The Shaman's Wife

A Mystical Journey of Surrender and Self-Discovery

Alicia M. Rodriguez

• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• eBook ISBN:
  9781647427573
• Index: Social Sciences

What happens when spiritual surrender becomes self-abandonment—and a woman must learn to trust herself again?

What happens when surrendering to love means surrendering yourself?

After divorce and profound loss, successful entrepreneur Alicia M. Rodriguez accepts an invitation to Ecuador, altering the course of her life. There she enters the mysterious world of shamanic tradition—and falls in love with Napo, a charismatic and powerful shaman.

What begins as a journey of spiritual awakening becomes an extraordinary eight-year relationship. Alicia leaves behind the life she built in the United States, immersing herself in the landscapes and traditions of Ecuador, and dreaming of creating a healing center with the man she loves.

As love, spirituality, power and dependence become increasingly entangled, Alicia confronts a more difficult initiation: recognizing the ways she has abandoned her own knowing and finding the courage to reclaim it. Her eventual departure from Ecuador takes her across another ocean to Portugal—but leaving is only the beginning. The deeper journey is learning to trust herself again.

The Shaman's Wife is an award-winning memoir about spiritual longing, love, intuition, identity and the shadow side of surrender. Both mystical and unflinchingly human, it explores the subtle ways women give away their authority—and what becomes possible when they take it back.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Dancing Between the Worlds
• The Encounter
• Ecuador
• The Lesson At Peguche
• What the Pyramids Blessed
• Panterita
• No Place of Belonging
• Breaking the Chrysalis
• Sacred Spaces
• Loving the Shaman
• Fire Dreams
• The Best-Laid Plans
• Life On the Chesapeake Bay
• Seasons of Life and Death
• An Oasis in Ecuador
• Endings Are Beginnings
• The Spider Dream
• Meeting the Shaman Within
• Wisdom Keeper To Shadow Man
• Breaking Down and Breaking Open
• The Day the Dream Dies
• The Spirits Are Angry
• Holding Hands With the Devil
• Escape
• What Doesn’t Kill You
• Beginnings
• The Algarve
• Death By Text
• El Amor Vence Todo
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
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