My Sap is Rising: A Pilgrimage of Holistic Mental Health Healing with Hildegard of Bingen and Alfred Adler
My Sap is Rising: A Pilgrimage of Holistic Mental Health Healing with Hildegard of Bingen and Alfred Adler
My Sap is Rising: A Pilgrimage of Holistic Mental Health Healing with Hildegard of Bingen and Alfred Adler
Description
Description
What happens when a 12th-century mystic, a 20th-century psychologist, and a modern-day priest walk into the Rhine Valley?
When Episcopal priest and psychotherapist Rev. Danae Ashley embarked on the Hildegard of Bingen Pilgrimage Way through Germany, she carried two unlikely companions: the revolutionary medieval abbess Hildegard and Alfred Adler, founder of Individual Psychology. What she discovered was that these three voices, separated by centuries, speak a unified language of wholeness, courage, and transformation.
Part spiritual memoir, part self-help guide, part historical exploration, My Sap is Rising invites you on a journey through the Rhine Valley and into your own healing. Through beautifully illustrated reflections, Danáe weaves together Hildegard's theology of "viriditas" (greening power), Adler's Individual Psychology, and her own experience as a therapist and pilgrim to offer a holistic path toward mental, physical, and spiritual wellness.
Each chapter includes:
- Stories from the pilgrimage trail
- Insights from Hildegard's mystical writings and Adler's psychology
- Practical exercises for your own transformation
- Original illustrations by Kester Limner
Whether you're a therapist seeking to integrate spirituality into your practice, a spiritual seeker hungry for medieval wisdom, or simply curious about what it means to be "a feather on the breath of God," this book is a feast for body, mind, and spirit.
Feel your sap rising. The pilgrimage begins here.
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Published by Tehom Center Publishing
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Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
If you're looking for a meaningful armchair adventure, read My Sap is Rising. Danáe Ashley takes the reader on an exciting exploration as an authentic modern pilgrim alongside a 20th century psychologist and 12th century mystic. The book's presentation is creatively conceived and executed with scholarly documentation and illustrations which make the material delightfully accessible.
--Molly O'Dell, MD, MFA, author of Care is A Four Letter Verb
My Sap is Rising is clever, insightful, empowering, and encouraging. Danáe does a masterful job creatively articulating the connection between the life and influence of Hildegard with Adler's Individual Psychology while providing readers with opportunities for personal, emotional, and spiritual growth and transformation. This is a true work of social interest.
--Meg Williams, PhD, LMFT-S, MCLC, Adlerian Network Chair
My Sap is Rising brilliantly weaves together Rev. Ashley's personal experience of Hildegard
of Bingen and her expertise in Adler. It offers a creative and holistic application of
Hildegard and Adler for the reader. This book is unique in its approach and offers a
valuable contribution to the world of Hildegard studies.
--Rev. Dr. Shanon Sterringer, Founder and Pastor of the Hildegard Haus and Author, 30 Day Journey with St. Hildegard of Bingen and Forbidden Grace
In My Sap is Rising, Danae Ashley melds together the memory of a tough time, her
psychotherapy practice, and an unexpected walk into the Middle Ages along the Way of
Hildegard of Bingen. She finds herself surprisingly moved by Hildegard's relics, touched
by a long-destroyed monastery, warmed by monks and nuns. She discovers Hildegard's
medieval universe of values, which is not a statistical universe, not a subjective universe
nor a way of explaining feelings. But fixed, beautiful, and orderly, and in her book she
conveys those values to her readers as memoir, self-help projects, and important
realizations about our modern lives.
-- Victoria Sweet MD PhD, Guggenheim Fellow and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco
Author of God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine and Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing
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