THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, September 15, 1995 TAG: 9509130120
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 18 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY ALEXIS SMITH, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Medium: 58 lines
Author Mary Elizabeth Marlow has a message. ``Have the courage to listen to and trust what comes from your deepest self in order to discover your truth.''
Marlow, a Virginia Beach resident and author of a new book titled ``Jumping Mouse,'' presents a story about inner trust through memories, images and metaphors.
It's based on American Indian teachings and uses Jeremy of Mouse Village, to describe the busy lives of mice ``hurrying and scurrying to and fro with whiskers to the ground.''
According to Marlow, just as the mice kept their whiskers to the ground, people need to connect with themselves so that they can begin to follow their dreams.
She said the current interest in Native American teachings has ``resulted from a sense of complexity in the world of concrete and steel.'' People like folklore because it teaches lessons in simple ways.
She is also the author of the ``Handbook for the Emerging Woman'' and co-author with Joseph Rael of ``Being and Vibration.''
Marlow, who autographed copies of her new book last weekend at Barnes and Noble Bookstore, has been a Virginia Beach resident for 12 years and has spent her life teaching. She began as a schoolteacher, practiced as a cancer therapist and then decided she wanted to help people explore inner beliefs and patterns that keep them stuck in old routines.
She said, ``Women are stuck in roles and over-identify as caretakers and stars, rather than just to be.'' Helping to identify pain, acknowledging it, feeling it and letting it go is how she describes her process of helping individuals.
She said there are three steps involved:
Leaving home or cutting the umbilical cord.
Meeting the demons in life and facing them;
Ending the journey.
Marlow has traveled to Norway, Holland, England, Greece and across the United States conducting seminars with such groups as the Royal Academy of Medicine. She has also spoken at such meetings as the ``Whole Life Times Expo'' in Los Angeles and New York and at the festival of ``Mind, Body and Spirit'' in London.
She will be conducting a workshop ``Mythmaker: Exploring and Creating Your Personal Myth,'' in Virginia Beach on Sept. 21. She said the workshop will help participants discover their inner selves and resolve troublesome feelings and self-defeating patterns. She is also available for phone counseling, individual sessions and family counseling. Call 425-7452. ILLUSTRATION: Photo
Beach resident Mary Elizabeth Marlow's new book is titled ``Jumping
Mouse.''
by CNB