Listening in the Dark
Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $18.99
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Publisher Description
Amber Tamblyn, Jessica Valenti, Lidia Yuknavitch, Jia Tolentino, Samantha Irby, Meredith Talusan, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Amy Poehler, America Ferrera, Ada Limón, and Huma Abedin are among the impressive list of authors contributing to this powerful collection of essays that takes a fresh and powerful look at our relationship to intuition and how we can harness it to change our everyday lives and the world.
For generations, women have been taught to ignore their intuitive intelligence, whether in their personal lives or professional ones, in favor of making logical, evidence-based decisions. But what if that small voice or deeper knowing was our greatest gift, an untapped power we could use to affect positive change?
Edited by award-winning author, activist, and actress Amber Tamblyn, Listening in the Dark is a compilation of some of today’s most striking women visionaries across industries—in literature, science, art, education, medicine, and politics—who share their experiences engaging with their own inner wisdom in pivotal, crossroad moments.
Filled with deeply personal and revelatory essays, Listening in the Dark will empower readers to reconnect with their own unique intuitive process, to see it as the precious resource it is, and to be unafraid to listen to all that it has to say and all that it has to offer.
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Actor Tamblyn (Era of Ignition)—along with a roster of contributors including doctors, poets, and fellow actors—examines in this deeply moving anthology the power of intuition. Many women learn from an early age to ignore their strong "inner compass," writes author Jessica Valenti in "Untwisting My Intuition." Poet and therapist Mindy Nettifee describes in "Over the Rainbow" dreading her marriage but waiting for her "inner voices to relax," and realizing years later that trusting herself "radically changed my life for the better." Dara Kass, an emergency room physician, reveals in "Harnessing Catastrophes" how her "clinical gestalt" helps her make life-or-death decisions. Actor Amy Poehler shares in "Practicing the Quiet" a chilling account of being assaulted in college, and her understanding as she's "gotten wiser over the years" that "the quiet space is what we've all been overlooking" Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley writes in "Mirrors," meanwhile, that "we must learn to don our armor and choose which reflections we allow into our hearts." A lively conversation between actor America Ferrera and Tamblyn is especially enjoyable: "Locate your own personal Beyoncé Chakra and protect it at all costs," Ferrera advises. Intimate and thought-provoking, this collection packs a punch.
