Books by Muriel
Baba Yaga’s Wisdom: A Jungian Spiritual Memoir
In Baba Yaga’s Wisdom, I invite readers into the dark forest of the psyche, where ancient stories whisper their timeless truths. Through the figure of Baba Yaga—the wild, unpredictable forest crone of Slavic myth—I explore how fairytales can guide us through life’s thresholds, from loss and longing to rebirth and renewal.
Blending memoir, mythology, and depth psychology, this luminous work traces the soul’s alchemical journey toward wholeness. Each chapter illuminates a task of transformation: tending the fire of intuition, facing the shadow, reclaiming the feminine, and learning to trust the wisdom that arises from the depths.
Drawing on Jung’s teachings, dreams from analytic practice, and my own lived encounters with the imaginal world, I show how the archetype of Baba Yaga offers not terror but initiation—the fierce love of the wild feminine who burns away illusion to reveal the soul’s truth.
For seekers, storytellers, therapists, and all who stand at the edge of change, Baba Yaga’s Wisdom is both map and mirror—a guidebook for walking the untamed path home to the Self.
Toward a Sacred End: Jungian Individuation and the Liturgical Cycle
Jungian Individuation and the Liturgical Cycle explores the profound resonance between C. G. Jung’s psychological vision of individuation and the Christian liturgical year. I draw readers into a contemplative journey where psyche and spirit interweave, showing how the archetypal rhythms of birth, death, descent, and renewal are mirrored in both the human soul and the Church’s cycle of feasts and fasts.
Grounded in Jungian depth psychology, the book highlights how the liturgical seasons—Advent’s waiting, Christmas’s incarnation, Lent’s shadowed descent, Easter’s resurrection, Pentecost’s fire, and the culminating feast of Christ the King—each illuminate stages of the individuation process. Through lyrical prose, theological reflection, and psychological insight, I show how these sacred patterns offer a living map for the transformation of the soul.
This work invites readers—whether rooted in faith, psychology, or both—to engage the liturgical cycle not as mere tradition but as a symbolic vessel of individuation. It affirms that the mysteries celebrated in the Church’s year are also mysteries of the soul’s becoming, leading toward wholeness, integration, and communion with the Self.
Mater Misericordiae: A Jungian Crone in the Church
Mater Misericordiae: A Jungian Crone in the Church is a luminous and unflinching exploration of the feminine soul’s journey through rupture, devotion, and transformation. Rooted in Jungian psychology and steeped in the symbolic richness of Christian tradition and fairytale, this work invites readers into a deeper encounter with the archetypal feminine as it lives, suffers, and awakens within the modern world.
At the heart of this book is a profound question: What does it mean for a woman to fully consent to her life—not in theory, but in body, psyche, and spirit?
I trace the evolution from the “split woman”—caught between duty and longing—toward the integrated figure of the Crone, whose authority arises not from power, but from lived truth. Drawing on decades of clinical practice as a Jungian analyst, as well as my own deeply personal spiritual experiences, I weave together dream, scripture, myth, and lived encounter into a narrative that is both intellectually rigorous and emotionally resonant.
Central to the text is the Marian pattern: the woman who says yes, who bears what she cannot control, who stands beneath suffering without fleeing, and who becomes a vessel through which love flows into a wounded world. This pattern is explored not as distant theology, but as a living psychological reality available to every woman willing to enter the fire of transformation.
From the forests of Baba Yaga to the altar of the Cross, from analytic consulting rooms to the hidden interior life of the Church, Mater Misericordiae bridges the symbolic and the embodied. It speaks directly to women in the second half of life—and to anyone called to a deeper, more authentic form of spiritual and psychological integration.
This is not a book of easy answers. It is a companion for those who sense that something more is being asked of them. It is for those who can no longer return to a smaller life.
Wise, poetic, and uncompromising, Mater Misericordiae is a call to become—not through striving, but through consent.