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Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
3.92 AVERAGE
1.97k reviews for:
Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
3.92 AVERAGE
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This is going to be a long one. Grab a cuppa or a tea.
I feel like this book fell into my lap more than once. It was as if the Universe was saying to me "Here, this is the one. Read this." Life was entirely too difficult and too hectic for me to read it, so I passed on the originally purchased book (2015) to a friend.
Fast forward to 2016. While wandering through a small, unassuming antique and consignment shop in Mountain View, Arkansas—close to where I was caring for my ailing mother—I stumbled upon the book again. The shop was a little too cluttered for my taste, a maze of “stuff,” but something nudged me to explore further. Tucked in a corner, there it was: the same book, only this time in a larger-print, more substantial edition.
It felt improbable to find it here, of all places. Again, the book seemed to call out, “HERE! This is the one! Read ME! I AM what you NEED!” Feeling a bit sheepish about having given away the $27 copy, I decided to bring home this $3 version. Still, life was even more hectic than before, and I didn’t know when I’d find time to read it.
Luckily, in 2020/2021, I found a group online of women who were happy to read the book, engage in deep discussion, and even one who was happy to facilitate. Most of us showed up every week and we discussed at length our thoughts feelings or uncertainties about Women Who Run With the Wolves.
It is a book that led me through a path of understanding myself, my psyche as a woman and as a human. It helped me to navigate the raw, open wounds of the relationship I had with my mother and never having had the understanding of what, where and why of the things that did or did not happen in our relationship, and help me find compassion where I felt I had failed my own children.
The discovery of the Too Good Mother, Baba Yaga, the Wild Woman and the deep connection to the descansos of my life and undeniable of their existences in my life but also learning that I have the strengthsurvive thrive, having experienced those things has made me a more powerful woman. I allow myself those instead of (the pretend that nothing happen) I was used to.
Along the pages I found empowerment in the form of giving myself permissions, not having to meet the expectations of others, allowing myself the space and time but also knowing when to tell myself it was time to move on, move forward, get motivation, get busy and when to show my teeth.
While I would recommend this book to every person interested in know more about self and connecting to the wild woman, I also know it is something that cannot be rushed, made to happen, nor should it ever be on a "should read" list.
When you’re ready to embrace yourself fully but you don't know how or even if you’re just a little bit curious I suggest turning the pages of this book.
I hope you love it as much as I eventually became to love it.
Happy Reading.
I feel like this book fell into my lap more than once. It was as if the Universe was saying to me "Here, this is the one. Read this." Life was entirely too difficult and too hectic for me to read it, so I passed on the originally purchased book (2015) to a friend.
Fast forward to 2016. While wandering through a small, unassuming antique and consignment shop in Mountain View, Arkansas—close to where I was caring for my ailing mother—I stumbled upon the book again. The shop was a little too cluttered for my taste, a maze of “stuff,” but something nudged me to explore further. Tucked in a corner, there it was: the same book, only this time in a larger-print, more substantial edition.
It felt improbable to find it here, of all places. Again, the book seemed to call out, “HERE! This is the one! Read ME! I AM what you NEED!” Feeling a bit sheepish about having given away the $27 copy, I decided to bring home this $3 version. Still, life was even more hectic than before, and I didn’t know when I’d find time to read it.
Luckily, in 2020/2021, I found a group online of women who were happy to read the book, engage in deep discussion, and even one who was happy to facilitate. Most of us showed up every week and we discussed at length our thoughts feelings or uncertainties about Women Who Run With the Wolves.
It is a book that led me through a path of understanding myself, my psyche as a woman and as a human. It helped me to navigate the raw, open wounds of the relationship I had with my mother and never having had the understanding of what, where and why of the things that did or did not happen in our relationship, and help me find compassion where I felt I had failed my own children.
The discovery of the Too Good Mother, Baba Yaga, the Wild Woman and the deep connection to the descansos of my life and undeniable of their existences in my life but also learning that I have the strength
Along the pages I found empowerment in the form of giving myself permissions, not having to meet the expectations of others, allowing myself the space and time but also knowing when to tell myself it was time to move on, move forward, get motivation, get busy and when to show my teeth.
While I would recommend this book to every person interested in know more about self and connecting to the wild woman, I also know it is something that cannot be rushed, made to happen, nor should it ever be on a "should read" list.
When you’re ready to embrace yourself fully but you don't know how or even if you’re just a little bit curious I suggest turning the pages of this book.
I hope you love it as much as I eventually became to love it.
Happy Reading.
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I was very excited for feminist readings of Folk Lore and Fairytales but the bioessentialism undertones just frustrated me
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Inspirational stories, but a bit over-explained.