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Excerpt from the Press Release about the book:
Power Abused, Power Healed

In an age of global power abuse, every facet of life is impacted. A Senator sends sexual e-mails to a page. Terrorists attack the heart of NYC. Instead of grieving, the U.S. strikes an unrelated country. Priests molest children in their care and the Vatican protects the priests. A teacher has an affair with an under-age student. A teen mother kills her baby to “protect” her future. An international corporation is exposed as corrupt. Students bring guns to school with intent to kill. Nations do nothing about genocide in Darfur.

Even more subtly . . . A supervisor demeans an employee in front of co-workers. A mother carries her crying child out of a supermarket whispering, “Wait until your father gets home.” A teacher makes fun of a student and tells her she’s too sensitive. A son speaks to his elderly mother with contempt.

If we aren’t aware . . . if we normalize it, the abuse of power can creep into our lives under our radar.

The truth is . . .
. . . we have all experienced the pain of someone misusing power with us.
. . . we have all felt the discomfort of witnessing a person abusing power with someone else.
. . . we all face temptations to misuse and abuse our own power.

People are saying, “I feel powerless. Is there anything I can do to help?” Judith’s book is an answer to that question and a call for each of us to heal our own relationship with power.

In this revealing book, Judith Barr takes a fresh approach, through fairy tale, to teach us about power abuse. She demonstrates that the parts of ourselves that we are unable or unwilling to face may cause the most harm. Only by meeting and working through our own inner struggles with power can we hope to end global abuse of power.

Judith Barr, M.S., Midwife to the Soul, Depth Psychotherapist, Author, is a grounded authority on power and its most positive use. She is a licensed mental health counselor, practicing in Brookfield, Connecticut. For over 30 years Judith has utilized her unique approach, which bridges the human and the Divine, and her passion for safety to help people change their lives from the inside out.

Sylvia Brinton Perera, Jungian analyst, author of Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women, says in her endorsement of Judith’s book, “Everyone claiming authority needs to know the dire consequences to self and to others of the power shadow. When we are not aware, we may find ourselves parading our grandeur and goodness as foolishly as the naked emperor, or as cruelly as any tyrant.”