Weaving a Woman’s Life is meditation, methodology, and mentoring for any woman who wants to design, strengthen, or repair the fabric of her life with insight, humor, common sense, and compassion.

The author calls this book her “love letter to women.” And in fact, her final chapter is titled, “Passing on the Shuttle: Mentoring the Daughters of Our Hearts.” In the chapter, she writes:

However we do it, whatever shape it takes, we need to pass on the shuttle,
to show others how to weave a life of beauty.
With this book, I hope I have fulfilled, to some extent, my responsibility to mentor… to pass on some of the secrets of weaving a woman’s life that I learned
while weaving yard after yard of fabric and of life.

After reading the book, Joanna Bull, founder of Gilda’s Club Worldwide, wrote: “The thoughtful and challenging spiritual lessons found here may indeed draw from ancient myths and the timeless activities of women of wisdom—but any man lucky enough to encounter them will learn as much about his own life textures as he will of the intricacies of female experience. This is a gentle and instructive book that reconnects all of us with some of the deepest fabric of our shared past.”

Chapters in the book include: Silence and Solitude—The Space Between the Threads, Structure—Finding Freedom in Limitations, The Warp—Working with Who we Are, The Weft—Choosing to Create Beauty, Endings as Beginnings—Transforming Loss into Life, and more.

At the end of each chapter, readers find a list of “Thrums”, that is, questions and suggestions around the themes in each chapter. An additional digital journal is also available for further exploration and self-discovery.

If you are looking for a book to help you weave a life with strength, clarity, purpose, and beauty, then this book is for you.

Because of its chapter topics and questions, this book is ideal for book clubs, women’s groups, and other organizations that hold discussions around books about life and life lessons, as well as fiberarts and textiles groups and organizations, and retail shops.