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Sounds True.com, guest is Dominique Christina.

Dominique is a writer, performer, educator, and activist. She has over 10 years of

experience as a licensed teacher with double master's degrees in education and English literature. Dominique holds four national poetry slam titles, including the 2011 National Poetry Slam Champion.

She conducts performances and workshops for colleges and universities all over the country and is the author of the poetry collection

the bones the breaking the balm

With sounds true Dominique has released a new book called This is Woman's Work,

calling forth your inner counsel of wise, brave, crazy, rebellious, loving, luminous cells.

And in this episode of Insights at the Edge,

Dominique and I spoke about the importance

of what she calls a deliberate relationship with language.

We talked about bravery, its many different forms, and how authoring ourselves as women requires what Dominique

calls a stunning act of bravery. In our conversation we were briefly introduced to the 20 archetypes that are explored in Mrs.

Woman's work, including the archetype of the Ghost Woman and the whisper woman.

And finally, Dominique read to us from the final section of her new book,

Because we are so many.

Here's my conversation with Dominique Christina.

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