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Women Who Run With the Wolves

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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.

537 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

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Clarissa Pinkola Est茅s

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An American poet, psychoanalyst and post-trauma specialist who was raised in now nearly vanished oral and ethnic traditions. She is a first-generation American who grew up in a rural village, population 600, near the Great Lakes. Of Mexican mestiza and majority Magyar and minority Swabian tribal heritages, she comes from immigrant and refugee families who could not read or write, or who did so haltingly. Much of her writing is influenced by her family people who were farmers, shepherds, hopsmeisters, wheelwrights, weavers, orchardists, tailors, cabinet makers, lacemakers, knitters, and horsemen and horsewomen from the Old Countries.

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384 reviews647 followers
July 1, 2008
When I worked at Ballantine Books in the early to mid-1990s, this was by far the most successful book the house had ever published (it probably still is). I couldn't get over it -- this piece of shit was a runaway best-seller? Overblown, overwritten, self-important, pseudo-intellectual -- what the hell was to like? And to top it off, the author acted like a complete asshole, with personality traits that matched her book to a T. Her visits to the office were ludicrous; she used to prance around, puffed up like a little marshmallow, waiting for everyone to fall at her feet.

Shockingly, Clarissa (upon whom some of us bestowed a nickname that was, um, less than flattering, and which you can probably figure out) never wrote another book that got the slightest amount of attention (unless you count The Gift of Story, a little nothing of a book that she tossed out in a couple of weeks just in time for the Christmas rush. [Yep, nothing cynical about Dr. Estes.] I won't even tell you the advance they gave her for it because it will make you lose your will to live.) Can't imagine why.

I mean, let's face it: you know a book is a must to avoid when you have Alice Walker saying stuff like, "Women Who Run With the Wolves isn't just another book. It is a gift of profound insight, wisdom, and love. An oracle from one who knows." Yeek.
5 reviews38 followers
January 28, 2008
This book saved my life. I was seriously struggling with an enormous amount of class-related stress, centered around a completely unsuspected attack on my creative potential. After a few months of being shredded mentally and creatively by the people I'd expected to lean on for support and physically by the demands of moving to a new country, I was at a horrible place, alternating between periods of blind rage and near suicidal depression, and for the first time in my life I was watching my ability to create dim and all but vanish. I had two weeks to pull together a film shoot with a script that I needed to edit and then direct, I knew no one, I had no idea what I was doing and felt like I was running into a brick wall with everyone but one of my tutors, a woman who I've subsequently given a copy of WWRWW (she loves it).

This book brought me through that time. My level of self-awareness as both a woman and a product of my culture has reached a new peak, and through Est茅s' writing I have made one of the most difficult and empowering decisions of my life. This is a book for anyone who has ever asked why, and then shushed themselves. This book is a loud, shameless 'prayer for the still kept in cages' (thank you Tennessee Williams), and as it boldly refutes the constraints imposed upon a wild nature by propriety, society, and that nature itself it cannot help but resemble a tall glass of water in the middle of the desert. Buy this book. Read it. If it offends with clich茅, force yourself to ignore it and take in the message anyway.
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61 reviews28 followers
December 1, 2014
Yeah yeah, the book may be seen as a cry of independence for all women out there who need to get in touch with their "wild" side.

However, my reservations:

- The author tried to say that women should be who they are, but continually portrayed one single type of women: women who had artistic urges, thick thighs and who had always felt like they were born from the wrong parents.
So, if you are a skinny archivist who had a decent childhood and no artistic talents, there's something terribly wrong with your psyche.

- The author makes assertions and that is all. No evidence whatsoever is given to any of the sentences in any of the 500 pages this book has to offer. It's all "All women are like this. She may think she is not, but it's only because it's hidden in her subconscious or she needs psychoanalysis".

- I really mean it, the assertions-with-no-evidence just permeates the whole book. Even the analyses of the stories, "the skull means her instinct" kind of thing. Why? Why can't the skull mean her fears, her past, or just simply a literal skull? I can give different plausible interpretations to all of her stories and dreams.

- Highly repetitive. You could read the book just by reading the first sentence of each paragraph, because they all had circular logic/unnecessary illustration: "women are like wolves. wolves are wild and women are wild so women are like wolves".

- I question all comparisons with animals. Can I compare myself to a scorpion and say that I should kill myself when facing an attack from which I can't escape? Of course women share some characteristics with animals, but not all.

Disappointing.

(This book is highly recommended in pagan circles, because it tries to elevate the status of women. And in goddess-centered religions, that should be nice, right? But..

I can read a book about religion and just accept its assertions, because that's the nature of religion. But I can't read a book about psychoanalysis and just accept it. And I think that instead of elevating the status of anything, it lowers it. A poorly written book accepted and revered by a whole community makes you question the judgement of that community. So I think it's the responsibility of the members of that community who think this way to stand for what they believe in.)
10 reviews
August 6, 2009
Here's the deal on this book.

1) It is all too easy to make fun or roll one's eyes or be actually pretty nasty about it, because it's obviously got a ridiculously embarassing title. I personally got the book as a cheerful joke from my dad one Christmas, and I thought to myself, "gag me!"

2) But: Once I read it, I realized how smart this book is. (Eg, I learned the ever-useful term here.) What this book is is a master-key to the pictorial language that our right brain "speaks," (via dreams, myths, stories & films), particularly when we are in trouble. If you are a writer, an artist, a scholar of poetry, fiction, or ancient oral traditions that don't make "sense," or even just someone who has gone through or is going through a hard time, you can use this book; you can "work" this book. It's a guidebook to the picture language and the narrative logic of our right brain and even if you think the author is a little full of herself, which I personally do, it doesn't matter. The subject is fascinating.

3) So: By all means, ignore the parts that turn you off or feel cheesy. But give your critical eye rolling side a break, remember what it was like to be a kid who adored and , and dare to realize that this book has a highly pragmatic, powerful core that can change the quality of your life.

For more along these lines, try also the books of , or .
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16 reviews10 followers
December 27, 2010
Every feminist/spiritual/literature/writing related teacher I've ever had has told me I should read this book, so I finally did. Frankly, it was annoying. The ideas are wonderful, but the writing is obnoxious. I didn't know what the phrase "purple prose" really meant until I read this book. She also refers to the "Rio abajo rio" frequently, and EVERY SINGLE TIME, she writes: "The rio abajo rio, the river below the rive ..." It's just not necessary. After reading 200 pages of this I wondered how much shorter the book would've been if she'd cut out even half the unnecessary adjectives and repeated translations. I'm sorry. Maybe this makes me a shitty feminist, but this book is really annoying. I gave it 3 stars because I still think some of the ideas in it are really good, and maybe one day I'll try reading it again when I've developed greater patience.
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157 reviews3,170 followers
December 7, 2023
I hate self-help books. I find them preachy, and I find them privileged. They give me the shivers and they annoy me so I stopped reading them years ago ('the art of not giving a fuck' is what really sealed the deal for me). So read this review knowing that I hate self-help books and that I would never shelf this book under that category.

Women Who Run With The Wolves did not change my life, like self-help books love to promise. It didn't change my life because it didn't tell me anything I didn't already know - and I mean that in the absolute best way possible. This book felt like a soul-call, a reminder of the ancient knowing that lives inside all of us. This book didn't change my life, but this book called me home. I have been struggling with a lot of collective female rage and trauma these past years. That feels weird to share here because it is deeply personal, but it's true: sometimes the suffering of all women throughout history and throughout the world today bears down on me so heavily I don't know what to do with myself. This book healed part of that wound for me. The pages wrapped me in their arms and said 'you are right to feel this way. You are right to question. You are right to feel angry. You are right to want to kick of your shoes, run barefoot through the trees and scream in internal rage from the top of a mountain'.

If you ever felt that urge, you need to read this book. If you never felt that urge, you may feel it after reading this book. Or you may think 'wow, this sounds like the preaching of a cult', and quickly run the other way - I wouldn't blame you. But this book doesn't try to teach you something, it doesn't tell you what you need to be or how to live your life. It is rather an ode to women, an ode to wisdom, an ode to spirituality, an ode to nature, an ode to life and death and the cycles we live through. There is poetry in its wisdom, and it feels like lovingly being carried by the hands of generations of wise and wild women from all over the world.

It took me eleven months to finish this. This is not the type of book you read in one go and be done with it. This is a book to savour, to put away for a while, to come back to, to question, to underline, to ponder. It is dense, it is difficult, sometimes it is repetitive. If you feel the need to put it away for a few weeks or months, do so, and wait for its call again.

鈥淭he doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.鈥�
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611 reviews16 followers
December 23, 2011
Jungian psychoanalytic theory applied to folktales and fairy tales from around the world. Yes? Yes.

I want to carry copies of this book around and hand them out, proselytorily, to everyone woman I encounter who feels confined, constrained, and soul-sick. This book has helped me to reconnect with my intuition, reevaluate what it means for me to live authentically, and reimagine what my life can look like when I live it wildly and freely. It really has been a gift to me.

There is lots of gender essentialism in here, but for some reason I don't care. A friend and I were talking about this the other, trying to figure out why Estes gets away with saying essentializing and even heteronormative things that we would never swallow from another writer... we thought it might have to do with her practice of putting essentialisms in the context of universal archetypes that we can accept or reject as we choose. Whatever it is, I can't say anything about this book other than that I love it.
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March 17, 2022
Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild 鈥璚oman Archetype, Clarissa Pinkola Est茅s

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype is a book by Jungian analyst, author and poet Clarissa Pinkola Est茅s, Ph.D, published in 1992 by Ballantine Books.

In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Est茅s analyses myths, fairy tales, folk tales and stories from different cultures to uncover the Wild Woman archetype of the feminine psyche. The book stems from these interpretations of old tales and creates this wolf-woman parallel, by incorporating her own previous studies that suggest "wolves and women are relational by nature."

The notion of the archetype is associated with the work of Carl Jung. Est茅s produces this new collection of words to describe the female psyche in Women who Run with the Wolves as it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.

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29 reviews12 followers
March 23, 2010
Another reviewer summed it up: this book's cover was misleading! I know that authors often have nothing to do with how their books are advertised, and perhaps I should have read the introduction before I bought it or something, but it *still* isn't fair that I wasted my money on a book chock-full of Jungian psychoanalysis when what is advertised and what I expected was a book about the literary and mythological archetype of the wild woman. What's worse, the book isn't so much about Jungian psychology in general as it is about the author's experience. I just get the feeling that this book was clearly written for the author, other woman just happen to become "empowered" by her writings on wild women. And honestly, I understand wanting to reclaim wildness and all, but making essentialist claims about all women-- even if they aren't "negative" (or turning a negative into a positive)-- is still annoying. I just wanted to scold, "No, not all women are 'robust'." And so is comparing women to (non-human) animals. These assertions and comparisons may be an attempt to reclaim or subvert sexist tenets about women, but Estes seems to forget that women have been compared to and thus treated like animals throughout history, and that this has negative consequences! I understand what she's attempting to do, I know she isn't ignorant of these facts, and I can appreciate the worth and need of a focus on women's psychology, but this just doesn't work for me.
One thing I can laugh at is the fact that I would have adored this book during high school, when I was really into Jung, Freud, psychology and feminism in general and I suppose I could finish reading it out of embarrassed nostalgia. But who reads a 500+ page book out of pure nostalgia? Not I.
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12 reviews7 followers
November 12, 2017
I couldn't even finish this shit. It was patronizing and self-mastabatory, as well as incredibly reaching, overflowing with weak arguments, and otherwise full of shit. (Seriously. That story of her and the couple telling her the myth of the coyote and the penis was *SO* funny they were howling, weeping, and banging the table for an extended period of time? Fuck off.) Check out Goddesses by Campbell or Goddesses in Everywoman. Much better analysis of the Divine Feminine in literature and mythos than this narcissistic shit show of "analysis." Who the fuck gave this woman a doctorate?
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749 reviews8 followers
June 9, 2017
To me, this book is a little like Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter. Sometimes she says something incredibly insightful, and then she starts talking about crumple-horned snorkacks. However, while I love Luna, I don't love this book. Not only that, but it seemed that while she was trying to mend centuries of women being put into a particular box that is damaging, she put them all into a different box. There were several times in the book that she said something like, "All women are ...." fill in the blank, and I don't think that all women are necessarily what she was describing.

There are people that I love beyond all reason that would love this book. It just wasn't for me.
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123 reviews807 followers
April 8, 2021
Written from the perspective of a Jungian analyst, the book is covering the interpretation of myths, fairy tales, folk tales and stories from different cultures aimed at exploring the Wild Woman archetype of feminine psyche. Pinkola Est茅s argues that the archetype of the Wild Woman is an essential archetype for a female path of individuation.

The writing style is more in line with books of popular psychology/self-help books than more 鈥渟erious鈥� books about analytical psychology, which explain the way was more appealing to the general public than some better quality, more significant books in a similar niche, but sadly, less appealing to me.
I think it is always hard to rate books that cover topics you've already read a fair amount about, in this case, analysis of fairy tales and myths and the path of development of the female psyche. But this book unarguably carries a lot of unique wisdom and gave me greater comprehension from which I will benefit both personally (in reconnecting to parts of self) and professionally (in helping others do the same). Because of that, it deserves a higher rating as I value more the change of perspective than a writing style and literary accomplishment (especially in non-fiction). But if you decide to read this book, be prepared that it is painfully uneven and somewhat repetitive, and would benefit greatly from a good editor.

Folk tales, fairy tales and myths carry deep knowledge and collective wisdom about sex, love, marriage, birth, motherhood, death and transformation.
The strongest analysis I adored were; Bluebeard, Vasalisa the Wise, The Ugly Duckling, The Red Shoes and The Little Match Girl, really worth reading even without reading the whole book.

If you are into the archetypal, creative, cyclic, intuitive, erotic, passionate, authentic, and FEMININE side of life you will certainly enjoy this book.
If you feel depressed, dried out, weak, powerless, silenced, confused, and unexcited about life, you could benefit from this book, as well if you want to nurture, heal or just explore yourself further.

If you liked this book and what to dive deeper in the topics of female development as well interpretation of fairy tales I would recommend: and , for path of female individuation, and and for a psychodynamic approach to fairy tales.
August 24, 2018
Evocative and exhilarating! I need to reread this. Many, many times.

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... a scar is stronger than skin... (c)
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The body is a multilingual being. (c)
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Even if one has friends, those friends may not be suns. (c)
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When a life is too controlled, there becomes less and less life to control. (c)
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Nothing makes the light, the wonder, the treasure stand out so well as darkness. (c)
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Talismans are reminders of what is felt but not seen, what is so, but not immediately obvious. (c)
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Stories are medicine. (c)
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Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. (c)
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Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge, shows us the way out, down, or up, and for our trouble, cuts for us fine wide doors in previously blank walls, openings that lead to the dreamland, that lead to love and learning, that lead us back to our own real lives as knowing wildish women. (c)
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Dogs are the magicians of the universe. (c)
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There is nothing wrong with ducks, I assure them, or with swans. But ducks are ducks and swans are swans. (c)
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I like to use mice. What if you were raised by the mice people? (c)
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Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered. ...
To take the world into one's arms and act towards it in a soul-filled and soul-strengthening manner is a powerful act of wildish spirit. (褋)
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We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught to feel shame for such a desire. We grew our hair long and used it to hide our feelings. But the shadow of Wild Woman still lurks behind us during our days and in our nights. No matter where we are, the shadow that trots behind us is definitely four-footed. (c)
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Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on. (c)
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Every creature on earth returns to home. It is ironic that we have made wildlife refuges for ibis, pelican, egret, wolf, crane, deer, mouse, moose, and bear, but not for ourselves in the places we live day after day. We understand that the loss of habitat is the most disastrous event that can occur to a free creature. (c)
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I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. (c)
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Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one鈥檚 mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down. (c)
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The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door. (褋)
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A woman may crave to be near water, or be belly down, her face in the earth, smelling the wild smell. She might have to drive into the wind. She may have to plant something, pull things out of the ground or put them into the ground. She may have to knead and bake, rapt in dough up to her elbows.
She may have to trek into the hills, leaping from rock to rock trying out her voice against the mountain. She may need hours of starry nights where the stars are like face powder spilt on a black marble floor. She may feel she will die if she doesn鈥檛 dance naked in a thunderstorm, sit in perfect silence, return home ink-stained, paint-stained, tear-stained, moon-stained. (c)
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Practice listening to your intuition, your inner voice; ask questions; be curious; see what you see; hear what you hear; and then act upon what you know to be true. These intuitive powers were given to your soul at birth.
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It is good to have many personae, to make collections, sew up several, collect them as we go along in life. As we become older, with such a collection at our behest, we find we can portray any aspect of self most anytime we wish. However, at some point, most particularly as one grows into past mid-life and on into old age, one's personas shift and meld in mysterious ways. Eventually, there is a kind of 'meltdown', a loss of personae complete, thereby revealing what would, in its greatest light, be called 'the true self. (c)
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Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin. (c)
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When the personal soul life is burnt to ashes, a woman loses the vital treasure ... In her unconscious, the desire for the red shoes, a wild joy, not only continues, it swells and floods ... (c)
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You are born to one mother, but if you are lucky, you will have more than one. And among them all you will find most of what you need. (c)
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I was an aesthete rather than an athlete, and my only wish was to be an ecstatic wanderer. (c)
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I鈥檝e not forgotten the song of those dark years, hambre del alma, the song of the starved soul. But neither have I forgotten the joyous canto hondo, the deep song, the words of which come back to us when we do the work of soulful reclamation. (c)
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Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mates, and their pack. They are experienced in adapting to constantly changing circumstances; they are fiercely stalwart and very brave. (c)
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256 reviews477 followers
March 29, 2017
鈥淚 hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.鈥�

Three times in my life this book found its way into my greedy little hands at a time when I needed it most.

Every woman should own a copy of this book.

Women Who Run With the Wolves is a collection of short stories/ fairytales interspersed with commentary by the author. It sounds weird, perhaps a little too academic, maybe even a bit of a literary wank.

It isn't. This book is the best "self help" book I have ever read. It takes really painful experiences, swallows them, then regurgitates them into metaphors and stories my heart could hear and respond to.

It's hard to talk about this book without getting into really personal details about why it means so much to me. I'll use an example I'm comfortable sharing. When I was in rehab for drug addiction I struggled terribly. I was isolated, I hated having every aspect of my life controlled by staff, and worst of all I wasn't sure I would succeed- when I thought about never using again I was filled with a yawning horror.

This was the second time Running with Wolves found me in need of nourishment. I had been in rehab for a month or two when someone dropped in my lap and said they thought I might like it. I can't begin to describe how soothing it was.

The stories in Leg traps, Cages, and Poisoned Bait such as the girl with the red shoes taught me how to accept who I was and what I would become if I kept chasing relief in all the wrong places. It dealt with addiction in a way that allowed me to sidle up to it and get used to the idea before facing it head on.

The Handless Maiden and The Girl with Golden Hair helped me acknowledge and honour the pain that had crippled me originally and led to my addiction.

Sealskin/ Soulskin and La Llorona helped me to find myself again.

I have been clean and sober for six years. It would be an exaggeration to say this book is the reason why, but it did help enormously.

This isn't a book to be deliberately read. It is a book that you stumble across, a book that a friend lends to you in a time of need. It's a book my hand brushes against when I'm reaching for another. I pull it out, flick through the pages and decide it is time to read it again.

I'm not a religious person, I don't believe in god. But when I read this book I feel spiritually connected to the world. I feel some inkling of the wonder and awe others feel when they commune with their god.

If you haven't read this book yet, put on your shelf. You might stumble across it again when you most need it.

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248 reviews11 followers
June 19, 2017
WORST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ

She says, quite negatively, that women were once only considered to be kept as fallow gardens, yet in the next pages she states that she's only felt like she was a wild woman when she was a mother. Again, I felt she was just reinforcing the belief that women are still just "fallow gardens." Contradictory to the notion she was trying to convey that women are more than just a womb.

Does the author need help? I feel like these are the scratchings of a crazy person. It was so non sensical, rambling and repetitive that I found it absurd and ridiculous. I was surprised to read that the author has a PHd and is a psychoanalyst... I guess she would have passed the bit where you over analyse everything - which I guess she did well, although terribly.
It's so badly written and boring also.
My mind is very open, I am very spiritual and I have walked the hard path, however this is just nonsense.

I thought this would be a collation of stories written by inspiring women, however they were just ramblings of the authors, with no logical direction or factual references.

On page 57 it says; "the young woman summons her psychic brothers. What do these represent in a woman's psyche? They are the more muscled, more naturally aggressive propellants of the psyche."

What a huge contradiction to the meaning of this book. The book is supposed to be an ode to women and their naturally strong 'wild woman' instincts. Inspiring confidence in its female readers. Encouraging our do it yourself/we can do anything attitude.
Yet she continued to stay with the women are the weaker sex stereotype.

The entire book is just explaining what a wild woman is "she is .. she is .. she is..." ok get on with it. This is not how you write a book.

It reminds me of grade 1 homework I once did. We had to write as many pages as possible in our diaries, explaining what we did on the weekend; instead I took this as an opportunity to suck up to my teacher and filled the pages by writing "I really like Mrs. ... I like her very very very very very (x3 pages of this) much. That was a better story than this.

As a woman and a feminist, she tried in her words to describe what a woman is. I feel she has a very singular view of women. I feel we are neither that complicated or that simplified. I say complicated because this book is very confusing. And I say simplified, as she quite often pigeon holed women as purely mothers, wives and caregivers. Yes we are those things, but some of us aren't and some of us are also maternal, yet happy not to be mothers.
We are strong without another's acceptance. We are beautiful without another's appreciation. There was just too much stereotyping and judging going on here.

I don't understand anyone who could like this book but I guess I could have misinterpreted the whole book (I don't think so though).

I was massively disappointed in this book, as I have been waiting to read this for so long, yet quite frankly, it is the worst book I have ever read - not kidding.
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677 reviews1,087 followers
February 26, 2024
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賴賶 乇賵丨 丕賱丕賳孬賷 貙 亘賱 丕賰孬乇 賲賳 匕賱賰 貙 賴賶 賲氐丿乇 丕賱兀賳賵孬丞貙 丕賳賴丕 賰賱 賲丕賴賵 賮胤乇賶 賮賷 賰賱丕 丕賱毓丕賱賲賷賳 丕賱馗丕賴乇 賵丕賱亘丕胤賳 貙 丕賳賴丕 丕賱丕爻丕爻 賮賳丨賳 噩賲賷毓丕 賳兀禺匕 賲賳賴丕 丕賱禺賱賷丞 丕賱賳卮胤丞 丕賱鬲賶 鬲丨賵賶 賰賱 丕賱睾乇丕卅夭 賵丕賱賲毓丕乇囟 丕賱鬲賶 賳丨鬲丕噩 丕賱賷賴丕 賮賷 乇丨賱丞 丕賱丨賷丕丞

丕賳賴丕 賯賵丞 丕賱丨賷丕丞.. 丕賳賴丕 丕賱丨丕囟賳丞 貙 賴賷 丕賱亘丿賷賴丞 貙 賴賷 丕賱賳亘賵亍丞 賵丕賱賵丨賷 貙賴賶 丕賱賯賱亘 丕賱兀賲賷賳 .
丕賳賴丕 丕賱丕賮賰丕乇 賵丕賱賲卮丕毓乇 賵丕賱丿賵丕賮毓 賵丕賱匕丕賰乇丞.
賴賶 丕賱賲賳亘毓 賵丕賱囟賷丕亍 賵丕賱賱賷賱 賵丕賱馗賱丕賲 賵賴賶 丕賱賮噩乇 .
丕賱氐賵鬲 丕賱匕賷 賷氐乇禺 賮賷賳丕 賴匕丕 賴賵 丕賱胤乇賷賯
賴賶 丕賱鬲賶 鬲氐乇禺 賮賷 賵噩賴 丕賱馗賱賲
丕賳賴丕 丕賱噩匕賵乇 丕賱乇丕爻禺丞 賱賰賱 丕賱賳爻丕亍 . 賴賷 丕賱丕卮賷丕亍 丕賱鬲賶 鬲丿賮毓賳丕 賱賱賲賵丕氐賱丞 貙 丨賷賳 賳賵賯賳 丕賳賳丕 禺賱賯賳丕 賲賳 兀噩賱賴丕 . 賴賶 丕賱毓賯賱 丕賱匕賷 賷賮賰乇 亘賳丕 賵賳丨賳 丕賱丕賮賰丕乇 丕賱丕賶 賷賳爻噩賴丕




賱賰賳 賯丿 賳鬲爻丕卅賱 賱賲丕匕丕 丕賱乇賰囟 賲毓 丕賱匕卅丕亘 責 賱賲丕匕丕 丕賱匕卅丕亘 鬲丨丿賷丿丕





賷鬲賳丕賵賱 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賲噩賲賵毓丞 賲賳 丕賱丨賰丕賷丕鬲 丕賱卮毓亘賷丞 賵丕賱兀爻丕胤賷乇 賲賳 賲禺鬲賱賮 丕賱孬賯丕賮丕鬲 賵賷噩乇賷 賱賴丕 鬲丨賱賷賱丕賸 賳賮爻賷丕賸 賵賮賰 禺賷賵胤賴丕 賱賳賮賴賲 賵賳丿乇賰 賲丕賷丨丿孬 貙 亘噩丕賳亘 丨賰丕賷丕鬲 賲賳 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 賳賮爻賴丕



賱匕丕 賮賲賳 禺賱丕賱 丕賱丨賰丕賷丕鬲 賵 丕賱丕爻丕胤賷乇听 鬲賮爻乇 賱賳丕 賰賱丕乇賷爻丕 丕賱賰孬賷乇 貙 賱賷爻 賲賳 賲賳胤賯 賲丕賱丿乇爻 丕賱賲爻鬲賮丕丿 賲賳 丕賱賯氐丞 賱賰賳 丕賱賲毓賳賶 賵賲丕鬲禺賮賷賴 賰賱 鬲賮氐賷賱賴 賮賷賴丕 賵 賲夭噩賴 賲毓 丨賷丕鬲賳丕 亘胤乇賷賯丞 賷氐毓亘 毓賱賶 賵氐賮賴丕 丕賵 丕賱鬲毓亘賷乇 毓賳賴丕 貙 賵丕賱鬲丨賱賷賱 丕賱爻賷賰賵賱賵噩賶 賱賰賱听 丨丿孬 賮賶 丕賱丨賰丕賷丞 丕賵 丕賱丕爻胤賵乇丞 .



亘卮賰賱 賲亘爻胤 賱賰賳賴 賱賷爻 賴賵 賲丕賮毓賱鬲賴 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 亘丕賱馗亘胤 賱賰賳賴丕 卮亘賷賴丞 亘丕賱丕禺鬲亘丕乇丕鬲 丕賱賳賮爻賷丞 丕賱賱賶 亘鬲賮爻乇 賲毓賳賶 丕禺鬲賷丕乇丕鬲賰.
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.賴賳丕賰 賯賵賱 賯丿賷賲 : 丕賱噩賴賱 賴賵 毓丿賲 賲毓乇賮丞 兀賶 卮卅 賵 丕賱丕賳噩匕丕亘 賳丨賵 丕賱禺賷乇 .. 丕賱亘乇丕亍丞 賴賶 賲毓乇賮丞 賰賱 卮卅 賵丕賱丕爻鬲賲乇丕乇 賮賷 丕賱丕賳噩匕丕亘 賳丨賵 丕賱禺賷乇

賲賳 禺賱丕賱 佟佶 賮氐賱 賵賰賱 賮氐賱 賷丨鬲賵賶 毓賱賶 丨賰丕賷丞 丕賵 丕爻胤賵乇丞 丕爻丕爻賷丞 貙 賵丨賰丕賷丕鬲 丕禺乇賶 丕孬賳丕亍 丨丿賷孬賴丕 . 亘鬲鬲胤乇賯 賱兀賰孬乇 賲賳 賲賵囟賵毓 賵毓賵丕卅賯 賵賲卮丕賰賱 亘鬲賵丕噩賴賳丕 .

兀丨賷丕賳丕 賷賰賵賳 賱噩賲賱丞 丕賵 賯氐賷丿丞 兀賵 賱賯氐丞 氐丿賶 毓賲賷賯 亘丕賱睾 丕賱鬲兀孬賷乇 貙 賷噩毓賱賳丕 賳鬲匕賰乇 賱賱丨馗丞 毓賱賶 丕賱兀賯賱 丕賱賲丕丿丞 丕賱鬲賶 賷鬲賰賵賳 賲賳賴丕 賳爻賷噩賳丕 丕賱丨賯賷賯賶 賵兀賷賳 賷賯毓 賲賵胤賳賳丕 丕賱兀氐賱賶 .



賵賴賵 賰鬲丕亘 賷禺氐 丕賱乇噩賱 兀賷囟丕賸 賵賷爻丕毓丿賴 毓賱賶 丕爻鬲賰卮丕賮 丕賱噩丕賳亘 丕賱兀賳孬賵賷 賮賷 爻賷賰賵賱賵噩賷鬲賴貙 賵丕賳 賷鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賶 丕賱賲乇兀丞. 毓賳 丕賱丨亘 賵丕賱夭賵丕噩 賵乇爻丕賱丞 賱賱乇噩賱 賱賷鬲毓賱賲 賰賷賮 丕賳 鬲賯亘賱賴 賱賰賱 噩賵丕賳亘 丕賱賲乇兀丞 賷爻丕毓丿 賮賶 鬲賯賵賷丞 丨亘賴賲 賵丕賱毓賱丕賯丞 亘賷賳賴賲 賵丕爻鬲賲乇丕乇賴丕 .

賰賲丕 兀賳賴 賷爻丕毓丿 丕賱賲乇兀丞 毓賱賶 兀賳 鬲睾賵氐 廿賱賶 兀毓賲丕賯 賳賮爻賴丕 貙 賵鬲卮噩賷毓賴丕 毓賱賶 丕賳 賱丕 鬲爻鬲爻賱賲 賵鬲毓鬲賳賯 賯賵鬲賴丕 貙 丕賳 鬲丨丕賮馗 毓賱賶 賵毓賷賴丕 賵鬲賯賵賶 丨丿爻賴丕 貙 丕賳 鬲丨丕賮馗 賵鬲賯賵賶 賯賵鬲賴丕 丕賱丕亘丿丕毓賷丞 賵丕賱賲卮丕毓乇 丕賱賮賷丕囟丞賵賯賵丞 丕賱丨賰賲 丕賱氐丨賷丨 毓賱賶 丕賱丕賲賵乇 .毓賳 丕賱丕賲賵賲丞 賵丕賳賵丕毓 丕賱丕賲賴丕鬲 賵鬲兀孬賷乇賴賲 毓賱賶 賲爻鬲賯亘賱 賵賱丕丿賴賲 . 毓賳 鬲賯亘賱 丕賱匕丕鬲 賵鬲胤賵賷乇賴丕 . 毓賳 毓賱丕賯鬲賰 亘噩爻丿賰 . 毓賳 丕賱睾囟亘 賵 丕賱鬲毓賱賲 賲賳賴 賵鬲丨賵賷賱賴 賱胤丕賯丞 . 毓賳 丕爻鬲乇噩丕毓 賵丕賱丨賮丕馗 毓賱賶 丕亘丿丕毓賳丕 丨鬲賶 賵丕賳 丨丕乇亘賳丕 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 賵丕賱丌禺乇賷賳 賲賳 兀噩賱 丕賱丨賮丕馗 毓賱賶 丕賳賮爻賳丕



賴賶 鬲丨丕賵賱 丕賳 鬲毓胤賷賳丕 丿賮毓丞 賱賱丕賲丕賲 貙 賱賯鬲賱 丕賱禺賵賮 賱賲丨丕乇亘丞 丕賱馗賱丕賲 貙 賱丕爻鬲毓丕丿丞 賳賮賵爻賳丕 賲賳 噩丿賷丿 貙 賱丕爻鬲毓丕丿丞 賯賵鬲賳丕 賵丕丨賱丕賲賳丕 貙 賱賯鬲賱 丕賱賵丨賵卮 丕賱鬲賶 鬲丨丕賵賱 爻賱亘賳丕 丨乇賷鬲賳丕 賵賯鬲賱 丕賮賰丕乇賳丕 賵 賰爻乇 丕乇賵丕丨賳丕 .



丨賷賳 賱丕鬲卮毓乇賷賳 丕賳賰 鬲賳鬲賲賶 賱賲丨賷胤賰 賵丨賷賳 鬲賰賵賳賷賳 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 賷噩亘 丕賳 賱丕鬲鬲賵賯賮賷 賵鬲爻鬲爻賱賲賶 亘賱 鬲亘丨孬賶 毓賳 丕賱賲賰丕賳 丕賱匕賶 鬲賳鬲賲賷 賱賴 .






賴賵 賰鬲丕亘 賱賱亘賳鬲 賵賱賱兀賲 賵丕賱丨亘賷亘丞 賵丕賱夭賵噩丞 賵賱賱乇噩賱 丕賷囟丕 貙 賴賵 賰鬲丕亘 毓賲丕 賳賵丕噩賴賴 賮賷 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賵賰賷賮 賳鬲睾賱亘 毓賱賷賴 .




卮毓乇鬲 丕丨賷丕賳丕 丕賳 賴賳丕賰 噩夭亍 賲賳 丕爻賱賵亘 丕賱鬲賳賲賷丞 丕賱亘卮乇賷丞 賮賶 丨丿賷孬賴丕 賵丕賳丕 賱爻鬲 賲賳 賲丨亘賷 賴匕賴 丕賱賳賵毓賷丞 賲賳 丕賱賰鬲亘听 賱匕丕 毓賳丿賶 丨爻丕爻賷丞 鬲噩丕賴 賴匕賴 丕賱丕丨丕丿賷孬 馃槃 賱賰賳 賴賳丕 丕賱丕賲乇 賲禺鬲賱賮 賵丕賱丿賱賷賱 丕賳賶 丕丨亘亘鬲 賵丕賰賲賱鬲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 馃槈馃槂貙 賱賳 丕賳賰乇 丕賳 賴賳丕賰 丕噩夭丕亍 囟丕賷賯鬲賳賶 賵丕噩夭丕亍 賱賲 丕鬲賮賯 賲毓賴丕 賮賷賴丕 丕賵 賱賲 鬲賯賳毓賳賶 貙 賵丕噩夭丕亍 賱賲 丕賮賴賲賴丕 丕賵 丕爻鬲賵毓亘賴丕 噩賷丿丕 . 賵丕噩夭丕亍 噩丕亍鬲 賲孬賱賲丕 賷賯丕賱 毓賱賶 丕賱噩乇丨 亘丿丕禺賱賶 .

.賲丕賱睾匕丕亍 丕賱兀爻丕爻賷 賱賱乇賵丨 責
丨爻賳丕 貙 丕賳賴 賷禺鬲賱賮 賲賳 賲禺賱賵賯 賱丌禺乇貙 賱賰賳 賴賳丕賰 亘毓囟 丕賱鬲乇賰賷亘丕鬲 .丕毓鬲亘乇賷賴丕 賳亘丕鬲丕鬲 賳賮爻賷丞 賲胤賷賱丞 賱賱毓賲乇 . 賱亘毓囟 丕賱賳爻丕亍 賷賰賵賳 丕賱賴賵丕亍 賵丕賱賲爻丕亍 賵囟賵亍 丕賱卮賲爻 賵丕賱兀卮噩丕乇 賴賶 丕賱睾匕丕亍 丕賱囟乇賵乇賷 . 賱亘毓囟賴賳 鬲賰賵賳 丕賱賰賱賲丕鬲 賵丕賱兀賵乇丕賯 賵丕賱賰鬲亘 賴賶 丕賱兀卮賷丕亍 丕賱賵丨賷丿丞 丕賱鬲賶 鬲卮亘毓 . 賱賱兀禺乇賷丕鬲 丕賱賱賵賳 賵丕賱卮賰賱 賵丕賱馗賱 賵丕賱氐賱氐丕賱 賴賶 丕賱兀爻丕爻賷丕鬲 . 亘毓囟 丕賱賳爻丕亍 賷鬲丨鬲賲 丕賳 賷孬亘賳 賵賷鬲賯賵爻賳 貙 賱兀賳 丕乇賵丕丨賴賳 鬲鬲賵賯 廿賱賶 丕賱乇賯氐 .廿賱丕 丕賳 丕賱兀禺乇賷丕鬲 賷丨鬲噩賳 賮賯胤 廿賱賶 爻賱丕賲 卮噩乇丞 鬲賳丨賳賷 賮賷 賵卅丕賲 .




丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丿賴 賴賷賰賵賳 賲賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱賱賶 賴丨丕賵賱 丕賯乇丕賴丕 鬲丕賳賶 亘毓丿 賮鬲乇丞 丕賳 卮丕亍 丕賱賱賴 .
賵賵丕囟丨 丕賳 丕賱爻賳丕丿賶 佗贍佗贍 賴鬲亘賯賶 爻賳丞听 賱賱賰鬲亘 丕賱賱賶 賲賰賳鬲卮 丕鬲禺賷賱 丕賳賶 賱賲丕 賴賯乇丕賴丕 賴丨亘賴丕 賵丕爻鬲賲鬲毓 亘賷賴丕 賵丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱賱賶 賲鬲禺賷賱鬲卮 丕賳賶 賲賲賰賳 丕賰賲賱賴丕 亘爻 賰賲賱鬲賴丕 賵 丨亘賷鬲賴丕
賵胤亘毓丕 賮賶 卮賵賷丞 賰鬲亘 賲賰賲賱鬲賴丕卮 毓丕丿賶 亘乇囟賴 賷毓賳賶 馃槀

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95 reviews15 followers
December 31, 2018
Sooo many words to not really say a lot of things. This book was definitely not written for me. First of all, I think it鈥檚 remarkably tedious to read. It鈥檚 full of enumerations, repetitions and random Spanish or German words (which are then translated - every single time, even after the 500th instance) that do not enforce, but cloud the message the author wants to convey. Second, I was very annoyed that most 鈥渕essages鈥� were covered in more metaphors than her stories. It felt like reading a horoscope - everyone can interpret her interpretations in a way that fits them. Also, her insistence on women being 鈥渃reative creatures鈥� that love to paint, sculpt and write (her favourite examples) felt sexist to me. I know a lot if women who would not identify as 鈥渢he creative type鈥�, and they have not 鈥渓ost touch鈥� with their psyche - they just do not fit in that tiny, neat little box this book provides.
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361 reviews453 followers
December 9, 2018
d眉n gece uykuyla uyan谋kl谋k aras谋nda bitirince be艧 y谋ld谋z谋 verip b谋rakm谋艧谋m. 10 ayd谋r okuyorum, iki c眉mle yazmazsam ay谋p.

asl谋nda bu kitab谋 okuyabilmek, biraz akademik okuma al谋艧kanl谋臒谋 ile ba臒lant谋l谋. i莽eri臒inin kurgusal olmamas谋n谋n yan谋nda, ders gibi bir kitap oldu臒undan; ders 莽al谋艧ma, ders i莽in okuma, makale okuma gibi al谋艧kanl谋klar谋n谋z谋n taze oldu臒u bir d枚nemde okursan谋z 莽ok daha h谋zl谋 okuyabilirsiniz. zira ders gibi ama s谋k谋c谋 de臒il, gayet ak谋c谋 ve bildi臒iniz bir 艧eyi okusan谋z bile olduk莽a keyifli -ki bu kitapta yazan her 艧eyi "biliyor" olman谋z da pek m眉mk眉n de臒il zaten. ufuk a莽谋c谋 bir kitap.

update yaparken yazd谋臒谋m gibi, k谋rm谋z谋 ayakkab谋lar masal谋n谋n ge莽ti臒i b枚l眉m 莽ok g眉zeldi; hala da favorim o. ama bu asla sabit de臒il bence. zira bu kitab谋 okudum, bitirdim diye rafa kald谋r谋p unutmak pek m眉mk眉n de臒il. s眉rekli a莽谋p a莽谋p rastgele b枚l眉mleri okuyabilir, 枚zellikle zor zamanlarda bir rehber gibi kullanabilirsiniz. dolay谋s谋yla okurun ya艧谋 ilerledik莽e, tecr眉beleri 莽o臒ald谋k莽a zevk ald谋臒谋 b枚l眉m眉n de de臒i艧ece臒i kan谋s谋nday谋m.

velhas谋l zor oldu ama asla pi艧man de臒ilim okudu臒uma. herkesin, tamam谋n谋 olmasa bile, okumas谋 gerekti臒ini d眉艧眉nd眉臒眉m kitaplardan biri oldu.
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2,113 reviews463 followers
June 19, 2019
This is the longest it's ever taken me to read something I've enjoyed so thoroughly. I had to take regular pauses because it's so dense, and if my heart wasn't in it I read something else instead rather than risk missing bits through lack of attention.

Imagine Wonder Woman gave birth to a girl who was even more badass than her mother and was raised by wolves. And her sole goal in life was to tell stories to women to inspire them to be just as badass and basically wreak femininely havoc on the world.

It is not an easy read. The language is fancy and elaborate (I'm pretty sure she made a ton of words up but I'm okay with that) and the material is so rich that every sentence is a loaded one. There are themes that will make you feel uncomfortable, and if you're a bit cynical there'll probably be a lot of eye-rolling. But if you approach this with an open heart and mind, I promise you will get so much out of it.

This book is like a fluffy wolf cub that you wanna cuddle coz it looks so cute and friendly but then when you go to stroke its furry little head it's face launches towards you and you feel the searing pain of teeth in your hand as it rips a chunk out of you. And you wanna get mad at it but then it looks all cute and starts licking the wound and you kind of just think, well, it is a wolf cub, after all ...

I love myths and legends. I love how stories from the past and from different cultures can teach us so much about our present-day lives. To see them so thoroughly explored here was absolutely fascinating. Each story is delivered then followed up with a chapter that divulges how the story can represent a facet of the female psyche. Familiar stories like Bluebeard and The Ugly Duckling took on new meaning. I love symbolism, and when the dots were connected I could see the new picture quite clearly. There were so many times I picked up this book only to find the next portion I read directly related to a current aspect of my life.

I've never considered myself to be a feminist, so parts of this did make me feel a bit awkward. But it also allowed me to understand a bit about that awkwardness. It is an incredibly empowering book, and I do certainly feel more comfortable in my feminine presence. I'm a woman, yo. I am a strong, beautiful, wild creature that cannot be contained by the rules and regulations of a rigid society. *flexes*

That being said, I do wonder how this would be received by non-traditional genders. (Forgive me if that's an offensive term, I am consciously incompetent on the subject). I really appreciate that it inspires women to be badass and embrace their wild woman, but I wonder if that means it will be less relevant to non-female readers?

BE WARNED: This book may make you want to strip naked and dance under the moonlight. It may make you want to sell everything you own and journey out into the wild world with nothing but the clothes on your back. It may make you want to quit your job, bathe in the ocean, practice witchcraft, or howl at the moon. It may awaken your soul in unexpected ways.

It may also have you scratching your head wondering what the heck is going on. If that's the case, put it down. Give yourself time to grow. Pick it up again when you feel a little more open to new ideas.

Honestly this is such a wonderful, empowering book and I cannot recommend it highly enough to woman looking for strength, growth and just that little something that might be missing in life.
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November 1, 2024
陌K陌NC陌 OKUMA ED陌T陌:

T眉rk莽e 莽evirideki baz谋 s谋k谋nt谋lar y眉z眉nden s谋ks谋k ingilizce edisyona m眉racat etme ihtiyac谋 hissettim. 14. Hikaye, Yeralt谋 Orman谋nda Erginlenme'yi okurken 莽ok zorland谋m. San谋r谋m o hikayeyi sakin bir kafa ve dingin bir ruh hali ile yeniden okumam gerekecek.

陌lk okumamda 艧arap gibi bir kitap demi艧tim. Fikrim hala ayn谋, hayat谋n her d枚neminde okunan zamana g枚re yeni fark谋ndal谋klar yaratacak bir eser. Bu okumamda kad谋n yerine "insan" diye d眉艧眉nsek nas谋l olurdu diye d眉艧眉nd眉m mesela...

陌kinci ama son de臒il... Bir sonraki okuma zaman谋 gelene kadar 艧imdilik virg眉l.


Baz谋 yerlerde t谋kand谋臒谋m谋 hissetsem de belirli bir zaman ge莽tikten sonra yeniden okumak niyetindeyim. 陌kinci okumamda farkl谋 yerlerin dikkatimi 莽ekece臒ine eminim.

艦arap gibi bir kitap velhas谋l, okuduk莽a yeni ufuklara yelken a莽abilece臒iniz
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February 19, 2018
毓賱賶 賯丕卅賲丞 丕賱廿賳鬲馗丕乇 丨鬲賶 賷爻賲丨 丕賱賲夭丕噩



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17 reviews4 followers
June 22, 2007
Juicy and satisfying, this book is for any woman who feels an urge to connect with wild and ancient concepts of what it means to be female: messy, raw, and full of luminously passionate creative energy. If this book doesn't make you want to howl out loud, I'm not sure what will!



236 reviews18 followers
April 4, 2009
I have read this book a few times. I pick it up from time to time to look over a chapter of this or that - it affected the way I think about other fables and even the movies. I am half convinced that the end of the Wedding Crashers is really about two healthy psyches driving away together into the future, married to themselves. I was rereading this book about the same time I saw that movie.

Any woman who is interested in empowering herself will be inspired. It is a jungian read on the darkest version of popular folk tales and fairy tales. for me, that made it very accessible.

Some chapters resonated deeply, others not so much - I think it would be different for each individual reader.

This is not the easiest book to get into or read, but someone recommended I skip the first three chapters. Once I tried that, I dived right into the book and, reading some chapters, every page turned revealed some piece of knowledge I had been trying to grasp on my own.

I read this book at a time of great searching within myself for answers, and if you are at that kind of a point in your life, I would recommend it.
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Author听10 books635 followers
November 7, 2016
If I could buy this book for every woman in the world, I would. This book will become your mother when you need a mother and there isn't one around. Hell, it will be a mother you've never had. A mother of all mothers, from the birth of time. And a heart that will keep you alight when you think you're surrounded by darkness that blinds you, suffocates you, destroys you. A book every woman needs to read, if only to know she's not alone but standing on the bones of all the other women who died for her so she could keep blazing her path, to make it easier for the women who'll come after her, our daughters.
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442 reviews238 followers
March 31, 2018
This is a fabulous book of almost 500 pages. It is described as..."Myths and Stories of the Wild Women Archetype. Written by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph. D. It is a gift of profound wisdom and love. It is...'Full of wonderful passionate, poetic, psychologically potent words and images that will inspire, instruct, and empower women to be true to their own nature........ These are not my words but just a few of many on the back cover. It is almost like a bible and not an easy read but certainly worth dipping into now and then.
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1,118 reviews482 followers
May 27, 2022
A Mulher Intuitiva


A Vida confronta-nos constantemente com escolhas desafiantes. Escutamos conselhos e opini玫es, pensamos, repensamos... as d煤vidas multiplicam-se, a ansiedade instala-se...
脌 posteriori, todo esse processo redundar谩 num de dois resultados prov谩veis: ou duvidamos penosamente da decis茫o tomada, ou permanecemos incapazes de decidir!...

E porqu锚?

Porque, face aos problemas que enfrentamos socorremo-nos apenas da mente. Esta analisa pr贸s e contras, adiantando poss铆veis solu莽玫es. Por茅m, 茅 a intui莽茫o que escolhe. E 茅 essa voz, esse guia interior, que somos incapazes de escutar, ao permanecermos indefinidamente conectadas com a mente.

Amorda莽谩mos a Mulher Intuitiva. Este livro prop玫e-se retirar-lhe a morda莽a!!! 馃憤馃専馃専馃専馃専
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300 reviews61 followers
July 6, 2014
Generally uplifting and served its purpose, yet -1 star for general TERF-iness/the general biological essentialism and -1 star for being weird about the birth stuff. I don't think giving birth is an experience necessary for all women to be considered true women.
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1,314 reviews277 followers
December 15, 2022
For those of us who struggle with life, expectations and how to be ourselves, this is a validation, a benediction. Saying yes this is you and you are beautiful and unique just as you are.
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