Goddesses in Older Women: Archetypes in Women Over Fifty Book

I have a longstanding interest in goddess archetypes and their history, so this book caught my attention in a Totnes second hand bookshop on hols. I wasn't disappointed. It's the perfect companion for women on the threshold fifty, or later, encouraging you to find and live out your juicy crone self. A book to dip into when direction or inspiration is needed. I was already familiar with my dominant archetype but enthralled to see how she is getting left behind as her crone version steps up after years of waiting patiently in the shadows because most people couldn't cope with her.

Shinola Boden talks about the grief some women experience when they have to reject their natural dominant archetype(s) in this way, saying:
Most women of any complexity have several important and active goddess archetypes in them. Depending upon the "climate" of family and culture, some fit in and others spell trouble, even at a time when women are not burned at the stake or stoned for expressing suppressed goddesses.
In the first two phases of our adult lives, we may not have been able to embody a particular archetype and yet longed to do so. In the third phase, we may feel grief or depression at this missed possibility. Some women deny that they are older, and in maintaining the illusion of being younger become increasingly inauthentic. Psychological and soul growth comes through the crone archetypes and through the evolution of the "goddesses in everywoman."