Startling in its ability to reach directly into the reader's world, this book is a guided tour through the dark night of the soul. Elegantly the reader is taken on:

THE HERO'S JOURNEY . . .

The hero's journey always begins with the call — the life event that wakes us from the sleepy fog of innocence and places our feet firmly upon the path that leads to wisdom's door.

This book tells the only story that has ever been for each of us — the story of our own becoming amidst the interplay of sorrow and bliss, the weaving of darkness and light.

Like a whisper on the wind, this story will speak to you in the language of your soul, gently asking, if you have embraced the life that you came here to live. When innocence has fled, and life has brought you to your knees, it is then that the universe will call to you, asking,

"Will You Dance?"

Some will call this fiction — others will simply answer the call

Annette Childs, Ph.D. Author, teacher, and psychologist, Dr. Childs has devoted her career to the synthesis of modern clinical psychology and the ancient wisdom traditions of the world. She writes with conviction, gently illuminating the unwavering truth that pain and suffering often bring us into our own greatness. She lives in the western United States.

About the Artist

All original artwork in this book was created by Karen A. Kreyeski. Her work is displayed in many private collections throughout Montana and Nevada. For more information she may be contacted through the Wandering Feather Press. Website images: Collage of original images by Karen Kreyseki, designed by AnnieMation.com

There comes a time - it is often at midlife - when people, naturally turn their attention to the verities, the great, unresolved philosophical questions of existence. Does life have a meaning? Who am I? Where do I come from? Where is it that I am going?

Annette Childs has done the world a service by producing this little book - a fine work of spiritual art, really. It is an inspiring allegory of struggle and renewal that will tug at the heart strings of anyone who has ever had to surmount a wrenching personal crisis of the spirit, or suffered an overwhelming personal loss - and that includes almost all of us who have lived at least a couple of decades.

Annette is a warm, sensitive, bright, and accomplished psychotherapist. She has devoted the bulk of her career to working with the dying and the bereaved, thus, her writing comes from a heartfelt understanding of the struggles that eventually plague us all.

I like her way of personifying the forces like "fear" and "change" that are always looming over each human life. It harks back to the eternally haunting tales that have come down to us through the ancient Greek myths. And to my way of thinking, using the sacred art of storytelling to tame these forces with which we all contend, is as good a way of dealing with them as any that has ever been devised.

Annette deserves praise for her accomplishment in this book. It is a work that will refresh its readers, and the message it contains is one that will stay with them for a very, very long time.

— Raymond A. Moody, MD, Ph.D. - Best-selling author of "Life After Life"

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