Women Who Run with the Wolves

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Women Who Run with the Wolves is not a book you'd want to read quickly. Each chapter deals with different decisions a woman makes and how those de... (show more)

Women Who Run with the Wolves is not a book you'd want to read quickly. Each chapter deals with different decisions a woman makes and how those decisions separate her from her natural, creative self. The levels of growth are defined by one or more folk tales which illustrate the problem, then Dr. Estes elaborates (and I MEAN elaborate to the point she repeats points that she's already explained very well.) upon the point, and the solution. Once you've found the point or level in which you are dwelling, plan on staying there for a bit and pondering the point.
My book group read this book for a retreat and pulled out the chapters or stories that meant the most to each of us individually. We then discussed our feelings upon that point. It would be difficult, if not impossible, to discuss every point Dr. Estes documented. After all, she's been helping men and women for over 25 years, and I'd wager most of those years are in this book.
If you are having an identity crisis, losing your creativity and joy in life, divorcing, or a widow, this may be a place to start to find yourself and your wild nature.

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No, it's a flop!

Actually, I never read it all the way through. I got about a quarter of the way and then got rid of it because it kept making me annoyed. There are... (show more)

Actually, I never read it all the way through. I got about a quarter of the way and then got rid of it because it kept making me annoyed. There are some interesting thoughts in there, and the old versions of the fairy tales are interesting, its when she starts interpreting everything as being secret messages from our ancient spiritual wolf mother that i start getting frustrated. So shes supposed to be an academic? (show less)

 

 

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  Tell me ..have you ever wondered who you would be if you were never told what to do, what to wear, what or how to think? If there was nothing ..ever to define your reality ..ever to seperate you from your essential state of being. What would you do? How would you see? Do you care to know if there is a dimension in your consciousness that still retains the memories of what it felt like to exist before form? Would you be willing to sacrifice every belief you've ever held ..about your self, life... (show more)

  Tell me ..have you ever wondered who you would be if you were never told what to do, what to wear, what or how to think? If there was nothing ..ever to define your reality ..ever to seperate you from your essential state of being. What would you do? How would you see? Do you care to know if there is a dimension in your consciousness that still retains the memories of what it felt like to exist before form? Would you be willing to sacrifice every belief you've ever held ..about your self, life, others. Could you tolerate the pain of losing everything that you once thought mattered, all these superficial little things that one can hold so dear. Can you strip yourself bare ..to truly know you, your own essence. And this is not a figure of speech. It is a stark naked truth of reality. That nothing is real and you make of life what you choose. This is what this book is about. It's reclaiming life force. Feminine force ...a maddening force, for it has endured hundreds of years of deprevation, living in the basement of our consciousness. It is our soul force. This book has given me life, breath, strength and courage. I reccommend it to anyone who has ever faced seemingly unbearable trials in life, because surely, you must come to know that there is something within you that is unbreakable. (show less)

   

  by Karly Ann Griffin on Mar 31, 2009 at 05:45AM

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  Clarissa Pinkola Estes asks women to rediscover their inner core self -- that part of their soul that is feral and instinctual -- and use it to break down chains of repression. I realize Estes' chant-like narration of stories and myths in the book may seem like she is hypnotizing her readers to abandon all cause, i.e, burn the bras and abandon all cause. I feel rather that she calls on each woman to go back to our roots and find that we are our own history of courage. She then asks that we us... (show more)

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes asks women to rediscover their inner core self -- that part of their soul that is feral and instinctual -- and use it to break down chains of repression. I realize Estes' chant-like narration of stories and myths in the book may seem like she is hypnotizing her readers to abandon all cause, i.e, burn the bras and abandon all cause. I feel rather that she calls on each woman to go back to our roots and find that we are our own history of courage. She then asks that we use this knowledge to strengthen us in unbinding ourselves from those that tie us down and keep us from achieving our full potential. (show less)

   

   

  by Kermin F.S. on Oct 20, 2009 at 08:20AM

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