21: Dr Vanya Leilani - Creative Transgression

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Vanya Leilani is a depth psychologist, writer, teacher and storyteller.Her first book, The Flesh and the Fruit: Remembering Eve and the Power of Creative Transgression is out this week from Womancraft Publishing. She has spent decades exploring the threshold where the external “shoulds” in our lives

Vanya holds a PhD in Depth Psychology with emphasis in Jungian and Archetypal Studies.n She has also completed a certificate training intensive with Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes and has served as an adjunct professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute teaching on the creative power of archetypes.  

Vanya was born and raised in southeastern Brazil and currently lives in the woods of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, where she tends to the land and many animals. 

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We talked about:

Her first book – The Flesh and the Fruit

Creative transgression – why disobedience is vital

Belonging to ourselves

Her upbringing in a fundamentalist Christian community

Spiritual crisis

Archetypal psychology

In the extended episode we discussed:

Her curse

How our unconscious often helps us to stay invisible

Drumming and midlife women

Resources

Her first book – The Flesh and the Fruit: Remembering Eve and the Power of Creative Transgression

Women who Run with the Wolves

Care of the Soul

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Thomas Moore

Her podcast – Belonging to the Wild

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