Deep to the Bone with Marion Woodman, Ph.D.

Program Description

Within our society we often accept only the surface appearance of things and we miss the deeper source of what is occurring sometimes at great personal, psychic and emotional costs. Dive deep, deep to the “marrow of the bone where new life is,” with Marion Woodman, the internationally known Jungian analyst, teacher and lecturer. In this dialogue Woodman shares her story of “dying into life” through cancer, how it changed her life, bringing wholeness and allowing soul to emerge. “My body certainly knew what it wanted to do in order to get well. I would just listen. . . and tell it how much I loved it. . . it did have it’s own wisdom.” These quiet years allowed Woodman to delve deeper into her “bones” and gain insight into concepts of co-dependence, life transitions, addiction, spiritual practice, and surrendering. “I no longer waste my time with people who are into judgement and blame . . their game is power and my game is love.”

Marion Woodman is a Jungian analyst, an internationally known lecturer and workshop leader, and author of many books. She is co-author with Robert Bly of The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine (Henry Holt 1998), and author of Leaving My Father’s House (Shambhala 1992), Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness (Shambhala 1998), Addiction to Perfection (Inner City Books 1982), and Bone: Dying into Life (Penguin 2001). To learn more about the work of Marion Woodman go to www.mwoodman.org

Topics Explored in this Dialogue:

• Ways to go beneath the surface and probe the depths of your being – shifting the ego
• How to listen to the divine in your body and heal from an illness
• Discover how you and your partner are essential to one another and how your differences are good news
• Find that guiding soul place through embracing difficulties
• How to move beyond blame and judgment to a container that loves and accepts others

Program Number: 2847            Host: Michael Toms             Interview Date: 11/16/2000