Whilst I would recommend just about any book by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, this specific read awakens something archetypal within every woman that lays her eyes on it.
This book, for me, was less of an intellectual grappling and more of a personal awakening. I am not the first woman I know to express this sentiment.
Women Who Run with the Wolves has this almost frightening ability to gently place its knowing hands into the depths of a woman’s soul and psyche. It pulls out what has been forgotten and subdued and, ultimately, arouses a woman’s natural and wild self from the depths of the repressed.
“So, the word wild here is not used in its modern pejorative sense, meaning out of control, but in its original sense, which means to live a natural life, one in which the criatura, creature, has innate integrity and healthy boundaries. These words, wild and woman, cause women to remember who they are and what they are about. They create a metaphor to describe the force which funds all females. They personify a force that women cannot live without.” – Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, Clarissa Pinkola Estés.
Estés herself seems to embody the enticing nature of this book.
“…an American poet, psychoanalyst and post-trauma specialist who was raised in now nearly vanished oral and ethnic traditions,” this Jungian author uses her talent for ancient storytelling to dig up myths and fairy-tales that slowly help us remember how powerful we really are.
If you’re a woman who possibly feels stuck, victimised and without purpose in this world right now, this book holds the potential to reinvigorate and revitalize you from the roots of your soul and psyche.
Dayna Remus
