Healing the Wounds of Intimacy

Just as Joseph Campbell, Robert Bly and Clarissa Pinkola Estes used myths to aid the evolution of consciousness in the individual, so does Trials of the Heart: Healing the Wounds of Intimacy, by psychotherapist and couples counselor, Dr. Michael Mayer, explore how ancient myths, fairy tales and stories can help us in our quest for a better understanding of human relationships. It sheds a ray of light into the dark and twisting labyrinth that intimate relationships so often become. Trials of the Heart is an ideal guide for providing an entry way into practices and attitudes that will alter the way we handle the difficult moments and obstacles we face on the path of love.

“By not including ancient sacred wisdom traditions into our understanding of love, we commit a crime analogous to our cultures’ trampling over the Native Americans. We get to occupy the land, but we lose the knowledge of how to be with its sacred treasures.” – Quote from Trials of the Heart