Thank you for listening! If you enjoy the podcast please consider supporting it by sharing it with your community, or by contributing donations via Patreon (where you pledge a chosen amount per episode) or via Substack (where you subscribe monthly or annually). Thank you for making the podcast possible!
EPISODE DESCRIPTION
How can myth and folklore help us find our way in the second half of life? What can we learn from the places we inhabit, and the stories that are rooted in the land?
Dr. Sharon Blackie is an award-winning and internationally bestselling author, speaker and teacher. She’s a former neuroscientist and a psychologist with a background in mythology and folklore, and her work is focused on the mythic imagination and its relevance to the personal, cultural and environmental issues we face today.
She is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and in two of her recent books, Hagitude and Wise Women, she explores how folklore and myth help women reimagine the second half of life.
Sharon’s lates book, Ripening: why women need fairytales now has recently been released!
LINKS
Sharon Blackie’s website
Hagitude and Wise Women, books by Sharon
The Soul’s Code by James Hillman
Cailleach, Irish hag deity
PREVIOUS BLOOD MYSTERIES EPISODES:
Pt 1: Embracing our cyclical nature with Jenny Koos
Pt 3: Birth as a rite of passage with Kristina Turner
Pt 4: In between worlds – on creating cultures of care after birth with Opokua Britton Cavaco