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🗓️ 28 January 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Today on the You Can Heal Your Life podcast, join Michelle Pilley, Managing Director and Publisher of Hay House UK, in an enlightening conversation with Dr. Sharon Blackie, award-winning writer, psychologist, and mythologist. In this insightful interview, they explore Sharon's unexpected journey from fiction to non-fiction, the success of her groundbreaking book, and the emergence of the eco-heroine's journey. Discover the inspiration behind the creation of The Rooted Woman Oracle, a brand-new transformative deck designed to balance feminine and masculine attributes. Explore the power of oracles, delve into the structure of this unique 53-card deck, and learn how it serves as a portal to the imaginal space for guidance and mythic imagination. The Rooted Woman Oracle publishes January 30th, and you can order yours today at hayhouse.com/rooted-woman.
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Michelle Pili, the Managing Director and Publisher of Hay House UK. |
0:14.0 | I'm very excited today to be in discussion with Dr. Sharon Blackie, |
0:18.0 | the author of the fantastic best-selling book of Women Rose Rooted. |
0:22.0 | Today we're going to be discussing the new oracle that Sharon is creating for He has, |
0:27.0 | but just to introduce her a little more detail, |
0:30.0 | she's a award-winning writer, a fiction and non-fiction, and a psychologist who has specialized in |
0:35.3 | neuroscience, narrative and mythology and Celtic studies. She's an international best-selling |
0:41.8 | author and recent book Hagatutes has garnered fantastic reviews. |
0:47.0 | Sharon offers workshops, seminars worldwide in person and online. |
0:52.0 | So I'm very excited today to be talking to Sharon about the |
0:55.6 | rooted woman or I call this beautiful deck that she's created with the illustrator |
1:00.4 | Hannah Miller. So welcome, |
1:03.6 | welcome Sharon. Can I ask you first of all what inspired you to move from your |
1:08.1 | writing fiction to non-fiction and to create it and was rooted. |
1:12.6 | Yeah it wasn't intentional because I've always very much enjoyed writing fiction |
1:17.0 | that's how I always saw myself as a writer but in my other life at the time I was |
1:21.7 | running a very small very small literary publisher and we were |
1:24.8 | publishing a magazine called Earth Lines which was effectively nature writing with a bit of |
1:28.8 | myth and folklore thrown in and I was doing quite a bit of place-related writing myself and one day an agent approached me and said have you ever thought of writing a book and I you know I hadn't thought of writing a non-fiction book about place and belonging but of course at that point I did and to cut a very long story short |
1:44.8 | it sort of transformed itself into if women was rooted. |
1:48.8 | We were surprised by the impact and the success of the book. |
1:53.0 | I was hugely surprised because at the time that I wrote it, nobody really knew what to do with it. |
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