Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

4 reviews

cameliam's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

One of the best and most important books I’ve ever read. It took me from January 2019 - February 2024 to read it and felt like a friend and guide through those years. The ideas and lessons in the book will stay with me all my life and I plan to read it again some day! 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Incest, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

This book explores the topical ways that women are oppressed in society and by their families or partners. It invites us to reflect and be aware of all the things women go through throughout a lifetime.

jelliestars's review

challenging inspiring reflective slow-paced

2.25

Some good ideas buried in irritating repetition and bioessentialist bs

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Ableism, Fatphobia, Grief, Incest, Sexism, Rape, Transphobia, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Murder, Religious bigotry, Violence, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Animal death, Toxic relationship, and Blood

bi_n_large's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Death, and Grief

Minor: Religious bigotry, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

alexisofgreenbedsheets's review

it long

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Body horror and Suicide

Minor: Blood, Grief, Racism, Rape, and Violence

it is an incredible book with many of life's hidden mysteries and universal truths, but it also reads like a textbook, so it is hard to sit through