Helping a Loved One Live Smoke Free or Through the Goddess

Helping a Loved One Live Smoke-Free: What Works, What Won't, and Why

Author: Barbara White Melin

How many times have you nagged them? Sometimes you pleaded. And you've even tried bribing. It seems nothing has helped your loved one quit smoking. In this first of its kind how-to book for non-smokers, Barbara White Melin reveals the powerful dynamics of nicotine addiction and presents effective strategies for assisting a loved one who is trying to quit.

Drawing on the latest medical and psychological research, Melin examines new evidence about nicotine's effect on stress as well as the link between smoking and depression. Friendly, straightforward, and hopeful, Helping a Loved One Live Smoke-Free offers both the inspiration and the tools to support someone you love through this difficult change.

Key features and benefits

• provides excellent explanation of why it's so hard to quit smoking
• author is a leading spokesperson on issues related to tobacco use
• offers commonsense advice and simple techniques

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Through the Goddess: A Woman's Way of Healing

Author: Patricia Reis

Drawing on her wide background in depth psychology, art, and archeology, Patricia Reis gives a unique feminist reading to the meaning of the Goddess. Through personal experience and reflection, through women's creative productions, and above all through examples from the lives of women she has guided in her practice of therapeia, Through the Goddess shows the indwelling Goddess to be a much-needed resource for physical, spiritual, and psychological healing. Utilizing pre-patriarchal Goddess images for inspiration and information, Reis shows how the earliest Goddess images provide important bedrock symbols of female wholeness that are lacking in the later Greek Goddesses who are often patriarchally influenced and reflect instead the suffering and fragmented aspects of women, which correspond to contemporary women's struggles for self-acceptance. Reis further develops a newly emerging archetype: that of the female body. Through the work of women poets and artists, Reis shows how women today can heal personally and collectively from abuse, incest, eating disorders, and from the sometimes devastating effects of breast cancer by initiation into and through the Goddess.

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Reis is a proponent of feminist archetypal psychology, and presents in this work her thesis and the development of her methodology. Included is an analysis of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Viking, 1962) and frescoes in the Villa of Mysteries at Pompeii. At the outset, she states that current images of goddesses are reworked through the patriarchal imagination, leaving women voiceless and seeking their own images and mythologies. Using pre-patriarchal goddess images, Reis shows us a more earthy, many-faceted goddess in whom creation and destruction, life and death are all contained--a figure closer to women's experience of life than Greek and Roman examples. Recommended for most women's studies or psychology collections.-- Marilyn E. Schafer, Canadian Memorial Chiropractic Coll., Toronto

Table of Contents:

	List of Illustrations and Plates	9
	Acknowledgments	11
	Preface	13
	Introduction: Theory and Practice	17
I	The Mysteries of Creativity: Self-Seeding, Death, and the Great Goddess	34
II	Facing Medusa: The Shadow Sister	60
III	Good Breast, Bad Breast, This Is the Cuckoo's Nest: Patriarchy Imagines Matriarchy	86
IV	Recovering Aphrodite: Healing the Abused Body	111
V	Confronting the High Priestess Necessitas: Healing the Wounded Body	150
VI	The Mystery Is Always of the Body: A Mid-Life Meditation on the Villa of Mysteries at Pompeii	177
	Notes	215
	Copyright Acknowledgments	225
	Illustration and Plate Credits	227
	Index	229