"Bestselling author and psychologist James Hillman proposed what he called the
acorn theory of psychological development. He contended that we each enter the
world carrying something unique that asks to be lived out through us. Just as
the destiny of the oak tree is contained within the acorn, we arrive in life
with something we need to do and someone we need to become. What waits to awaken
in each person is ancient and surprising, mythic and meaningful, writes
mythologist and author Michael Meade. As a young woman, I wanted badly to find
what was waiting to be awakened. I was afraid that becoming a mother would
fatally interrupt its unfolding."
What follows is the Introduction to Jungian analyst Lisa Marchiano's latest
book, Motherhood.
