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If Women Rose Rooted: A life-changing journey to authenticity and belonging Paperback – August 20, 2019

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A life-changing journey from the wasteland of modern society to a place of nourishment and connection. Fifth anniversary edition, with new afterword for 2021.

‘Mind-blowing. An anthem for all we could be . . . I sincerely hope every woman who can read has the time and space to read it.’ Manda Scott, author of Boudica and A Treachery of Spies

‘This is the core of our task: to respect and revere ourselves, and so bring about a world in which women are respected and revered, recognised once again as holding the life-giving power of the earth itself.’

If Women Rose Rooted has been described as both transformative and essential. Sharon Blackie leads the reader on a quest to find their place in the world, drawing inspiration from the wise and powerful women in native mythology, and guidance from contemporary role models who have re-rooted themselves in land and community and taken responsibility for shaping the future.

Beautifully written, honest and moving, If Women Rose Rooted is a passionate song to a different kind of femininity, a rallying, feminist cry for the rewilding of womanhood; reclaiming our role as guardians of the land.

‘Powerful and inspiring.’ Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley

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"I love this book. Truly, it's mind-blowing in the most profound and exhilarating sense. This is an anthem for all we could be, an essential book for this, the most critical of recent times. I sincerely hope every woman who can read is given one, and has the time and the space to read it." -- Manda Scott, author of Boudica and Into the Fire

"Women have long been told to 'know our place'. This powerful and inspiring exploration of the female relationship with landscape turns the diktat around, showing us what may be gained from doing just that." -- Melissa Harrison, author of Clay and At Hawthorn Time

"Blackie does an admirable job of describing a beautiful, rich, intoxicating, messy, terrifying and ultimately illuminating pathway into the heart of the land and of our own souls. Recommended." -- Sharon Paice Macleod, SageWoman

"A beautiful, intelligent and unusual book... I'm hoping this book will become the anthem of our generation." -- Kate Forsyth, author of Bitter Greens, The Wild Girl and The Beast's Garden

"It was one of those rare times when I felt as if by some means of synchronicity, the right book reached me at exactly the right moment." -- Dreaming in Stitches

"This book has the power to change lives, I truly believe that... A real game changer." --The Way of the Buzzard

"It is heartening to read a progressive view of the women's movement and one that links with care for the Earth and all living beings. This book is very well recommended." --GreenSpirit magazine

About the Author

Dr Sharon Blackie is an award-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction, a psychologist who has specialised both in neuroscience and narrative, and a mythologist with a specialisation in Celtic Studies. Her unique approach to working with myth, fairy tales and folklore highlights the insights these traditions can offer us into authentic and meaningful ways of being which are founded on a deep sense of belonging to place, a rootedness in the land we inhabit.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ September Publishing (UK) (August 20, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1912836017
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1912836017
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 1 x 8 inches
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Dr. Sharon Blackie is an award-winning writer, psychologist and mythologist. Her highly acclaimed books, courses, lectures and workshops are focused on the development of the mythic imagination, and on the relevance of myths, fairy tales and folk traditions to the personal, cultural and environmental problems we face today.

As well as writing five books of fiction and nonfiction, including the bestselling If Women Rose Rooted and her latest, Hagitude, her writing has appeared in anthologies, collections and in several international media outlets – among them the Guardian, the Irish Times, and the Scotsman. Her books have been translated into several languages, and she has been interviewed by the BBC, US public radio and other broadcasters on her areas of expertise. Her awards include the Roger Deakin Award, and a Creative Scotland Writer’s Award. Her next book, Wise Women: Myths and folklore in celebration of older women will be published by Virago in 2024.

Sharon is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and has taught and lectured at several academic institutions, Jungian organisations, retreat centres and cultural festivals around the world.

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Joyce
5.0 out of 5 stars Great stories!
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Scotch-Irish Blackie was born in England and has lived mostly in Scotland and Ireland. She offers the Celtic traditional stories of “first things,” which “honor Women as the creators of life, the bearers of the Cup of knowledge and wisdom, personifying the moral and spiritual authority of this fertile green and blue Earth” – and great stories they are. She mixes her personal story and poetry with the old stories. Here is how she states her understanding. “The sense of belonging to the world that those of us in these Western lands once had, that sense of deep rooting in the Earth, is all but dead. The patriarchy crippled it; Modernity dealt it the final blow. As a woman, I want to make it live again. We belong to each other, this land and I. The Eco-Heroine’s Journey is a journey back to a solid rooting in the land where we live and the traditions of our native places.” Her advice to older women: Pass your wisdom on. Tell your own story. Your truth shatters hypocrisy. When necessary, become fierce. Be wrathful.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One Woman's Journey through Love, Death and Modern Medicine"
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Majestic in its scope, “If Women Rose Rooted” is an insightful and inspiring book. Blackie is generous in her sharing of her own and others’ lives in service to restoring word and world. I am always grateful for books that incorporate a mythic perspective and this one, resonant with a Celtic heart, is soul-nourishing indeed.

There are many aspects of the book to appreciate. Most striking to me is how “The Eco-Heroine’s Journey” is introduced as a framework, (a further development of Maureen Murdock’s Heroine’s Journey, sorely needed in our time of ecological despair). Without Blackie’s skilled weaving of many levels of story, that schema could stay abstract. Instead, it is offers a path from grief to empowerment and ultimately hope, that each, in our own way, can root and rise. I am full of gratitude for this offering and look forward to it rippling out into the world.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read!
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If you asked me just two weeks ago what my favorite book was, I’d give you a list of quite a few (I read a lot). While many books will forever be in my heart, this book stands out from the rest! Blackie’s book has left me changed; understood, heard, empowered, and most importantly, inspired!

She so eloquently explains all the feelings and phases (I believe) most of us modern women struggle with. This book is pure magic yet brutal reality at the same time; a call for destruction of all the false facades we’ve had to hide behind and a call for a rebirth; true and strong, rooted yet gentle. Whatever your ethnic background sisters, I feel we all need to read this story, and answer the call!

Reading this book “we are forced to go deep into ourselves, so that we might first discover what it is that we must accept, know, and above all lose before we can find out what it is that we might become” (p.115).
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Elizabeth Tenety
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This book put words to my deep and growing sense of disorientation in the modern world. Sharon Blackie's work points us to a truer, richer, deeper way to live. As an American of Irish descent, I found her connection to our ancestral homeland even more profound and believe others in the Irish diaspora would, perhaps for the first time, go deep on who we truly are, through Blackie's storytelling. I tell everyone I know (who will listen) about this book.
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Jessica Opensky
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful heart filling read. Thank you!
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2023
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Excellent stories, histories and relevance.
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Bev
4.0 out of 5 stars Yet Another Worthy Book About Women's Wisdom
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As a fan of "Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype" and "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants," I felt myself drawn to Sharon Blackie's book especially since it dealt with women and mythology.

"If Women Rose Rooted"is an honest, sometimes emotion-stealing read of a woman in search of her roots and her rootedness. Do you ever have a strong desire or pull to not just visit but belong somewhere other than where you live? Blackie did. And this is the story of her journey to find not just the place but her authentic self.

Nowadays, I believe we're so caught up in busy-ness that we don't take time to slow down, to dream, to probe the soil, to immerse ourselves in nature. If CoVid-19 isolation/quarantine has done anything, I think it has given us time to do just that. Blackie helps guide our self-exploration by creating a "heroine's journey" which is similar, yet different, to Joseph Campbell's "hero's journey". Within each section of the heroine's journey, she tells stories of Celtic mythology, stories of strong women who loved nature, nurtured the land, and were independent. She weaves her own personal story into these retellings.

". . . women want Sovereignty--to take up their ancient role as the moral and spiritual authority of the land. In our native myths and stories, Sovereignty represents the creative, regenerative, life-giving feminine principle; when it is balanced by the good masculine--when the goddess of the land enters into a sacred marriage with the true Kind of the people--then the land is fertile and the people safe from harm."

". . . feminine qualities of relatedness are suppressed: relatedness to other humans, to the non-humans who share the planet with us, to nature and the rhythms of nature, as well as to the rhythms of the physical body and the stages of passages of our lives."

This book is another that will remain in my ever-growing collection of nature and women studies.
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This is a lovely book that provides so much inspiration for women to take action and follow their inner attachment towards things they care for - especially nature. It is a wonderful book that undermines the power of women in the conservation of nature for the past ages.
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