The Dance of the Dissident Daughter

A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine

By: Sue Monk Kidd

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

""A masterpiece of women’s wisdom.""—Christiane Northrup, M.D.

""The journey to capture her feminine soul and live authentically . . . makes a fascinating, well-researched and well-written story.""—Publishers Weekly

In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of its publication, a newly reissued edition of the bestselling author’s classic work of feminine spiritual discovery, with a new introduction by the author.

""I was amazed to find that I had no idea how to unfold my spiritual life in a feminine way. I was surprised, and, in fact, a little terrified, when I found myself in the middle of a feminist spiritual reawakening.""—Sue Monk Kidd

For years, Sue Monk Kidd was a conventionally religious woman. Then, in the late 1980s, she experienced an unexpected awakening, and began a journey toward a feminine spirituality. With the exceptional storytelling skills that have helped make her name, Kidd tells her very personal story of the fear, anger, healing, and freedom she experienced on the path toward the wholeness that many women have lost in the church.

From a jarring encounter with sexism in a suburban drugstore, to monastery retreats and to rituals in the caves of Crete, she reveals a new level of feminine spiritual consciousness for all women—one that retains a meaningful connection with the ""deep song of Christianity,"" embraces the sacredness of ordinary women’s experience, and has the power to transform in the most positive ways every fundamental relationship in a woman's life—her marriage, her career, and her religion.

Transformative

I feel like this book was written FOR/TO me! Thank you for sharing your journey.

The loving and compassionate way the journey is presented

All of it. Parts were so similar to my own journey as a spiritual woman.

Amazingly insightful and delicious for the female soul!!

I recommended this to a friend saying you have been looking for the map of how to open oneself to your sisterhood, your womanhood the very essence of you and this is it!

As relevant today as when it was written

I'm grateful that others have walked this difficult road before me and other women struggling to find their place in a world that pretended to have a place for us.

Beautiful journey

This was just the book i wanted and needed for assistance in my own feminine journey. So relatable, reassuring and wise. Thank you, Sue.