Maureen Murdock’s books have enriched the lives of thousands of people and been translated into over a dozen languages.

Her first book, Spinning Inward: Using Guided Imagery with Children for Learning, Creativity and Relaxation came out of her own meditation practice and subsequent work with guided imagery in elementary, middle school, and high school classrooms.

Maureen is best known for her groundbreaking book, The Heroine’s Journey: Woman’s Quest for Wholeness, published by Shambhala Publications in 1990, written as a response to Joseph Campbell’s book on the hero’s journey.

The success of this best-selling book led to the publication of Fathers’ Daughters: Breaking the Ties that Bind (first published as The Hero’s Daughter by Fawcett in 1994) which explores the shadow side of father love through myth, fairy tales, and Jungian psychology.

In 1998 Maureen published The Heroine’s Journey Workbook (Shambhala), designed to guide the reader through the stages of the heroine’s journey, based on workshops conducted by Maureen throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico with women of all ages.

2002 brought the publication of Monday Morning Memoirs: Women in the Second Half of Life, an anthology of memoirs written by ten of Maureen’s UCLA students, age 40-70, over a period of five years.

Unreliable Truth, published in 2003, is a beautifully crafted book about memoir writing and a rich, honest memoir on its own which explores the relationship of memory to identity.

Stay tuned for more about Maureen’s recently completed completed memoir, Hooked On Hope: A Mother’s Tale.

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