Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
'Women Who Run With the Wolves' by Clarissa Pinkola Estes is a collection of myths and stories that explore the wild woman archetype. The book delves into the universal struggles experienced by women, using folklore from different cultures to provide insights on relationships, self-discovery, and empowerment. Estes combines Jungian psychology with storytelling traditions to guide readers on tapping into their inner wisdom and creativity, emphasizing the importance of embracing one's wild and natural instincts.
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Content warnings include discussions of trauma, psychological distress, and emotional manipulation, which may be triggering for some readers.
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"A deeply spiritual book [that] honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women."-The Washington Post Book World
Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society's attempt to "civilize" us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls.
In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine.
Dr. Estés has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.
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About the Author:
Clarissa Pinkola Estés is an American poet, author, and spoken word artist.
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