Dreaming with Bees: Sacred Medicine from Beyond the Veil of Grief

Join Lead Author Dasha Allred Bond and twenty-three of her bee sisters as they share the sacred stories that surfaced as they explored the deeper well of collective grief. Working with the wisdom of their dreams and the transformative energy of their bee allies, the bee sisters show us the surprising ways the archetype of the divine feminine reveals herself even amid utter despair and darkness. These stories aren’t for the faint of heart, as they dare to reveal the deeper truths of core trauma often eclipsed by our surface-oriented, high-gloss, spiritual bypassing culture. These stories are unapologetically real and consciousness-stirring. Readers will find their hearts and minds expanding as they feel into each author’s cathartic journey through pain and suffering and into the space of love. Each story ends with a beautiful shared practice or medicine that can be initiated immediately.

A portion of profits from the publication of Dreaming with Bees will go to support Aluna Bridge, a nonprofit dedicated to offering hospice sanctuary to women and children who are unhoused, as well as various nonprofits working to protect our bee friends.

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What a delight to find a hive of twenty-four women healers, artists, and dreamers telling the bees the deepest stories of their lives and weaving magic to bring us up from the dark places on shining wings. The humming of the bees, familiar not only in nature but in the shift to a shamanic state of consciousness, stirs the pages. We are encouraged to find the gifts in our wounds and rescue the inner children who went away when the world got too cold and cruel. We are given keys for ancestral healing. We are shown how we can journey to meet wounded ancestors in the time and place of their own wounding and become the soul friends who can help them through. To create - which means to bring something new into our world - is always healing and Dreaming with Bees - will inspire you to write and draw, to sing and dance, to embrace the wind and commit poetry. May the bees bless you as you find and follow your path of honey.
~ Robert Moss, author of Conscious Dreaming and Dreaming the Soul Back Home

Dreaming with Bees is not simply a collection of compelling stories but feels more like the casting of a great spell—a communal invitation to heal generations of unresolved trauma. The raw intimacy shared within each of these women’s stories is not only courageous and inspiring it is also addictively readable. And I absolutely love the touch of “medicine” that follows each chapter, almost like a spiritual antidote to each wound being exposed. What an extraordinary tapestry of creativity and wisdom. Bravo!
~ Michael Goorjian, author/filmmaker What Lies Beyond the Stars, Illusion, Amerikats

Dreaming with Bees is a rare treasure. The soul-stirring stories of 24 accomplished women show us how to be courageous, resilient, compassionate, and hopeful through life’s daunting tests and trials. They mine the delicate territory of loss and grief while expressing the urgent need for self-love and a supportive community. Each woman’s “medicine” offering, whether through sacred plants, sound, meditation, or a shamanic journey, inspires ongoing healing and self-discovery. This deeply personal, transformational book helps us to find our way home to our truest selves. With a poignant blend of grit and grace, and a refreshing dose of raw honesty, Dreaming with Bees reminds us of the healing power of story and that one woman’s story is, in some way, everywoman’s story.
~ Dana Micucci, author of The Third Muse and Sojourns of the Soul: One Woman’s Journey around the World and into Her Truth

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