"In On My Own Florence Falk bravely and soulfully invites women to reimagine aloneness—to see it as a gift rather than a failure. Her book is a call to wholeness, independence, and empowerment."

—Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues Part I: THE MANY FACES OF ALONENESS

• 1   If I Am a Woman Alone, Who Am I?
• 2   What Is Aloneness?
• 3   Shame-in-Hiding: A Woman's Cultural Heritage
  

Part II: ON SHIFTING GROUND

• 4   The Awakening: Childhood
• 5   On Shifting Ground: Adolescence & Young Adulthood
  

Part III: SELF-POSSESSION

• 6   Befriending Aloneness
• 7   Stepping Out
• 8   Reaping the Harvest: Solitude, the Sacred, and the      Rediscovery of the Self
• 9   Aloneness and Relationship
  

Notes
Recommended Reading
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Acknowledgments
Reading Guide
Index