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Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and cantadora storyteller shows how women’s vitality can be restored through what she calls “psychic archeological digs” into the ruins of the female unconsious.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In <\/strong>Women Who Run With the Wolves<\/strong><\/em>, Dr. Est\u00e9s unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, 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. Est\u00e9s 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.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Notable Quotes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPractice 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.\u201d \u201cA woman must be able to stand in the face of power, because ultimately some part of that power will become hers.\u201d \u201cThat is, to be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.\u201d Clarissa Pinkola Est\u00e9s,( born January 27 1945) is 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 \u00a0small rural village, near the great lakes. \u00a0She has been \u00a0a lifelong activist in service of the voiceless; as a post-trauma recovery specialist and psychoanalyst \u00a0with 48 years of clinical practice.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2015 Clarissa Pinkola Est\u00e9s,
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