Clarissa Pinkola Estes tackles that spark of creative fire that artists and anyone with creative energy might have, and introduces us to four allegories that help describe and illuminate that spark. I feel like I want to have this on in the background for the rest of my life. It really adds that extra punch that makes the whole thing that much more impactful. I don’t know if this exists in print form, but absolutely, 100%, if you have the option to do so, you should listen to the audiobook read by the author. The author is a highly skilled Jungian analyst and storyteller.

If it backs up, it hurts and pollutes you.'

You must be using your life, living your life, from your creative center every day. Whatever your creativity is, shoveling snow or caring for a child, you must do it. It needs to be excreted from your psyche on a regular basis or it poisons you. Perhaps not sick in body, but certainly in spirit. 'When people do not create, they become ill. Perhaps you'll end up doing something 'just because you feel like it!' I listen to this one at least once a year. Creativity helps you interrupt the status quo, break free of confining habits, and give yourself permission to experiment more with your life. It means being free to follow your own inklings and inspirations daily, in large and simple ways. 'Creativity' does not just mean 'the arts'. These stories speak directly to the 'wounded creative' in your pscyhe and free you to begin living more authentically. Dr Estes’s extraordinary and enriching bestseller shows how, through her foremost interpretation of story and her psychological commentary, we can reclaim, and rejoice in, our true feminine power – how we can awaken within the depths of our souls one who is both magic and medicine.Ī wonderful book…for anybody who cares about their relationships and their lives’ Anne Devlin, playwright.Listen to this in the audio version. She reveals how within every woman there lives a Wild Woman, filled with passionate creativity and ageless knowing – but repressed for centuries by a value system that trivializes emotional truth, intuitive wisdom and instinctual self-confidence. A work of both poetry and power, it began a revolution and continues to transform the lives of millions round the world.Ĭlarissa Pinkola Estes is a Jungian psychoanalyst and cantadora (keeper of the old stories), of many years standing. It has been heralded as the seminal work on the inner life of women.

Women Who Run With The Wolves is undoubtedly one of the most widely acclaimed and most influential books of recent years. WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES BY CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES

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