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This is one of over 150 articles focused on building high-nurturance family relationships and preventing divorce. This introduction describes the Web site’s purpose and the best ways to use its resources. Each article is part of a mosaic of ideas, so the more you read, the more sense they’ll all make.

These articles augment, vs. replace, other qualified professional help. The “/” in re/marriage and re/divorce notes that it may be a stepparent’s first union. “Co-parents” means both bioparents, or any of the three or more related stepparents and bioparents co-managing a multi-home nuclear stepfamily.
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Excerpt from The Heroine’s Journey

From the Introduction

There is a void felt these days by women and men—who suspect that their feminine nature, like Persephone, has gone to hell. Wherever there is such a void, such a gap or wound agape, healing must be sought in the blood of the wound itself. It is another of the old alchemical truths that “no solution should be made except in its own blood.” So the female void cannot be cured by conjunction with the male, but rather by an internal conjunction, by an integration of its own parts, by a remembering or a putting back together of the mother-daughter body.
—Nor Hall, The Moon and the Virgin

Working as a therapist with women, particularly between the ages of thirty and fifty, I have heard a resounding cry of dissatisfaction with the successes won in the marketplace. This dissatisfaction is described as a sense of sterility, emptiness, and dismemberment, even a sense of betrayal. These women have embraced the stereotypical male heroic journey and have attained academic, artistic, or financial success; yet for many the question remains, “What is all of this for?”

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With thanks to: http://www.marthatierney.com/twelve.html

1. Body aches and pains, especially in the neck, shoulder and back. This is the result of intense changes at your DNA level as the “Christ seed” awakens within. This too shall pass.

2. Feeling of deep inner sadness for no apparent reason. You are releasing your past (this lifetime and others) and this causes the feeling of sadness. This is similar to the experience of moving from a house where you lived in for many years into a new house. As much as you want to move into the new house, there is a sadness of leaving behind the memories, energy and experiences of the old house. This will pass.

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