Persephone Rising: Awakening the Heroine Within
Each year, the Nautilus Book Awards are given to books that carry a powerful message aimed at making the world a better place. I’m honored to announce that PERSEPHONE RISING has won a gold award in category 27—books for women! Click to see the full list.
Celebrated scholar of depth psychology and archetypes Carol S. Pearson’s modern classic, The Hero Within, has helped hundreds of thousands of people enrich their lives by revealing how to tap the power of the archetypes that exist within each of us. But our era of professional and familial pressures, constant connection, and a renewed debate on “having it all” presents new and unprecedented challenges to contemporary women. In Persephone Rising, Pearson—drawing on her profound understanding of myth’s enduring power to catalyze transformations—brings a fresh vision for meeting those challenges and rising above them, as only she can. Guiding readers on a bold journey of self-discovery, Pearson teaches us how to activate and apply the archetypes of Demeter and Persephone, as well as Zeus and Dionysus, in our own lives—empowering readers to see the unexpected choices and opportunities available to us all. Not since Women Who Run with the Wolves has an author brought together myth, wisdom, and acute psychological insight and applied them to the modern reader’s life with such transformative effect.
Illuminating ancient wisdom for a modern audience, Persephone Rising offers profound and powerful strategies to answer the call to heroism in our own lives: to locate and harness the unique potential within each of us, and ultimately to develop our own innate heroic gifts. Just as Demeter and Persephone discovered, in the midst of great difficulty, their own powers, gifts, and abilities for blazing a better path not only for themselves, but also for the world, Persephone Rising teaches that each one of us has more options than choosing whether to lean in or out—we have the power to change ourselves, and thus our world.