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.
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. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. “A deeply spiritual book honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women.”- The Washington Post Book World.Book club pick for Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf.Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.
Estés has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. 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.ĭr. 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. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One million copies sold! "A deeply spiritual book honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women."- The Washington Post Book Worldīook club pick for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf
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