Soul-Making
A Journey of Resilience and Spiritual Rediscovery
by Christina Becker

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The phrase “soul-making” comes from the poet John Keats, who struggled with the world’s random and meaningless suffering, and believed that tragedies were the crucible in which the soul is forged and refined. In Soul-Making: A Journey of Resilience and Spiritual Rediscovery, Christina Becker shares how her own tragedy—from a series of events between 2009–2011 broke her, leading to her dependency on alcohol. It could have been seen as meaningless but was transformed into soul. Part memoir and part self-help book, this is the deeply personal story of one woman’s soul-making journey framed around the ideas of Carl Gustav Jung and spiritual practices. Readers are invited to think about their own lives in a new way, to be curious about the deeper threads that run through their existence, and to embark on their own soul-making journey. This Jungian Analyst demonstrates how redemption is found through self-knowledge, the expansion of consciousness, and most importantly, through the cultivation of the heart.

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"Soul-Making is a compelling and courageous account of a deeply personal and meaningful journey. From the onset, we are captured, joining the author on our own soul-making path alongside her as she willingly opens the difficult doors of the past. Beautifully written and creatively conceived around Jung’s Analytical Psychology, Christina Becker presents us with an honest gift from her return from the underworld that truly celebrates the mystery of love, suffering, and transformation." —Nora Swan-Foster, Jungian Analyst, Author Jungian Art Therapy: Images, Dream and Analytical Psychology

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Christina Becker is a Toronto based accredited Jungian Analyst, in private practice since 2000. A midlife crisis prompted her to leave a successful non-profit consulting career to pursue training at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. She has lectured for Jungian communities worldwide, including Johannesburg, South Africa; Zurich, Switzerland; New York City, Kansas City, and Tucson in the United States; and Vancouver, Calgary, and Montreal in Canada. In 2004, she published The Heart of the Matter: Individuation as an Ethical Process, with Chiron Publications, a Jungian-based publisher in North Carolina. This book is recognized as one of the central contributions to the topic of ethical conversation in the Jungian community. She is on the faculty of the training program of the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts and the Toronto Art Therapy Institute, as well as an active member of the Ontario Society of Registered Psychotherapists, the Association of Graduate Analytical Psychologists, and the International Association for Analytical Psychology. Christina has also been a guest on several podcasts: The Jungian Life, Speaking of Jung, and the Medicine Path and interviewed in the documentary What is Synchronicity? by David Strabala. Find out more about Christina at cjbecker.com.

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