The Book of She ─ Your Heroine's Journey into the Heart of Feminine Power

In what Joseph Campbell might call A Heroine’s Journey,” Sara Avant Stover views each woman’s life as a pilgrimage from girlhood to womanhood to self-realization and cronehood. Drawing on archetypes including Mary Magdalene, the Virgin Mary, and mermaids, Stover guides women to a powerful new understanding of and appreciation for every aspect of femininity. For example, she counters a culture that calls monthly cycles a curse” with a reminder of the earth’s cycles, women’s connection to them, and the unique procreative power they hold. From motherhood and menopause to the creativity and even alchemy of age, Stover spells out a provocative, gutsy, and empowering answer to the questions many societal forces answer with botox and denial. Her practices instead help women embrace, no, make that revel in their unique vitality, divinity, and joy including the wrinkles that may accompany wisdom.

Sara Avant Stover is an inspirational speaker, teacher, mentor, and the founder and director of The Way of the Happy Woman.R After a health scare in her early twenties, Sara moved to Thailand, where she embarked on an extensive healing and spiritual odyssey throughout Asia and served as one of the pioneer Western yoga teachers in that part of the world. She now lives in Boulder, Colorado, and continues to teach around the world.