Patricia Lynn Reilly - Imagine a Woman in Love with Herself: Embracing Your Wisdom and Wholeness
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Vanquishing once and for all the tired biblical theory of woman as the cause of mans fall from grace, Imagine a Woman in Love with Herself empowers women to move from self-loathing to self-love, from self-criticism to self-celebration. It dismantles the question Whats wrong with me? by exploring its historical, theological, and personal origins. Patricia Lynn Reilly explores 20 self-affirming qualities that encourage women to be the authors of their own lives and to cultivate knowledge and love of themselves. Each section is filled with reflections and meditations that ask readers to reclaim their inner resources and reconnect with the essential truth about themselves.
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Rose photographs (cover) 1998 Deborah Schenk previously published by Chronicle Books
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Reilly, Patricia Lynn. Imagine a woman in love with herself : embracing your wisdom and wholeness / Patricia Lynn Reilly : preface by SARK : foreword by Sue Patton Theole. p. cm. ISBN: 1-57324-169-5 (trade paper) 1. Spiritual life. 2. WomenReligious life. I. Title. B625.7.R47 1999 200'.82dc21 99-16071 CIP
Printed in the United States of America on recycled paper.
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Preface
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Foreword
Sue Patton Thoele author of The Courage to Be Yourself
Patricia Lynn Reilly celebrates the wondrous and unique women we now are and the equally remarkable ones we are in the process of becoming. Falling head over heels in love with ourselves and learning to treat ourselves with the same respect, tender mercy, and gentle amusement we usually reserve for others actually facilitates our maturation into the women we were born to become.
However, acceptance and celebration of self is often hard to achieve, especially when we believe we've done or said something "wrong." Recently, for instance, I felt that I had made a fool of myself in the presence of my son's new girlfriend. The following morning, embarrassment and remorse threatened to lay a film of shame over my day and my self-esteem. Even my son's reassurance that my behavior was a "non-issue" failed to erase the self-blame in which I was indulging.
Thankfully, as time passed, I was able to view the incident less critically and with a welcome and healthy sense of humor. Maybe I
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could call myself the "Poster Girl for Imperfection" and, as Patricia encourages us to do, imagine myself as a woman who has access to a full range of human emotions and expresses them directly.
We need to honor every aspect of our personalities and spirits and recognize that the unusual and the imperfect parts are what make us rare, full, and radiant beings. To do so is an act of love and allegiance and, as captured in Patricia's writing, a powerful act of imagination: Imagine a woman who has grown in knowledge and love of herself. A woman who has vowed faithfulness to her own life and capacities. Who remains loyal to herself. Regardless.
From my own experience and from discussing the issue of self-love with countless other women, I've found that women have two essential tasks: 1) to embrace ourselves into wholenesswarts and wisdom alikeand 2) to believe in our own goodness, worth, and beauty. Because imagination leads to belief, Imagine a Woman in Love with Herself provides us with a clear and gentle path through the wilderness of self-doubt and deprecation into the joyous realm of unconditional love and belief in ourselves. Regardless. From such self-love flows a deeper and richer ability to love others and life itself.
Thank you, Patricia.
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Your True Reflection
Imagine a Woman In Love With Herself is based on twenty stanzas of my popular poem, "Imagine a Woman." The book expresses the heart of my fifteen-year ministry supporting women to author their own lives, to name their own gods, and to grow in knowledge and love of themselves. Each chapter starts with a stanza of the poem and is followed by a series of woman-affirming reflections and meditations meant to carry you into your day... into your life.
In preparation for reading the book, read through the poem. As you do, imagine standing in front of a woman-affirming mirror. The book invites you to look upon yourself with loving-kindness. Gazing at your own true reflection, you will discover that everything you have longed for "out there" is already within you. It is my prayer that you will accept this book's invitation to descend into the richness of who you are, reclaim your inner resources, and grow in knowledge and love of yourself.
Our beloved planet is in desperate need of women who have moved from self-loathing to self-love, from self-criticism to self-celebration. Women who design woman-affirming solutions to the
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challenges confronting humankind as it enters the twenty-first century. Women who use their personal and communal resources to give birth to images of inclusion, poems of truth, rituals of healing, experiences of transformation, relationships of equality, and households of compassion. Women full of themselves!
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1 Imagine a woman who believes it is right and good she is woman.
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