Books by Anne Scott

NEW Listening Circles, Seeding Life

A Guide to Facilitating Women’s Circles in Community

Published 2024.

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This book is a small guide that describes a simple way to help us remember who we are and reconnect with our sacred nature as women. We possess, in our innate way of being, wisdom which is vital for the nourishment and regeneration of self, of families, community and our Earth. When we gather together in silence, and in sharing, we can reconnect to deeper dimensions of ourselves and naturally realign to our place in the web of life. It’s through this practice that we can weave back into life the missing thread of love.

This book, a sequel to Finding Home: Restoring the Sacred to Life, is a beacon of hope for all who are in service to life. It is written as a guide for those who attend or want to facilitate a Listening Circle: Seeding Life gathering.

My heart was deeply and gently touched as I read each page. The stories, the poetry, wisdom, and beauty…of this book, Listening Circles: Seeding Life, adds the element of attending to, listening, and evoking the women’s souls. Anne Scott brings in another dimension.”

~ Sharon Mijares, Ph.D., Author, The Power of the Feminine: Facing Shadow Evoking the Light

Finding Home: Restoring the Sacred to Life

Stories of Women in Homelessness & Transition

Published 2016.

This luminous collection of stories by and about newly homeless women reveals how the deepest form of empowerment can be found when women are given a heartfully-tended space in which to reconnect with the sacred within themselves. Finding Home presents an inspiring and compassionate picture of the healing that is possible for women when held in safely contained groups whose focus is on listening within, to the beauty and wisdom that awaits our attention.

Offering invaluable guidance for those wishing to work with women experiencing homelessness or women in transition, this book also serves as a beacon to us all, for finding our true inner home, through the eloquent ways it points us back to a deeper way of relating to life and its sacred source.

Anne Scott privileges us by sharing stories of real women, blossoming out of despair with the realization that they are so powerful and dynamic that each can change the world.”

~Kahontakwas Diane Longboat, Turtle Clan, Mohawk Nation

For the German translation of Finding Home, visit: https://buchshop.bod.de/finding-home-zuhause-ankommen-anne-scott-9783756854998

Women, Wisdom & Dreams

The Light of the Feminine Soul

Published 2008.

In this elegant and practical guide on feminine wisdom and dreams, Anne Scott leads us into a deepening relationship with our dream world, not only to help us understand its personal significance, but also to use the insights we uncover there to help heal our world.

Asking us to cultivate a courageous attentiveness to our inner lives, Anne provides valuable tools for restoring the link between feminine spirituality and social change. Reclaiming the language of dreams, practicing states of inner attentiveness and stillness in our busy lives, and gathering in groups to share from a deeper place offer rich ways to reconnect to the love, joy and creativity that are our birthright and contribution to life.

In Finding Home, Anne Scott shares the unique, heartbreaking, and yet fiercely hopeful stories of homeless women of all races and ages. These women, like us, hunger for and seek the truest home, and their stories touch a deep chord. Throughout the book, Anne’s subtle observations and weavings awaken our own longing for the sacred place within, leading us to genuine contemplation and prayer. This book deserves to be in the hands of social workers, counselors, pastors, and friends and family members of the homeless alike.

~ Regina Sara Ryan, retreat leader, and author of The Woman Awake: Feminine Wisdom for Spiritual Life, and Igniting the Inner Life
Finding Home is really about remembering "home," the hearth of the soul in every woman whose inner sacred fire is lit by rising spiritual consciousness. Anne Scott privileges us by sharing stories of real women, blossoming out of despair with the realization they are so powerful and dynamic that each can change the world. Women are vessels of Spirit, the life force that heals, and heals the earth, with love.

~ Kahontakwas Diane Longboat, Turtle Clan, Mohawk Nation
The stories in Finding Home: Restoring the Sacred to Life confirm my experience of sojourning our common home for 90 years. Wherever we find ourselves, the heart is where we belong–-no matter how estranged we have become. And when we are there, we belong, because what makes home home, is that each belongs to all and all to each. I hope Anne Scott’s stories from her circles with homeless women touch our hearts and ripple out until all experience our essential belonging.

~ Br. David Steindl-Rast, founding advisor of www.Gratefulness.org
In this luminous collection of stories by and about homeless women, Anne Scott conveys the sacred power that bubbles from the wellspring of the feminine soul when plunged into groundlessness. Weaving the women’s own writing and the recounting of their dreams with Anne’s own wise reflections, Finding Home is not only a testament to the courage and grace of the women it celebrates, but a call to us all to embrace radical change and bless all that is.

~ Mirabai Starr, author of Wild Mercy and God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity and Islam