Transform Your Life with Vange

Book Review By R. J. Johnson
"I have within my feminine essence—a strength and wisdom that can get me through all things."

This book is a tribute to goddesses, women, and men. It uplifts the reader to be in touch with the goddess inside, offering life guidance for anyone seeking goddesses to be their life coaches. Whether it is strength, fertility, a deeper connection to Mother Earth, or creative inspiration, this book provides support by explaining how the goddesses want to help nourish one's mental health. Structured in chapters that feature a different goddess, this book is a celestial tour that reveals that the divine feminine has many faces and teaches one how to call upon one's inner goddess. 

Initially, this book seeks to inspire a reader to consider all the moments in her life when she may have limited herself from stepping into her innate beauty and power. Many women have moments when they feel inadequate, dejected, and sad. But then the book opens to offer these goddesses and their stories as companions. It reveals many ways to move through every storm, knowing the goddesses have a woman's back. The stories, drawn mostly from Greek myth, affirm a fierce love for life. 

This book makes the reader feel that goddesses want a woman to succeed. It explores nuances of womanhood and femininity, such as varieties of ways different women and goddesses enjoy and express intimacy. Gorgeous words shower the reader with goddess love, making it feel as if the goddess speaks directly to the reader. The narrative offers plenty of shadow integration, ways to transcend the ego, and invitations to live with a strong sense of self. The images display tenderness, unity, and understanding between men and women. The whole book rounds out with a beautiful affirmation for ways women can trust and adore men.

 Something which has sadly been a point of contention for far too long in our society is the “role or place” women hold within our society. Far too many times the notion women are only as good as their beauty or home skills, or their ability to be a mother, has made its way into popular culture and the average family home; only for time and time again to show the strength, courage, and resilience women have in the face of such absurdity. Throughout the course of human civilization, women have played a powerful role in everything, from the rise and fall of empires, to the development of modern science and philosophy, to the ancient gods themselves.

In author Vange Cain’s Unfold Your Petals, the author explores the process of finding the inner goddess which resides within all women. As each woman represents the flower and each petal represents the accomplishments that have helped women to face the wounds of their past and the negativity that has tried to influence their lives.  The author hopes to share how opening the petals of the flower can reveal the goddess which has always existed within all women, and how through historical and mythological context and a motivational self-help style guide, there is a path towards discovering and revealing that goddess to yourself and those around you.

The author did a brilliant job of crafting the perfect balance of history and myth with the modern-day approaches that the author has crafted to help readers, in particular women, find that strength, love, and appreciation that we all have within us. The imagery and beautiful way the author wrote immediately draws the reader into the narrative, while the way the author was able to analyze and bring to light the social constructs and hardships women have to endure on a daily basis which have influenced over several generations how women few themselves based on how men would receive them was astounding to see touched upon.

This is the perfect read for those who enjoy self-help and motivational books, especially women who are seeking reads to empower themselves and to connect with the spiritualism and culture of ancient mythological goddesses. As a woman and someone with an appreciation for history and mythology, I loved the way the author was able to connect this motivational and self-help driven book towards this background.

A memorable, knowledgeable, and engaging self-help book, author Vange Cain’s Unfold Your Petals is a must-read book. The powerful imagery and use of history and mythology was a profound and memorable way of highlighting the power that resides within all women. Whether you believe in the goddesses of old as a physical being, or for the themes and meanings they represent, looking to the old ways to find new ways forward is a great motivational journey readers will be eager to delve into.