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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.
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
Her podcast – Belonging to the Wild