The Return of the Girl Behind the Door Reflection Guide "The Wild Seed Dream" & Author's Commentary
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REFLECTION GUIDE
From "The Return" workshops run in 2018 a reflection guide has been created for readers upon the publication of The Return of the Girl Behind the Door.
Many different approaches are used to reflect, such as; letter writing, imagination, visualization, creating, breaking, burning, burying, being out in the elements, finding symbols, collages, photos. You may like to use the questions/suggestions as prompts to journal, share conversation with a friend or you may need to engage more kinesthetically by creating your way into insightful reflection. There is no right or wrong way, only the best way for you to play with what is offered.
See photos at the bottom of this page for images from past workshops for Letters to a Missing Woman &
The Return of the Girl Behind the Door.
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AUTHOR'S COMMENTARY - THE LESSONS
This commentary is not meant to take away from any meanings that are gleaned by readers. However, sometimes as readers we can find handholds helpful to demystify what we cannot fathom. This is not an exhaustive commentary, rather it offers some thrifty guidance, with gaps to be filled in by readers as they muse what is meaningful from within the story. These are the lessons I was learning as I wrote about Returning, and as I sought to live into it in my own life, myth and soul-making as I went.
The commentary that follows is a mixture of content from my thesis (including my footnotes and references) where I focused the themes that felt critical in ‘The Return’ story, some of my experiences of crafting this mythopoetic heroine’s narrative, reflections about characters who grapple with Returning, and the wider cast of influential figures that act as wise guides.