Lucy H. Pearce - Burning Woman

Praise for
B u rning Woman

Lucy Pearce has given voice to what a generation of women are feeling and burning to express. This book is filled with our collective calling, and inspires women to burn with our wild, fierce wisdom and creativity, and to push forwards to fully occupy our equality.

I celebrate this book and celebrate and acknowledge Lucy Pearce as a wise, wild and courageous woman who has written a very important book of our time. A must-read for all women! A life-changing book that fills the reader with a burning passion and desire for change!

Glennie Kindred, author and illustrator of eleven books on celebrating the Earth and ourselves.

Burning Woman is a passionate call to wake up both to our present reality and to entrance ourselves to the remembrance of our power. Lucys prose is poetic, raw and dances on the edge of outrageous where outrageous means to defy what we have been taught and have accepted to our detriment. I am proud to call myself a burning woman ...

Jane Meredith, author of
Journey to the Dark Goddess and Circle of Eight: Creating Magic for Your Place on Earth

Are you a woman who yearns for something more? Do you feel the seed of a hot, rebel, spirit hidden inside somewhere? A wildness youre not sure how to set free? With Burning Woman, author Lucy Pearce brings us a living, breathing manifesto for real women. A burning hot antidote to the vague and cool tones of the endless wave of self-help and development books on the market. Digging deep into herstory, showing us the roots of our blocks and fears, sharing her own burning story, Lucy blazes the way for every woman to free the burning soul within. Take a deep breath and dive in.

Awen Clement,
founder MoonWise Woman

Lucy Pearce is a gifted writer, a gentle wayshower, and a fierce pioneer in these times of global transformation. In her new book, she reveals potent information to the woman reader, reminding her of her true heritage, kindling the fire within, to more fully claim our truth and embody it in our daily lives. This knowledge has been hidden from us, and we are now ready to receive it. This book is a true gift and, if you are a woman ripe for transformation, it can fan the inner flames, sparking you to own that fire and let it burn all that is false within you, revealing the power that was yours all along. Every woman should read this book! Thank you Lucy!

Bethany Webster,
author of Healing the Mother wound

Burning Woman is a marvellous, impassioned, emotional read. This book will root you back to your woman power and inspire you to rise up with other burning women to change the world. I encourage you to read Burning Woman TODAY! The world needs our collective female flames right NOW. Thank you Lucy Pearce for this tremendous book.

Trista Hendren,
author of The Girl God series

This book is initiation by ignition. Lucy Pearce has reached into the hearth of womanhood, pulled out the hottest coals, and given us Burning Woman, a text and feminine archetype channelled just for these times. Within these pages, she dares to ask and answer fundamental questions about feminine power why are we afraid of it? How can we claim it? What is at risk if we do? What is at risk if we DONT? With torch held high, Burning Woman carries us across the threshold of inquiry and fear, guiding us toward our own flame of inner truth. If youre no longer willing or able to play it safe, if youre aching to burn bright, if youre already dancing in the fire, read this book and source the fuel of Burning Women from every time, everywhere.

Autumn Weaver and Baraka Elihu,
authors of Birthing Ourselves into Being

Lucy burns a hole right through the fabric of our societal programming and identifies the true source of why even the most empowered women attempt to walk in their power only to hold back from fully stepping into it. Heal the Burning Woman and well see a radical shift and healing in every aspect of our world.

Suzanne Mathis McQueen,
author of 4 Seasons in 4 Weeks

In an era when Western feminism seems too often about loudly celebrating woman as victim, this is a refreshing book. Yes, sometimes we get burned, but allowing the fire to fuel our strength is a far more intelligent response. Lucys vibrant words are a sound reminder, and a joy to read.

Emma Restall Orr,
author of Kissing the Hag

Gripping, grounded, affirming and real. I wish I could gift every girl and woman I know a copy of this book. We deserve more than a bland flat surface description of ourselves as women or airy fairy feminine metaphors we are vast beyond measure and complex and we are indeed burning.

Clare Campbell, artist and creative activist,
founder of Big Love Sista CIC and Wild Woman

Burning Woman

Lucy H. Pearce

WOMANCRAFT PUBLISHING

Copyright 2016 Lucy H. Pearce

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law.

Typeset by Lucent Word
Cover art by Robin Lea Quinlivan
Cover design by Lucent Word

Extended quotations used with the express permission of their authors.

Published by Womancraft Publishing, 2016
www.womancraftpublishing.com

ISBN: 978-1-910559-161 (Paperback edition)
ISBN: 978-1-910559-239 (Smashwords edition)

A percentage of Womancraft Publishing profits are invested back into the environment reforesting the tropics (via TreeSisters) and forward into the community: providing books for girls in developing countries, and affordable libraries for red tents and womens groups around the world.

Womancraft Publishing is committed to sharing powerful new womens voices, through a collaborative publishing process. We are proud to midwife this work, however the story, the experiences and the words are the authors alone.

For you, Burning Woman,
may the fire within you
burn stronger than the flames without.

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Wild + Precious: The Best of Wild Sister Magazine Jen Saunders. (Wild Sister, 2014)

Tiny Buddhas Guide to Loving Yourself Lori Deschene. (Hay House, 2013)

Roots: Where Food Comes From, and Where It Takes Us. (BlogHer, 2013)

Earth Pathways Diary (2013, 2014, 2017)

Musings on Mothering: An Anthology of Art, Poetry and Prose Teika Bellamy. (Mothers Milk Books, 2012)

Note to Self: The Secret to Becoming Your Own Best Friend. Jo MacDonald (2012)

She woke up one day and decided to set her life on fire; to go up in flames if necessary. To really live the life she was born to live.

Lynn Bartle

Acknowledgements

Burning Woman is a big book. This is the feedback I have had from each of my treasured early readers. Big in every way. It ranges far and wide in ideas and literary form, and connects many dots which I have not seen connected before. Be warned that it is also an embodied alchemical process. It holds great power, which at many times I doubted I could birth.

It began as seeds of fire I gathered over many years. Each time I shared a seed, it seemed to start a wildfire of recognition amongst the women that witnessed it. I knew I was onto something.