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Summary: Go,run with the wolves now, your soul will find a new song.
Review: Clarissa Pinkola Estes searched out the scorched and fragmented land of our psyches. She brought back the lost parts which would make us whole. This book will make you dream, and I mean dream! Men, women, gay, lesbian, married/single read then re-read this book. It's an oracle, a history/her-story book, and a manual for inter-personal relationship, among other things. Ms. Estes successfully wrote down the bones. The soul's infra-structure is found in this book. This book is a defragmentation device for your psyche. Each person I give this book to, starts to change--immediately. They spark up a new dialogue. Something wonderful and authentic happens all at once--and they grow. Join me in the inner adventure and trust that there is something wonderful inside of you waiting to be re-cog-nized and re-mem-bered. Clarissa will guide you as storyteller, cantadora, into the archetypes, and your soul may learn a new song. Mine did.
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Summary: Share with Your Daughters
Review: I first read "Women Who Run With the Wolves" when I was a teenager. I was struck deeply by all of the stories. At the time, the stories that stood out the most in my mind were Bluebeard, Skeleton Woman, and Sealskin, Soulskin. They lived on, in my mind, as I grew, and I never forgot the messages I learned from the stories. That was an incredible influence on my life. The stories and Clarissa Pinkola Estes' descriptions were the wise women I needed to guide me away from allowing myself to be destructed and instead choosing to be aware. I highly recommend sharing this book with your teenage daughters, and talking with them about the messages. In addition this book helped me to view all the stories that I had enjoyed as a child as commentary on my survival (from sexual abuse).Now, ten years later, I pick the book up again, just as I have periodically throughout my life. Usually I would just re-read the stories, and not the analysis (I would make my own connections and understandings), but now I want to read the analysis again from my adult perspective. On the verge of motherhood I am longing for the voices of wise women to walk with me into the next phase of my life.
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Summary: Necessary Background Work
Review: If you are researching Latino/a storytelling, this is the book for you. It is a wonderful outline of women figures in storytelling in general, and the outlook the author lends to Latino/a issues is invaluable. Estes describes some of the spirituality that goes hand in hand with mythology. This is a strongly feminist text. Much of the work has a Goddess sort of touch to it - it explores the maiden, mother, and crone.
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Summary: Haunting, touching, inspirational women's myths and stories
Review: Clarissa Pinkola Estes opened my mind...
I thought the book was going to be either too scholarly
or too depressing. My preset ideas were completely shattered
once I read the first chapter.
Ms. Estes opened up a fanciful world of fairy-tale
and folk-tale creature/archetypes and explained them
in a way that gave them life, fleshed out the "skeleton woman"
and inspired me to make my leap into the creative with her
technique of creating a "scapecoat" to introduce a healing ritual
into any woman's life.
My creative life was enriched. My dream life was enriched.
"Wolves" inspired me to keep searching deep within my unconscious
for those archetypes that would nurture me into FULL conscious
living.
"Wolves" will no doubt bring answers from the depths of many, both
male and female, who delve into the mysterious world of the
fairy/folk/archetypal myth. Readers who open to her images
will come out with a richer feel for life and living in the now.
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Summary: RIVETING!!!!!
Review: This book helped me transcend the boundaries of my immobilized psyche. The presentation of this book is absolutly brilliant. It teaches its lessons indirectly through the use of folklore and story telling. For example, "Skeleton Woman" is a must read. I'm sure that most women identify with the Skeleton Woman, it is a classic story demonstrating the beauty of a nurishing love. Men need to "sleep", to allow a woman to drink his tears, grow from his ideas, and share his quintessence. I think men should read this chapter to understand the importance of a woman. He needs to let a woman "drink his tears". She in return would nurish him spiritually and mentally. From this sharing, the fruit of a home and prosperity are born. Man needs to stop running at first glance of a woman's "bare boned" soul. He misses much. This book will help any woman reconnect with her wild nature -- her instinctual nature. Women will learn how to make progress toward forgiveness without severing their own spirit. Find the right mate, like in the story "Manawee". Recognize the mate who is working to discover a woman's "twin" nature. I guarantee, anyone who reads this book will be awakened!!
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Summary: Comforting to those questioning themselves and their motives
Review: I read this book several years ago during a two year period of going through a divorce. This book empowered me to get in touch with my inner female voice, listen to my instincts and trust them again (because they were always sending me warning signals I was told to ignore by my overbearing, controlling spouse at the time). This is a wonderful collection of tales from many cultures that remind us women that we are born with an instinctual knowledge of things to come. We, unfortunately, allow others (i.e. the men in our lives) to tell us we are too sensitive, overreacting, imagining things, jealous, distrusting, etc., only to discover that those instincts were right on the mark the entire time! This should be on every woman's bookshelf!
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Summary: Resonates with my soul
Review: I read this book at a time in my life when I was open to looking at who I really am. Each chapter resonated with something deep within that I had been hungering and searching for. This was the pivitol book that began my personal healing inner work. I recommend this book to any woman who wants to find the parts of herself she has lost or disowned. It is much easier to read with the right side of the brain and it does require emotional work as you go along, but very well worth it.
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Summary: Are you ready to learn? Are you ready to heal?
Review: I should get kick-backs from the publisher for as many times as I've recommended this book. Moreover, I recommend it to men as often as to women - what better introduction to APPLIED Jungian psychology than with a book that uses that very tool not only to heal the individual, but to effect change on the entire foundation of our society by altering the basic beliefs of worth and value in women, the first half of the human race? Strong women make strong children, and strong children grow into both women AND men. What a brilliant way to go about the hard work, but with a book that will make you cry every few pages with the utter truth of it....
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Summary: For everyone who runs with the wolves
Review: Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes is a must read for anyone interested in the spiritual/archetypal basis of male/female relationships.
I'd offer companions to this book:
Iron John by Robert Bly
Awakening the Heroes Within by Carol Pearson
Goddesses in Every Woman by Jean Bolen
These books won't give you any golden key to life, but they will alert your consciousness to some of the patterns in myth and stories that we so un-consciously play out with our mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers.
Read & enjoy. The rest is up to you.
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Summary: A book to lend to a friend
Review: I know lots of women who run with the wolves whether they know it or not. I lend this book to friends both male and female. The folk tales ring true..they tell universal truths about the human condition.
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