Today's world urges us to look outward for life's meaning and purpose--but our inner lives are the true source of the deeper knowing that gives life meaning. In Finding the Wild Inside, Marilyn Hagar encourages readers to discover that creative place inside us that knows there is more to life than we are currently living--the less rational part of ourselves that she calls our "wild inside," a place most of us have not been taught to navigate. Using stories from her own life--from infancy through caring for her elderly parents as an adult--Hagar shows us how, through playing in the arts, contemplating our nightly dreams, fostering our intuition, and reconnecting to Mother Nature, we can discover our own authentic wild self. Opening to this part of ourselves, she teaches, isn't so much a search as it is a listening, a curiosity, a playfulness, and a learning how to think symbolically, all of which can be cultivated. Most of all, it takes a willingness to lay down our egos and open ourselves to the awe and wonder of the wild universe of which we are a part. Instructive and inspiring, Finding the Wild Inside is a blueprint to living life from the inside out--and, in doing so, walking a path of authenticity and belonging.

Author: Marilyn K. Hagar
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 10/22/2019
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781631526084

About the Author
Hagar, Marilyn K.: - Marilyn Hagar, MA, REAT, is a registered expressive arts therapist who owns and operates For The Joy Of It!, a creative retreat in Mendocino, California. She has been in private practice and has led groups and workshops at her forest retreat for over forty years. She has dedicated her life to the belief that in our core we are all creative, and she believes that expressing ourselves through the arts puts us in touch with our own wild essence. Hagar has published articles about her creative life and her adventures in the great outdoors, and has exhibited her art and art quilts, which are inspired by her inner life imagery and her dream world. Visit her at www.forthejoyofit.org.