Annabelle Nelson -- "Storytelling, Wisdom, and Archetypes"
Featured Book
Storytelling, Wisdom, and Archetypes: Why Stories Matter--and How They Shape Our Lives
Storytelling, Wisdom, and Archetypes explores the transformative power of story to shape the inner life. Through twenty cultural myths and original tales, Annabelle Nelson shows how hearing stories, telling stories, and recognizing archetypal patterns can open awareness, heal emotional wounds, and help us make sense of our lives.
Drawing on psychology, Buddhism, and Indigenous wisdom traditions, Nelson reveals storytelling as a living practice—one that embodies essential virtues such as choosing acceptance, facing tests, celebrating beauty, embodying bravery, and embracing death and rebirth. With warmth and clarity, she weaves insights from her four-decade journey as a psychologist, researcher, yogi, and Zen practitioner, showing how story becomes a vehicle for emotional health, imagination, and what Thomas Aquinas called “lifability”—the art of making a life work.
Exploring archetypes, imagery, balance wheels, and the hero–heroine cycle, this book invites readers to see their own lives as evolving stories of transformation—and perhaps, to begin telling new ones.
Dr. Annabelle Nelson’s brilliant work invites us to literally restory our psyches and consciousness to enter our fuller human potential. -Jeanine M. Canty
This book will be available for purchase at the event.
About This Event
Annabelle Nelson will speak about and sign Storytelling, Wisdom, and Archetypes: Why Stories Matter–and How They Shape Our Lives, on Tuesday, December 1st at 6:30pm, at the Boulder Bookstore. Tickets for this event are $5 (plus a small processing fee) and are available on Eventbrite HERE.About the Book:Storytelling, Wisdom, and Archetypes explores the transformative power of story to shape the inner life. Through twenty cultural myths and original tales, Annabelle Nelson shows how hearing stories, telling stories, and recognizing archetypal patterns can open awareness, heal emotional wounds, and help us make sense of our lives.Drawing on psychology, Buddhism, and Indigenous wisdom traditions, Nelson reveals storytelling as a living practice-one that embodies essential virtues such as choosing acceptance, facing tests, celebrating beauty, embodying bravery, and embracing death and rebirth. With warmth and clarity, she weaves insights from her four-decade journey as a psychologist, researcher, yogi, and Zen practitioner, showing how story becomes a vehicle for emotional health, imagination, and what Thomas Aquinas called "lifability"-the art of making a life work.Exploring archetypes, imagery, balance wheels, and the hero-heroine cycle, this book invites readers to see their own lives as evolving stories of transformation-and perhaps, to begin telling new ones.IMPORTANT TICKETING AND EVENT INFORMATIONTickets are $5 (plus a small processing fee).A coupon good for $5 off a copy of Storytelling, Wisdom, and Archetypes, or a purchase on the day of the event is included with your ticket. You will receive this coupon at the event.Please note: our events are held on the second floor. To request a reasonable accommodation or discuss your needs, contact events@boulderbookstore.com
Featured Author
Nelson, Annabelle
Annabelle has a lifelong passion for understanding how humans learn and become whole. She has traveled the world, teaching in Gujarat, India and presenting in New Zeland, Cuba, UK, Japan and throughout the U.S. A yogi, Zen practitioner, cyclist, cross country skier, her quest is finding natural ways for humans to expand consciousness for emotional health, creativity and spiritual sensibilities. Her research examines natural psycho-dynamics from humanistic and Jungian psychology so that humans make their lives work for happiness and clarity, solving daily and existential dilemmas. Nelson holds a PhD and is a Professor at Fielding Graduate University and is the founder of the WHEEL Council, a non-profit with substance abuse and HIV prevention programs. She was also a Fulbright scholar to India. An author, storyteller, teacher, and program developer, she has published many research articles in journals like Heroism Science and Humanistic Psychology. Of her five books, the last one was Archetypal Imagery (2014) published by Jessica Kingsley. She has three children and lives in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
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