Lesley Irene Shore

Lesley Irene Shore

Coming Soon

Temple in the Woods

Psychology, Nature, and Communing with the Sacred

Do you yearn for something more? Perhaps you’ve explored spiritual practices, such as meditation and yoga, but haven’t yet found a practice that feels right for you. No matter what your faith, or lack thereof, my forthcoming book will help you further develop, or find and deepen, your own path to the sacred.

Temple in the Woods: Psychology, Nature, and Communing with the Sacred ™  follows my psychospiritual journey from devout agnosticism to teaching about sacred nature and leading spiritual circles. Each chapter weaves these experiences with psychological insights and presents suggestions—invitations—that guide you to connect with nature and grow spiritual practices suited to your beliefs, fascinations, and ways of being. You’ll discover that activities like gardening, painting, neighborhood walks, and gathering stones can be ways of communing with the sacred.

Temple in the Woods™ hasn’t yet found its publisher, so please stay tuned.

Previously Published

Healing The Feminine: Reclaiming Woman’s Voice

The same content with different titles, Reclaiming Woman’s Voice: Becoming Whole, published by Llewellyn, was reissued as Healing The Feminine: Reclaiming Woman’s Voice.

Given the recent challenges to women’s rights and concerns about global warming, this book’s message about valuing the feminine is needed more than ever. It advocates that we embrace our intuition as well as our ability to reason, appreciate our bodies, not just our minds, and that instead of trying to control nature, we align with her rhythms, cycles, and balancing processes.

Tending Inner Gardens: The Healing Art of Feminist Psychotherapy

Tending Inner Gardens: The Healing Art of Feminist Psychotherapy was published by Haworth Press and reissued by Routledge. This book introduces nature’s seasonal cycle as a model for successful psychotherapy and demonstrates how to tune techniques to the rhythms of each season.