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2017 Nautilus Award Gold Winner

Feel like you don't belong? You're not alone.

The world has never been more connected, yet people are lonelier than ever. Whether we feel unworthy, alienated, or anxious about our place in the world -- the absence of belonging is the great silent wound of our times.

Most people think of belonging as a mythical place, and they spend a lifetime searching for it in vain. But what if belonging isn't a place at all? What if it's a skill that has been lost or forgotten?

With her signature depth and eloquence, Toko-pa maps a path to Belonging from the inside out. Drawing on myth, stories and dreams, she takes us into the origins of our estrangement, reframing exile as a necessary initiation into authenticity. Then she shares the competencies of belonging: a set of ancestral practices to heal our wounds and restore true belonging to our lives and to the world.

ISBN-13: 9781775111207

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Her Own Room Press

Publication Date: 12-20-2017

Pages: 260

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.59(d)

Toko-pa Turner is an award winning Canadian writer, teacher, and dreamworker who blends the mystical tradition of Sufism with a Jungian approach to dreams. In 2001 she founded the Dream School, from which thousands of students have since graduated. Sometimes called a Midwife of the Psyche, Toko-pa's work focuses on restoring the feminine, reciprocity with nature, honouring grief, ritual, and making beauty.

Table of Contents

1. Something Greater

2. Origins of Estrangement

3. The Death Mother

4. False Belonging

5. The Inner Marriage

6. Initiations by Exile

7. The Symbolic Life

8. Trekking the Creative Wild

9.The Dark Guests

10. Pain as Sacred Ally

11.Holy Longing

12. Competencies of Belonging

13. Handmaking a Life

14. Bearing the Pleasure

15. The Invitational Presence

16. Storywells and Songlines

17. Tending a Village

18. Reciprocity with Nature

19. Conclusion