This guide to maximizing breastmilk production came about as a result of Lenore’s own experience with induced lactation. In 1999, she set about trying to find a way to bring in a milk supply for her son who was to be born via gestational surrogacy. Lenore contacted Dr. Newman as soon as she learne... More

Even so, thousands of ordinary and extraordinary men and women have discovered wise counsel in their own inner voice. It can guide us in every department of our life, from diet to religion, sexual relationship to business details. ... More

'Don't you see that you can create beauty in building beautiful children?' I asked her. Gradually I could see her wistfulness and dissatisfaction disappear; her attitude toward housework and child care changed. Years later when I met her at a lecture I was giving in Philadelphia she showed me th... More

The Great Mother may not have these connections for us personally, but may represent unformed, or largely unconscious feelings we have about how we are linked with the process of life, and have within us the splendour of this mystery. For a woman this may be particularly potent at times. It connect... More

In today's world, whether we are female or male, we need the balancing power of the Goddess in our external life. Without this contact with the sustaining and nourishing forces of life within us, we can easily become dried up, sterile, intellectual but empty pods of life.... More

A woman told a similar dream to me. Her teenage son came down to breakfast looking very unhappy. When she asked him why he said he had a dream that deeply disturbed him. In it he was walking with a friend and the friend walked through a door. When her son tried to follow he could not pass through th... More

While governments fight wars and spend billions on armaments, the main work of human beings is left undone. This work is the task of growing up, of dealing with our childhood, healing it and emerging as a new and mature person who is moving beyond the need for aggression, jealousy, possessiveness an... More

The fundamental qualities of this archetype are dependence, powerlessness and lack of resources, both personal and material. In some way many of us have something of this archetype influencing our behaviour. We might be impoverished of the ability to love, or of initiative or motivation.... More

She might hold that other child, or that creature, with the same tenderness that she held her own baby. In such a moment she would know something that was beyond herself. It is something that flows through all of us. We symbolise it as the milk, the wine, or the blood. It is the flow of love that co... More

If the artist is a powerful force within my life, what is it I am trying to give form to? Do I believe that to be an artist I have to be eccentric or live in ways to give me a confidence I don't have? ... More

The animus can be depicted in a dream by an heroic or spiritual male figure, by her brother or father, a giant, a lion or bull. The animus can be wonderfully creative or powerfully destructive, depending upon ones relationship with it. Cultural symbols one may use are of leader figures from either n... More

Can I recognise my own internal female, and if so what characteristics does it have? How is my relationship with my internal woman - perhaps in some way a negative image of my mother - influencing my relationship with my female partner(s)? In my dreams am I ready to marry or unite with my female? ... More

The positive influence of this archetype is in the release of a patient and persevering attempt to investigate and understand the unconscious processes of life and thereby, through meeting ones own inner and external processes, to arrive at transformation. ... More

This may sound like too much to ask. But frankly, the more you put into parenthood, the more you will get out of it. Certainly it will be more of a personally creative event.... More

Why have I lost the simple pleasure of sitting in the sun, of walking in the warmth of the evening, of just being around other people. All the time I ached inside with such intensity I was robbed of any everyday pleasure or desire to be with anyone.... More

Do I think I am the sensory experience of my body? If so who am I in sleep when I lose the awareness of my body and exterior world? If I am my body, how do I account for its enormous changes in ageing, and the fact I have a sense of permanence amidst this change? ... More