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Warming the Stone Child

By: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Narrated by: Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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The pain of abandonment, both real and metaphorical, can cast a shadow over our entire adult 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. Spiced with Dr. Estes' wonderful storytelling, Warming the Stone Child is a unique listening experience with a practical edge.
©1990 Clarissa Pinkola Estes (P)1997 Sounds True

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"Dr. Estes’s palpable emotional engagement (and obvious desire to speak to those in pain) can be heard in the flowing, calming sound she creates with each interlocking syllable, reflective pause, and change in vocal intensity. The arresting beauty in both her writing and narrative performance will make listeners believe that they can internalize the mother’s ability to soothe themselves and find emotional balance, whether or not they ever received such mothering." (AudioFile)

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Great mythical stories

These stories span generations or even more.
She tells her story like no other. CPE writes powerful stories about healing, anxiety, addiction. These stories can be read or listened to many times. This one and mother moon and Red Shoes are a few of my favs along with her amazing book Women Who Run with wolves is fantastic!

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Fantastic

Very insightful stories and interpretation for the unmothered child. I found it helpful to listen to while working through my own abandonment issues.

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Brilliant as always!!!

I absolutely love Clarissa Pinkola Estés!!! She has taught me so much about myself and opened an awareness for me that I can understand and enjoy!!! I highly recommend all of her literature!!!

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Everyone needs to read this. Heart warming.

This book changed my life completely. Do yourself a favor and get this book! LOVE

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Among the best

Have listened over and over. Helps to remind me of the tremendous gifts that come with such hardship.

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Loved the powerful storytelling skills!!! Engaging story telling and folklore that kept me wanting more without putting me to sleep.

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Sweet Stories for the Inner Child

Clarissa’s story-telling and her lens of interpretation are medicine for my tender heart. Especially resonant for an adult child of a dysfunctional family.

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Amazing! Everyone should read this

Was a quick listen and very insightful as far as understanding the abandoned child archetype

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As an abandoned child, this offering by Dr. Estes

This sharing by Dr. Estes warms, nurtures and feeds my spirit. I first heard it years ago, and here, years later, it still is so beautiful

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Warming the Stone Child

Poingant, compassionate and wise. A beauthiful delivery that gives the listner a way forward, a way to start the healing process. Eminantly sincere and breathtakingly hopeful. The light within us all lives on inspite of our woundedness

Anne moller Auckland New Zealand

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