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" I have started your book, and am blown away by it, which is really saying something, since I come from a place of already being familiar with your approach. I quickly decided to read it very slowly, a section or two, a chapter at a time, letting it wash over me. This morning I read the section where you discuss the difference between journaling and free writing from a neutral prompt. It spoke to me very directly. I have been madly journaling, hoping, so hoping, to get to the "bottom" of my grief and find a way out.... I realize that while that process is important, so, also, is writing with no preconceived notion of where the pen will take me.... I plan to revisit my plans for writing and be sure I am including both kinds of writing, because I think they both serve valid and needed things for me at this time.

-- Gwen Suesse, writer and former retreat participant

"As a woman writer, I am profoundly grateful to Peggy Millin for treading the path of feminine wisdom, bodily knowing and writing, and illuminating the process for the rest of us."  

-- Demaris S. Wehr, Ph.D., author of Jung and Feminism: Liberating Archetypes

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" Women, Writing, and Soul-Making is lyrical, mind-blowing and wise. Peggy Millin is the best guide a writer could ever have and a beacon for women creatives everywhere. Here's a touchstone to return to again and again, at every stage of the writing journey. "

-- Valerie Leff, author of Better Homes and Husbands

I just finished your new book, and I was moved to tears by the end. I read it in small pieces each afternoon, when I had the time to savor it. Many chapters spoke to me and inspired me to keep writing, especially the suggestion to "embrace silence and solitude."  Thank you for writing it.

-- Sue Larmon,  class and retreat participant

I have gotten the book... and I have started to read it...and it is a delicious feast.  I can nibble...I can snack...I can lunch...I can do a four-course meal. It's a word...it's a phrase...it's a paragraph...it's a chapter. I felt I could choose how I wanted to "get it." First a taste and then go back for more.  Perfect for me.... You've earned "Bravo" ..."Well done" ... and more. So smile and say "Thank you"!!!

--Barbara Harris,  New York 

"I am profoundly touched by Peggy Millin's Women, Writing, and Soul-Making: Creativity and the Sacred Feminine.  As an inspiration for women to reach into the hidden soul and allow it expression, it frames the process of writing in a far larger context than any self-development book. What Peggy is showing us, and leading us through her essays and practices, is a deeper journey of service. I felt a great joy of possibility--of women reconnecting with their own feminine soul through writing, to give voice to the Earth.  Peggy's book invites us forward as we write, supporting us to risk our desire for security for the wonder of practicing fearless writing as a way of devotion." 

-- Anne Scott, author of Serving Fire:  Food for Thought, Body and Soul,  The Laughing Baby, and Women, Wisdom and Dreams: The Light of the Feminine Soul

"Women, Writing and Soul-Making has moved me so deeply and is just beautiful.  I finished reading it last night and turned back to the first page to read it again. There are so many layers of meaning that I know I will return to it again and again.  It is far more than a book on writing--it is a book on being with a capital "B."  There is so much wisdom in it."

-- Vicki Duncan, columnist, Outlook by the Bay

"Peggy Tabor Millin's text Women, Writing, and Soul-Making is an inspiring work, itself a model of the journey the author asks women writers to take. Millin's discussion of the academic and technical writer and the challenges that this writer has in setting free her feminine/creative side is particularly helpful. In addition, the author's insights on the inner critic are most welcome. This book ranks right up there with the works of the other great teachers of creative writing -- Natalie Goldberg, Anne LaMotte, Ralph Keyes, etc."

-- Jennifer Browning, writer, class and retreat participant

"Women, Writing and Soul-Making touched me deeply.  It provided the seedling that cracked the sidewalk inside me.  It guided me from concrete to fine green grass, from steel rusting as it weathers the storms to nurturing golden wheat floating in soft air and ripening with warm sun. In truth, you broke me open, and the relief is overwhelming."

-- Kelle Olwyler, author with Jerry Fletcher of Paradoxical Thinking:  How to Profit from Your Contradictions

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