Synopses & Reviews
Linda Schierse Leonard, renowned Jungian analyst, teacher, and best-selling author, demonstrates the many parallels among the cycles, moods, and landscapes of nature and the phases of the creative processparallels that can foster inspiration, renewal, and hope. Many artists face profound challenges in the course of their creative work, and many more people do not think of themselves as creative at all, though their everyday discoveries, work, and personal lives can be deeply creative acts. Leonard shows how nature and creativity are healing and even necessary tools, and how we can use our energies to move through dark times so we can be ready to receive and actualize creativity. By understanding how to cultivate our "inner helpers"characters and archetypal patterns that rise up within us as we go about imagining a better lifewe can appreciate and develop creativity in all our endeavors.
About the Author
Linda Schierse Leonard, Ph.D., is a philosopher who trained as a Jungian analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich. She has been in private practice for forty years and is the author of many best-selling books, among them The Wounded Woman (translated into fifteen languages), Following the Reindeer Woman: Path of Peace and Harmony (Spring Journal Books), On the Way to the Wedding and Meeting the Madwoman. Leonard lectures and gives workshops on creativity internationally, has held teaching positions in the California State Universities and the University of Colorado at Denver, and provides private consultations on creativity, dreamwork, and writing. She is in private practice in Boulder, Colorado.