep, mysterious feminine can be a terrifying place. Confront your fear of being irrational, unproductive, or out of control, of your own body, and of death. Only then can you begin to fully explore and truly feel your innate feminine power.
Sponsor Returning to My Mother's House
Returning to My Mother's House can be customized for a conference center, professional association, organization or training program. To learn more about this opportunity contact Gail Straub.
Learn about "Returning to My Mother's House"
"Unraveling the narrative of motherhood in all its forms, Returning to My Mother's House: Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine is a book of enormous transformation, intimacy, and heart."
— Eve Ensler, founder, V-Day, author, The Vagina Monologues and Insecure at Last
To learn more about the Returning to My Mother's House, read these excerpts from the book.
pdf Foreword by Christiane Northrup
pdf Bali: Searching for the Wisdom of the Deep Feminine
Audio Interviews with Gail Straub
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Justine Toms interviews Gail Straub
This audio file is divided into four tracks.
(mp3 files, 59 minutes total)
Track 1 • Track 2 • Track 3 • Track 4
Cheryl Richardson interviews Gail Straub. During this October 27, 2008 telegathering, they talk about the challenges of living in a fast-paced, overworked society and what you can do to honor your inner life to create more meaning and fulfillment in your daily experience. (mp3 file). Listen Now
Returning to My Mother's House Testimonials
"There isn't a woman alive who won't be able to relate to this lyrical, poignant, and beautifully written story. Like Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love, Gail’s story will help women gain insight and wisdom that will not only help heal their relationships with their mothers, but could, quite frankly, help save their lives! Bless you, Gail, for doing work that heals all of us."
— From the Foreword by Christiane Northrup, MD, author Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom
and Mother-Daughter Wisdom