Women Who Run with the Wolves
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Book club pick for Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf
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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Absolute must read! One of the strongest books about being a woman i've ever read. It helped me much to understand myself, my behavior and my environment. It is a wild mix of fantasy, psychology and history. This book includes: Analyzing myths and fairytales Finding hidden messages Symbolism Psychology Feminism Learning about yourself Learning to listen to your own intuition Recognizing predators Finding peace with yourself
This was a fascinating read! Some of the language didn't age seamlessly, but I believe the teachings very well still work even though the definition of womanhood does not hold true anymore. Very thought-provoking, even if I don't agree with everything said. Will ponder the contents of this for a while to come, but thoroughly enjoyed myself reading, exploring the stories weaved and analyzed within and the narration by the author was superb
Description
Book club pick for Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf
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.
Book Information
Posts
Absolute must read! One of the strongest books about being a woman i've ever read. It helped me much to understand myself, my behavior and my environment. It is a wild mix of fantasy, psychology and history. This book includes: Analyzing myths and fairytales Finding hidden messages Symbolism Psychology Feminism Learning about yourself Learning to listen to your own intuition Recognizing predators Finding peace with yourself
This was a fascinating read! Some of the language didn't age seamlessly, but I believe the teachings very well still work even though the definition of womanhood does not hold true anymore. Very thought-provoking, even if I don't agree with everything said. Will ponder the contents of this for a while to come, but thoroughly enjoyed myself reading, exploring the stories weaved and analyzed within and the narration by the author was superb