When we think of Inanna, she is usually envisioned as the descending Goddess--and often, it is her time spent in the Underworld that most alluded to. While the Underworld, or the "shadow" is vital, it is equally important to remember what happens after the time spent in the darkness, the void, or the long dark tunnel. We descend our entire lives it seems--only coming up for brief moments of respite. Patriarchy pushes us down repeatedly--and sometimes, we just stay there. Inanna's Ascent examines how women can rise from the underworld and reclaim their power. All contributors are extraordinary women in their own right, who have been through some difficult life lessons--and are brave enough to share their stories.

Inanna's Ascent: Reclaiming Female Power

Politics & Social Sciences

Hendren, Trista

Albanna, Tamara

Social Sciences

Girl God Books

A remarkable collection of essays, poems, and art by scholars who have researched Her, artists who have envisioned Her, women who have known Her in their personal story--and combinations of all those capacities. All have spoken with Her and share something of their communion in this anthology. "The Gorgon Medusa presents herself to us here and now, requiring us to be fully present, to listen deeply-past the noise of accumulated judgments-to the Ancient Wisdom that is our true inheritance. She reminds us of our mortality as the Great Awakener, and encourages us to reclaim whatever has been silenced or diminished within us. We are admonished to have the courage to speak what is true, to trust ourselves to hold her gaze and know we will not be turned to stone." -Joan Marler, excerpt from the Preface

Re-visioning Medusa: from Monster to Divine Wisdom

Livingstone, Glenys

Women's Studies

Capitalist Patriarchy sucks for women. 
We are taught to blame ourselves incessantly for everything that is wrong in our lives--without looking at the bigger picture of structural inequality at play. My hope is that as more women begin to wake up and share with each other, we will heal ourselves and weave our way out of this hellish maze together. 
Capitalist Patriarchy thrives when women shut up and do as they are told. While it would appear (for some of us at least) that if we play by the rules, we will be safe--those of us who begin to rock the boat with our questioning and refusal to STFU know how easy it is to be thrown off the boat altogether--children and all. 
Everything within Capitalist Patriarchy is designed to keep your inner-knowing and body wisdom suppressed. Therefore, in order to thrive despite this system, you must come back into contact with the deepest parts of yourself. As females, we have been taught to deeply hate those parts of ourselves, so they are often the most hidden--buried deep within. 
When we examine how we are contributing to Capitalist Patriarchy with our own time, money and energy--we can reallocate our funds for things that contribute to our liberation instead of our subordination. Many of us repeat the patterns of our families without questioning whether they serve us well. As poet Mark Gonzales asked, "Who told you the stories that taught you what it meant to be human, and did they have your best interests at heart?" 
This book will serve as a starting point to challenge some of our societal assumptions, in hopes of helping women become stronger and breaking their chains. As we begin to heal collectively, we can overturn this system altogether. 
It is time to break the silences which enslave us. It is patriarchy's goal to keep women exhausted, ill, on-guard, ashamed, numb, distracted and defragmented so that we don't have the time or energy to battle the giant Himself. We must return to ourselves--and to Goddess consciousness--to regain our strength and overturn this abomination. 
There was once another way. Let us begin to remember.

How to Live Well Despite Capitalist Patriarchy

Business & Money

Personal Finance

New Love is a powerful combination of emotional and spiritual techniques for women who wish to move away from patriarchal thought. This reprogramming workbook combines the wisdom of intentional visual art and inspiring words. New Love includes a mixture of compelling thoughts and suggestions for each day, along with a "toolbox" to help transform the parts of your life you want to heal.\n﻿New Love is perfect for women who feel a little stuck, uncertain, or in need of focus and support. This book will work effectively as an individual handbook or can be used in supported women's circles.

new love: a reprogramming toolbox for undoing the knots

Self-Help

Baartz, Arna

Happiness

A book for children young & old, celebrating the Divine Female. Magically illustrated by Elisabeth Slettnes with quotes from various faith traditions & feminist thinkers.

The Girl God

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

This Songbook celebrates the cycles of Nature-Birth, Life, and Death-through the changing Seasons (the Turning of the Wheel) from Autumn's abundance, for which we give thanks, to Winter's "Dead Time," when even the warmth of the Sun leaves us, and the world goes dark and cold. It is a celebration of both the Light and the Dark, since both are Sacred and both are needed for new Life to grow and flourish. 
This Song Book is also filled with glorious artwork, Solstice poetry, and writings on the Solstice from Glenys Livingstone, PhD., Kay Louise Aldred, Mary Saracino, Kat Shaw, Rebekah Myers, and Sharon Smith. Songs of Solstice also includes an essay by Laura Shannon on the Goddess origins of the word "Hallelujah." 
"Not everyone is Christian. Many of us, who prefer a Nature-centered, Goddess-based spirituality, rooted in our own *EIK (European Indigenous Knowledge), have found deep meaning in the Solstice, Equinox and Sabbat celebrations, and enjoy singing songs that are based upon these sacred days/times of the year. 
We, at Girl God Books, decided to create this special songbook with re-imagined Christmas carols and songs (only those in the public domain were used) to honor the original intent of late December, the Longest Night of the Year, known as the Winter Solstice. 
So, decorate that evergreen, set the Yule log ablaze, put on the Wassail, light the candles, and lift your voices in celebration." -Sharon Smith from her Introduction to Songs of Solstice

Songs of Solstice: Goddess Carols

Arts & Photography

Smith, Sharon

Hendren, Trista L

Music

A Sacred Woman knows that she is the embodiment of the Sacred Feminine. She remembers that Goddess already exists within her: Goddess is her DNA. Indeed, a Sacred Woman reclaims herself as Goddess - a unique strand, frequency, and incarnation of her - essential for the completion and wholeness of the spectrum of the collective Feminine. Our bodies are the gateway to recalling this truth. Mentorship with Goddess is a year-long programme - a rite of passage - especially useful for the transition into autonomous adulthood or the menopause journey. Mentorship with Goddess is an embodied solo or group education and evolution, which combines metacognition, intuition, and instinct. It is principally about discovering, accepting, and loving yourself, and simultaneously protecting and vulnerably showing up as your whole Self in the world.

Mentorship with Goddess: Growing Sacred Womanhood

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Aldred, Kay

Women's Health

Rainbow Goddess lives within the full spectrum of the human mind. There is not one way of thinking, learning, or behaving that she does not inhabit fully and sanctify. This carnival and inclusive Goddess celebrates the gifts of those whose minds exist and operate outside the box of society's 'norms' - and she trumpets the creativity, visions, and uniqueness of these humans. Rainbow Goddess protectively arcs around those who encounter the struggles of patriarchal expectation and judgement of neurodiverse women.\nThis Girl God anthology showcases the voices and art of women as they express their experiences of neurodiversity. It is a thanksgiving for the creativity, imagination, self-awareness, super-power sensitivity, problem-solving, planning abilities, resilience, and new ways of seeing the world that these women offer.\nIt is a reclamation, call for change, and 'outing' of systemic and insidious sexism.

Rainbow Goddess: Celebrating Neurodiversity

Parenting & Relationships

Aldred, Kay Louise

Disabilities & Hyperactivity

The change from lack to prosperity thinking might seem impossible or out of reach. It can be a scary concept for many of us-but it can still be what we deeply need and desire. We only need to find a way to turn the switch from fear of the unknown-to expecting something different.\nMy Abundant Universe is an immediate experience-created to help you gain a deep understanding of what it takes to make conscious, positive change as quickly as is possible for you. In this book, we leap at the opportunity to explore our relationship to money. We take an unabashed look at the values we hold that either attract or repel prosperity. You will learn how to allow the Abundant Universe to turn your fear into an exciting prospect-full of potential and rewards.\nEnjoy a simple and colourful perspective on financial abundance-as we open our hearts and acknowledge our natural state. Through art, quotes and intriguing suggestions, we discover we deserve to live a life of love, joy and prosperity!

My Abundant Universe: Prosperity and the Path of Least Resistance

The body - particularly the body of woman - remains firmly in the grip of the Patriarchy. Controlled, blamed, and ensnared in the narrative of The Fall, the fleshy encounter is deemed unholy and entirely separate from divinity.\nMaking Love with the Divine starts the process of unravelling and undoing this insidious and false programming, showcasing and story-telling the sacred, erotic, and ecstatic experiences of today's 'ordinary' women, narrating and reflecting upon their accounts of day-to-day communion and union with the Divine. Inspired by their sharing, practises are offered in each section of the book for the reader to begin to forge their own unique and direct pathway of lovemaking with the Divine.\nThis book sanctifies the human mammal - our animal journey of 'in and through' and is an antidote to the poisonous lie that the Divine is 'out and up' and accessible only through religious or spiritual instruction. Making Love with the Divine bridges the schism of sacred and mundane and reinstates the extra-ordinary nature of everyday living and existence.

Making Love with the Divine: Sacred, Ecstatic and Erotic Experiences

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