In the introduction to this paperback, Angeles Arrien states that ritual "provides the bridge between inner and outer worlds and creates a context for re-connecting with our souls." Authors Renee Beck, a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist, and Sydney Barbara Metrick, a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, see rituals as "a way to reinforce connections among people in the family, the community, and on a spiritual level."
In chapters on understanding the role of ritual in your life; interpreting the meanings of myth, history, and symbol; working with the elements of ritual; setting up altars; and making the most of beginnings, mergings, cycles, endings, and healings; Beck and Metrick do a fine job showing us how to lend breadth and depth to our lives via ceremonies and rituals of our own creation.
