Dear woman on her path, Wherever you are on your journey of self-love and healing, I wrote Dark Night of the Mother for you. My hope is that you feel safe and seen within this book and that you feel empowered in reclaiming your own voice. My prayer is that together, we women of incredible resilience, faith, and wisdom can effect real change in a world where one out of three daughters, sisters and mothers has experienced physical or sexual assault, the majority of them with intimate partners.
Lisa Citore
Woman Whisperer
Uplifting, educating and empowering women to trust ourselves and live from our worthiness.
Dark Night of the Mother is a daughter’s story told through the eyes and heart of her mother.
It is a mother’s story shared on behalf other mothers who struggle to stay connected with their daughters whose lives are being controlled by abusive men.
And it is a woman’s story, written for all women about finding our power in places of powerlessness and activating the kind of real-life magic that comes from focused
intention, steadfast will, a faith that is beyond religious and relentless surrender
Check out chapters 1 & 2 for free
What Readers Say
“May all mothers love their daughters as fiercely.”
“A psychological thriller that grips you by the heart, with just enough humor to let you breathe.”
About the Author
Lisa Citore is a women’s transformational coach, couples intimacy whisperer, ceremonialist and plant medicine guide. She is trained through the Center for Conscious Medicine and the Hakomi Institute of California. She has studied indigenous practices with the Four Winds Society and has certifications in Hatha yoga, Tantra yoga, breathwork, Reiki and Lomilomi Hawaiian massage. She has extensive knowledge of women’s rites of passage through the 13 Moon Mystery School. She is the founder of Tantra Games, Anima-Theater of the Feminine Underground and Awaken Your Feminine Fire. She has worn the hats of writer, director, producer and performer in many theater productions and dappled in songwriting and music video production. She was a greeting card writer for seventeen years with American Greetings Corporation and has taught poetry at women’s transition houses in both Ohio and California, where she now resides. Most importantly, she is a mother. Her first book, Dark Night of the Mother, chronicles her and her daughter’s parallel journeys of healing from sexual abuse and assault and domestic violence.When you buy my book, a portion of the proceeds will go to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence ncadv.org –
Lisa Citore - lisa@lisacitore.com
I commit to helping end violence against women
Lisa Offers
Speaker
Lisa offers courage, hope and inspiration for all women on the journey of self-reclamation with personal stories, poetry and hard-won wisdom.
Women's Freedom Coach
Lisa supports women, step by step, into greater self-trust, love and worth.
Mothers Strong Support Group
Lisa facilitates an online support group for mothers of adult daughters in abusive situations to give women a safe space to share our unique experiences and support one another.
Author – Divine feminine initiator, healer, creative sparker, storyteller, poet.
Lisa brings all of her voices into her new book, Dark Night of the Mother.
It takes a village of women to raise the consciousness of a world. Let us begin with our daughters.
Let’s teach our daughters to be kind rather than nice,
to pursue self-awareness rather than happiness alone.
Let’s help them to see their own unique beauty,
so they don’t spend half their lives trying to be pretty.
Let’s teach them to be intelligent and confident,
to believe in themselves rather than please others.
Let’s teach them to be strong in their sensitivity,
to have discernment rather than trust blindly.
Let’s encourage them to speak their ideas
and stand in the fire of their dreams.
Let’s help them to be comfortable in conflict,
to be clear rather than aggressive or passive.
Let’s help our daughters to discover their inner wilderness
so they know the difference between superficial wildness.
Let’s teach them how to be all of the faces of the Goddess,
to celebrate rather than compete with other women,
to be queens rather than princesses.