Calling Myself Home


de Robin Rainbow Gate.


The book is the true story of a woman’s complete reinvention of herself, a journey that takes her from suburban Chicago to the Pacific Northwest, India, England, and Appalachia, before she is drawn by visions to move to a rural mountain village in the south central highlands of Mexico. She leaves behind a career, financial security, close friends, her possessions, even her old name, and studies with elder teachers and traditional healers, all in search of a new way of living in harmony with the earth and ultimately herself.

The book explores simple living, personal transformation, and the pertinence of living traditions in today’s world. At heart it’s a love letter to the rural community she adopted, and which adopted her…