Resurrecting Venus: A Woman's Guide to Love, Work, Motherhood, & Soothing the Sacred Ache: Embrace Your Feminine Power

by Cynthia Occelli

You can have it all: calm confidence, sublime romance, fulfilling work, absolute inner and outer beauty, empowered children, and a cure for the pervasive ache for something more. In Resurrecting Venus you will learn how to dissolve the barriers separating you from the life you were created to live and connect to your unique life purpose, forever free of outside expectations. Author and inspirational teacher Cynthia Occelli will walk beside you as you travel the path to the life you’ve always wanted and are reunited with your feminine essence.

Written in her characteristic soothing yet direct style, Cynthia dispels the myths surrounding feminine power and explains where the feminist movement went awry, resulting in women carrying unnecessary and untenable burdens. Using real life examples and her own stories of triumph and loss, Cynthia will show you how to find and resurrect your inner Venus.

218 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2012

Reviews

[Tiffany · Rating 2 out of 5]

Feminine power that is the essence of the book Resurrecting Venus by Author and mentor Cynthia Occelli. This book tells a woman to own the feminine divine spirit that is within her, and this is the only way to feel whole. This is actually very good advice. So many women try to deny what about themselves makes them feminine and all they manage to achieve is to grow miserable. They feel they have to be tough and calculating to achieve anything in this life when the truth is this goes against their internal nature.
The author highlighted this advice and filled in the rest of the chapter with a snippet from her live where she implemented this advice or wished she would have. This wasn’t entirely bad but it did get a little bit on the preachy side. You walk away thinking this woman is a little too perfect, with her great relationship her close friends, and wonder family. But I think the idea is to point out that if you follow this advice you too can have things like that.
This book did have some fine points about how a woman can get back to nurturing the person she feels like on the inside. It tells her (the reader), like any self-help book, that she needs to believe in herself, and take small steps to her goals. This is all well and good but I have one problem with this book. In the relationship section it advices the woman to let the man be the hero and do things for her that will help her with her problems. Now if a person truly owns up to their own life, then they shouldn’t try to have someone else deal with their problems. Also, since this book is about awaking the goddess within, what goddess is going to sit around and wait for a man to take charge? The answer, they are not. They are going to roll up their sleeves and jump into the fray knowing that they are going to come out the other side stronger for the experience.
This should have been some of the advice the book gave. Be a true goddess and love yourself enough to know that you have the capabilities to deal with your own problems. Help is wonderful if it can be given in a truly helpful way. If not take charge of your own life and help yourself, you will have a new understanding of just what you can do and it just might make you proud of yourself in the process. Even goddess’s fought when they needed to just read some mythology.

[Agi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I recently heard Cynthia Occelli on the Hay House Radio while giving advice to listeners. Her soothing voice hooked me and her support clearly came from a place of loving kindness. She has been through many difficult situations over the years but turned her life around and lives an inspirational life. In one way or another every woman could benefit from reading her book.

[Moody · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've first discovered Cynthia's work a year ago, and been hooked ever since. She gives clues in decoding human nature and offers her own life stories to learn from; she does it with passion and compassion at the same time.

I couldn't wait for this book to come out! Written in a concise and easy to read manner, it has been a joy and a revelation.
This book frees your mind and soul from the altered beliefs on love and life as a woman. It shows you how to reconnect with your feminine inner wisdom and power, and how you can apply that wisdom in your life.
This is for the women who want to stand proud and in tune with the universal flow.
Written with care, intelligence and humor, this book can cause a shift in the way you perceive things. The ache you felt as a woman in a "man's world", will find its much needed healing elixir.
I soughed, laughed, nodded, asked myself questions and felt like enetering a blessed realm hidden in plain sight whislt reading this book.

In these frenetic and often confusing times, having this book by your side is a favor
you do to yourself.

[C.E. Hoffman · Rating 1 out of 5]

I kept struggling to figure out if this was a genuine treatise on sacred femininity or cleverly disguised Right Wing propaganda exhorting the virtues of being a trad wife. Halfway through, I made my conclusion. (Hence, DNF.) She makes sweeping statements about men/women with no evidence/citations, including claiming women gain no satisfaction from manual labour. (??? Don't know about other femmes reading this, but I feel hella good about myself when I fix a faucet.) She goes on to encourage women to have sex with their male partners even when they don't want to! This is at best a naive exposition of archaic ideals and at worse a dangerous work. One of the (sadly) many women touting gender inequality under the guise of female "liberation."

[Shelby · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was surprisingly difficult for me to find a book on feminine energy, but I ended up choosing this one. There were a few golden nuggets of information throughout the chapters, but the book was very similar to a lot of generic self-help books. It also lacked practical advice as far as what the average woman can do to actively embrace her feminine energy on a daily basis. Ultimately, though, it was a great introduction to embracing your feminine, goddess-like power, especially if you're new to the idea. I didn't agree with everything Cynthia said, but I really appreciated her spiritual, feminine, celebratory point of view.

[Kimberly B · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent Book!! A Gift of Knowledge for All Women

Words of great wisdom all women need to hear. Young or older, it is never to late or to early to open to the awareness of our feminine essence. The author did a beautiful of expressing and describing the gift each of us hold within us and the power that is innately ours.

[Helena · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just finished this book and it literally calmed me about many things regarding life, and especially about being a woman. It also left me with excitement and eagerness to be more of who I really am and to invest in taking really good care of myself. Every woman must read it and every man who wants to understand more about women must read it too.

[J.T.K. Gibbs · Rating 2 out of 5]

A little preachier than I have come to expect from Ms. Occelli, but I suppose it can help younger women.

[Cathy Short · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent! EVERY WOMAN should read