February Recommendation: If Women Rose Rooted

If Women Rose Rooted: a life-changing journey to authenticity and belonging
Sharon Blackie

Returning to her Celtic heritage, Sharon Blackie speaks to how we as women often feel exiled—not only geographically, but spiritually and culturally. She suggests that reclaiming indigenous Celtic myth and local landscape offers women a grounded sense of identity free from the pressures of productivity and patriarchy, and reconnected to the natural world. Blackie explores archetypes of sovereignty, wildness, creativity, and elder wisdom. She argues that healing personal fragmentation is inseparable from ecological and cultural restoration. To “rise rooted” is to reclaim one’s place in the web of land, ancestry, myth, and community. Rather than offering self-help techniques, the book invites a slow reorientation—toward cycles of the seasons, the wisdom of story, and the courage to inhabit one’s own landscape fully.