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Spotlight: Finding the Wild Inside by Marilyn Kay Hagar (giveaway)
Finding the Wild Inside: Exploring Our Inner Landscape Through the Arts, Dreams, and Intuition
written by Marilyn Kay Hagar
published by She Writes Press, 2019
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About the book: Today’s world urges us to look outward for life’s meaning and purpose—but our inner lives are the true source of the deeper knowing that gives life meaning. In “Finding the Wild Inside” (She Writes Press, October 22, 2019), Marilyn Hagar encourages readers to discover that creative place inside us that knows there is more to life than we are currently living—the less rational part of ourselves that she calls our “wild inside.”
Using stories from her own life—from infancy through caring for her elderly parents as an adult—Hagar shows us how, through playing in the arts, contemplating our nightly dreams, fostering our intuition, and reconnecting to Mother Nature, we can discover our own authentic wild self. Opening to this part of ourselves, she teaches, isn’t so much a search as it is a listening, curiosity, playfulness, and learning how to think symbolically, all of which can be cultivated. Most of all, it takes a willingness to lay down our egos and open ourselves to the awe and wonder of the wild universe of which we are all a part. Instructive and inspiring, “Finding the Wild Inside” is a blueprint to living life from the inside out—and, in doing so, walking a path of authenticity.
About the author: Marilyn Hagar, MA, REAT, is a registered expressive arts therapist who owns and operates For the Joy of It!, a creative retreat in Mendocino, California. She has led groups and workshops at her forest retreat for more than forty years, dedicating her life to the belief that we are all creative and that expressing ourselves through the arts puts us in touch with our own wild essence. Marilyn has published several articles about her creative life and her adventures in the great outdoors. She has also exhibited her artwork and her art quilts, inspired by inner-life imagery and her dream world. Her book “Finding the Wild Inside: Exploring Our Inner Landscape Through the Arts, Dreams and Intuition” will be available for purchase on October 22, 2019. For more information about Marilyn’s life and work, visit www.marilynhagar.com.
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** This post first appeared on Every Free Chance Books (everyfreechance.com) on October 7, 2019.
