fortifiedbybooks 's review for:

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

3.0

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I read Women Who Run With the Wolves for the first time when I was in my early 20's. I highlighted and annotated it to within an inch of its life; so much that I had to buy another copy. Somehow, I forgot all that I had learned during that first reading while the new fresh copy of the book sat gathering dust on my bookshelf. While the book remained immensely helpful to me this second time around, from the perspective of my late 30's self, there was quite a bit of 90's pseudo-folk wisdom nonsense that seemed more like stereotyping of immigrant cultures than beneficial psychology.