David Whyte: Being at the Frontier of Your Identity
Sounds True: Insights at the Edge
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The Importance of Writing About Loss
The Riverflow was written out of the grief and loss of my mother. I felt if I hadn't sat down to write about it, I would have created a sense of myself that was very far away from life," she says. "There's no one closer to the center of your psyche than the person who actually gave birth to you" In contemporary American society, mothering has a kind of pejorative aspect almost to it, but there's a beautiful necessity for us to mother others when they are in need - which is what this book does.
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