I loved her own connection with the wolves, her long and outstanding research of these animals, especially female wolves and the amazing similarities with female human behaviour. It would be impossible for me to reflect on the richness of this wonderful book, but got some intakes that I would like to share. They are the bearers of the pure/oral tradition’.Īnd this is how this book starts, with the passing of these stories, with her own explanation of how to interpretate every situation, with an opened-eye account for women on how are we being seen by others, on how are we being seen by our own selves and why this has to immediately change.Įvery story is important, as it comes with an important teaching, an own blessing. ‘Some people are not educated in the academic sense, yet they are intensely wise. While growing, she got used to hear all kind of stories, mostly metaphoric, mostly well known in different cultures, but usually misinterpreted. She was raised among different indigenous, black and latino communities.

Wherever side you look of her, it has been worked, it is full with experiences and memories, and specially with wonderful teachings in which every single woman can benefit from.Įstes has a very multicultural background, not only because she is Mexican-American. She is prismatic, multifaceted, a whole, complete, intellectual, emotional and spiritual woman. This woman is the first that comes to my mind when I think about this book. Dr Estes’s extraordinary and enriching bestseller shows how, through her foremost interpretation of story and her psychological commentary, we can reclaim, and rejoice in, our true feminine power – how we can awaken within the depths of our souls one who is both magic and medicine.Ī wonderful book…for anybody who cares about their relationships and their lives’ Anne Devlin, playwright.Clarissa Pinkola Estes. She reveals how within every woman there lives a Wild Woman, filled with passionate creativity and ageless knowing – but repressed for centuries by a value system that trivializes emotional truth, intuitive wisdom and instinctual self-confidence.

A work of both poetry and power, it began a revolution and continues to transform the lives of millions round the world.Ĭlarissa Pinkola Estes is a Jungian psychoanalyst and cantadora (keeper of the old stories), of many years standing. It has been heralded as the seminal work on the inner life of women.

Women Who Run With The Wolves is undoubtedly one of the most widely acclaimed and most influential books of recent years. WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES BY CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES

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