Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home

This book is of the soul. It is just outstanding and I find it very difficult to put it down. I have a habit of highlighting what really touches me, inspires me, and awes me when I read. As a result there is highlighting on every page of this book. The author is a word-magician. She is an extremely talented writer, creative - and as she looks deeply into the real meaning of words, she also weaves sentences that are truly a work of art. Second, her own story which she shares early on is riveting and the reader knows that she draws on her own experience. It focuses on archetypes, dream work, truth, philosophy, literature and more. As I read, I can feel the insights I experience healing and inspiring me as they also motivate me to continue on a journey I began many years ago. It is affirming to truth that resides deep within, to my own knowingness. I know I will read it again a d maybe even again. Thank you, Toko-pa for this gem so current, so needed right now in our world. I know I will be sharing this book with friends as gifts….

With this book I feel that something holy has come into our home. Toko-pa has written a book that takes the ordinary, the painful, the beautiful, what goes deep and what soars up, what is radiant and what is hard, all that is wonderful and restless and unfinished and broken and tender and longing - and spins it into the gold of Life coming through us, in holy relationship with us. Life longing for us in true fullness - all these things resolved in their paradoxes through the grace of Life's Love - even as we long after it. Grounded in the realities of her own hard travelling, this book lifts the soul, shows the Way, and sings to the deepest part of ourself that may be still finding its voice, but wants to Sing. Thank you Toko-pa for this incredible gift you have given the world. I truly believe it is a treasured golden thread in the weaving back together of our living with this beautiful, damaged Earth, in the beauty and grace of honouring what is radiant as well as in what runs dark and deep. Thank you with all my heart.

This is a magical and supportive book for those of us searching for longing and drawn to our inner realms. Love how it is written. Expressed and explained beautifully.

I read another review state “if there was an edible version, I’d eat it”. And I could not possibly resonate more with this! This book is an absolute gem, and touches the reader to the depths of their soul. I’ve hugged this book in tears, grieved with its exposure of my wounds, taken long, thoughtful pauses to chew the dense and profound content, and laughed incredulously as Toko-Pa’s words weave a wondrous picture for the unseen, unknown, unacknowledged until now. I was engulfed in inspiration and awe as I drank each page down and I often felt as if the book was somehow written just for me. And with this, I felt a profound sense of hope. Because it was not written for me, and if these words are impacting so many, then here is absolute proof that my people are out there yet. I will be buying multiple copies to give to friends and family and want to say thank you a million times to Toko-Pa Turner for writing such a magnificent piece of art. 🙏🏼

A must read for anyone who feels a sense of separation from our ancestral song. The book nurtures on all levels, intellectually, emotionally, psychologically, and most of all spiritually. I believe that Belonging belongs in everyone’s home and should be read slowly and repeatedly. This is my second time around after first reading it in the winter of 2019. A soul friend from Portugal, whom I had met while working on ships, recommended the book, and I didn’t hesitate. This book will remain a shrine to our friendship. Toko-pa’s words feel inspired and channeled. They were meant to come through her. Thank you for penning a book that weaves a living bridge from honoring the past bringing forth the wisdom gained to a future humanity steeped in communion with self, community, and nature.

The writer has a way of speaking from the heart and saying things that resonante with anyone who has ever felt like an "outsider" in society for any reason. A terrific book for self-improvement.

Coming from a background of Depth Psychology and having read hundreds of books related to dreams, dreaming, the unconscious, Hillman, Jung, you name it, I found this book to be one of the most profound and well written that I have read in the past 20 years. Toko-pa is grounded in her life experience, the dreamwork of herself and others, and her knowledge of Sufism and Jungian psychology. This work has been produced by someone with their image based "boots on the ground" and it really shows. So helpful on so many levels, written in a poetic, friendly, inviting, and Belonging style it supports our journey toward a strong relationship with both our own connection to soul and the connection to the world soul. What a pleasure to read a beautiful book written from the heart that will surely educate for years to come! Highly recommend! Can't wait to read it again!

Belonging is one of those books that i call 'once in a decade' that manages to illuminate the present and validate years of exploration and healing...Have been with the book for a few days and Toko-pa has uncovered one of those rare golden nuggets that is found in the deep dark terrains that reveals the holographic of micro and macro-cosmic/personal and collective. This book relevant for these days when so many of us know it is time for unity and activism and yet at the same time many of us are aware that something seems to be holding us back collectively. This book lends great insight into the current series The Crown and also into the emerging of #metoo. We are being released from the death mother archetype together. This book has insight that can release us individually and collectively for a much greater wholeness. Toko-pa is a great writer, for she enters a creative flow that lifts and carries the soul that knows it 'belongs'. It is a good book and am so happy to find this one... Many thanks for its allowance.

The way the author convey her personal story, and the examples chosen to illuminate this book are very subtil and efficient at the same time. She managed to address this main human challenge of belonging in a very graceful and universal way. Thank you so much !

Listened to audio and read book at the same time. Touching and inspiring.

Um livro profundo, que traz uma perspectiva igualmente profunda do trabalho com sonhos.

It took me a while getting to write this review, why? It took me a while to finish. the book, why? It took me a while to digest and receive and reflect and say thanks to the sweetness in this book, to the clear reflections and wisdom shared in this book. You know how they say I can only help you help yourself? You are the medicine. This book is a testament of this. How from living life, through hardships and judgement of ourselves and others, eventually we can find peace in the awareness how it is all woven together and you know how they say, it is a natural product so not one is exactly the same. That is each one of us. We can be - ourselves together. As Toko - pa says ' you can't argue with poetry'. To understand the context of this phrase, read the book! To feel so deeply seen, understood and guided, read this book! How lucky are we to be gifted such magic. I wish for everyone on this planet to read this book and truly sit with it. My heart is softened and filled with joy. I am forever grateful.

I stop reading it, each time I read a bit I was feeling overwhelmed with sadness and depression. Maybe further the author shares some solutions more positive, but I never got there ! I don't think it is the best book to read if you feel depressed, lonely, sad and have some belonging traumas... At least not for me.