Published in 2024
339 pages
11 hours and 14 minutes
Stacey Simmons, MA, PhD, LMFT is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Psychedelic Therapist. She is a clinical supervisor at Hope Therapy Center in Burbank, California. Her practice focuses on creative professionals, where she works primarily with writers, directors, actors, and musicians. Her research focuses on creativity, archetypes, psychedelic psychotherapy, neuroscience and consciousness research. She is a volunteer researcher with the Semel Institute of Neuroscience at UCLA, as well as a researcher with the Trance Science Research Institute in Paris, France. She holds a PhD from the University of New Orleans, and a Masters degree from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California.
What is this book about?
Stacey Simmons’ The Queen’s Path is a revolutionary book about the archetypal patterns that culture forces women into and how these patterns psychologically affect the overall unraveling of their lives. Through introspective tales from her personal life, historical and mythological stories, and even modern films, Stacey identifies an undeniable journey that all women undergo before they even begin the typical, well-known “hero’s path.”
Stacey explains that this commonly recognized journey of exploration, discovery, and development is missing the most vital aspect of a woman’s journey to heroism—ultimately excluding women’s actual experiences on their way to success. In our current society, a woman triumphs only after she has traveled to the depths of herself and recovered the fragmented parts she was forced to discard by society.
Simmons points out that women are forced into one of two damning roles: the typical woman or the atypical woman. The accepted subservient, or the cast-out independent. As both roles are impossible to wholly embody independently, every woman finds herself somewhere in between, experiencing what Stacey calls ‘The Divide’—an incomplete place within, where a woman desperately tries to fit the uniform she has been given, while her abandoned parts haunt her from within.
This journey along Simmons’ Queen’s Path will help women everywhere recognize the roles they are impossibly trying to fit into, understand where the pressure comes from, how to recover the lost pieces of themselves, and how to find the Queendom within. The Queen’s Path is truly the reclamation guide we have all been waiting for.
