Warming the Stone Child (Lighthouse Treasury) [AUDIOBOOK] [UNABRIDGED] (Audio Cassette)

by Clarissa P. Estes (Actor)

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Warming the Stone Child Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The Unmothered Child in World Myth and Story - The pain of abandonment, both literal and metaphorical, can cast a shadow on our entire experience. Warming the Stone Child investigates the abandoned-child archetype in world myths and cultures to find clues about the process of healing the unmothered child within us all. Using myths, fairy tales, and Jungian theory, Dr. Estés melds many sources into a brilliant examination of the orphan figure through the ages. Collapsing behavior and inferiority complexes are indications that a person may have suffered preadolescent abandonment. These people are also intuitive, adaptable, quickly attached, and courageous. Above all, the abandoned child spends a lifetime in search of the lost part of the self that was hidden away and now lies buried deep in the unconscious. Another classic session with the author of Women Who Run With the Wolves.

Book Description
Another underground bestseller from the author of Women Who Run with the Wolves. On Warming the Stone Child, Dr. Estes takes us past the gates of the conscious mind to discover the unmothered child within. Along the way, this gifted storyteller and Jungian analyst illuminates the psychology of abandonment in childhood, how it affects people in later life, and its curious gifts and powers.

"Important material for those wishing to fan alive the coals glowing within". -- Parenting Magazine

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated (March 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564550818
• ISBN-13: 978-1564550811
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #539,874 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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54 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Special Gifts, March 11, 2003

By	Tammy L. Schilling "tammyl84" (MD) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I got Warming the Stone Child after reading Women Who Run With the Wolves (another great title by Clarissa Pinkola Estes). It is really superb.

The author address the unique pain that accompanies being an unmothered child. She shows how this pain, left undealt with, can affect us for a lifetime. She also acknowledges those many people who have felt that while they were not physically abandoned, they were still unmothered (something our culture has been slow to do).

Using archetypal myths and storytelling the author helps us to first identify ourselves within the myths - and then identify coping mechanisms that we can take for ourselves out of the myths. A really nice addition, she also helps us to identify the special and unique gifts that come out of being an unmothered child. Specifically, and often referenced on the tape, is the gift of powerful intuition. The author speaks to those who, through the pain of their upbringing, developed a highly sensitive trouble or 'BS' monitor. I believe many women will find tons to identify with this in themselves.

The audio tape is read by the author, which makes it nice because it feels more like she's talking to you than reading from her book. I listened to this in the car one night going somewhere alone. In the darkness, alone, it had a very etherial feeling. I would definitely recommend this tape to anyone who has been abandoned or has felt somehow unmothered.

85 of 89 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Poignant, Insightful, and Encouraging, October 28, 2003

By	Janet Boyer "JanetBoyer.com" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Estes tells several stories that pertain to the orphan, abandoned, neglected, and "umothered" child. In Jungian analysis, all parts of a dream, fairy tale, or myth are really components of ourselves. We can re-write the ending and claim healing for ourselves by becoming our own Mother.

She recounts the English tale of the Stolen Woman Moon, Inuit fable of The Stone Child, Little Red Cap (which is an early version of Little Red Riding Hood), and other stories. She then talks about how, in Jungian analysis, all parts of a dream, fairy tale, or myth, are really components of ourselves. Estes also mentions that the fairy tales and stories we strongly identify with, especially as children, become a type of script for many of us--myths for our own life. If the story doesn't have a happy ending traditionally, we need to change the ending of how we want the "tale" to turn out in our own lives. Of all the stories on the tape, it was the last story that moved me the most, though. She shares that the story of the Lost Dog, which was her favorite growing up.

The lost dog goes wandering from house to house, looking for a home. The dog gets chased away, yelled at, and so on. No one wants to dog around, let alone make him a part of the family. The dog is so weary and feels so alone. He then sees a house at the end of the rail road tracks that has a light burning within. He says to himself in despair This is the last house that I will try. He scratches the door, and it opens. The house is filled with children that were having a birthday party, and they squeal in delight at the presence of the dog--thinking that he was a birthday present.

Oh, to be received as if you were a present instead of a scourge or a nuisance!

Since all elements of a story/myth are within, and parts, of ourselves, it comes back to becoming your own Mother. Your own welcoming party. Your own celebration. Your own guide, comforter, and nurturer.

If you have an internal wounded, abandoned, orphaned, or neglected child, realize that you can "grow your own Mother" inside. A partially burned piece of wood always has an ember inside, waiting for a wind to blow on it and coax it to become a flame once again. There is a part of you that can Mother--the child within. When we turn to our inner child, nurturing it and loving it, we heal the child, the inner Mother, and the other parts of ourselves, as well. One of the words for God in the Old Testament is El Shaddai, and in the Hebrew, this is a feminine word that literally means "Many-breasted One". There is a Mother heart of God, not matter which way you choose to connect with this Source or Divinity--or what you choose to call it. Something beyond us that is loving, nurturing, caring, and safe.

43 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My true unmothered child story!, August 8, 2000

A Kid's Review

A 22 years old stone child from Miami!

I am a typical example of an Unmothered Child. When I was a kid, I did not receive guidance and love neither from my mother, father and sisters. I did not receive affection, hugs and kisses from them just because I was different in many ways. As a result, since the age of 2, my innocence was taken away from me and I became a victim of sexual abuse and humiliation for a period of 7 years caused by several cousins and members of my family. They wanted to sniff out my love..the love of a real dolphin heart.

But despite of so much pain, I have healed and I learned to have compassion towards others. I fought against everybody to defend whom I am...to be accepted with my beliefs and desires and not change them to accommodate other people's happiness without considering mine first. As a result, my internal light is stronger than a 100 bulb because I did not fall down and I thrived to be who I wanted to be and thanks to Warming the Stone Child, I was re-born again because this tape has changed my life completely.

Now, I have the tools to develop an internal mother within myself by knowing what I did not have in the past...what I have now and what I need know in order to be in balance with myself....the secret is simple...as Clarissa Pinkola Estes said, "in order to grow an internal mother, you have to be willing to be decent and good to yourself;" and this the key in order to move on and learn how to love yourself and others.

With love,

Carlos