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trixie_woodlawn_author 's review for:
Women Who Run with the Wolves
by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
"Stories are medicine. I have been taken with stories since I heard my first. They have such power, they do not require that we do, be, act, anything - we need only listen."
Women Who Run with the Wolves is a journey through both the female psyche using folklore as a lens, or perhaps as a vessel with which to navigate the deep waters. There is joy, despair, hope, sadness, healing, and perhaps most importantly, such a deep knowing of the wild woman's spirit in this book.
This book was heavy in a good way. I could only read it in bits and pieces, like a rich cake or pie. Every time I read it I learned something new about myself, or the world, or how culture has shaped my subconscious in both positive and negative ways. It felt like I was setting something free in myself that I didn't know was trapped.
Who should read this book: Women who are starting to sense that there is more to life than just what consumerism, capitalism, and American politics have handed them. Women who enjoy reading about the psychology of the spirit, who want to peer into their own rich, inner landscape a little more. And of course, women who run, or want to run, with wolves.
Women Who Run with the Wolves is a journey through both the female psyche using folklore as a lens, or perhaps as a vessel with which to navigate the deep waters. There is joy, despair, hope, sadness, healing, and perhaps most importantly, such a deep knowing of the wild woman's spirit in this book.
This book was heavy in a good way. I could only read it in bits and pieces, like a rich cake or pie. Every time I read it I learned something new about myself, or the world, or how culture has shaped my subconscious in both positive and negative ways. It felt like I was setting something free in myself that I didn't know was trapped.
Who should read this book: Women who are starting to sense that there is more to life than just what consumerism, capitalism, and American politics have handed them. Women who enjoy reading about the psychology of the spirit, who want to peer into their own rich, inner landscape a little more. And of course, women who run, or want to run, with wolves.