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Therapist uses folk tales to ease women into aging
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Middle-age women whose spirits are famished have a steady diet of
illuminating books on which to feed: Clarissa Pinkola Estes' "Women
Who Run with the Wolves," Erica Jong's "Fear of Fifty" and Gail
Sheehy's "New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time."
Now Ann G. Thomas, a Danville, Calif., psychotherapist, puts a new
spin on the "I'm-getting-older, I-hate-it, what-happens-next?"
theme.
Her first book, "The Women We Become" (Prima, $23), interweaves
myths and folk tales with ...
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Program explores Italian folk tales
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Folk tales may be good for your brain
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