Odin & Olga: The Loyal and the Free
About this audiobook
He searched for over a year. Eleven villages. One tinker's cart. Countless wrong turns. His nose had told him, from the time he was old enough to trust it, that the right person had not yet appeared….and so he kept moving, through markets and fishing villages and empty crossroads, until a lane in Hallsend and one enormous, decisive bark brought a grieving man to his door.
She had survived things she did not dwell on. Cold. Hunger. The particular education of a creature who learned early that safety was not something the world offered freely. She had moved through the world with the economy of motion that survival requires, until one small girl's quality of attention turned out to be different enough from everything else she had known that she chose, against all her own hard-won training, to stay.
Odin Barkson and Olga Clawson arrived at A-Ray's world from entirely opposite directions and discovered, each in their own time, that they had been searching for the exact same thing.
ODIN & OLGA: THE LOYAL AND THE FREE tells the stories they have never told themselves: where they came from, what they survived, and the night Olga almost didn't come back….and what Odin did about it. It is a story about loyalty and freedom, about two completely different ways of loving, and about the quiet, astonishing truth that both roads lead to the same place.
Includes Jungian analysis and a call to action: Loyalty and Freedom Are Not Enemies.
For those who love with their whole being and ask nothing in return….and for those who love fiercely on their own terms and give that love freely anyway. Both ways are true. Both ways are enough.
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About the author
Tiffany Solter, PhD is a mental health professional, educator, advocate, and lifelong seeker of magic whose writing explores the boundaries between life, death, justice, and the profound connections that define us. Born into a family of mountain people spanning Wyoming and Colorado, she grew up shaped, largely, by two grandmothers who taught her, one through train journeys across the West, the other chasing shooting stars across the plains, that anything is possible.
A survivor of a near-death experience in 1996, Solter spent decades integrating what she encountered in that "warm place where light is everything" into a life of healing work, academic achievement, and fierce advocacy. She holds a doctorate with a dissertation on grace and recovery, and has worked alongside peer counselors, nurses, and mental health teams she considers among the most transformative teachers of her life.
Her advocacy voice is unflinching and deeply personal. In "Be a Man": The Violence Society Ignores, Solter turns her clinical expertise and lived experience toward a crisis our culture has long refused to see: domestic violence against men. Drawing on research, survivor accounts, and her own family history, she challenges the archetypal and institutional blind spots that leave male victims invisible, unbelieved, and without adequate resources. The book is equal parts gripping fiction, Jungian psychological analysis, and practical call to action. It is complete with resource guides for survivors, supporters, military families, and children. It is the work of someone who has sat in clinical rooms with these men, loved them as family, and refused to stay silent.
She lives in what she calls Camelot, a home she and her husband Jeff manifested in childhood whispers, surrounded by family, familiars, motorcycles, and what she simply calls the magic.
“Between Worlds” is her memoir. "Be a Man" is her battle cry.
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