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Our world is in turmoil, with violence and wars, growing climate change, racial and cultural unrest, and the assault on "truth". We speak and we write to find our way forward.
The workshops and lectures that I give address the challenges we face today: Through Darkness to Light, Rekindling the Soul, Journaling to Find Your Truth, Imagining a New Tomorrow. I am grateful to the Jung Societies, SoulAtPlay, the International Women's Writing Guild, and the Geneva Writers' Group for setting these in place. And grateful for the possibility to come together on the Zoom screen, gatherings on the screen, mandalas of togetherness.
I have recorded three courses at the Jung Society of Washington: Journaling to the Soul, Seeing Beauty with Words, and Through Darkness to Light. You may follow them as you wish at https://jungmasterclass.com. More recently I recorded two courses: Soulfulness: Listening to Soul and Journaling to Find Your Truth, on the platform SoulAtPlay, https://soulatplay.com.
This brings me to my two recent books, the French edition of Writing Toward Wholeness, Lessons Inspired by C.G. Jung, titled Ecrire vers la plénitude, and Circling to the Center, Invitation to Silent Prayer, both published by Chiron Publications. The latter book is a 20th Anniversary Edition, with an Afterward which updates my spiritual journey, opening the confines of my own darkness and finding atonement in the "hidden wholeness" of creation.
Now in my early nineties, I write about my lasting marriage to Pierre in my new book, Seasons of Love, A Lasting Marriage, published also by Chiron, December 2024. Little did I know that in setting sail to France at twenty one, I was setting sail to a life of lasting love. With all the happy experiences, there have also been less happy experiences. In confronting them together, we have learned that after each winter, there is spring.
I close with a passage from the chapter "Celebrating".
"Marriage is a celebration. The word comes from the Latin word 'celebrare' which means to honor or to commemorate. Marriage then becomes a way to honor a relationship, to commemorate a relationship. Pierre and I honor and commemorate our relationship every day in celebrating our love."