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ELDERWOMAN
The Elderwoman
Website is just one
of a growing number of online resources for women in the second half of
life. Here is a selection of links that I hope you will find useful and
interesting.
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Jean
Shinoda Bolen, author of Goddesses
in Older Women (a must-read book for
all elderwomen) and Crones
Don't Whine, has a web site which
links women of all ages, all over the world through the
Million Circles
project. www.jeanshinodabolen.com |
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Brooke Medicine Eagle, author of White
Buffalo Woman Comes Singing and The Last Ghost Dance runs wisewoman workshops.
See her web site at
www.medicineeagle.com/ |
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The late Angeles Arrien, author of The
Nine Muses, The
Four-Fold Way, Signs
of Life and The
Tarot Handbook has produced tapes about the aging process
and a new book entitled The
Second Half of Life. Check out her web site at www.angelesarrien.com |
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Jane Clitheroe is a workshop leader, photographer and 'clutter
consultant'. She lives and works at Coburns Farm in Somerset,
England, where she offers a peaceful and beautiful space for art,
crafts, workshops, women's retreats, and a year-long training in
'hearth eldership' based on Marian's book Elderwoman.
www.healingspace.org.uk
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Crones
Counsel - third age women from all over the USA and elsewhere,
who gather together once a year, usually in the autumn, to share
stories, dance, sing, drum and learn, and to honour and celebrate old
age. www.cronescounsel.org |
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'Crone, Wise Woman, Elder'
- a website created especially for women
of mid-life and beyond. Has comprehensive reading lists, lots of
interesting links to explore, and a chat room too.
www.cwwe.org
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Birthing the Crone
'Menopause & Aging through an Artist's Eyes'
'The Beauty of Old'
Visit artist Helen Redman's wonderful website
at www.birthingthecrone.com
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I love
Sandra Stanton's site 'THE GODDESS IN WORLD MYTHOLOGY.' Sandra
has painted every goddess you could think of and posted all the
paintings on her site, each accompanied by a full explanation. What an
opus! What I especially love about her images is that she uses live
models for all of them. So these are real, living, breathing women, not
stylized 'beauties.' And that is so very appropriate. For what is so
different about the Goddess is that we don't worship her - we embody
her and live her.
You will
find Sandra's home page at:www.goddessmyths.com |
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Women of Wisdom is an internationally recognized organization that
provides diverse and innovative programs offering women opportunities
for personal growth and transformation, including an annual conference
on women’s spirituality held each February in Seattle,
Washington.
www.womenofwisdom.org |
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A group
of elderly women who call themselves 'The Great Council of
Grandmothers' appeared to Sharon McErlane one day as she was walking
her dog.
"The
present imbalance of energy on earth has placed all life in
danger," the women declared. "It is time to return balance, and
for this, women must lead."
Meet
Sharon and hear, through her, the words of the Grandmothers, at
www.grandmothersspeak.com
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Crone
Chronicles magazine - the first magazine specifically for crones
- is no longer being printed, but the website gets better and better.
It is now more of an 'e-zine.' All the previous issues are archived,
and there are some good links to other elderwoman sites.
www.cronechronicles.com
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... the crone has taken
rebirth in the form of a whole new magazine!! |
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'Crone:
Women Coming of Age'
explores the gifts and concerns of women who seek fully to embrace
Earth’s cycles of life and death and transformation. We honor the
wisdom of long experience and the compassion of an open heart.
Our
readers are women who identify with a new, yet very ancient way of
growing older and who wish to help effect a cultural change that will
return wise elders to their natural and honored place in society.
Whereas
the purpose of Crone Chronicles was to help activate the Crone
archetype within contemporary culture, Crone magazine assumes that this
activation has taken place. For more and more women, the word 'crone'
is no longer scary: thousands of women now self-identify as crones.
'Crone:
Women Coming of Age' is published twice a year. It is packed
with wonderful content every elderwoman will love. Go to http://www.cronemagazine.com/
for full details and to subscribe.
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Would
you like to
meet an unusual and wonderfully 'green' elderwoman from Adelaide, South
Australia ?
Go
to Margaret
Rainbow
Web's
site at
www.users.on.net/~arachne/index.html
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Exploring what we think, know and imagine about growing old in the 21st
Century. AGING HORIZONS BULLETIN reports from Canada on current
research, and highlights people, best practices and resources from
around the world that inform and inspire.
Visit
www.AgingHorizons.com
Click here to read the 'Aging Horizons'
interview with Marian.
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UnconventionalWoman.com: a free resource
website for women over 50. Especially for single women, and
for the single woman in all of us. . . . Not the woman who's looking for
love, but the one who's looking for her LIFE |
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Music
from Australia
The
inimitable, one and only Anique Radiant Heart
sings
songs of the Goddess in a voice that truly was made in Heaven. Check
out her website at: www.herwill.net
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"A
'Moon Diary' might be the perfect gift for a woman you know. www.moondiary.com.au
Moon
Diary Products
bring you the world of Lunar Lore, Moon Stories of many cultures and
ideas for simple but powerful ritual. These are tools for the journey
that come from the wellspring of the Feminine Soul, encouraging sensory
awareness, pleasure and celebration of Feminine spirituality.
Through
this site
you can also journey into the world of the rich traditions of Women's
Performance Art as well as have your Natal Moon sign and phase
calculated and interpreted."
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'Moonsong' - an Australian website about women's mysteries http://www.moonsong.com.au/ Moonsong is a website for women in all phases of their lives and is about
reclaiming feminine power through reconnection with the women's mysteries.
Featured are articles and books written by Jane Hardwicke Collings, a homebirth
midwife of nearly three decades, on birth, life seasons, midwifery and the
cycles. Jane facilitates
workshops, teaching the spiritual practice of menstruation and the shamanic
dimensions of pregnancy and birth. She is founder and midwife of The School of
Shamanic Midwifery. Read Jane’s article “Evolution of the Triple Goddess:
Introducing Maga our Autumn life season after Mother and before Crone” at http://www.moonsong.com.au/fourphase.html
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'Wisdom
of the Crone': A Deck Of 54 Wisdom Cards
Each card
bears a unique image of women between the ages of fifty and one hundred.
www.wisdomofthecrone.com
'Wisdom
of the Crone'
is the perfect gift for women in all passages of life, while especially
honoring the seasoned women, women in menopause and all grandmothers.
This unique gift celebrates the goddess within while honoring all
female spiritual paths. This simple set of wisdom cards by and for wise
women allows women to be guided and inspired daily.
"When you
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Ann
Quinlan and Frederica Chapman ask: "Where do you go for retreat and
renewal? What place do you chose for that unique, previously
undiscovered experience? Let us bring you to the lush green land of
Ireland, where we will witness, explore, encircle, sing, journal, and
receive the nurturance that Ireland and our group will offer...."
If you
have ever fancied a Celtic journey, in the company of a small
group of women, led by experienced and deeply spiritual guides, check
out Ann and Frederica's luscious website at www.spiraljourneys.com |
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SeniorMatch.com
- "The premium dating
site for
senior friends and singles"
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is dedicated to providing practical information about safety, security,
and avoiding scams when seniors use an online dating site. They are
focused on the goal of educating seniors about the dangers of using an
online dating site, in addition to its benefits. | | |
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'The
Eldership Project',
based in south Devon, England, is for both women and men. It aims to
foster positive and creative
attitudes to the later years of life and to develop the theory and
practice of eldership in society. For further details, click
on www.eldership.net
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the population ages, there is an ever-increasing need for professionals
in various fields who understand the needs of old people. For anyone
looking to do an MA in gerontology, Lilly Henderson has created a great
resource website that describes all such courses available in the USA. http://www.mastersingerontology.com/ | | |
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'Fifty
and Furthermore' www.fiftyandfurthermore.com
"A site
for anyone who
believes that growing older is a time for passionate living and that
the years ahead, though they may call us to new paths, can be the best
ones yet." |
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"As you enter into the vast territory where you are called middle aged
or mature, you are looking for ways to reclaim the value of age,
rejoice in your wisdom, and turn around the negative stereotypes that
are so common in this youth oriented society. At this stage of your
life, there is an instinctive desire to redefine yourself and discover
how you want to spend the best years of your life."
www.olderwiserwomen.com
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Are
you
a
'baby boomer?'
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If you are one of the vast cohort of 'baby
boom' women, here's a website just for you ...
http://www.boomerwomenspeak.com
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A 'must-read' for every woman of forty and over, is The
Watercolor Bedroom by
Daphne Stevens "....a delightful, personal, nurturing peek into one
woman's journey of creating a life that fits for her - a truly
comforting, wise Grandmother God life. A blend of A Room of One's Own
and The Woman's Comfort
Book" Daphne's website is: www.daphnestevens.com |
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Carolyn Heilbrun's book The Last Gift of Time: Life
Beyond Sixty, is a
lovely, autobiographical account of the changes - some subtle, some not
so subtle - that one woman experienced as she moved beyond her sixtieth
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Barbara Walker's classic study of the crone throughout history
THE
CRONE: Woman of Age, Wisdom and Power, makes fascinating -
if disturbing - reading. I think it should be compulsory reading for
every mature woman. |
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A great book on becoming a wise elder (male OR female) is Rabbi
Schachter Shalomi's From
Aging to Sage-ing.
"Older adults have unique opportunities and freedoms because of their
age. The later adult years can be a time of profound liberation, inner
growth, and spiritual development. Elders can be wisdom-keepers,
mentors, agents of evolution and healers of the planet."
Click here for more info on 'positive
aging' programs.
You may also be interested in:
This is a networking organization for professionals trained in the
Sage-ing philosophy. Members of the Guild lead discussions, classes and
workshops designed for persons interested in aging consciously and with
purpose. http://www.sage-ingguild.org:80/ |
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Still
Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying
A wonderful, thoughtful book by the funny, wise, irrepressible, and
much-loved spiritual teacher, Ram Dass, who suffered a stroke in 1997.
Reviewer Sam Keen writes:
"Back then, when we were young and easy, Ram Dass taught us to be fully
present to our lives. Here and now we're not as young and it's not so
easy and he's still teaching us how to age with courage and compassion." |
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I found Alan Chinen's In the
Ever After: Fairy Tales and the Second Half of Life very
interesting. It has a Jungian perspective, using fairy tales from all
over
the world to illustrate the special, psychological tasks of aging. |
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Wise
Woman's Way:A Guide to Growing Older with Purpose and Passion by Berta Parrish.
A
wonderful workbook for any woman poised at the threshold
of her
'third age' and wondering how to step through it in a meaningful and
graceful fashion. A book that shows how to make the very most of this
important time of transition.
More details on Berta's Web page - http://www.wisewomansquest.com/
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Whether
you call it healthy aging, creative aging, aging gracefully, successful
aging or just plain aging well, the women artists in Amy Gorman's book,
Aging
Artfully: 12 Profiles of Visual and Performing Women Artists 85-105, which (usually) includes a CD by Frances
Kandl entitled, 7
songs of Women’s Lives, and Greg Young’s
accompanying DVD, Still
Kicking, (Click here to watch the trailer) are
exemplary role models for all of us.
http://www.agingartfully.com
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The
Art of Aging: Celebrating the Authentic
Aging Self
An art/inspirational book published June 2009, Sentient Publications.
Artwork and written material by Alice and Richard Matzkin.
Alice
and Richard are both inspired artists
living on Ojai, California. Their loving and tender depictions of old
age, in both
painting and sculpture, are stunning in their beauty and impact. Visit
their
website at http://matzkinstudio.com
to
see pictures and videos of Richard and Alice and their wonderful work.
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The Next Fifty
Years: A Guide for Women at Midlife and Beyond, by
Pamela Blair http://www.pamblair.com/books.htm
More than 150 short essays on a broad
range of topics that are of particular interest and importance to women
as they age. Some of the essays deal with serious
issues, others are meant to be entertaining and lighthearted.
As you read, you may laugh, you may cry, but most importantly you will
realize that you are not alone. Each essay is followed by
questions with space to write in your reactions, feelings and/or what
actions you might need to take.
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Harvest
the Bounty of Your Career by Deborah F Windrum,
is a unique guide for the inner journey often precipitated in
the second half of life as a result of career transition, life change,
or simply the process of becoming “ageful.”
The book’s central tree metaphor is exquisitely translated into
original art by Michele Renée Ledoux. The book features 19 full-color,
full-page works of art, a soft cover, lay-flat binding, and a back
cover flap that includes a beautiful tear-off bookmark. The 7” x 8”
format of the book imparts a personal and intimate feel. Click here for details and to buy a copy
of this beautiful volume for yourself or anyone facing 'retirement'.
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Check out this
wonderful and comprehensive, UK-based resource site for "pausing"
women.
"MIDLIFE AND
MENOPAUSE: CHANGING BODIES, CHANGING LIVES." www.midlifeandmenopause.co.uk
"Fly with it, featherbed yourself or float through it - it's
your future!" |
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THE WOMAN
ON FIRE
This hot fiery video, by Kathleen Loughlin, is dedicated to the
proposition that women love to watch and listen to other women like
themselves grapple with ideas about the B I G things that happen to us
around the time of M E N O P A U S E because they can then continue the
process themselves... www.womanonfire.net |
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Alexandra Pope, author of :
The
Wild Genie:The Healing Power of Menstruation
runs workshops for women, both in Australia and in the UK, on the
wisdom of menstruation. Through her workshops, women learn to reclaim
the menstrual cycle as a psychospiritual process for cultivating deep
authority and wisdom. Read more about Alexandra and her work
at www.wildgenie.com |
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Miscellaneous
Internet resources for personal and spiritual growth |
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SelfGrowth.com is the most
complete guide to information about Self Improvement, Personal Growth
and Self Help on the Internet. It is designed to be an organized
directory, with articles and references to thousands of other Web Sites
on the World Wide Web.
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(click on
the gold button to go to Marian's blog)
Feel free to use
Marian's custom-built 'start' page,
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