Women Who Run with Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés - Book Review
I recently finished reading Women Who Run with Wolves and I have to say, it was one of the most inspiring and empowering books I have ever read!
The author, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, does an incredible job of weaving together stories, myths, and fairy tales to illustrate the power and resilience of the feminine spirit. Estés' writing is both poetic and practical, and her insights into the ways in which women have been conditioned to suppress their natural instincts and intuition are both eye-opening and liberating. I found myself nodding along in agreement and feeling a deep sense of validation and understanding throughout the entire book.
Overall, I would highly recommend Women Who Run with Wolves to any woman who is seeking to reconnect with her true self and tap into the power of her inner wildness. This book is a true gem and I am grateful to have stumbled upon it!
About the book
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 Estes unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairytales and stories, many from her own family, 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 Estes 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.