Clarissa Pinkola EstésWomen Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

I've had this book for years, and still re-read it every year. The medicine continues to grow and deepen for me as I evolve. I buy one for all my soul sisters and even my boyfriend, because it's a very helpful book to understand ourselves as women, and to help others who love us understand and support us better. The stories are beautiful and timeless, and not just for women or those identifying as women. This book is truly a gem for humanity. I laugh, cry, learn, and heal so much every time I read even just one page or sentence. It really does help us come back to our own souls, to live wild and free.

Women Who Run With Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés explores the various archetypes of the feminine soul. She reveals many alluring stories of female triumph and chaos. She offers varied stories that every woman could relate to. Estés challenges the reader to explore ways in which they were muzzled by society and cultural norms. Estés calls you to get in touch with your intuition. Her reimagined stories inspire and insight the mind. So, there's no wonder why women who run with wolves enjoy critical acclaim and tiktok stardom.Book quotes -These include not only the encouraging of one woman to inform on another and therefore expose her to punishment for behaving in a feminine and integral manner, for registering appropriate horror or dissension to injustice, but also the encouraging of older women to collude in the physical, mental, and spiritual abuse of women who are younger, less powerful, or helpless, and the encouraging of young women to dismiss and neglect the needs of women who are far older than they. - Women Who Run With Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés - Page 241Trying to be good, orderly, and compliant in the face of inner or outer peril or in order to hide a critical psychic or real-life situation de-souls a woman. It cuts her from her knowing; it cuts her from her ability to act. Like the child in the tale, who does not object out loud, who tries to hide her starvation, who tries to make it seem as though nothing is burning in her, modern women have the same disorder, normalizing the abnormal. This disorder is rampant across cultures. - Women Who Run With Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés - Page 243Injury to instinct, normalizing the abnormal, is what allowed mothers to wipe the stains of that oil spill, and later, the further sins of factories, refineries, and smelters, off their little children, their laundry, the insides of their loved ones as best they could, and while confused and worried, the women effectively cut away their rightful rage. Not all but most had become used to not being able to intervene in shocking events. There were formidable punishments for breaking silence, for fleeing the cage, for pointing out wrongs, for demanding change. - Women Who Run With Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés - Page 245

Have you ever had a book come across your path numerous times? You hear about it, read clips of it on blogs or message boards but never get around to picking it up? "Women Who Run with the Wolves" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes is one of those books.It sat on my wish list for months. It wasn't until I read about it on during my studies on society and women that I decided to finally borrowed the book from the library.I am glad I did. Two chapters into the book I realized: I don't want to borrow this book, I must own it."Women Who Run with the Wolves" is well written and makes you stop, look, listen, and pay attention with your soul. You will need time to read this book to get its full value. It is not reading time that makes it a long read, it is thinking time. This book will address the feelings, thoughts and emotions that you have at the core of your existence. It is a starting point to being honest with yourself.In the simplest of terms it is the handbook on womanhood, intuition, and creativity. Many books on being a woman or understanding a woman seem to tell you about women and womanhood from the outside looking in. This book starts at the core of a woman and shows you layer by layer what the essence of a woman is all about. It is honest and can help a lot of woman and girls understand themselves and live fuller and more meaningful lives.It addresses our needs, joys, fears, hopes, dreams, emotions, creativity, intellect, intuition, customs, views on our self, and society. It hits so close to home that it will feel as if Dr. Estes wrote this book specifically for you. She is like a mother sitting you down and sharing her knowledge with you one beautiful word at a time.I enjoyed the stories and myths that were added to this book from various cultures. It is a great way to understand how ways of being are transferred from generation to generation. She shows us the positive and the negative.The book shows that although women are from various cultures, backgrounds, and races that at the core we are similar in experiences, fears, and love. We have a bond that crosses all these lines. Dr. Estes's book helps to connect the dots.It addressed unanswered questions in the back of my mind and uncovered feelings that were hidden. I slowly found ways to untangle other emotions and thoughts that I deemed crazy but were normal and shared with women across time. As a result look at myself and other women with new understanding.Giving this book to a young woman will be a gift that she will cherish and use throughout her adulthood. I have given copies of this book to women and many have called me to talk about it. We were able to talk about things women don't usually share and help each other. The book is an excellent bridge to create and deepen bonds with other women.I have been stopped in the street and at restaurants by people who are intrigued at the title and my presence when reading it. I have met women who have finished the book and gave me their thoughts on how it has helped them.I would like to thank Dr. Estes for taking the time and having the love in her heart to write this book. It is a book that will help create more stronger and grounded women.It is a book that I will carry with me always

Great book so far! The author's work is amazing. Insightful and uplifting. However, the binding is terrible. The pages fell out as I started reading the book! I've seen reviews where readers have purchased the hardcover... Get that one!

This book is phenomenal and the 5-stars are for the author’s work itself. It’s life changing, full of wisdom and really helps with difficult life experiences. This is the 2nd most important book of my life and I still haven’t even finished it! I’m recommending it to so many. However - Both of my copies have fallen apart. The ink smudges and lifts easily. This is my 2nd copy because the 1st one more than half the book fell out. Every section I’ve read has fallen out of my 2nd copy. I ordered the hardcover version to hopefully help and I anticipate referencing it again and again, but I don’t even know what to do about the paperback book falling apart.