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The Queen's Path: A Revolutionary Guide to Womens Empowerment and Sovereignty
A fascinating exploration of the Divided Woman, the key to understanding why women cannot take a hero’s journey. Every woman battles being a Divided Woman, whether she is a stay-at-home mom or a high-powered corporate executive.
In this book, psychotherapist Dr. Stacey Simmons explores the tracks women are placed on that turn them against themselves at a young age. Using fairy tales, stories, films, television, musicals, and the lives of her patients, Dr. Simmons reveals an ancient pattern hidden in plain sight for over a thousand years. She named it The Queen’s Path, and in this book she explains how it has been used against women for millennia, and how women can turn the pattern to their advantage, and use it themselves to overcome obstacles and become the rightful queens of their own lives.
Sovereignty—the ability to advocate for, and ultimately direct one’s own life—is the realm every person longs for. There is a path to sovereignty for every woman who wants it, if she’ll only place her glass slipper along The Queen’s Path.
The Queen’s Path is a rare combination of both a guidebook and a story map to help anyone make sense of the world of women.
This audio product contains a PDF with supporting material, and the PDF is available to download.
PLEASE When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
In this book, psychotherapist Dr. Stacey Simmons explores the tracks women are placed on that turn them against themselves at a young age. Using fairy tales, stories, films, television, musicals, and the lives of her patients, Dr. Simmons reveals an ancient pattern hidden in plain sight for over a thousand years. She named it The Queen’s Path, and in this book she explains how it has been used against women for millennia, and how women can turn the pattern to their advantage, and use it themselves to overcome obstacles and become the rightful queens of their own lives.
Sovereignty—the ability to advocate for, and ultimately direct one’s own life—is the realm every person longs for. There is a path to sovereignty for every woman who wants it, if she’ll only place her glass slipper along The Queen’s Path.
The Queen’s Path is a rare combination of both a guidebook and a story map to help anyone make sense of the world of women.
This audio product contains a PDF with supporting material, and the PDF is available to download.
PLEASE When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
360 pages, Paperback
Published November 5, 2024
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November 14, 2024
Stacey Simmons' The Queen's Path is a revolutionary novel about the archetypal patterns that culture forces women into and how these patterns psychologically affect the overall unraveling of their lives. Through introspective tales from her personal life, historical and mythological stories, and even modern films, Stacey identifies an undeniable journey that all women undergo before they even begin the typical, well-known “hero’s path.”
Stacey explains that this commonly recognized journey of exploration, discovery, and development is missing the most vital aspect of a woman’s journey to heroism—ultimately excluding women’s actual experiences on their way to success. In our current society, a woman triumphs only after she has traveled to the depths of herself and recovered the fragmented parts she was forced to discard by society.
Simmons points out that women are forced into one of two damning roles: the typical woman or the atypical woman. The accepted subservient, or the cast-out independent. As both roles are impossible to wholly embody independently, every woman finds herself somewhere in between, experiencing what Stacey calls ‘The Divide’—an incomplete place within, where a woman desperately tries to fit the uniform she has been given, while her abandoned parts haunt her from within.
This journey along Simmons’ Queen’s Path will help women everywhere recognize the roles they are impossibly trying to fit into, understand where the pressure comes from, how to recover the lost pieces of themselves, and how to find the Queendom within. The Queen’s Path is truly the reclamation guide we have all been waiting for.
Stacey explains that this commonly recognized journey of exploration, discovery, and development is missing the most vital aspect of a woman’s journey to heroism—ultimately excluding women’s actual experiences on their way to success. In our current society, a woman triumphs only after she has traveled to the depths of herself and recovered the fragmented parts she was forced to discard by society.
Simmons points out that women are forced into one of two damning roles: the typical woman or the atypical woman. The accepted subservient, or the cast-out independent. As both roles are impossible to wholly embody independently, every woman finds herself somewhere in between, experiencing what Stacey calls ‘The Divide’—an incomplete place within, where a woman desperately tries to fit the uniform she has been given, while her abandoned parts haunt her from within.
This journey along Simmons’ Queen’s Path will help women everywhere recognize the roles they are impossibly trying to fit into, understand where the pressure comes from, how to recover the lost pieces of themselves, and how to find the Queendom within. The Queen’s Path is truly the reclamation guide we have all been waiting for.
December 15, 2024
I’m a fan of anything that seeks to illuminate the complexity of the female experience and this book offered several moments of recognition and clarity. A lot of it made me feel pretty bummed about being a woman. Like, is it really true that men convicted of killing their intimate partners receive prison sentences of two to six years while women committing the same crime often spend fifteen years in prison? Not that this impacts me personally, but, in principle, it’s dispiriting. In Chapter 15: Claim the Territory and Chapter 16: Gather the Tribe, the book finally starts to deliver on its promise of empowerment.
December 4, 2024
Wow. I can barely put into words how impactful this book has been. So impactful that I am already re-reading it to digest more from it. There were things in this book I didn’t know I needed to hear (read), things about my own experience I couldn’t describe before this book, and things I am taking away from this book to improve my life and make my own journey from MIPE to Queen!
Tip: The exercises Dr. Simmons presents are very helpful, so if you aren’t able to stop and do them while reading, I encourage you to go back and do them later.
Also, I’m a huge audiobook fan, and Dr. Simmons’ reading of this book is very enjoyable. I recommend both the audiobook and text (digital and printed) versions!
Finally, if you think this book doesn’t apply to you because your lived experience wasn’t or hasn’t been female, this book is still for you to better understand what the folks with female experiences and/or identities in your life go through.
Tip: The exercises Dr. Simmons presents are very helpful, so if you aren’t able to stop and do them while reading, I encourage you to go back and do them later.
Also, I’m a huge audiobook fan, and Dr. Simmons’ reading of this book is very enjoyable. I recommend both the audiobook and text (digital and printed) versions!
Finally, if you think this book doesn’t apply to you because your lived experience wasn’t or hasn’t been female, this book is still for you to better understand what the folks with female experiences and/or identities in your life go through.
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