Women Who Run with the Wolves Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than 2.7 million copies sold! • “A deeply spiritual book [that] honors what is tough smart and untamed in women.”-The Washington Post Book WorldBook club pick for Emma Watson’s Our Shared ShelfWithin 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.