"Retrieve the instinct a polite life starved."
Clarissa Pinkola Estés (born 1945) is a Mexican-American Jungian psychoanalyst, poet, and cantadora. She is the author of Women Who Run with the Wolves (1992), which spent 145 weeks on the New York Times list. Her work sits with instinct, trauma, and the old stories as medicine.
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Clarissa Pinkola Estés’s wild-woman myths for retrieving instinct, spotting the predator, and coming home in this body — plus a 7-day plan.…
Read Summary →Not a mood or a costume — the self that can hunt, rest, rage, and say no.
Retrieve what was discarded and sing until it can run. One bone is a cycle.
Belonging that requires you emptied is a drought. Put the skin back on.
"Without us, Wild Woman dies. Without Wild Woman, we die."— Women Who Run with the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estés’s wild-woman myths for retrieving instinct, spotting the predator, and coming home in this body — plus a 7-day plan. Rated 4.6/5.
