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The Vital Spark

Reclaim your outlaw energies and find your feminine fire
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A call to action for women who dream of reuniting with their unique and independent nature.

The Vital Spark brings women on an immersive journey that reunites them with their innate humor, cunning, and assertiveness.

Within every woman lies a powerful force. Yet, somewhere along the line, the burdens of responsibility and desire to nurture the ones they love cause that fire to dim, and they lose their sense of self.
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Marchiano expertly ties together beautifully curated fairytales with a detailed analysis of the psyche in this exquisitely crafted guide to reclaiming assertiveness, independence, and an understanding of the self.

ELLEN GOLDSMITH-VEIN

Founder/CEO, The Gotham Group

In The Vital Spark, Lisa Marchiano leads us on a quest to uncover the wild woman within, so that we might come to live our fullest and most authentic life. She shines a wise and feisty light on the hidden and un-owned aspects of being a woman, and offers us ways to transcend the smaller stories that the overculture insists we should inhabit.

DR. SHARON BLACKIE

AUTHOR OF IF WOMEN ROSE ROOTED, AND HAGITUDE

Using myths, fairy tales, and clinical anecdotes, Lisa Marchiano describes how many traits that are essential for women to thrive get banished into the unconscious shadow. As a result, the vital spark that connects us to our aliveness, power, and authenticity is snuffed out. She takes the reader’s hand and gently guides us through timeless tales to re-find our essential selves.

CONNIE ZWEIG

AUTHOR OF THE INNER WORK OF AGE: SHIFTING FROM ROLE TO SOUL AND MEETING THE SHADOW

The Vital Spark is a sage companion of a book about personal power—crafty, cunning, ambitious, and shrewd—beautifully written and brilliantly realized. As she leads readers through the symbols of fairy tales and cultural narratives, wise, warm Lisa Marchiano guides women out of pleasing, appeasing, and playing nice and toward their own spirited, personal firebrand of psychic freedom. An essential antidote for anyone who has suffered from good girl syndrome, The Vital Spark offers a vision of a heroine with moxie and nerve we can all still grow up to be.

SARAH MCCOLL

AUTHOR OF JOY ENOUGH
Renew your connection to your central fire
Combining personal stories, intercultural fairy tales, and deep analysis, Lisa Marchiano shares resources that inspire women to break free from the conditioning that has kept them confined to rigid roles and muffled the sound of their soul. She invites us to explore eight core aspects of ourselves: shrewdness, disagreeableness, desire, trickiness, sexuality, anger, authority, and ruthlessness. Each chapter reinforces the truth of our relentlessly human narrative in the truest sense―allowing for the retrieval of our “outlaw” energies and deepest parts of our authentic selves.
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Join Lisa’s email newsletter to get a free excerpt from The Vital Spark: Reclaim Your Outlaw Energies and Find Your Feminine Fire. You’ll also get occasional emails from Lisa about fairy tales, in person appearances, and upcoming events.

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